Afghanistan, starting from 2003 has implemented the National Solidarity Program (NSP) with financial assistance from the international community and focused on delivering basic services to all citizens. The bulk of the program was electrification, countryside roads, drinking water, schools and etc. In Badakhshan province, 2713 projects have been implemented by NSP, of which 443 of them were the micro-hydro power plants. In this research, a dataset of 1070 samples has been gathered from 6 districts. The data analysis was conducted with the Propensity Score Matching method to find the impact of the project on the welfare of rural residents. For detection of welfare the TV, computer, and cellphone possession were used as proxies. The results indicate that the treatment group has more TVs, computers, and cellphones than control groups. Precisely the treatment group comparing to control group has 23.9% more TVs, 7.6% more computers, and 37.6% more cell phones. So, it's recommended that Afghanistan should continue to build micro-hydro power plants to deliver electricity to its residents. Because it has been revealed that the implementation of micro-hydro power are contributing and increasing the welfare project beneficiaries.
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