This report is part of an evaluation commissioned by the Policy and Operations
Evaluation Department (IOB) of the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It
belongs to a series of impact evaluations of renewable energy and development
programmes supported by the Netherlands, with a focus on the medium and long
term effects of these programmes on end-users or final beneficiaries. A characteristic
of these studies is the use of mixed methods, that is, quantitative research
techniques in combination with qualitative techniques. The purpose of the impact
evaluations is to account for assistance provided and to draw lessons from the
findings for improvement of policy and policy implementation. The results of these
impact evaluations will serve as inputs to a policy evaluation of the “Promoting
Renewable Energy Programme” (PREP) to be concluded in 2014.