Title: What does it take to make local sustainable energy production by SMEs a success in Africa? CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTORS
1What does it take to make local sustainable
energy production by SMEs a success in
Africa?CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTORS
The Energy Center, KNUST
- Prof Abeeku Brew-Hammond
- Acting Director, The Energy Center
- Dean, Faculty of Mechanical and Agricultural
Engineering - Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and
Technology - Kumasi, Ghana
Danida Development Days, Copenhagen, June 2009
2Different Energy EnterprisesEach Intervening in
Specific Market Segments
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3Many Active Actors Playing Different but
Supportive Roles
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4Effective Capacity Development
More than Seminars and Workshops
- Practical training
- Attachment programmes
- Learning by doing
- Twinning and counterparting
- Licensing
Integrated into Actual Project Development and
Implementation
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5The REED Model Providing Comprehensive Support
for Energy SMEs
Case 1 AREED
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6The MFP Approach
Case 2 MFPs
- Participatory feasibility studies
- Ownership by womens groups
- Literacy and business training
- Building capacity of artisans
- Continuous animation ME
- Income generation and free time for women
- Increased access to education for girls
- Scale-up and environmental sustainability (?!)
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7Main Opportunities Electrification
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8Main Opportunities Clean Cooking
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9Main Opportunities Biofuels
Growing unemployment versus land for food and
fuel!
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10Challenges Ahead
- More technical capacity and enterprise
development services targeting broader spectrum
of existing as well as new/potential
entrepreneurs - Systems approach with adequate attention to
stimulating policy support/incentive frameworks,
financing/resource mobilisation and advocacy - Greater flexibility with emphasis on
business/project development focusing on
Productive Uses of Renewable/Rural Energy (PURE)
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