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Ghana SE4ALL Newsletter October to December OCT—DEC 2016 Volume 3, Issue 4 GHANA SE4ALL SECRETARIAT GHANA SE4ALL NEWS GHANA’S SE4ALL ACTION AGENDA SEEKS TO: In this Issue Promote Productive Uses of Energy 220 Farmers Provided with Access to Grid Electricity and Solar PV for Irrigation Improve Access to Improved Cookstove Adoption of 1mproved Biomass Cookstoves for Gari-Processing Increased with the Installation of 150 Stoves Improve access to LPG for Rural LPG Promotion Programme Facilitates Access to LPG for cooking Cooking in over 25,000 Households in 2016 Provide Access to Electricity More Kerosene Lanterns Displaced under the Solar Lantern Promotion for Remote Communities Programme Using Off-Grid Systems UN Foundation Increases Access to Sustainable Electricity in some Health Facilities PENS Food Bank Contributes to Reduction in Post-Harvest Losses in Ejura and its Environs ECOWAS Holds its Maiden Sustainable Energy Week in Accra Contents PROGRESS ON HIGH IMPACT PRIORITY AREAS Progress on High Impact 1-3 Priority Areas PROMOTE PRODUCTIVE USES OF ENERGY (PUE) Promote Productive Uses of Energy To date, about 213 farmers in the Keta Municipal Assembly and the Ada East District Assembly Improve Access to have been provided access to grid electricity for irrigation under the Energising Development (EnDev) Project. Also, small-scale farmers were given training on good agriculture and Improved Cookstoves irrigation practices and farmers in Shime and Sege were introduced to shallow ground Improve Access to LPG water irrigation practice for the first time. Provide Access to In the area of solar PV powered irrigation, EnDev has supported seven (7) installations to date Electricity for Remote under a capital subsidy scheme. The installations were done in: Paga, Upper East Region (1); Communities using Domeabra, Ashanti Region (1); Somanya and Nsawam, Eastern Region (3); Denu-Viepe, Volta Off-Grid Systems Region (1); and Buduburam, Central Region(1). A Sustainable Energy 3 Business in Ghana IMPROVE ACCESS TO IMPROVED COOKSTOVES The Story of PENS Food Under the EnDev Project, SNV has facilitated the dissemination of over 150 gari-processing Bank stoves to date in 11 districts across five (5) regions in Ghana. Specifically, 112 Chrisaac stoves and 14 RTF charcoal stoves were constructed in 2016 for gari processing. Through the Regional SE4ALL Event 4-5 activities of SNV, 12 financial institutions have developed a credit scheme for improved ECOWAS Holds its Maiden cookstoves. On awareness creation, over 6,000 agro-processors have been introduced to Sustainable Energy Week improved cookstoves and benefits. in Accra Page 2 Volume 3 Issue 4 IMPROVE ACCESS TO LPG some potential negative environmental and stakeholders and to encourage collaboration health impacts. SLAPP provides 70% subsidy and synergies between the project and other The Rural LPG Promotion Programme which for selected solar lantern products promoted related initiatives. The project has been began in November 2013 to facilitate access carefully designed to avoid some of the under the programme. to LPG, stoves and accessories in low access common problems that have led to the failure areas has served 77,190 households to date. of past public solar power projects in Africa. In 2016 alone a total of 25,690 households The project is organised around the following were provided with 6kg LPG cylinders, stoves Sustainable Electrification key components: and accessories. The programme is of Health Facilities Energy Needs Assessments: A detailed implemented by the Ministry of Petroleum. In October 2016, the UN Foundation formalised energy audit has been undertaken at The target is to have 50% of households its cooperation with Ghana Health Service and every health facility to help inform the using LPG as primary cooking fuel by 2020. A the Ministry of Power to light up and power appropriate design of solar PV solutions. survey conducted by the Ghana Statistical public primary health facilities. The project Service in 2013 shows that 22..3% of follows on from a detailed energy needs System Design: Reliable energy households use LPG as primary cooking fuel assessment of 75 primary health facilities in systems, in the form of facility-wide as at 2013. Ghana commissioned by the UN Foundation, solar PV energy solutions, will be with support from the Government of Norway, installed at each facility. Systems are Towards the above goal, the Ministry of in 2014/2015. likely to range from 2 to 6 kWp, and will Petroleum in collaboration with the National cover current and future basic energy Petroleum Authority, Energy Commission, Building on the results of the assessment, and needs. The design will focus on quality, Ghana Cylinder Manufacturing Company, Bulk with funding from the UK Department for standardisation and user-friendliness to Oil Storage and Transport Company, Global International Development (DFID), the UN ensure that systems can be installed and Alliance for Clean Cookstoves and Fuels, and Foundation is now supporting a four-year