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PROJECT PROPOSAL ON Shonali Alo Foundation Technical School For Rural Areas in Bangladesh
PROJECT PROPOSAL ON Shonali Alo Foundation Technical School For Rural Areas in Bangladesh
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PROJECT PROPOSAL
ON
Shonali Alo Foundation Technical School for Rural
areas in Bangladesh
Pilot Phase
Duration: 02 Years
Location
Bhramanbaria District in Bangladesh
Submitted To
Md. Rafiqul Amin
Lecturer
Dept. of Human Resource Management
Jatiya Kabi Kazi Nazrul Islam University
Submitted By
Shonali Alo Foundation (SAF)
Nabinagar, Bhramanbaria,
Bangladesh
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ORGANIZATIONAL BACKGROUND
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1.5 Goal of Sonali Alo Foundation
(1) 100 PV panels will be providing every year to the 100 households in the
project area.
(2) Demonstration and technology transfer in the field of renewable energy in
Bangladesh.
(3) Provide PV electricity at remote off-grid areas of Bangladesh.
(4) Provide electricity in rural areas by solar photovoltaic technology.
(5) Provide briquetting stove to the villagers.
(6) Improved Different types of accessories used in solar photovoltaic systems
in order to reduce cost.
(7) Testing technologies that can provide cost effective service for irrigation.
(8) Training local people to create awareness development.
(9) Identify entrepreneurs to disseminate the technology
(10) Standardization of solar Home Systems in Bangladesh.
(11) Training technicians to make local entrepreneurs and to create
employment.
(12) Dissemination and training programs for promotion of PV based
appliances.
(13) Improved briquetting stove designed, developed and fabricated.
(14) Training local entrepreneurs to manufacture the improved briquetting
systems.
(15) Use of alternative source of energy for driving the briquetting systems
developed and demonstrated.
(16) To raise the socio-economic condition of the rural poor to a level that can
effectively participate in national development with enhanced capacity and
dignity and fulfillment of their basic rights.
Target Area
There are five Thanas in B-baria district. They are Sadar, Bhedorgonj, Naria,
Damorda, Goshairhat and Jajira.
Target Beneficiaries
Rural Community is the target beneficiaries of SAF. Unemployed and unskilled
boys and girls, women, landless people, hardcore poor, widow and orphans will
be given priorities. Technical education and vocational training will be provided
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youths and poor people. The SAF will given them technical education and
vocational training for the converting of skilled manpower.
1.7 Operation Strategy
SAF has designed any programs for implementation in two approaches (1)
Institutional Approach and (2) Campaign Approach.
Institution Approach
The beneficiaries will be directly involved for implementation through
institutional approach 24.43% of the existing households of the working area
will be covered by institution approach.
Campaign Approach
SAF has no ability to work directly with the whole community of the area due
to its financial constraint and organizational limitation. But there are a large
number of populations lay out of our activities. For this reason SAF will
organize campaign for awareness build up through open discussion, bulletin
publication, sticker publication weekly/bimonthly basis at the community level.
Thus SAF will cover its beneficiaries directly by implementation and a large
number of people will be benefited approx. 15% indirectly towards the
development of awareness by campaign.
General Body:
General body or GB is the main body of SAF. It consist of 21 members belong
to the persons of following discipline and social entity. Set criteria to be
competent for GB member are:-
General Body meets at least one time a year. Besides it can call special or
emergency meeting at any time in the year. In the AGM members justify action
and approve management and financial expenses and approve next year budget
and plan of action. General body approves early audit reports.
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Executive Committee (EC):
EC of SAF comprises of 7 members who are elected from general body for two
years terms. Executive committee is headed by chairman and secretary of the
organization work as Executive Head of SAF.
EC is responsible for approving plan, action, budget, audit report and day to day
activities of organization conduct by Executive Director and his/her staff.
Executive Director is directly liable to EC for his activities.
Chairman - 01
Vice Chairman - 01
General Secretary - 01
Treasurer - 01
Member - 03
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1.8 Bank Account
Name of Bank Sonali Bank
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Proposed Project
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2. Context in which the proposed project will take place
The migration of people from rural area to town and city areas is increasing
daily due to increasing economic hardship and lack of employment in the rural
area. To better understand Bangladesh, it is very crucial to note that there
prevails a high degree of unemployment and under employment (more than
40%) in the country, almost all round the year.
The most sufferers are the hardcore poor households for poverty,
unemployment and especially with young girls and boys having some or no
education and searching ways and means for livelihood.
Over the last decade, Bangladesh made significant improvements in a range of
indicators; but still classified as a least developed country as per UNDP human
development report 2004.
Despite such improvements, over 63 million people are still below the poverty
line, the constant vulnerability shocks, the uncertain impact of globalization and
an increasingly competitive unfavorable trade environment, Bangladesh faces
considerable challenges in order to sustain and build on these achievements and
remain on track to achieve Millennium Development Goals (MDGs-2015;
PRSP 2005).
