By Bernie Jones
To help collect and distil the knowledge and experience from the last 15 months of engagement in East Africa, a concluding workshop was held in Kigali, Rwanda. The workshop brought together over 40 government representatives and other key stakeholders from across the region to share information on progress and remaining challenges, and to reflect on lessons learned.
More info: http://e4sv.org/events/east-africa-workshop/
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■ 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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UNIVERSAL ACCESS TO ELECTRICITY BY 2030
30%
70%
New connections in rural areas
IEA World Energy Outlook
Grid extension
Mini-grid and
home-based
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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
Education and health services
ICT connectivity: distance learning and world’s knowledge base
Modern health services and tele-medicine
Foster entrepreneurship in provision and use of energy services
Capture more of the agricultural value chain
Create new businesses
Through ICT connectivity, participate in governance processes
At local, regional and national levels
Creating smart communities with strong rural/urban linkages
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: local solutions for rural communities: 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
Engagement: 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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SIX REGIONAL ENGAGEMENT PROGRAMMES
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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SIX REGIONAL ENGAGEMENT PROGRAMMES
East Africa – June 2014
SE Asia – January 2015
South Asia – April 2015
South America – January 2016
West Africa – April 2016
Central America – November 2016
• Workshops → reports/policy briefs
• Briefing meetings
• Capacity building events
• Media training/dialogue
• Entrepreneurial competition
• Final event pulling together key stakeholders
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OUR EAST AFRICA ENGAGEMENT
June 2014 to September 2015:
■ International workshop in Arusha, Tanzania
■ Workshop with science academies in Entebbe, Uganda
■ Workshop for journalists in Kigali, Rwanda
■ Entrepreneurial competition for young East African scientists/engineers
■ Inputs to conferences on mini-grids and on recycling in Kenya, on ICT
in Rwanda, and on rural electrification in Malawi
■ Workshop in Terrat, Tanzania for village elders from across East Africa
■ Research project on development impacts of electricity access in
Rwanda
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CROSS-CUTTING ACTIVITIES
Forward look workshops
Research projects
Communications / outreach:
■ Book of Essays
■ Pocket guide
■ Webinars
■ Website: www.e4sv.org
Ongoing interaction with policy-makers and
stakeholders
Concluding events:
■ European Union
■ International (UN, World Bank etc.)
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THE SMART VILLAGES INITIATIVE
1. A key aim: identify framework conditions to:
foster entrepreneurial activities
maximise leverage of public sector funding
2. An underlying premise: to maximise social
benefit and development impact:
integrate energy access with other development initiatives
take a community level approach
3. An important concern:
to catalyse rapid progression through the various levels of
energy access