What is the Smart Bioeconomy initiative?
Our bio economy project for Smart Agro energy Villages access to sustainable energy services acts as a catalyst for development – enabling the provision of good education and healthcare, access to clean water, sanitation and nutrition, the growth of productive enterprises to boost incomes, and enhanced security, gender equality and democratic engagement. as well as sustainable local economy based on local resource
This Project Challenge
Unfortunately it is a fact that , in the world today, 1.3 billion people remain without access to electricity. In addition, 3 billion are still cooking on dangerous and inefficient stoves. Many of them live in remote rural village communities. Until such communities have access to modern energy services, little progress can be made to develop their economies and improve their lives.
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The Bioeconomy project for Smart Agro energy Villages Programme
In each of the four regions a major international on line web based workshop and web seminar brings together the diverse set of players from across the region, providing an open and stimulating environment conducive to generating new insights into how to tackle the challenges of village energy access for development. Follow-up activities include briefing meetings for policy makers, innovation competitions to generate new ideas, training courses and further workshops. A final event in each region draws together lessons learned in conjunction with policy makers, donors and development agencies, and considers next steps. Crosscutting activities are developing supporting materials and ensuring that lessons are learned, and connections made, across the regions.
The provisional schedule of regional engagements is as follows:
- Africa: June 2015 to September 2016
- South Asia contact: January to December 2015
- South America: February to December 2016
- Central America and Caribbean: November 2016 to March 2017.
Two final workshops – provisionally in Brazil and India f other global institutions – will draw together lessons learned from the project as a whole.
Our project goal
Our goals
The Smart project Villages Initiative aims to provide politios ,policy makers, donors and development agencies concerned with rural energy access with new insights on the real barriers to energy access in villages in developing countries – technological, financial, social and political – and how they can be overcome. We have chosen to focus on remote off-grid villages based on waste resources , where local solutions (home- or institution-based systems, and mini-grids) are both more realistic and cheaper than national grid extension.
Our Approach
Over one year period commencing in 2014, we are holding workshops and follow-up engagement activities in four regions (Africa, South and Southeast Asia, and South America). These activities bring together the diverse set of players – scientists and engineers, entrepreneurs, villagers and civil society organisations, NGO’s, financiers, policy makers and regulators – who are actively involved in addressing the challenges of village energy for development. based enginerrs with border voluentery work with NGO
Key Intended Outcomes
The Smart Villages Initiative will provide policy makers unique insights on how to:
- Create the framework conditions necessary for entrepreneurs to meet the off-grid energy challenge.
- Ensure that government and donor funding achieve maximum leverage of private sector investment.
- Integrate energy access with other development initiatives.
- Take a community level approach, to maximise social benefit and development impact.
- Catalyse rapid progression through the various levels of energy access.
It is our aim that overall these outcomes will result in better informed policies and more effective initiatives at national, regional and global levels to progress village energy for development, and to support the achievement of the UN’s goal of sustainable energy for all by 2030.
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