Access to Clean Energy in Refugee Settlements
The AMPERE Project: Access to Modern Energy in Humanitarian Settings Pilot
The AMPERE Project is a consortium led by Mercy Corps in partnership with the Response Innovation Lab, Save the Children and Netherlands Development Organisation (SNV) to test, prove and build evidence for quality, affordable, and reliable market-driven energy access solutions for humanitarian response programming in Uganda. The implementation area - the Bidibidi refugee settlement in West Nile in Northern Uganda - displays favourable characteristics to explore an innovative operational model that bridges the humanitarian-development nexus. The confluence of the strong off-grid solar market and mobile money sector make Uganda one of the highest potential markets in the world for PAYGo expansion. Uganda also hosts over 1.4 million refugees, which is the third-largest forcibly displaced population in the world.
AMPERE is funded by The Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO), and with additional support from DANIDA and DFID, provides an opportunity for Green Innovations & the private sector actors to increase the access to energy for displaced people in Bidibidi settlement and host communities. Under this project, the Response Innovation Lab organized a Green Innovation Challenge Fund and received over 95 applications, below are the final six selected projects to be piloted in Bidibidi refugee Settlement, West Nile.
The Green Innovations Catalog was developed to highlight the top tier of selected innovations, with special emphasis on those which moved into the final and selection rounds.
>>> Click to access the 2020 Green Innovations Catalog for Uganda
The Innovations
Click on each innovation above to read more or watch the Webinar organized in partnership with Smart Communities Coalition to hear about the learnings from all pilots.
Password to watch the webinar: 4YT&CA
A Critical Gap
During this project, partners identified a critical knowledge gap - without knowing where existing energy saving solution retail points were located in Bidibidi settlement, it was difficult to assess if the challenges was in refugee and host community members accessing them. The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT), an international humanitarian NGO, carried out a community mapping exercise across Bidibidi settlement to collect this geospatial data and support implementing partners in better understanding the energy saving solutions market and more effectively guide their interventions.
>>> Click here for the findings report
>>> Click here for the interactive energy-map
Maps of Bidibidi Settlement
Thank You to Our Partners