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Over the last two decades, per capita income of Bangladesh has grown-up by
almost 2% per year even its rapid population growth. However, the average per
capita income revenue is low by global level at around USD 460 in the year
2004 (unlocking the potentials-General Economic Diversion, Planning
Commission 2004; but World Bank estimates USD 440) From the latest
household expenditure survey of Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics and BIDS
poverty monitoring survey it is estimated that over 40% of the population
(around 50 million people) regularly consume less that 2,122 calories per day
due to extreme poverty.
The selected areas, in general, are very rural, remote and predominantly
agriculture based. There exist poor infrastructure facilities, weak industrial
development, and prevalence of remnants of feudalism in agriculture, and
landholding system due to remoteness of the region from the political and
economic centres.
Electricity
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In generating and distributing electricity, the failure to adequately manage the
load leads to extensive load shedding which results in severe disruption in the
industrial production and other economic activities. A recent survey reveals the
power outages result in a loss of industrial output worth $ 1 billion a year which
reduces the GDP growth by about half a percentage point in Bangladesh. A
major hurdle in efficiently delivering power is caused by the inefficient
distribution system. It is estimated that the total transmission and distribution
losses in Bangladesh amount to one-third of the total generation, the value of
which is equal to US$ 247 million per year.
Every day Bangladesh‟s need near about 5000 MWt electricity but product only
3000-3500 MWt. Day by day decrease the production and electricity authority
managed it by load shedding. As a result varieties problem will be increased and
effected to the Industrial sector, Garments sector, Public health sector, Hospital,
Agricultural sector etc. The rural people are more affected. They cannot product
their crops without electricity. Because they need irrigation. Bangladesh govt.
trying to hard to production more electricity but they have some limitation. This
problem does not change in a day it is lengthy process. Need much money,
skilled manpower etc.
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Lack of skilled manpower
Lack of modern technical knowledge
Lack of education facilities
Lack of family health facilities and nutrition
Lack of capital credit facilities.
lack of housing.
Youth of the age group between 15-30 years comprise about 30 per cent of the
total population of the district. Of this group those who are underemployed and
unemployed but at the same time are trainable for gainful employment come
under the purview of youth development. The total number of the youth now is
estimated to be about 1 million among whom more than a third are estimated to
be unemployed or underemployed. The unemployed youth are handicapped
with poverty, lack of adequate skill and training; thus, most of them remain
outside the mainstream of development paradigm. Transformation of this youth
force into a dynamic and sustainable human resource for proper utilization in
the development process is an essential and enormous task. The SAF is engaged
in creating an enabling environment to ensure the pro-active involvement of the
youth in development by implementing a number of pragmatic programss
which, inter-alia, include organizing the youth, motivating them improving their
state of education and skill, providing micro-credit and other facilities to solve
unemployment and other related problems.
The shortage of electrical power in Bangladesh is revealed by the fact that only
30% of the total population has access to conventional grid electricity. The
remaining 70% use to live without grid electricity facility. Renewable energy
can bring considerable improvement in rural lives through income generation
and alleviating poverty. In addition it can bring multiple positive results in
terms of women’s welfare, children’s education, employment and income
generation.
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Wood, straw, leaves and cow dung are common materials used for cooking in
rural areas. These cooking materials cause smoke, emission of carbon, which
results health hazards. Also cutting of trees for producing firewood is
responsible of deforestation and green house effect. Rural households also burn
rice husk directly, which is insufficient. This is also due to non-availability of
better form of rice husk. Briquets can improve this situation. This has created
enormous environmental problem. It requires introduction of briquetting
technology in various areas. So the application of briquetting can be very useful
to produce cooking fuel.
The present prevailing political crisises and so long existing corruption and rise
of fundamentalist terrorist groups under the shadow of corruption, inequity,
injustice and extreme poverty may appear as risk to influence the proposed
project in negative sense. But very recent measures of state of emergencies are
positive hopes for people as for the project to bring positive influences.
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B. Project Description
Electricity connections are currently made from the grids which use
conventional sources of energy such as natural gas, diesel and furnace oil.
Natural gas is our precious natural resource which is also a source of
petrochemicals and fertilizer. Import of petroleum and petroleum products cause
drainage of our hard-earned foreign exchange. Moreover, there are remote areas
and islands where supply of electricity from the grid is either very expensive or
impossible at this moment.
Photovoltaic system use solar energy for generation of electricity. This system
does not require any kind of conventional fuels. Since solar energy is available
everywhere, this new technology may serve as a great booster for rural
electrification. This technology is being utilized in many countries to supply
electricity in a decentralized mode. Solar Photovoltaic electricity is the cleanest
and the most convenient of all forms of energy.
Secondly, it does not need any conventional fuel and as such there is no fuel
cost- a great relief in these days of energy crisis. Thirdly, there is no moving
part in this system resulting into quiet functioning leading to long durability and
soundless environment. With a view of experimenting this new technology
under the climato-socio-economic conditions of Bangladesh, SAF has
undertaken this solar PV project in B-baria District in Bangladesh. Euro Bangla
Foundation (SAF), a member of the Grameen Family, incorporated in 2005, as a
not for profit company, to promote, develop and popularize renewable every
technologies in the remote rural areas of Bangladesh. At present, SAF has 2
engineers and 6 field staffs, serving more than 10000 beneficiaries through its
central office. By now, SAF installed nearly 20 solar home systems of size 10
kw-75kw. SAF has taken a massive program for the coming years. They are
aiming to install more 500 solar home system and 1000 improved cook stoves
by the year 2014.
