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THE SMART VILLAGES INITIATIVE
Dr Bernie Jones
October 2015
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IN THE WORLD TODAY…
■ 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 areas IEA World Energy Outlook
Grid extension
Mini-grid andhome-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
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 policymakers?
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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 / TERI / Kopernik
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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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
