Sustainable Energy for Productive Use in Dairy and Poultry
Ethiopia,
concluded
The one-year project piloted three PURE technologies with 2-3 end-user groups per..
SNV implemented a micro-pilot project with funding from the IKEA Foundation to help smallholder dairy and poultry farmers in Ethiopia improve their livelihoods through the productive use of renewable energy (PURE) technologies.
The one-year project was implemented with the technical advisory support of Global SDG7 Hubs, a SELCO Foundation initiative. It piloted three PURE technologies with 2-3 end-user groups per technology:
Solar-powered poultry houses
Cream separators
Butter churners
These PURE technologies were expected to improve production and product quality to increase smallholder farmers’ incomes by 10-50% and create a model to scale up these technologies in Ethiopia.
The project aimed to test three new renewable energy-driven productive technologies. Also, it aimed to gauge the suitable conditions to stimulate appropriate supply and demand and an enabling environment to deploy local context-relevant solutions for small-scale dairy and poultry farmers.
The micro-pilot project was the first phase of an envisioned three-phase programme. Evidence generated during the micro-pilot served as the basis for a follow-on pilot phase where the technologies and approaches were trialled among a representative number of end users and evaluated for impact. The validated technologies were then scaled and replicated in a 3–5-year programme to achieve the greatest potential for impact.
