This project aims to promote investment in small hydropower-based mini-grids to provide electricity services to the rural areas and formulate an appropriate business model that will ensure the sustainability of mini-grids based on small hydropower development in the country. It will do so by leveraging almost $ 16.7 million in multilateral and private sector financing over its five-year implementation period. Over the same period, 4 small hydropower stations will be developed to supply electricity services to an equal number of villages through mini-grids for income-generating activities and household/community use. Energisation of the villages will result in generation of some 39,770 MWh of electricity over the project timeframe and an annual generation of 14,535 MWh will be sustained over an expected 25-year projected life of the installations. This, in turn, will result in avoiding 35,000 tonnes of CO2 during the 5-year project period and 13,000 tonnes of CO2 thereafter annually over the remaining almost 21-23 years of the equipment useful life. Finally, over the 25-year projected lifetime of the equipment, 327,250 tonnes of CO2 will be avoided.