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A renewable energy promotion -Achieving a Low-carbon rural society through Solarfi charging kiosk and Micro Enterprise in Gaura Chiefdom-Kenema District, Kpejeh Chiefdom-Pujehun District

This project is designed to be implemented as a pilot to build three (3) Solarfi kiosks in communities in Gaura chiefdom ?Kenema district, Kpejeh chiefdom-Pujehun district and Luawa chiefdom-Kailahun district. This project is also contributing to save the environment of climate change. The project reduces burning diesel 87,600 liters per year. These stations can reduce 202.48249 tons or 27084.845 m3 volume per year drastically.(Formula from www.icbe.com/carbondatabase/volumeconverter.asp). Compared to existing practice 24 HP diesel generator consumed diesel at 12 liters /dayx365 days x 12 charging stations = 87,600liters/ year = CO2 202.48249 tons or 27084.845 m3 volume. If they did not use solar they produce this much CO2 volume per year. (Formula from www.icbe.com/carbondata/volumeconverter.asp). The kiosks can charge mobile phones, provide virtual top-up service to buy mobile airtime and and in-turn provides livelihood support to rural women and youths. Kiosks can charge more than 60 phones at any given time and provides lights closer to public places for pupils to study at night,. The pupils can take lessons, and sensitization campaign can be organized about important matters such as health through hand washing, HIV prevention messages, and climate change mitigation messages to people. In addition, the kiosk will provide education on climate agriculture. The goal of this project is to ensure that three (3) Solar Fi kiosks are very equipped and functional in Gaura chiefdom- Kenema district, Luawa chiefdom ?Kailahun district and Kpejeh chiefdom-Pujehun district in order to ensure low-carbon society. The project will also provide livelihood support to vulnerable groups managing the kiosk in the community. The project intends to benefit more than 300 women and 200 men through capacity building on who provide support and over see the management of the day-to-day affairs of the organization.
The specific objectives are as follows:
? To transfer knowledge to 2,500 people about climate change arising from human activities in order to ensure low emission of carbon dioxide into the environment.
? To build three (3) solarFi kiosks in three sections selected from Gaura chiefdom-Kenema district, Kpejeh chiefdom, Pujehun district and Luawa chiefdom-Kailahun district respectively.
? Train community members to raise income from phone charging and livelihood activities.
? To improve the entrepreneurial skill of 200 community members through support to micro enterprise.
? To create jobs and sources of livelihood for the 15 vulnerable rural poor especially the youths and women in the targeted communities (5-persons per kiosk).
? To ensure that 10,000 community members can apply environmentally friendly best practices on climate change through mass education and outreach activities.
? To increase awareness and public education on the environment in order to reduce carbon the society.
? To create partnership between 200 project beneficiaries and financial services in community in order to improve livelihoods.
? To ensure 600 families (200 x 3 family members) directly benefit from solarFi charging station. The charging fee is currently Le 2,000.00 per charge but after we install the solarfi charging station, the fees will be reduced to Le 500.00 per charge. Thus this will cushion the household income.

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Project Snapshot

Grantee:

Volunteers for Community Development Organization

Country:

Sierra Leone

Area Of Work:

CapDev
Climate Change Mitigation

Operational Phase:

OP6 - Y5 (Jul 19-Jun 20)

Grant Amount:

US$ 25,000.00

Co-Financing Cash:

US$ 4,500.00

Co-Financing in-Kind:

US$ 4,500.00

Project Number:

SLE/SGP/OP6/Y5/CORE/YCC/03/12/2019/65

Start Date:

12/2019

End Date:

11/2020

Status:

Satisfactorily Completed

Project Characteristics and Results

Notable Community Participation

During the baseline assessment, 10 community members actively participated and they have better understanding about the issues to be addressed. They will form the core volunteers during the implementation and would benefit from training and knowledge transfer

Gender Focus

In mainstreaming gender, VOLUNTEERS FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION and communities will focus on the development of more women as beneficiaries. For each group formed, the composition will be 20 women and 15 men. In the selection of FBO and youth clubs,, focus will be placed on girls-15 and boys-5. The beneficiaries will include widows, female headed households, female survivors of EBOLA, HIV/AIDS PERSONS, and VULNERABLE WOMEN. Special preference will be given to women with disabilities. The organization will promote the capacity of the most vulnerable groups especially women to take a lead in deciding what, who, where, how and when to implement project activities. We will raise awareness of male and female gender transformative programme and approaches. Women are seriously affected by poor waste management. The project shall engage the men to lend support to their wives and other female counterparts in the mitigation of climate change and building of solarfi kiosk in the community

Significant Participation of Indigenous Peoples

The community people will fully involve through participation from the project inception to implementation, during the proposal stage community stakeholders were engaged and they made meaningful contributions; such as skilled, unskilled labour to village development Committee, project committee was set up in each of the communities and they provide land for the construction of permanent kiosk. The project committee will be responsible to give project updates to Village Development Committee and Chiefdom Development Committee.

Inovative Financial Mechanisms

The knowledge gained will be shared through exchange visits and these people will stay in the various communities when the project ends. Other community members and decision makers will be supported with tools to help them identify issues and develop actions to address them. Communities would benefit from the demonstration of POP and waste management efforts. The lessons learnt will can greatly improve their livelihood. By learning these lessons and sharing them, the knowledge will remain in the community and multiplier effect will be enhanced. On the project level, major lessons learned will be transferred to the individuals, existing organizations formed in the communities during implementation. The project will invest in capacity building training, public education campaigns and research to collect, analyse and disseminate results to inform the donor

Capacity - Building Component

The organization has the capacity to manage and implementation of the project coupled the experienced staff. However, we need additional capacity building in the following are proposal Development, Monitoring and Evaluation and financial management to strengthen what we already have as an organization. Already we have developed plan to hire consultants to organize trainings in the communities or areas already identified.

Emphasis on Sustainable Livelihoods

The project will also address livelihood capacity for vulnerable like the disables in the community through capacity building in micro enterprise and financial management to effectively running the solarfi kiosk charging stations the project will also improve 200 community members (women and youth) with improved livelihood techniques and contributes to the household income

Policy Impact

The project will frame policy to encourage community people improve the use of renewable energy in the community to support low carbon emission in the community and the policy will support climate change adaptive and ensure successfully implementation bye-laws legislate.

Promoting Public Awareness of Global Environment

The successes of this intervention will firstly be complied into success stories with visual aids and disseminated to the communities, EPA and District councils. The lessons learnt will be shared and additional training, workshops and web-based learning organized for dissemination mechanism to reach a wider audience. Live testimonies from beneficiaries will be broadcasted in the media i.e TV, Radio and the web to facilitate public understanding of the project. Exchange visits will be organised and scale up plan develop into project proposals for the next call by GEF SGP.

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Indicators

Biophysical

Tonnes of CO2 decreased or avoided by energy efficient and renewable energy technologies or applying environmentally sustainable transport practices introduced by SGP Project 27084

Empowerment

Number of women participated / involved in SGP project 15

Livehood

Total monetary value (US dollars) of ecosystem goods sustainably produced and providing benefit to project participants and/or community as a whole (in the biodiversity, international waters, and land degradation focal areas as appropriate) 2500

Livehood

Increase in household income by increased income or reduced costs due to SGP project 300

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