kathmandu | apr-15 | the smart villages initiative
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THE SMART VILLAGES INITIATIVEJohn Holmes & Bernie Jones
10th April 2015
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APRIL 2015
■ More than 1 billion people without access to electricity
■ 3 billion people still cooking on dirty, inefficient and harmful stoves
■ As a result, 4 million people dying each year
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UN SE4ALL INITIATIVE
■ Ensure universal access to modern energy services by 2030
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UNIVERSAL ACCESS TO ELECTRICITY BY 2030
30%
70%
New connections in rural areasIEA World Energy Outlook
Grid extension
Mini-grid and home-based
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ENERGY AS A CATALYST FOR DEVELOPMENT
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SMART CITIES: NEED FOR A VILLAGE LEVEL ANALOGUE
SMART VILLAGES
SMART CITIES
47% of world’s population and 70% of the world’s poor live in
rural villages
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SMART VILLAGES: SOME KEY FEATURES
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Education and health services ICT connectivity: distance learning and world’s knowledge
base Modern health services and tele-medicine
Through ICT connectivity, participate in governance processes At local, regional and national levels Creating smart communities with strong rural and urban
linkages
Foster entrepreneurship in provision and use of energy services
Capture more of the agricultural value chain Create new businesses
Building more resilient communities better able to respond to shocks
Clean water and sanitation Affordable and nutritious food
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SHIFTING THE BALANCE OF OPPORTUNITIES BETWEEN CITIES AND VILLAGES
Technological advances
Game changing technologies
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THE SMART VILLAGES INITIATIVE
Focus: mini/micro-grid and home-based approaches
Policy advice: an insightful, ‘view from the frontline’
of the challenges of village energy provision for
development, and how they can be overcome
Workshops: bringing together the key players:
scientists, entrepreneurs, villagers, NGO’s, financers,
regulators and policy makers etc:
What are the barriers?
How can they be overcome?
What messages to funders and policy
makers?
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Project team: Universities of Cambridge and
Oxford
Key partners:
- National Science Academies
- Practical Action / TERI
Funding: charitable
foundations: CMEDT & TWCF
SMART VILLAGES INITIATIVE: A PARTNERSHIP
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SMART VILLAGES: PREPARATORY WORK
Scoping study
Village-level energy services in Tanzania, Ghana and India
University of Oxford study team
Published January 2013: www.e4sv.org
Extensive round of meetings
Europe: European Commission and Parliament
UN: UNIDO and UNEP
Other stakeholders
Forward look workshop
Cambridge, January 2014
Possible game changing scientific / technical developments
over next 10-20 years
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CORE COMPONENT: IN-COUNTRY WORKSHOPS
East Africa – June 2014
SE Asia – January 2015
South Asia – April 2015
South America – January 2016
West Africa – April 2016
Central America – November 2016
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IN EACH REGION - 12 MONTH PROGRAMME OF ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITIES:
Preparation of briefs/reports and briefing meetings
Capacity building events
Further workshops
Entrepreneurial competitions
Final event with key stakeholders
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CROSS-CUTTING ACTIVITIES
Booklet of essays
Pocket guide
Website:www.e4sv.org
Final Workshops: Brussels and Addis Ababa
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THE SMART VILLAGES INITIATIVE
A key aim: identify framework conditions to:
foster entrepreneurial activities
maximise leverage of public sector funding
An underlying premise: maximise social benefit and
development impact:
integrate energy access with other development
initiatives
take a community level approach
An important concern:
to catalyse progression through the various levels of
energy access
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ARUSHA WORKSHOP: FINDINGS & RECOMMENDATIONS
■ Solar lights/home systems:• Have reached ‘tipping point’: rapid expansion on commercial basis• Pace of rollout constrained by distribution networks and working capital• Energy escalator approach to higher powers: TV, fridge, sewing machine
■ Mini-grids:• Search for scalable business models – for now continuing needs for govt/donor
support• Catch 22 for developers: access to affordable finance• Dynamic mini-grids v solar home systems: ‘hub and spoke’ model
■ Technologies: Potential breakthroughs in cost: e.g. printable organic solar cells Need for:
• Improved control systems• ‘Plug and play’ technologies• Recycling
More applied research: improved links between university researchers & SMEs
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ARUSHA WORKSHOP: FINDINGS & RECOMMENDATIONS
■ Integrate with other development initiatives:• Associated investments in productive enterprises in the home &
community• New enterprises and increased productivity of existing income
generating activities
■ Need for better collaboration:• A confusion/competition of funders• Public-private-community partnerships
■ Supportive policy and regulatory frameworks:• Plea from entrepreneurs: less red tape and some breathing
space• Nurture home grown enterprises: business incubation / advisory
support services
■ Value of sharing of information & experiences:• Across East African countries• Case studies of smart villages• Government/donor funded datasets of wind, hydro etc. potential
■ Develop approaches to evaluate development outcomes
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KUCHING WORKSHOP: FINDINGS & RECOMMENDATIONS
■ Emphasis on community engagement and sensitivity to cultural issues
■ Interdisciplinary approach involving social scientists and anthropologists■ Big investment and takes time – build relationships / partner with trusted organisations■ Make use of community resource management systems and in-kind contributions■ Identify, train and support local champions
■ Need to focus on new means of income generation & productive enterprises
■ To secure financial viability of projects and enable further progress up energy ladder■ Provide familiarisation / training on possibilities■ Ensure poorer members of the community also have opportunities■ Priority on ICT: internet connection opens up new opportunities
■ Smart villages are achievable: publicise case studies■ “Seeing is believing”■ Early successes → snowball effect
■ More emphasis on cleaner /more efficient cooking■ Substantial gains from cheap and available technologies: “low-hanging fruit”
