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THE SMART VILLAGES INITIATIVEClaudia Canales
25th January 2016
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JANUARY 2016
■ More than 1 billion people without access to electricity
■ 3 billion people still cooking on dirty, inefficient and harmful stoves
■ As a result, 4.3 million people dying each year
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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOAL 7 / UN SE4ALL INITIATIVE
Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all■ By 2030, ensure universal access to affordable, reliable
and modern energy services■ By 2030, increase substantially the share of renewable
energy in the global energy mix■ By 2030, double the rate of improvement in energy
efficiency
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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
All ena
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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 Smart communities with strong rural/urban linkages
Building more resilient communities better able to respond to shocks
Clean water and sanitation Affordable and healthy 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: sustainable local energy solutions for rural communities
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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Frontline experience
Smart Villages Initiative
More effective policy &
interventions
SVI: CONNECTION – INTERPRETATION - SYNTHESIS
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Project team: Universities of Cambridge and
Oxford
Key partners: - National Science
Academies - Practical Action
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
12-18 month engagement programmes: Workshops → reports/policy
briefs
Briefing meetings
Capacity building event
Media training workshop
Entrepreneurial competition
Final event pulling together key stakeholders
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CROSS-CUTTING ACTIVITIES
Forward look workshops
Research projects
Communications / outreach:■ Book of Essays■ Weekly newsletter■ Webinars■ Website: www.e4sv.org
Ongoing interaction with policy makers/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 in delivering & using energy services
maximise leverage of public sector funding2. 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
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SUMMARY OF FINDINGS TO DATE
■ Investment in energy infrastructure■Research and technology■SDG 17: Strengthen the mean of
implementation…
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INVESTMENT IN ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE
■ Maximise leverage of public sector funding:■ Increase rate of investment by x10 ■ need access to all sources of financing including international climate funds
■ Supportive policy and regulatory frameworks: plea from entrepreneurs: less red tape and some breathing space nurture home grown enterprises: business incubation / advisory support services
■ Integrate with other development initiatives: associated investments in healthcare, education, clean water/sanitation etc. investment in new enterprises and increased productivity of existing income
generating activities Make aware of possibilities Ensure all have opportunities Access to markets and finance
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INVESTMENT IN ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE (2)
Access to affordable finance: investment capital for mini-grid developers: support to de-risk and lower interest
rates working capital for SMEs to accelerate roll-out of Solar home systems and solar
lights novel financing schemes/business models for end-users
Public-private-community partnerships: community ownership and involvement necessary for success: key investment preparatory work: understand and build on local cultures and lifestyles build relationships & partner with trusted individuals and organisations identify, train and support local champions
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RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY
■ Expanding the range of accessible services/appliances:■ energy escalator approach to higher powers: TV, fridge, sewing machine etc.
■ low energy appliances
■ Reducing costs / increasing durability:■ key contribution to economic viability■ potential future breakthroughs: e.g. printable organic solar cells■ need for focus on enhancing batteries: cost and lifetime■ poor quality products: quality assurance mechanisms
■ Scale of electricity systems:■ home/institution based■ small clusters of houses: DC nano-grids■ village-level AC mini-grids
■ Research and development:■ more applied research: improved links between university researchers & SMEs■ need for: improved control systems, ‘plug-and-play’ technologies, recycling
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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOAL 17: STRENGTHEN THE MEANS OF IMPLEMENTATION…
■ Need for better collaboration: a confusion/competition of funders put in place frameworks for cooperation
■ Value of sharing of information & experiences: between countries and regions: role for the Smart Villages Initiative case studies of smart villages: value as integrating concept government/donor funded datasets of wind, hydro etc. potential
Focus on capacity building: systematic analysis across all stages and actors: training schemes to plug gaps
Develop approaches to monitor/evaluate development outcomes
