Both rural men and women are equal beneficiaries of the rural electrification programme.

(c) A major and immediate expansion and acceleration were necessary in decentralized rural electrification programmes in developing countries.

A budget expenditure of Rs 34.15 billion was earmarked for rural development activities exclusively for irrigation (Rs 25.19 billion), land reclamation (Rs 1.77 billion) rural development (Rs 6.19 billion) and rural electrification (Rs 1 billion) during 2003 04.

Rural Electrification This action covers 29 former quilombo communities and forms part of the Light for Everyone Program of the Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME).

Uganda, with the support of Norway, launched an electrification programme in rural areas, where only 3 per cent of the population has access to stable electricity supplies.

Renewable energies can help to multiply and diversify income generating activities thanks to providing decentralized energy supplies which current rural electrification programmes are unable to develop significantly.

The rural village electrification programme is an integral part of the total power sector development in Pakistan in order to increase the productive capacity and socio economic standard of 70 percent of population living in the rural areas.

Through the Palestinian Authority, Belgium contributed to the rural electrification around Nablus, construction of housing in several areas and a medical centre in the old city of Jerusalem.

(a) Providing financial resources for rural grid electrification, possibly subsidizing only part of the financial costs and recovering the operating costs to ensure that the system is functional and properly maintained.

(b) Focusing on least cost options for providing access For institutional and political reasons, grid extension has, in most countries, been the preferred option for rural electrification, but reform creates opportunities to introduce other options.

4.2.3. Energy policy shall pursue the objectives of autonomy and realignment through the identification of sites for hydroelectric power generation and rural electrification programmes, taking into account the cost differentials linked to the geography of the Territory.

Commending the resoluteness of the countries affected to repatriate their stolen funds, the Nigerian Minister of Finance stated that the looted funds had been distributed for rural electrification, roads, primary health care, vaccination programmes, education, potable water and irrigation.

Measures in energy supply included energy efficiency and conservation, increasing transformation efficiency, modernization of thermoelectric utilities, fuel switching, electricity imports, reduction of losses in transmission and distribution, development of plans to promote rural electrification and use of renewable energy sources.

Measures on energy supply included energy efficiency and conservation, increasing transformation efficiency, modernization of thermoelectric utilities, fuel switching, electricity imports, reduction of losses in transmission and distribution, development of plans to promote rural electrification and use of renewable energy sources.

Of course, the billions of farmers and villagers worldwide should not be forgotten. Interventions like rural electrification, the provision of drought resistant seeds and agricultural technology, and the expansion of micro insurance are vital not only to rural populations welfare, but also to catalyze a new Green Revolution, without which city dwellers will face severe food shortages.

One project is ecological garbage disposal, and the other is security project electrification of returnee settlement.

In particular, 6 of the 27 African Parties proposed photovoltaic electrification projects in the domestic sector.

He paid for the electrification of the village and also had a small mill constructed in September 2004.

The Harare Declaration in support of the Programme stresses, inter alia, the many advantages of using solar energy strictly from the point of view of electrification, as well as because of the economic benefits related to poverty reduction through the promotion of income generating activities, in particular in isolated rural areas.

This is largely because it is hard to predict the associated factors, such as the scale of energy generating activities and electrification.

Lachin also provided electrification three years ago, although at least in the southern part of the district the electricity comes from Kapan, Armenia.

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If smallholder farmers are to be given the opportunity to become viable businesses, it is essential that they be connected to markets. Indeed, support for rural infrastructure including last mile roads, electrification, post harvest facilities, support for agricultural associations and cooperatives, and access to land and irrigation facilities is a crucial element in the value chain.

With regard to railway infrastructure, priority attention is being directed to improvement of bogey change stations, upgrading and reconstruction of tracks and bridges, and electrification.

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