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Boosting India’s Rural Economy
Powering Livelihoods is a CEEW-Villgro initiative that aims to boost India’s rural economy by scaling up the penetration of clean energy-powered appliances for livelihoods.
Our Impact
~19,700 (69% women)
clean energy-powered livelihoods enabled
~12,500
new technology deployment
8 (5 are PL enabled)
commercial funding deals unlocked
$7.3M ($1.3M is PL enabled)
follow-up capital raised by programme enterprises
1st in world
policy framework to support DRE for livelihoods
16,800 MT
C02 emissions mitigation via adoption of DRE technologies
Challenges and Potential
4 million
rural micro-enterprises report unreliable electricity as a top bottleneck to their businesses.
50 billion+
market opportunity for cleantech to power livelihoods in rural India.
Less than 5
cleantech solutions for livelihoods have been commercialised at scale.
What does Powering Livelihoods do?
The initiative supports enterprises with cleantech for livelihood applications to undertake large-scale commercial deployment for their solutions. This is done through an integrated gendered lens and we use the evidence generated to catalyse the sector.
Support for enterprises
Powering Livelihoods meets the unique needs of selected enterprises through dedicated financial, technical, and sectoral growth support.
Impact
Powering Livelihoods aims to transform India’s rural economy and achieve a tangible impact at the end-user, enterprise, and ecosystem-level.
Focus Areas
Agriculture and allied activities
Value addition in agriculture and allied activities can significantly improve incomes for more than half of India’s population. As part of Powering Livelihoods, our focus is on enterprises deploying clean energy-powered or energy-efficient commercial food processors, juicers, dryers, milk chillers, flour mills, milking machines, cold storage, rice hullers, oil expellers.
Textiles
Textile industry is India’s second largest employer. As part of Powering Livelihoods, our focus is on enterprises developing or deploying innovative appliances such as solar charkhas, sewing machines, paddle loom, jute machinery, and silk reelers which could improve productivity, reduce drudgery, and raise incomes.
Powering Livelihood is a USD 3 million initiative to mainstream clean energy in rural livelihoods. We are seeking support from multiple donors and foundations towards the same. The Programme is also engaging with a large variety of sectoral partners to leverage their support for various activities related to programme and enterprise growth.
Our Supporters
Partners
The Programme is also engaging with a large variety of sectoral partners to leverage their support for various activities related to programme and enterprise growth.
