Rehabilitation of renewable energy projects for rural electrification and livelihood development in Philippines

The main objective is to ensure the sustainability of NRE (new renewble energy) projects through pilot testing rehabilitation and livelihood development. Major tasks are (1) identification of issues for failure of donor-driven renewable energy projects through secondary data, stakeholder meetings, and visit to about ten project sites, (2) rehabilitation of 2-3 projects selected on the basis of pre-developed criteria that include economic and financial justification of investments, community mobilization, and livelihoods development, (3) documentation and dissemination of results.