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Presentation/ Talking Points
USAID-ADB Asia Clean Energy Forum
June 3-5, 2008
Manila, Philippines
byRussell J. deLucia, PresidentThe Small-Scale Sustainable Infrastructure Development Fund, Inc. (S
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IDFIDF’’s Social Merchant Bank Model for Financings Social Merchant Bank Model for FinancingExplicitly ProExplicitly Pro--poor Smallpoor Small--Scale Clean Energy Projects:Scale Clean Energy Projects:Examples and Lessons and an Introduction andExamples and Lessons and an Introduction andPerspectives on PFANPerspectives on PFAN
 
More thanone billionpeople worldwide lackaccess to infrastructureservices necessary forpoverty alleviation:
modern energy
potable water 
sanitation
transport
information & communication
other infrastructure services
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The Need S
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Tens of millions of thesepeople are in S
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IDF’s currentmarket shed in southern India –soon to include Nepal.
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Shortcomings in the paradigms of large development entities
Little focus & support for small projects and small, local, privateplayers.
Limited menu of institutional arrangements and ownership models.
Often ignore capital market linkages and local synergies, especiallyproject co-financing by local banks.
Inadequate focus on diverse financial sustainability, especially thepoor’s definition of sustainability.
Technology Know-how lacking
Majority lack know-how of available technology and knowledge
Access to Finance
Poor do NOT have collateral to access bank finance and bankersconceive poor as non-bankable.
Financial Structure and Business Development Services
Financial structuring should be in line with poor’s willingness andability to pay and business development services to be provided asrequired.
The Problem
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