PROJECT PROPOSAL
Name of the organization: Network for Climate Action Organization
Mailing Address: 54KairabaAvanue
Serrekunda. The Gambia
Email: Networkforclimateaction@[Link]
Visit us: twitter@netwok4climate, Facebook/network4climate
Contact Person: Mr. Abdoulie Sanyang
Telephone: +2203260547/+2207287245
Title of the project: SAFE BUSURA VILLAGE FROM DARKNESS WITH
SOLAR POWER
2. PROJECT TARGETED POPULATION/ PROBLEM STATEMENT
Busura is a small rural village of not more than 5,000 inhabitants, located 15 kilometers from
Brikama west coast region of the Gambia. The village is remote and very isolated. It was hard to
make a living. This isolated rural village the chance of the grid reaching them is unlikely,
however, at least in the near future. The lack of electricity inhibits people’s ability to thrive. It
leaves them dependent on solid fuel wood, animal dung, charcoal, candles, kerosene oil
lamp for lighting and cooking, which harmed children`s health and could not study full-time.
In the Gambia, access to electricity is as low as 5% per cent in rural Regions (compared with
65 per cent in urban areas).
Access to electricity outside greater Banjul area is very low and still largely
inadequate, inefficient and extremely unreliable which has negative impact of so-
economic development and life and livelihood of the rural communities of the
PROJECT PROPOSAL
Gambia these are the reason of excessively dependence on firewood and kerosene oil
lamp for cooking and lightings. without access to electricity women and girls in this rural
community of Busura spend most of their day performing basic subsistence tasks, including
time-consuming and physically draining tasks of collecting biomass fuels, which constrains
them from accessing decent wage employment, educational opportunities and livelihood
enhancing options, as well as limits their options for social and political interaction outside
the household. When the supply of fuel wood is affected by drought women and children in
this community walk up to 3 kilometers and spent many hours gathering fuel woods for
lightings and cooking which they are exposed to health effects and high level of insecurity.
Almost a third of hospital burn patients have been injured by kerosene fuel exploding while
using kerosene lamps in Busura Village. Small local businesses have few options to expand
their operations through electrically powered technology. Children lag behind in school
because once the sun goes down; they lack sufficient light for studying.
However, the village has one primary school with six classroom block. With no electricity
available, significant number of children and other vulnerable women are still missing out on
quality education, better healthcare, food and water security and broader economic
opportunities and general well-being. Teachers in other-hand usually have to teach in
darkness and school children are unable to study or complete their home work at night.
Health sector is also hugely impeded by lack of electricity in this local community.
The Clinic is unable to use technologies such as water filtering systems, refrigerator to store
vaccination and television to improve health knowledge. In addition, Night time birth
becomes difficult and higher increase in maternity and child mortality rate in the village and
also difficult to retained medical staff due to lack of electricity.
However, Women and girls had to get up at 4am to grind maize, wheat and corn by hand for
bread fast because they don’t have access to electricity.
The proposed project would provide roof tops solar home system to this local community as
the most cost effective ways of bring electricity to this remote local vulnerable community in
short-term and medium term. Off-grid renewable energy is a catalyst to transform
lives, improving health and other sustainable development goals. Energy is at the heart
of development. It highlights the linkages and the role of off-grid renewable electricity as an
enabler for SDG 3 (healthy lives), SDG 4 (equitable and inclusive education), SDG 5 (gender
equality), SDG 8 (economic growth, employment and decent work) and SDG 13 (tackling
climate change). Without energy, this local community lives in darkness, essential services
such as clinics and schools will barely function at night, and businesses operate under
crippling constraints.
The proposed project aims to contribute to the country’s development objectives while
enhancing local community resilience to climate change impact and avoiding greenhouse gas
emissions from traditional sources that would otherwise be generated from fossil fuels.
The project aims to promote renewable energy by providing rooftop solar home system
lightings to the primary school six classrooms, teachers’ room, and multi-purpose community
building, rice and corn mill and community clinic with solar power.
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The project would also allow the school to introduce computers, improving attendance by
students and the quality of their learning, increasing study hours and improving literacy rates
and performance in national exams. With electricity, proposed project would allow villagers
to set up a small agro-processing mill that processes rice, maize and other the local staple.
They could earn additional income—and feel proud to serve their neighbors. With the
project, days of spending hours walking to obtain oil have passed. The solar power would
change their lives and livelihoods.” Among other improvements, local women can have more
time to earn incomes, such as through raising poultry and goats.
