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------- Forwarded message----------From: ramnath ballala <ramnath@selcofoundation.orq >
Date: Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 5:32 PM
Subject: Reworked questions for the second session
To: Ravi Narayan <chcravi@qmail.com>. Sam Joseph <samioseph@sochara.orq>
Cc: Vivek Shastry <vivek(d)selcofoundation.orq >. Huda Jaffer <huda@selcofoundation.orq>

SDA-RF-AT-3.5

Dear Sir, Kindly find the questions and the information of selco ecosystem.
Second session:
First draft: Questions
1. How can the health centres tailor its services to people's/ community needs?
2. How can we make medical technology people centred? E.g. Telehealth? What are currently missing? Where
should we position telehealth in the bigger picture?
3. What are the options for the poor if they fall sick?
4. Is the current design of the health centres optimal/ adequate? How can we make it better? More people
centred? More holistic, not just a place to come when your are sick but a place of wellbeing.
5. What are the health services currently at a PHC that can be taken to the doorstep of the people? What are the
prerequisites and enabling environment that needs to be created?
6. Is the Sub Centre (SC) working to its potential? Are there any more room to upgrade it? If yes what are the
new added facilities/services/processes that needs to be incorporated?
7. How can technology enable community monitoring and participation in planning the health activities?
8. How can technology help the role shifting of the health services at the community level?
9. Can Practo model be taken to the rural context(PHC grading, availability of specialists at the CHCs/DHs etc.)?
What resources need to be mapped?
MMR India: 174/100,000
Best: Finland 3/100,000
IMR India 41.36/1000
Best: Luxembourg 1.58/1000
Reworked questions
Question 1: How should effective health centers be structured?
(For Moderator- This group/ panel discussion can lead to: idea of a health center being physical only vs non physical
space, the types of services that need to be provided in a built structure vs need to reach people in other ways, the
options that under-served and vulnerable populations should have when they fall sick, will evolving technology in the
future impact the idea of a physical public health center and how (eg- 5-10 years down the line)...)
Question 2: How would you approach re-designing current and optimal health centers?
(For Moderator- This group/ panel discussion can lead to: does design of health center from an accessibility and
infrastructure perspective change based on type of service being provided or geographical context, can the perspective
and terminology change/ shift from a medical/health center to a “wellbeing center”/ not just a place to go when people are
sick- would this lead to optimization of human resources)
Question 3: Can technology enable community monitoring and participation in planning the health activities?
(For Moderator- This group/ panel discussion can lead to: what types of technologies..how this may lead to better design
or services and overall resources, can it lead to more qualitative data and mapping of resources or be bundled/ leverage
with other seivices for water, education etc.)
Best regards,
Ramnath Ballala,
SELCO Foundation, Bangalore, India
+91 7259014965 (Work)
"Not until the creation and maintenance of decent conditions of life for all people are recognised and accepted as a common obligation of all people
and all countries- not until then shall we, with a certain degree of justification be able to speak of mankind as civilised." - Albert Einstein 1945

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on the communities needs.
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Organizations, in the space of energy access, by virtue of the very
challenging missions they pursue irrespective of domain, operate in
difficult environments across the world. Local bred innovations,
supply chains, enterprise and end user centric financing,
appropriate technology, innovative human resources, potential
access to markets for finished goods are some of the pieces.
Absence of one or more slows the ability of any enterprise,
organization or government to deliver solutions efficiently to
the poor.

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Support for
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Management
Incubation

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Fiannce

Access to
Energy
Efficient
Products

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about:
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Financial
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Skill training
centres for
manpower
trainig-tech &
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Energy access,
poverty alleviation
and sustainability
India has a population of approximately 1.2 billion', of which 21.9 %?
lives below poverty line. India has 306.2 million people without electricity,
and 705 million people who rely on wood and biomass for cooking.3
Depending on fossil fuels means depleting an already dwindling resource;
indoor pollution and mostly women and young girls spending countless
hours in search of firewood, often robbing them of opportunities.
One of the answers to decrease this socio economic divide while
preserving the environment is to rethink ways in which clean energy
solutions, poverty alleviation and sustainability (environmental, social
and financial) are connected. The solutions lie in better technology,
affordable finance or induced market linkages. SELCO's interventions
demonstrate how using sustainable energy can directly lead to better
quality of life and increased incomes for the poor and can be replicated.
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SELCO Foundation (2010)
Non Profit, Research and Development wing

To develop innovative sustainable - social, technical and financial - models that impact energy access,
climate change and poverty alleviation. SELCO Foundation uses a holistic ecosystem approach to impa
areas of wellbeing and livelihood.

SELCO India (1994)
For Profit, Social Enterprise
To enhance the quality of life of under-served
households, institutes and livelihoods by providing
customized sustainable energy solutions that become
assets for the poor through a network of customer
energy service centers.

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Develop poor-centric
solutions by bringing in
all aspects of
technology, financial
and social linkages
leading to a holistic
solution that is socially,
financially and
environmentally
sustainable.

Through the
innovations, help
develop concepts and
processes for other
parts of the world to
the cater to the
heterogeneousnature
of poor segments.

