Learning Centre • Multipliers training• Technical training• Entrepreneurship

training• Innovation / Research

Multipliers• Demand creation• Promotion

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1 – Policy making Institutions and Legal Framework1a: National and international NGOs lobby for RE supporting legal framework on regional and national levels.1b: (social) solar enterprise/s (SE): Lobby in their own interests – and do profit from better policy frame work that promotes RE.

2 – Finances2a: Well recognized NGO acts as intermediary between donors and LC as well as investors and SE2b: Namely in the beginning the NGO acts as a donor for the LC. 2c & 2d: In the long term the money flow is directly from donors to LC and investors to SE

3 – Training and Jobs3a: The SE get qualified staff due to the training at the LC. Students from the LC get mentorship, internship and job opportunities at the SE. In the long term the SE shall finance the training of their future staff.3b: LC enables micro-entrepreneurs (ME) to create their own business.

4 – Solar Enterprise and Micro-EnterpriseThe SE act as a wholesaler of solar materials and focuses on large projects (solar street lamps, solarchill for health centers, public buildings) and innovation. The MEs deal with small solar home systems and mobile devices. SE and ME might collaborate in a franchising system.

5 – Multipliers as key actors5a: Volunteers, youth groups, women groups, etc. act as solar multipliers. They are trained in a crash course (1 to 3 days) in the LC.5b: Multipliers act through demonstrations of solar gadgets at events, starting in the village and in the neighborhood to promote local market

6 – Additional ActivitiesDepending on the locals situation additional activities might be required or useful to promote local development and solar market:• Health courses (hygiene, food, family planning,…)• Organic farming and agro-forestry• Community organizing• Energy efficient stove building

Further notes- Basic assumption of these model, based mainly on experiences in Kenya (Sarah Obama Solar Learning Centre, Abura village) but also on learnings in Brazil, Cameroon and DRC, is that there must be a “hand-shake” between “top-down” (policies, market development etc.) and bottom-up, the practice/s. For this link, a “Learning Centre” is proposed as one option. - The interface/limit between non-profit and profit is not always clear or strict, but basically can be distinguished between “tasks of the society” like education and health service, and “business cases” for profit part. Of course, a start-up or a micro-enterprise may get some donation to establish the business or for marketing, but not for selling.

Abbreviations: LC – Learning Centre, RE – Renewable Energy, SE – social Solar Enterprise, ME – Micro Enterprise