The proposed project would provide significant impact of electricity access on women-
owned businesses and incomes, including helping them move from extreme poverty to near
middle class status, while allowing them to stay in their local community. Number of women
entrepreneurs would increase and their incomes would also increase by up to 10 times that
of pre-electricity earnings. The consistent source of renewable energy provided by solar
power would help the local vulnerable community to withstand the negative impacts of
climate change, including extreme weather events, droughts, and other shocks that affect
access to the traditional power supply.
The establishment of each component of the proposed project would involves training the
community on awareness how to use and maintain it, building new skills in planning and
managing local resources. This demonstration of community capabilities in turn would
persuade national policy makers of the feasibility and value of rural energy projects, and as a
result would increase government financial support in promotion of renewable energy in
rural communities. However, project Activities targeting women’s participation and training
and awareness as part of our capacity development and making sure the project is gender-
sensitive, empowerment and advancement of women equal participation in economic
activities and the benefits are shared among men and women equally.
4. MAIN STAKEHOLDERS INVOLVE IN THE IMPLEMENTATION
Network for Climate Action will be the main Implementing entity. The project
implementation arrangements count on the combined capacity of public, private sector and
affected local community involving women, girls and vulnerable people assist in
implementation, planning and activities.
The three main entities involved in the project baseline implementation of the proposed
project are affected community members, Network for Climate Action organization (NcA)
and Wagner Solar developer. The Organization will be the lead agency responsible for the
implementation, in close, direct and regular coordination with the village development
committee (VDC), and local effected community members including women, girls and
vulnerable people, religious leaders, Village elders.
Wagner solar developer will have a leading role in the implementation, construction,
installations and capacity development activities on mainstreaming. The organization will
support project implementation by administering the grant facility and recruiting and
contracting project personnel and implementation, support and consultant services,
including subcontracting.
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The project manager will be responsible for the overall oversight of the framework
implementation and will make a progress report to the donors involve. In addition, the
project is intelligently designed and carefully planned with involvement of local input and
cooperation with assessing local needs, we adapt project to meet those needs, and also
include affected communities in project design, monitoring, assessment, and evaluation of
the project.
Proposed project would ensure capacity development, knowledge transfer and ownership to
the local community/ stakeholders. This affected local community members would be train
on maintenance and management of solar panel equipments, ensure proper management
and sustainable use of equipments, adopting smart power usage behavior, general
maintenance, services, troubleshooting.
The capacity building activities will equally prioritize men, women and other vulnerable
people as a prime target audience. It is in project ‘s interest to reach women who will be the
end users of the proposed solar solutions. In relation, with the transition to renewable
energy like solar, has been discussed at the village meeting in Busura Community.
The proposed activities are in line with the village environmental requirements and it has
been fully supported by the local inhabitants. The proposed project devise specific
stakeholder engagement plan which will include grievance redress mechanism for the
purpose of ensuring adequate inclusion of all stakeholders issues.
5. BROADER AND SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE OF THE PROJECT:
1 To ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy to Busura
community
2 To empower local community to involve in income generating activities, gain access
to better health care and education, enhance water and food security, and improve
general well-being and livelihood.
3. To create a vibrant market, providing jobs to the local population
To De-carbonization of household energy sector, lowering air pollution from
discontinuation of candles, kerosene oil lamp and diesel generator.
4. Enhancing energy access to healthcare and educational services, improving rural
economy and livelihood and generating employment opportunities.
3 To improve healthcare, education, job creation, food production and water
availability.
4 Protecting and conservation of natural forest and its ecosystem services, and
enhance other social and environmental benefits.
5 To boost women entrepreneurship, increase income and improve rural livelihoods.
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6. MAIN ACTIVITIES
The implementation of the proposed project through following components
Component. 1. The pipeline proposed projects will be selected through a competitive
tendering process. The organization will apply its credit evaluation, due diligence and
approval procedures in appraising potential clients for this investment.
Component. 2a. Installation of solar home system with the capacity of 1000W to over
10000W on rooftops solar home system in school, health clinic for power need, community
multipurpose building, house for teachers, rice and corn mill and a poultry farm.
Component. 2B. installation of electrical infrastructure and energy storage and conduit and
cabling to connect the inverter.
Component. 3. Trainings that Empowers Stakeholders’ Engagement
This will support the education and awareness The target audience of such training activities
include, women, men, school administrator and affected people who will benefit from the
proposed project etc.
The activities here are proposed to address the following:
A. Initial reservation in the adoption of a new technology for communities and
households. B. Management and maintenance of equipments, adopting smart power
usage behavior and trouble shooting. C. Importance and advantages of conserving
energy; D. Environmental and social awareness for solar technologies, such as
recycling/ proper disposal of batteries. D. E & S impacts, Vulnerability aspects
Component .4a. The capacity building and awareness creation activities will equally prioritize
men and women as a prime target audience.
