Publication date: 2004, February
Author: EMSB
Description: The Government of Tunisia has strongly supported rural electrification since the early 1970s. Although the program has done many things right to accomplish the country’s goal of universal electricity access, one unique feature of the program has been the extensive consultation with other agencies and reliance on funds from rural development programs. The country’s leaders understood from the start of the program that electricity by itself will not have the development impact of a program that is integrated into a broader strategy of rural development.