Pillars of SELCO Foundation

Investment for

To invest in small and medium size so
and develop investment, deb
sustainable energy

energy access

Impact Areas
Climate change and poverty is a challenge for many of the
developoing countries in the world. The issues of the poor cut
across boundaries, especially between the countries in the Global
South. Many a time the problems might be the same but the
solution is always re-invented: which is leadingto inefficient ways of
capital utilization and slower rate of poverty reduction: which is
leading to inefficient ways of capital utilization and slower rate of
poverty reduction: a problem that SELCO FOUNDATION in India
aims to solve in a small way.

The figure shows how access to energy can impact areas of wellbeing,
health, education and livelihoods across household, work, individual,
institute and community levels.

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Each part of the above-mentioned eco-system has to be solved
innovatively and in a sustainable manner that can be replicated, with
a certain degree of variation, anywhere in the world. The targeted
solutions have to be favorable to local conditions and in line with the
needs of the local poor. Therefore based on various factors
influencing the need of an end user-affordability, geography
(slum or rural or hilly region), OCCUpatiOH (daily laborers or
street
vendors
or
home-based
workers),
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environment (design of houses), functionality
(cooking or reading or livelihoods), US3ge (portable, stationary,
brightness, no. of hours)- solutions have to be designed to suit that
context.
The solution is not just focused on one aspect, say technical, but also
includes other aspects like market linkages, access to credit, local
culture etc which include financial and social aspects. If all the three
are considered and combined while designing a solution it makes it
more feasible and long term. Understanding the needs and aspects'
surrounding a potential issue leads to an 'end to end'
Solution encompassing technical, financial, social aspects: thus
treating a "holistic" solution.

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Replication
Scaling of solutions is critical, but SELCO
Foundation does not define scale as 'super-sizing
the organization to spread innovation'(which is
convention in the business world). Instead, the
foundation is driven by an open source philosophy
which believes that effective, efficient and ethical
scaling can be achieved through adaptation or
replication of solutions suited to specific contexts.
It is observed that as one reaches out to the
lower rungs of the economic ladder and deeper

Can the IEC be
replicated in Africa?

into an array of energy services, complexities
emerge from varied local conditions or contexts.
To ensure that interventions impact and sustain
it is important to localize the solutions as well.

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Revolving fund
Tribal communities in remote locations are viewed
as largely un-bankable. A financial mechanism like
a revolving fund can be successfully used to plug in
access to credit for remote communities to purchase
long term energy solutions. A revolving fund is a
fund that is continually replenished as and when loan
recipients pay back their loans and the recovered
amount of money is used to finance new recipients.
LFE- Light For Education:
This is a unique program of
providing sustainable energy
solutions to power the lighting
needs of school going children and
in the process also creating awareness
towards renewable energy sources and
the importance of a clean environment.
IEC- Model/Concept Replication:
Integrated Energy Centres are solar powered
community centre s that can host a range basic
services and activities lacking in an under-served
community. The centre aims at positively impacting
quality of life and livelihoods by addressing
fundamental energy needs and services relying on
energy The services, activities and structure of an IEC
are generally designed depending on the need in a
particular community. Each IEC is custom designed
to best suit local environments and situations
such that every aspect of it can be sustainable

Shankar's IEC,
Udipi, 2012
Services: Home lighting
and mobile charging

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migrant community
in Karnataka

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Kariammana Agrahara, 2013
Services Home lighting,
mobile charging, solar
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2015, Kalahandi,Services:
Printing, photography,
photocopying, CD/DVDs.
internet ticket booking, home
lighting, mobile charging

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the nutritious meal provided to the students
becomes an incentive lor the parents to send

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programme (2) charging of the home-basedstudy

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source of light and are able to do their homework light
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home/ shop and he distributes lights to street vendors
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All houses in a locality need not h.i a wasnmg machine - one
that might he used only for 20 to 30 m.nsday A laundrom it (1
allows for washing machine usage for a fixed period of time against
a fee Such shared resources ensure energy efficiency and economic
viability It challenges the present patternof consumption. Same
analogy can be applied to the use of shared solar wale- pumps (,3i

1. Laundromat

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on croppmg patterns) and combiningwill, efficiency (drip)
banking on a large storage systems leads lv economic viability
for the farmers. Can grinding (4) be offered as an service through
a common energy centre for fixed time and a small charge’

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2. Mini-grid

Similar lv, mini grids (2) make sense when there are
variable incomegenerating loads, that could act as base loads
or operate at different times - thus can dip into the common
suppty/storagesystems One is not forced to keep individual

4. Grinding services?

storage systems and is not limited by individual capacities.

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Financial institution

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1. Asset creation
2. Invest In livelihoods
3. Improve affordability of solutions

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Simil.vly vulner.il.l enireprenours catering

2. Interest subsidies
in energy access

3. Outcomes

Affordable loans lor
1. Solar charging stations
3. Individual energy systems

1. Improved livelihoods
2. Financial and social inclusion
3. Better credibility with banks

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to energy access needs of a poor community
have utilized interest subsidies to be able tn
aflord the Io,in on solai cfi.uglng stations
or Individual energy systems I his in turn
has led to bettiT credibility from the banks,
financial inclusion and improved well being
and livelihoods

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