the prodeem programme provided mainly nongrid solar pv electrification to community installations health facilities and schools topdown management with little local stakeholder involvement lack of costrecovery schemes and lack of coordination with grid electrification plans severely affected the results of prodeem goldemberg eta the target groups for rural electrification thus live mainly in the northern and northeastern states of the country where electricity access at the beginning of lpt was lowest in both nominal and relative numbers in the northeast million rural households of all rural households in the region and in the north thousand rural households of all rural households in that region lacked access to electric energy