Component .4b. Capacity development for community facilitators and field-level staff will
also be implemented as they are organs that will reach out to the local community.
7. PLAN OUTPUT
Economic, Social, Health, Environmental and policy output/ co-benefits
Economic co-benefits:
• Entrepreneurial job creation to the local population and improve community livelihoods.
• Long term Green job creation in the green economy sectors linked to sustainable energy
and Gambia`s climate adaptation action.
• Economic empowerment and growth on women-owned businesses and incomes
• Boosting small local business and reducing drudgery on women and girls.
• Food security through climate resilient agriculture less dependent on rains through
irrigated crops and refrigeration for better preservation of perishables
Social co-benefits:
• Focus on women and girl’s empowerment and entrepreneurship in the productive use of
energy.
• Improvements in health and safety from elimination of smoke and soot from kerosene
lamps and candles for lighting and fire hazard from naked flames
• Better access to education through lighting for homework and better access to web-based
materials at school
• Water pumps for accessing underground water leading to higher education rate for girls
• Increase teacher’s retention rate and improve learning friendly- environment in the village.
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Health Benefits.
Improve lighting for village clinic for night time births and operations, and to reduce
mortality rate.
To improve power supply for clinic to use technologies such as water filtering
systems, refrigerator to store vaccination and television to improve health
knowledge.
Environmental co-benefits
Increased indoor air quality from use of LED lighting
Reduction of soil and water pollution from unsafe disposal or elimination of
batteries disposed Reduction in the use of traditional biomass (including wood),
which accounts for 84% of all primary energy consumed in the Gambia.
lowering indoor air pollution from discontinues of kerosene oil lamp, firewood and
diesel generator, Reducing GHG emission, and tackling climate change.
Policy output
• Build a strong business and supportive enabling environment to improve
confidence of investment in promoting renewable energy.
• Develop an ‘energy access roadmap’ which sets clear national targets to achieve
access to modern, sustainable and affordable energy by 2022, or earlier.
8. MAJOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE ORGANISATION.
Network for climate action Organization is a non-profit public organization registered with
the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of the Gambia, our mission is Working towards
building low carbon climate resilient sustainable development.
Network for Climate Action has registered some significant achievements which significantly
created greater impacted on the lives of a considerable number of people in local
communities. The organization has implemented a number of projects including: Energy
conservation and the promotion of efficient renewable energy has been done.
1) improve cook stove project: « the organization has implemented Improve clean cooking
stoves project by reduce Climate emission from household energy sector in Farato village»
; 2) 2018 the QIAO Plan project: «Construction of solar panels in Busura Village to Facilitate
energy access»
3) Country wide climate change awareness project: «in URR and LRR in collaboration with
grass root organizations>> Capacity building has been in our program implementation.
The capacity limitation of Communities towards environment was recognized very early our
environmental education and awareness program in that area in a bid to improve the
situation.
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[Link] DONOR AGENCIES INVOLVE/ CO-FINANACING OF THE PROJECT:
The project co-financing will be provided by
1. Vision Development Foundation, 2. Global Giving Crowdfunding campaign. The project is
also supported by the Village Development committee, School teachers and cash in hand
D50,000
10. TIME TABLE OF THE PROJECT ACTIVIVTES/ WORK PLAN
YEAR 2019 YEAR 2020
MONTHS may June July Aug Sept Oct Nov Dec J F M A M
Tender and
Bidding
Selection of
bidders
Signing
contract
Training of
stakeholder
engagement
Construction
/Installation
Electrical
work/install
solar
cookers
Capacity
building for
field staffs
Capacity
building for
local
beneficiaries
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11. BUDGET
Total project cost: D1,950,000 Amount requested
ITEMS OTY COST TOTAL
OPERATING COST
EXPENSES D D
PERSONELL (a)Staff salaries D200,000
EXPENSES (b)Capacity building/ trainings D150,000
D 350,000
INSTALLATIO (a)BENQ Solar modules 30 D 340,000
N (b)Flat Roof Mounting 10 D 95,000
& (c) Charge CNT 5 D185,000
EQUIPMENT (d)Power inventories victon 5 D 265,000
(e)BAT-22-A& BAT-Term 40 D 454,000
(f)BATT Rack 5 D 18,000
(g)RJ45 UTB 5 D 3,000
(h)AC/ DC Cables 60 D 114,500
(f)Earth Rod 10 D 17,500
(G)NH Fuse Switch 5 D 27,500
(h)1x fuse Insert 160A 15 D 6,000
(I)Victor VE Direct 5 D 11,500
(j) Transportation & Installation 1 D 35,000
(k) Solar cookers 5 D30,000
D1,600,000
Total cost TOATAL COST D1.950,000
12. MECHANISM FOR ASSESSING PERFORMANCE
A coherent monitoring and evaluation plan will be drawn up as part of the review process of
the implementation of proposed project, using the targeted local community that have
already been developed or benefited, and using set of indicators.
