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• RENDEV
• Reinforcing provision of sustainable ENergy
  services in Bangladesh and Indonesia for Poverty
  alleviation and sustainable DEVelopment
• January 07 to January 2010 (36 months)
• EIE/06/248/S12.448127

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• EIE/06/248/S12.448127

1) Project summary

• The project offers to disperse training and
  capacity building on renewable energy
  technologies in Bangladesh and Indonesia to
  strengthen local strategies and legislations,
  encourage sustainable economic development and
  alleviate poverty
• The project also sets out to increase
  availability and usage of a decentralized rural
  electrification systems in Bangladesh and
  Indonesia through linking up simultaneously
  microfinance (MF) mechanisms, solar energy (SE)
  technology and Small and Medium size Enterprise
  (SME) development.

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2) Aims / Objectives

• Increased awareness for energy integrated
  policies, rural development and microfinance with
  specific priority on attaining the MDG
  objectives.
• Building on a sufficiently large market for
  sustainable energy systems to accelerate
  wide-scale provision of solar home systems and PV
  modules through microfinance lending
  methodologies, reinforce ME development and
  accelerate poverty alleviation.
• Positive contribution towards national
  development in Bangladesh and Indonesia and
  particularly rural development and poverty
  reduction.

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3) Activities (Work Packages)

• Project management
• Development of solar panel users and monitoring
  tools to create an integrated framework for
  implementation and optimal use of sustainable
  energy products.
• Development of market feasibility and needs
  assessment studies to get a grasp of the market
  demand for solar energy products and to conduct
  further research and analysis for system
  improvement.
• Enabling cross-sectoral linkages to provide
  training and capacity building in the use of
  solar energy for Micro-enterprise development.
• Developing a financial model to open access of
  renewables to the poor and integrate them in the
  poverty reduction strategies.
• Facilitating community involvement and raising
  social awareness for renewable energy services.
• Specific information dissemination on
  microfinance and renewable energy services to
  establish and assess the importance of solar
  energies as service provider and necessary tool
  in the MDG poverty reduction strategies.
• Common information dissemination

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4) Expected results

• Reinforcing of the aptitude and competence of all
  the stakeholders regrouping microfinance
  institutions, local communities, local
  authorities, NGOs, development community, solar
  energy system providers working in the renewable
  energy sector.
• Facilitation of the cross-sectoral links between
  solar energy and other core sectors tackled by
  development programmes such as health, education,
  and water supply.
• Development of solid policies linking sustainable
  energy and poverty reduction strategies.
• Development and provision of an energy guideline
  and of standard models for energy directed at the
  affiliated development sectors (education, health
  and water supply).
• Facilitation and provision of a replicable model
  for use in the neighbouring

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5) Partners and Contact

• Coordinator
• PlaNet Finance, France
• Contact Pascale Geslain, pgeslain_at_planetfinance.
  org
• Partners
• IT Power, United-Kingdom
• Transenergie, France
• Grameen Shakti, Bangladesh
• Association for Underprivileged People,
  Bangladesh
• UKABIMA, Indonesia
• Bina Swdaya, Indonesia

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http//www.planetfinance.org E-mail
contact_at_planetfinance.org
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