Solar electrification on Endoinyo Narasha and Olkinyei villages of Narok (Phase II)
The NGO, World Concern was previously funded by SGP Kenya to facilitate training of 3 elderly semi-literate Maasai Women at the Bare Foot College, India as solar engineers. The project is aimed at having the trained women go back to their villages in Kajiado, Kenya in order to train others on solar electrification and connecting solar power to the remote villages. TRAC funds will facilitate the completion of the project that had stalled due to various constraints with clearing the solar equipment that had been donated by the Barefoot college.
Project Snapshot
Grantee:
World Concern International
Country:
Kenya
Area Of Work:
Climate Change Mitigation
Grant Amount:
US$ 30,000.00
Co-Financing Cash:
Co-Financing in-Kind:
Project Number:
KEN/UNDP/OP5/CC/14/12
Status:
Satisfactorily Completed
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Project Characteristics and Results
Notable Community Participation
In order to solar electrify individual homes; the community will be taken through a consensus building process and agreement made and documented for reference. The project will do this as a follow up to earlier meetings held with the community during the Bare Foot project
Gender Focus
It also aims at stimulating the potential in the rural women who have not had any formal schooling. The focus of the Barefoot College where the four mothers were trained has been to ?educate? men, women and children living in remote villages to be aware of their inherent potential and the resources around them, so that eventually they stay in their villages and not migrate to cities where they often live in slums. This is also the main reason why the project, while recognizing the place of ?urban? experts with formal educational qualifications in society, does not focus on them when it comes to truly community based sustainable rural development. The training focused on illiterate women from Maasai because they are more likely to remain in the village and provide services in their villages than men, who may migrate to find jobs elsewhere once they have acquired new skills
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