Client: GIZ – PED-Senegal (Programme d’Energie Durable)
Target country: Senegal
Services:
- Advice on the overall approach
- Concrete projects: Solar drinking water facility, solar irrigation community scheme, solar multipurpose hub etc.
- Field missions for assessing the service demand and the potential benefits, as basis for structuring of business model (e.g. the pricing of services such as rice for clean drinking water etc.)
- Inputs/ advice on the sizing/ specification of systems to be procured
- Sound financial analysis (finance model-based)
- Support on structuring a commercial and socially viable business model, based on the output of the financial analysis and on assessed risks (especially risk of under-utilization of the systems)
- Intense dialogue with end-customers/ users and traders (e.g. of water) to structure the business model in a way that avoids social conflicts and to achieve broad social acceptance
- Intense dialogue with stakeholders for structuring ownership and management, especially of the solar drinking water facility
- Organization and facilitating operationalization workshops (before start of operation of systems) for defining operational procedures with all relevant stakeholders (e.g. water sales procedures, financial management procedures etc.)