This report presents the fi ndings of the baseline study for an upcoming rural
electrifi cation project supported by GTZ. The basic cha racteristics of this development
measure already become clear through the project title: “Private Sector
Participation in Micro-Hydro Power Supply for Rural Development, Rwanda” (PSP
Hydro). Concretely, PSP Hydro envisages supporting fi ve private Rwandan Project
Developers fi nancially and with ongoing training. The intervention is realized under
the umbrella of the Dutch-German Energy Partnership “Energising Development”
(EnDev). The baseline study serves to portray the socio-economic conditions in
the project areas, which will constitute the yardstick for the monitoring and a
future impact assessment of the intervention. Due to the explicit output-based
commitment of EnDev, special attention has been put on reliable estimates of
the prospective project benefi ciaries. Predefi ned counting rules for the relevant
potential benefi ciary groups of households, social infrastructure institutions and
micro and small enterprises (MSE) have been applied and partly adapted to the
concrete conditions in Rwanda.