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Abstract
Kenya’s Vision 2030 is expanding the electric grid as a national development initiative. We examine its introduction since 2009 to three rural villages at Mt. Kasigau, using participatory GIS (PGIS) to map the infrastructural development process and semi-structured interviews to gain local perspectives on community and household-level effects. The study mapped eight transformers, 164 connections and 11,607 m of power lines, servicing 18% of the settled land area and 38–71% of village populations. Respondents highlight distinctions among availability, accessibility, and reliability for homes and in their communities but emphasize positive contributions to diverse capabilities and local livelihoods from this intervention.
Acknowledgments
The study design followed guidelines and gained approval from Miami University’s Institutional Review Board for Human Subject Research (010229r). We especially thank the Kasigau Taita and research assistant Joseph Mwamodo for their collaboration with the field research, and committee members Drs Ian Yeboah and John Maingi for their comments on the MA thesis that forms the basis for the research article.
