In four articles, we present the Cafés Lumière mini-grid project in Madagascar, the limitations of its standard evaluation carried out for accountability purposes, which does not provide any real evidence of impact, and various alternative ways of testing and documenting the project's socio-economic impacts.

In four articles, we present the Cafés Lumière mini-grid project in Madagascar, the limitations of its standard evaluation carried out for accountability purposes, which does not provide any real evidence of impact, and various alternative ways of testing and documenting the project's socio-economic impacts.

Nous présentons en quatre articles le projet de mini-réseaux Cafés Lumière à Madagascar, les limites de son évaluation standard réalisée pour des besoins de redevabilité, qui ne permet pas d’apporter de véritables preuves d’impact et différentes voies alternatives pour tester et documenter les impacts socio-économiques du projet.

In four articles for Entreprenante Afrique, we present Electriciens sans frontières' Cafés Lumière in Madagascar and compare the results of different alternative evaluation methods carried out at affordable cost to test and assess the existence of positive impacts of the project on sustainable development objectives. In this second section, we explore the possibility of testing the presence of impacts using remote sensing data, which is generally inexpensive to mobilise.