S3IDF’s focus areas presently include the following:
Lighting, including lighting for productive uses
Lighting is a critical service for households and small enterprises for improving
the quality of life and for income generation activities (hawkers, weavers, beedi rolling etc).
As per the India Rural Infrastructure Report published by the National Council of
Applied Economic Research (NCAER), in the four South Indian states (namely Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh),
which form S3IDF’s focus area, there are about 10 million unconnected households.
S3IDF has implemented 34 small investment lighting projects
(photovoltaic for individual systems and to charge a battery bank, UPS, efficient mobile
emergency lamps, electricity generation using biogas etc.) for both urban and
rural poor –(households, communities and small enterprises), benefiting about 6000 people.
Besides creating employment, increasing income generation (due to extended working hours),
the lighting initiative has the evident health and safety benefits and is environmentally responsible.
Below are some examples of our initiatives in this focus area:
Note: These documents are in PDF format
Lighting for hawkers in Hassan
Stepping Stones - Vijaykumar Story
Silken Woes
Productive Use/Livelihood & Transportation
Productive end-use is an important sector in S3IDF’s portfolio, as besides providing
the necessary infrastructure to many, it also translates to income generation for the
micro-enterprises. S3IDF presently has 14 such projects in its portfolio.
Below are some examples of our initiatives in this focus area:
Note: These documents are in PDF format
Wheels of success
Designing better lives
Grinding away poverty
Very Small Household Energy/Infrastructure Device
Many small household energy/infrastructure devices such as lights, pressure cookers for
efficient cooking, water purifiers etc., are still not accessible to many because of
either lack of supply chains and/or lack of financial structuring.
S3IDF presently has 23 such projects in its portfolio that provide such
infrastructure through partner NGOs.
eg: CRWCWS partnership
Biomass Energy
S3IDF presently has 7 such projects in its portfolio.
Information and Communication Technology
According to the India Rural Infrastructure Report published by the
National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER), the rural economy in India
is characterized by a poor telecommunication network with rural tele-density
1.04 and only 62% of the villages having public telephones.
Till recently, rural telecommunication for a public monopoly.
According to a recent cross-country study (quoted in the NCAER report)
on the telecommunications industry by Lars Hendrik Roller and Leonard Waverman
(2001) shows that economic product increases at an increasing rate with the density
of the telecommunications network. Not only does higher infrastructure spending
result in higher income growth, the latter might indeed lead to a more intensive
use of Infrastructure facilities with the possible consequence of a rapid
deterioration of facilities. This might call for larger spending on infrastructure.
S3IDF presently has 13 such projects in its portfolio.
Below are some examples of our initiatives in this focus area:
Note: These documents are in PDF format
Bridging the digital divide in Chintapally
Connecting lives
Enterprise Support Transactions [for Supply Chain Players]
A type of transaction under S3IDF’s portfolio where S3IDF provides business support,
gap-filling financing for existing informal/formal enterprises having big pro-poor
impacts or enterprises with a pro-poor mission is the Enterprise support transaction.
S3IDF presently has 15 such projects in its portfolio.
Below are some examples of our initiatives in this focus area:
Note: These documents are in PDF format
Silk reeling
Arecanut
Modern Energy and Fuels supply
For any country, development of rural areas is a pre-requisite for the overall growth of the economy
and it is particularly important for a developing country such as India, where 71%
of its one billion plus population reside in the rural areas.
A major hindrance to rural development has been a lack of access to reliable power.
About 52% of households do not have domestic power connections. The average brownout
in India is 3 hours in non-monsoon months and 17 hours in monsoon months.
It is well known that access to electricity has positive implications for economic
development and poverty alleviation. In rural areas the government still remains
the dominant provider of electricity, although the Indian Electricity Act 2003 and
the Electric Supply Act permit private sector power generation.
LPG (Liquefied Petroleum Gas) was introduced as a domestic fuel in the 1960s.
Until the economic reform programs were put into operation, state-owned companies
handled the entire production and marketing of LPG. While there are around 40 million LPG customers,
some 15 million (in the urban areas only) have been on the waiting list.
LPG consumption by industry sees about 89% by the households alone.
Limited access, a high percentage of income spent on energy, and significant amounts
of time spent collecting biomass fuel for cooking all have been cited as reasons for providing
energy subsidies to encourage the poorest households to use high-quality fuels.
The modern fuels being used by households in developing countries include electricity, LPG and kerosene.
Many development assistance programs have been directed toward making the supplies of these fuels more regular,
reliable and efficient. Unfortunately, their efforts often do not take into consideration those who do not
have access to such services. Subsidies intended for the poor are often appropriated by the middle- and high-income groups.
S3IDF presently has 6 such projects in its portfolio.
Below are some examples of our initiatives in this focus area:
Note: These documents are in PDF format
Electricity at your doorstep
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