Rooftop solar home system install in households achieving energy access estimated
200 direct and indirect beneficiaries, Improving 100 local livelihoods and increase
100% household women incomes. 95% of entrepreneurs making less than D50 per
day have no electricity, while 100% of entrepreneurs making D500 or more per day
have access to electricity.
Installation of solar power in primary school more than 2000 students and school
teachers will benefit. improvement of quality education in the village and their
performance in National exams. 1000 student boys/girls will have enroll in
secondary school
Rooftop Solar power in village clinic 1000 people will benefit and improve nighttime
birth 100% reduction in maternity and child mortality death rate. 1000 people with
improve health and livelihoods (disaggregated by number of women/men and
girls/boys).
Conduct studies, supported by field surveys, to understand the impact renewable
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energy jobs have on poverty reduction and changes in livelihoods.
Installation of 1 solar power in village community building, 1 rice & corn mill. the
proposed project aim avoiding 1000 tons of CO2 emissions annually. avoiding over
1500tons CO2eq per year of emissions.
13. FINANCIAL FISIBILTY STUDY:
The organization has begun encouraging a process of scaling up and diversifying the types of
technology being deployed. Power sources capable of greater output can serve more people,
lower maintenance costs and provide enough juice for local enterprises to expand their
operations and become more productive. Using solar power would help local community to
save money substitute kerosene with solar lamps, using the savings for school fees, farming
inputs and investment in businesses.
Project beneficiaries would save quite a lot; for instance, on the amount of money they
would have been spending on diesel power generation, kerosene oil and candle could be re-
invest in other sectors.
Payment by end-users will be based on a prepaid system with mobile money ensure
sustainability. It is estimates a 100 percent return on investment within two to five years,
when this local community with unreliable energy sources install solar systems.
With electricity, the proposed project would allow villagers to set up a small agro-processing
mill that processes rice, corn and other the local staple. They could earn additional income.
The power would change their lives and livelihoods.” Among other improvements, local
women can have more time to earn incomes, such as through raising poultry and goats.
The project will have significant impact of electricity access on women-owned businesses
and incomes, number of women entrepreneurs would increase by half once electricity
became accessible and incomes of women entrepreneurs would increase by up to 10 times
that of pre-electricity earnings.
REPLICABITLITY AND LESSON LEARN
The proposed project was developed based on an ambitious vision that required thoughtful
planning and engagement with each of its local stakeholders. The proposed project will have
greater and significant impacts, particularly on National development plans and other SDGs,
and on the local community that benefit and project surroundings. Many of the lessons learn
from this proposed project can be broadly applied to other rural communities of the Gambia.
We emphasize the importance of planning and engaging with local communities/
stakeholders early in the process.
Applying these lessons for peer to peer learning is fundamental to accelerating the
implementation and impact of project in other region. This successful development of such a
project to promote renewable source of energy to poor rural communities can be replicated
in other regions in the Gambia and beyond, especially those possesses sun radiation
throughout the year.
The project emissions reduction will directly contribute to attain the Gambia’s commitment
outlined in its Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) to reduce emissions by 70 Mt
CO2eq/year by 2030 as compared to the BAU (430 Mt CO2eq). Its replication to other towns
in the Gambia will provide further contribution to the NDC emissions reduction objectives of
the country.
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REMARKS
Socioeconomic development while reducing climate emission is the primary objective of
expanding energy access. promoting renewable energy like solar is crucial for addressing
development challenges – poverty reduction, gender equality, poor health and educational
services and absence of food and water security and among others. And it’s the most
ingredients to sustainable development goals (SDGs). Energy is at the heart of development.
Without energy, these communities live in darkness, essential services such as clinics and
schools can barely function, and businesses operate under crippling constraints. Switching
from kerosene to solar lamps reduces the toxic and soot-like black carbon emissions that
have a large impact on climate change and air pollution.
Energy is not only a global goal in its own right but is at the heart of the sustainable
development agenda to 2030, and is essential for reducing poverty, improving health and
ensuring environmental sustainability. Energy access and consequent access to technologies
can free up women’s time, improve the productivity of their work and allow them to engage
in income-generating activities.
Energy access provides opportunities for women entrepreneurs to make an income and
enhance their social status by creating and disseminating sustainable energy solutions.
Recognize women as independent users of energy solutions and enable them to benefit from
energy access, taking into consideration the challenges of land ownership/rights, access to
credit, and social constraints.
