Client: GIZ – EnDev Rwanda
Target country: Rwanda
Services:
- Field missions for identifying business cases on level of the various stakeholders along agriculture value chains (mainly farmers/ coops, aggregators, exporters)
- Assessment of potential quantitative benefits for the different stakeholders from decentralized solar cold rooms (first mile, near to farmers)
- Comprehensive financial analysis (finance model-based) of potential business cases, to analyze the profitability (considering both OPEX, CAPEX and finance)
- Concluding reasonable payment schemes, which are feasible from the Rwandan supplier’s perspective and affordable for the customer (e.g. aggregator, exporter)
- Intense dialogue with the Rwandan company, to raise awareness and build up knowledge about success factors in the project development and implementation process (in consideration of assessed risks and possible risk mitigation measures)
- Developing and introducing tools for ensuring quality in the project development stage (e.g. tool for scoring of potential business cases)
- Recommendations on interventions for promoting the commercialization of solar cold rooms (in first mile)