Powering Livelihoods, a CEEW-Villgro initiative, aims to boost India’s rural economy by scaling up the penetration of clean energy-powered appliances for livelihoods. The initiative is supporting six cohort enterprises and nine affiliate enterprises to undertake large-scale commercial deployment for their solutions through an integrated gendered lens and use the evidence generated to catalyse the sector.
Spoke with Abhishek Jain at CEEW (Head of energy access, rural livelihoods, and sustainable food systems) on Aug 17 who shared some intel
Completed 2 years of a 3 year, $3mn program and expect to extend / scale up
Deployed 7k solutions over the past 2 years. Products include solar dyers, processors, textile machines, coolers, grow house for greens, pumps, etc.
Brought in partners who provide end user financing (Rabo Foundation, Samunnati, Kotak, etc); some FPOs / cooperatives but also a lot of individuals farmers as ticket size for equipment is 20k to 15 lakh
Market linkages are critical where consumers of end product are not local
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