the inclusion of ret deployment and rural electrification goals in poverty reduction strategy papers or national development plans can provide a good platform to achieve greater coherence in this respect political leadership and commitment are likely to be more forthcoming if electrification is indeed part of a development and incomegenerating package an interesting attempt is the senegalese cimesrr a mechanism created by senegal s rural electrification agency which aims at facilitating access to energy services in rural areas including by identifying possibilities of supporting or exploiting synergies with other sectors eg water education health telecommunications gender agriculture and the environment it makes a direct contribution to the identification of multisectoral energy programmes and hence for electrification for productive uses in addition since the pattern of energy consumption has major implications with regard to the benefits that can be derived from electrification consumer education must also be part of investment packages for instance after several years of an electrification programme with full subsidization of household pv systems it was observed that many households had sold their systems barnes and flalpern