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To see the program a success, SAF are developing more skilled manpower
through training and capacity building. SAF has so far trained up about 50
engineers, 100 field staffs on solar PV technology. The SAF‟s Solar Programs
has the mission of fulfilling basic electricity requirements in the rural
Bangladesh and hence, supplementing the government’s vision of electrifying
the whole of Bangladesh at the year of 2020.
C. Target Group
Rural Community is the target beneficiaries of the project. Unemployed and
unskilled boys and girls, women, landless people, hardcore poor, widow and
orphans will be given priorities. Technical education and vocational training
will be provided youths and poor people. The project will given them technical
education and vocational training for the converting of skilled manpower.
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3. The main Aim & objective of Technical School
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5. Method of Implementation
The program will be implemented through the SAF‟s staffs. They select the
project area and potential customers, extend loans, install the systems and
provide maintenance support. SAF will provide financial support, sets technical
specification for solar equipment, develops publicity materials.
Firstly, the Field Workers collect the data from project area. After then Project
Engineer visit the project area and given report to the Project Director. He will
prepare budget and send it to the Executive Director. Then, whole team will go
to project area for install PV panels. After installation PV panels supervisor will
given speech to the villagers. He will invite them for training program and
workshop. Project Engineer will teach them how will maintenance the PV panel
and how will handling it.
Committee
Two committees: (i) Operations Committee and (ii) Technical Standards
Committee has been formation of coordinate the various aspects of
implementation of the program.
Audit
Every year SAF appoints an audit firm who‟s are enlistment by the govt.
authority. Representative of the audit firm to ensure that only TSC approved
equipment with their committed quality are used under their program.
Representatives of the suppliers accompany the audit team.
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Training programs:
After recruitment of the project staff SAF will organize a 7 (seven) days training
workshop. Resource persons from local and national level will be hired for
conducting the workshop. A trainers team will be formed with Executive
Director, Directors, Project Coordinator, Technical, Supervisors, and nurses.
They will conduct the time to time group level trainings. Group level training
will be organized in training centre at Euro Bangla Foundation Benefactum
Technical Education Center.
SAF also conducts training programs to build awareness among their staff and
beneficiaries. Training is provided to the staffs on SHS configuration,
positioning of SHS, installation procurement guidelines with measurements,
maintenance and troubleshooting of SHS, guidelines or monitoring, repairing
and inspection of SHS, market development, micro-credit methods for
marketing and maintenance of SHS. Total expense will sponsor by SAF.
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Promotion of the use of Renewable Energies in the rural Areas of
Bangladesh
The objective of the project is to enable the rural population in non electrified
regions gain increased benefits from the use of Renewable Energies (RE) in a
sustainable manner. The target group of the project is the rural population living
in areas far from the national electricity.
Means of achievements
a) Formulating the process of establishing an institutional framework for
coordination of RE activities at national level and development of suitable RE
policies & strategies.
Analyze and design an institutional and organizational structure for an
entity that will be tasked with overall co-ordination of RE activities in
accordance with the national energy policy.
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d) Providing sustainable access to renewable energy services for the selected
self-help group and social service providers at community level (e.g. schools,
rural health clinic, cyclone shelters)
Identify community based self-help groups and social service providers
that are in need of energy services and willing to employ RETs.
b. they will given credit support and necessary input will be supply to facilitate
self-employment projects by the youth in rural areas; emphasizing on modern
training and use of existing training facilities and creation of new facilities for
enhancing training standards;
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8. Motivational Inputs:
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12. Details of Estimated Cost of the Project: $239,900
13. The Ratio of the Administrative Cost to the Project Cost: 3.50 : 96.5
10000 unskilled youth, women and community people will be converted into
skilled manpower through technical Training
Demonstration and performance monitoring of PV systems installed.
Adaptive research on selected PV system/accessories and development of
selected prototype PV systems.
Standards/Specifications prepared for design and use of selected PV
system/accessories.
Dissemination and training programs for promotion of PV based appliances.
Development and implementation of technology packages.
Review on barriers to PV commercialization and identification of measures
for implementation to overcome selected barriers.
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Briquetting
The following outputs are expected to flow from the proposed project
Awareness development regarding renewable energy technologies to rural
areas.
Rural poor men and women will have electricity to start business to increase
income
Accessories of Solar PV system will be cheaper and durable.
Direct impact of environment due to improved briquetting machine and
develop awareness for using briquette.
18. Feasibility/Sustainability
We together with the rural marginalized people believe that the programs will
have sustainability after 2 years. Foreign fund for this project in the same area
will not be required as assume because-
- The people will collect their raw materials from their local market.
- The beneficiaries will get more job opportunity in the project area.
- People will have the source of extra income beyond their normal/usual
income. Moreover, the women will also have the earning scope.
- They will get financial support for set up own business sector.
Pankaj Bhoumik
Chief Executive President
Sonali Alo Foundation (SAF) -Bangladesh
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