Catherine Gwynne-Evans – Assistant Project Manager Catherine is dedicated to community engagement and business development and has been working in this field for more than five years. She previously worked in green economy development in South Africa, with a particular focus on green finance and energy service delivery. Catherine has a background in economics and …
Click on the image above to download a two page flyer outlining SVRG’s Smart Agri-Centre solution for rural offgrid communities, and detailing the community-wide impacts that a SAC can generate sustainably into the future.
Smart Villages was awarded this InnovateUK Energy Catalyst round 10 project in a consortium with our Lesotho partners the National University of Lesotho’s Energy Research Centre and local energy renewable company MOSCET, our Tanzanian partners OMASI, and our Ugandan partners Kiima Foods. Minigrids are a popular solution for community-wide offgrid electricity access, because they allow …
Low Voltage SWER for Affordable Microgrid Distribution Infrastructure (LS, TZ, UG) Read More »
Smart Villages was awarded this InnovateUK Energy Catalyst round 10 project in a consortium with our Ugandan and South Sudanese partner, ApTech Africa ltd. Project Overview This is a combined Electrical Storage System (ESS) and Solar Water Pumping project. It will supply 24/7 power and water to a hospital and 2 school in South Sudan. …
Renewable Energy and Water Supply Hubs for Schools and Hospitals (SS) Read More »
This report sets out the community-wide impact measured from the Mbata Smart Agri-Centre over its first two years of operation. This was compiled as part of our evidence as part of the Milken-Motsepe Green Energy prize competition. Click on the image above to open a copy of the pdf report.
2023 was another busy year for the project and our partners Chemolex in Nairobi. And a year in which we benefitted from continuation funding, extending the original 3-year project by a further year, from UC Santa Barbara and the Benioff and Coca-Cola Foundations. Main activities throughout the year were continuing to operate the riverside trash …
Removing Plastic from Kenya’s Rivers – Year 4 Report Read More »
Can sustainable energy transform the livelihoods of agricultural communities? This video explores the impact of Smart Agri-Centres, an innovative energy access solution created by Smart Villages and Kiima Foods, a UK-Uganda partnership.
Smart Villages was awarded this InnovateUK Energy Catalyst round 9 project in a consortium with our Tanzanian partner, OMASI, and an additional partner from Uganda, ApTech Africa ltd, to build on the success of our original ECR6 Sustainable Integrated Community Energy innovation project. Project Overview From 2019-2022 in Northern Tanzania, SVRG and OMASI collaborated on …
Borehole Solarisation and Payment Enforcement in Rural Tanzania Read More »
SVRG is carrying this InnovateUK Energy catalyst round 9 project out together with our Ugandan partners, ApTech Africa ltd, to build on the success of our original ECR7 Pay-N-Pump innovation project. Project Overview PAY-N-PUMP is an innovative smart digital pay-as-you-go water-pumping and irrigation solution for small scale farmers in Uganda, built in a push-cart format, …
Pay-N-Pump 2.0 – adding storage to mobile solar irrigation systems Read More »
2022 has been a busy year for our project, and especially for our partners Chemolex. With COVID restrictions ending, it has been possible not just to remove record quantities of plastic wastes from the rivers in and around Nairobi, and innovate new designs for equipment to help with the job, but also the public engagement …
Removing Plastic from Kenya’s Rivers – Year 3 Report Read More »
The Smart Villages Initiative researched and published 37 workshop reports between 2014 and 2017. For ease of reference, they can all be accessed here.
The Smart Villages Initiative researched and published 15 technical reports between 2012 and 2017. For ease of reference, they can all be accessed here.
This report details the results of detailed and comprehensive surveys and qualitative analysis of the socio-economic impact of the Smart Agri-Centre over the first year of usage in the community of Mbata in Uganda. The report was produced as part of Smart Villages’ participation in the Milken-Motsepe AgriTech prize competition.
This report details the results of detailed and comprehensive surveys and analysis of the impact of the Smart Agri-Centre over the first year of usage in the community of Mbata in Uganda. The report was produced as part of Smart Villages’ participation in the Milken-Motsepe AgriTech prize competition.
Click on the image above to read the qualitative and quantitative impact report for our Energy Catalyst rd 6 project on Community Energy Solutions in rural Tanzania. This report examines the responses from the communities across a broad range of impact metrics. Impacts were reported by survey participants in areas much more widely than just …
Tanzania Community Energy Systems: Impact Report Read More »
Click on the image above to read the qualitative and quantitative impact report for our Energy Catalyst rd 7 project on Smart AgriCentres (Farmers’ Enterprise Centres) in rural Uganda. This report examines the responses from the communities across a broad range of impact metrics, finding particularly that impacts were felt much more widely than just …
SVRG and partners developed our locally-appropriate, low cost low-tech cold storage solution under an Efficiency for Access R&D Fund grant between 2019 and 2021. This is the Innovator Series report produced by the Energy Saving Trust about SVRG’s innovation and the results of our research.
We were so excited to be able to join our Kenyan partners Chemolex again in September 2021, once international travel restrictions had begun to ease, to see the tremendous progress being made on river plastic cleanup, and to sit down together to solve some interesting challenges in the project. Once again, amazing results have been …
Removing Plastic from Kenya’s Rivers – Year 2 Report Read More »
Exciting news – after an the international travel problems with COVID, our international consortium of partners was finally able to test the new COMET system (Community Energy Toolkit – formerly known as the Minigrid Game) in our target communities in Somaliland – Lughaya, Bali Dhiig and Qool Caday. We will post an update later about …
… in the context of the Service Value Test (SVT), a key tool in the Smart Villages approach which engages community members to uncover their needs and aspirations for the future development of their village. It’s an important early step when we start working with a new community, and the quantitative and qualitative data about …