used in optimal conditions. The representatives from oil distribution and project that seeks to electrify 26 Community installations will follow an installation marking companies have reviewed and Health Posts (‘CHPS’) and health centres and blueprint, and are expected to take place completed work on a draft National LPG their staff quarters in Ghana, adding an between June 2017 and November 2017. Promotion Policy which began in 2014. The estimated 90kWp of installed capacity of solar goal of the policy is to ensure that at least PV to the health sector. Community Mobilisation and Awareness Creation: The project will 50% of Ghanaians have access to safe and The goal of the project is to strengthen the environmentally friendly LPG for cooking actively involve the surrounding delivery of health services particularly but not communities and catchment areas to (domestic and commercial) and increased limited to maternal and child health in industrial usage by 2020. The draft policy will create buy-in and a sense of community un-electrified or under-electrified primary level ownership. Awareness-raising be approved by cabinet and thereafter health care facilities, by improving access to enacted into law by the Ghanaian parliament. activities will be incorporated to create modern, affordable and sustainable electricity increased demand for quality health services. The project is being implemented by services, particularly for women and the Solar Electric Light Fund (SELF) and its children. PROVIDE ACCESS TO Ghanaian partner, Power World Ltd (PWL), ELECTRICITY FOR REMOTE under the supervision of the UN Foundation Training: Accompanying the COMMUNITIES USING and in close collaboration with the Ghana installations, the project will ensure that Health Service and Ministry of Power. The end users (predominantly facility staff) OFF-GRID SYSTEMS project falls under the Sustainable Energy for as well as national and sub-national All (SE4ALL) multi-stakeholder partnership, public health/energy officers receive Solar Lantern Promotion Energy for Women’s and Children’s Health, technical training, as well as subsequent Programme (SLAPP) which is co-led by the UN Foundation, the refresher trainings over time, to Under the Solar Lantern Promotion World Health Organization (WHO) and UN adequately manage the systems. Women. Programme (SLAPP), the Ministry of Power Preventative Maintenance Services: has disseminated about 68,521 solar lanterns On October 20th, the UN Foundation along with Following the installations, the project to date to off-grid populations nationwide to its partners SELF and PWL, hosted a project will provide preventative maintenance displace the use of kerosene lanterns which Inception Meeting in Accra to introduce the services over the course of project’s are much more expensive to use, and have project to a wider group of energy and health duration. This activity, along with the Page 3 Volume 3, Issue 4 planned training, will help ensure that the UN Foundation’s work on energy for PENS Food Bank has developed solar aerated systems remain operational over time. women and children’s health, please contact metal and plastic storage tanks or bins for Luc Severi, Energy Access Project Manager bulk storage of grains that can last up to a Remote Monitoring: The solar PV ([email protected]) at the UN year, free from insect infestation and grain systems will be equipped with Foundation. discoloration. The traditional storage method technologically advanced remote used by most farmers can only preserve monitoring capabilities, allowing for grains for up to six (6) months. The quick and easy access to a range of Enterprise has also designed a solar-gas energy use data, and to allow for a rapid A SUSTAINABLE hybrid dryer for cocoa and other legumes. response in case of technical malfunction. ENERGY BUSINESS IN Long-term Sustainability: In GHANA collaboration with GHS, the Ministry of Power and other project stakeholders, THE STORY OF PENS FOOD the project will develop a long-term BANK sustainability plan for all installed systems. Pens Food Bank is an enterprise which Impact Assessment:: Alongside the p r o v i d e s implementation of the solar PV systems, p o s t - h a r v e s t Solar-Gas Hybrid Mobile Dryer (above) and the project will carry out an independent m a n a g e m e n t Solar Biomass Hybrid Dryer (below) developed impact evaluation study to determine services for grains. what impact improved access to power It is located at by PENS Food Bank has on the functionality of selected Sekyedumase near health facilities and their services. The Ejura in the Ashanti study will include pre-intervention Region of Ghana. The goal of the Enterprise is activities for the purposes of gathering to ensure high quality of grains during baseline information, tracking and storage to maintain its wholesomeness and monitoring activities during the project, guarantee good product price. and post-intervention activities to provide information on results and The range of services provided by the impact.
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