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.
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.
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 …
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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 …
As part of the mobile minigrid project in Kenya, we have been working with Chemolex and Quantum Conversions in Nairobi, on designing a trailer with 10kW of quickly deployable solar power. So what does that look like? Well 10kW of solar power is BIG! Each 430W panel is over 2mx1m (almost the size of the …
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.
This report details the human-centered design approach taken by STI4D and OMASI to design the Telehealth system, as part of the InnovateUK funded project: ‘Innovative Access to Healthcare in Remote Communities‘. This document does not standalone, and is supported by numerous reports describing the research questions the HCD process seeks to answer, and the outcomes …
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This report was written to summarise all findings from an InnovateUK Funded research project, aiming to develop a product which could: 1. Report on an entire solar system (AC currents, AC voltages, DC currents, and DC voltages), independent of the equipment manufacturer. 2. Divert excess energy directly from the solar panels to an auxiliary load, …
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As part of InnovateUK funded project: ‘Innovative Off-Grid Access to Healthcare’. research was carried out into the healthcare system in Tanzania, and more specifically for rural communities around Terat, Tanzania, where our partner organisation is based (See the Community Remote Healthcare Priorities Report). The findings confirmed that there is a need for improved access to …
This report summarises the key findings from the first two remote telehealth consultation trials, held in Loswaki village in Jan/Feb 2021, including detail on the health trial set-up, the sequence of activities for each, the number of patients that attended, and how the requirement for medicines to be transported to the patients was fulfilled. Patients …
This report outlines the health needs and priorities of remote Maasai communities in Northern Tanzania, specifically in the Simanjiro region where our project partners, OMASI are based. The research was done as part of an Innovate Funded Project, exploring how video consultations and batched medicine delivery could help provide quality access to healthcare for remote, …
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This report describes the results of tests conducted to assess the viability of an electric 3-phase 2.2kW Agsol hammer mill, imported from Kenya, for use in rural Maasai communities in Simanjiro, Tanzania. The objectives of the tests were to assess the viability of powering the mill from offgrid (solar) energy technology, and (for different mill …
In the Smart Villages concept, the provision of sustainable energy services to rural communities, in turn enabling the connectivity made possible by modern information and communication technologies, can have a catalytic impact on the lives of villagers when appropriately integrated with other rural development initiatives. Smart villages provide many of the benefits of 21st Century …
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Biodiversity is important at various levels, including the economic, social and environmental. It is critically important for rural communities through the provision of ecosystem services, including energy access, a link that is often overlooked. The concept of ‘Smart Villages’ is that modern energy access in the form of sustainable renewable energy can contribute as a catalyst for development—education, health, food security, environment, productive …
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As the purpose of this paper is to give a broad overview of the importance of energy access for democratic political engagement, such issues are not robustly tackled within this comparativelybrief insight into what is a vast and constantly changing arena. The goal here is to give an insight into the potential of the Internet and social media (enabled by …
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The Smart Villages Initiative aims to provide policy-makers, donors, and development agencies concerned with rural energy access with new insights on the real barriers to energy access in villages in developing countries and how they can be overcome. This report aims to give an overview of the links between electricity access and education through a review of the literature in this area. It …
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This report provides an overview of the status of, and challenges facing, the electrification of health clinics in rural areas in the developing world. In addition, it considers the opportunities provided by telemedicine and the barriers to this, along with some examples of innovation and work in this field. The content of this report has been drawn from a review of the …
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