Publication date: 30 August 2024
Author: International Labour Organization
Description: The ILO STRENGTHEN2 project is conducting employment impact assessments of investments in sub-Saharan Africa to promote the creation of more and better jobs. This report presents an employment impact assessment (EmpIA) of the second phase of the Green Mini-Grid Facility Programme in Kenya. It follows on from a previous EmpIA on the short-term direct, indirect and induced employment outcomes conducted by the STRENGTHEN2 project (Oyuma, Game and Lieuw-Kie-Song 2023). To complement, this report focuses on the long-term employment and livelihood impacts from the productive use of energy (PUE) by businesses created as a result of access to the mini-grids’ electricity. It aims to uncover how mini-grids contribute to job creation in the long-term, including the types of jobs that are created and who benefitted from these the most. In addition, insights on contributing factors to employment outcomes, such as access to financial services, costing and satisfaction of services were collected to understand components that impact job outcomes and form the basis of recommendations for employment promotion.
