60-70% of communities in northern Nigeria lack access to energy. Providing affordable off-grid energy solutions that meet basic needs like lighting and cooking as well as enable productive uses at households and rural businesses is a major challenge. PIND's approach focuses on developing energy solutions that are locally sourced, technologically appropriate, adaptable to common designs, and easily produced and scaled. The goal is cost-effective, sustainable solutions that empower local communities and spur economic development while improving social welfare.

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60 - 70% of communities in the ND are
without access to energy.
Addressing this gap through modern and
affordable off-grid solutions – capable of
targeting not only basic energy needs (i.e.
lighting and cooking energy), but also
productive uses of energy at both
household and rural enterprise levels – is a
significant challenge.

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Locally/regionally sourced
Technologically Appropriate
Open to wide innovation and technical improvement
Adaptable to common typologies and designs
Production ease and
Scalability

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11. Cost-effectiveness
Micro-entrepreneurs
Inclusion
ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT
SUSTAINABILITY &
SCALE
Political capital
Private Sector
SOCIAL WELFARE
Supply
Demand
PIND
Facilitation
People: Project engagement of the local community to
breed ownership and empowerment to develop
initiatives aligned to their welfare and business needs,
and to ensure consumers have individual and flexible
solutions that are socially, economically and culturally
appropriate.
Product: Appropriate, Affordable,
Environmentally friendly, Low
maintenance
Process: Innovative business processes for
supply and purchasing of technology and
services to deliver economic growth and
social benefits.

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14. Acceptable Accessible Available
Awareness Affordable
Appropriate

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Planet
Environmental
Performance
Profit
Economic
Performance
People
Social Performance

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Project Design
- Testing
- Clean Energy
source
Implementation
- Need based
Community
development project
Adoption
- Scaled up within
needy communities
Knowledge
Feedback
- Training
- Best Practice
- Improvement

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Regional
Experience
Practice
experience
Field
Knowledge
Empirical
Research
Peace
Building
Advocacy
Capacity
Building

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