Today's lessons gave us a practical insight upon community projects. The first presentaion gave us some considerations in implementing community projects(especialy the involvement of the local people, the challenges associated with that, and how to deal with the neutral and probable loser stakeholders).
I was interested by the project's approach to use the localy available materials as much as possible. It remind me the cobblestone road projects recently adopted in most Ethiopian towns. Apart from being easily adopted these projects help easy technology transfer. We can use this idea(of business model) in designing our solar generator.
From Peter Kuria's presentation the main point is the 'weight' given to individuals. In most 3rd world communities, its better to show them some model individuals and create a 'peer competition' than just injecting finance to community projects. Even though the financing may do some visible outputs, the continuity of the project is questioned when the finance stops. How could this individuals role be targeted? I think, we should make our solar generator design as much cheaper as affordable to individuals , at least in the long run.
Lets try to search remote communities' social and economic conditions, that will help us to hit the ideal solution for them.
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