Rural Electrification Strategy

The rural electrification strategy is geared towards ensuring Rwanda's rural households have unhindered access to electricity, at an effective cost. It aims to leverage four basic programmes; provision of basic solar systems as necessities, support of the private sector through the risk-based mitigating system, development of mini-grids in suitable locations, and the roll-out of the Electricity Access Rollout Programme (EARP). It broadly has an objective of attaining 70% access to electricity by 2017/2018, and 100% by 2020.