Projects
This map includes examples of productive use promotion projects and programmes implemented by different organisations. If you know a good project that should appear here, please let us know.

Project name | Peru Rural Electrification Project |
Country/region | Peru |
Duration | 2006-2013 |
Short Description | The World Bank and GEF-funded Peru Rural Electrification Project included a component promoting the productive use of electricity. This component, which had a total budget of approx. 4 million USD (2008-2013), is based on a similar project combining rural electrification with business development services (BDS) in Indonesia. The World Bank through the Directorate General of Rural Electrification (DGER) of the Ministry of Energy and Mines (MEM) supported a combined effort of NGOs and electricity distribution companies at local level to identify opportunities to increase income generating activities and assist micro and small enterprises to improve existing and start new businesses. The local NGOs providing BDS to rural businesses were contracted by DGER. The cross-sectoral activities took place at the local level and were developed by each NGO resulting in a bottom-up approach to identifying opportunities and designing the promotion programme. The NGOs assisted small enterprises to address knowledge, market, finance, technology and other constraints. The support included the following elements:
The main economic activities in the targeted communities were home based or located in or near the fields of the producers. They vary within the range of small-scale agriculture, livestock and dairy production, artisanal mining, textiles, off-farm industries and services like transport or product distribution. While agricultural production is usually at the individual level, agricultural processing is often done at a cooperative or association level. The first three pilot projects in Cusco, Junín and Lima Provinceshave helped over 4,970 families and micro-enterprises to adopt electricity and use equipment to process cereals, coffee, cocoa, baked goods, meat products, milk, wood and metal products and handicrafts, and to pump water for expanded agricultural production and processing. Currently eleven more projects are being implemented aiming to reach up to 15,000 more producers. Total results of the project (2008 - 2013) were:
As part of the continuation of the rural electrification programme the productive use component has also entered into a second phase. |
Implemented by | Local NGOs contracted by the Peruvian Directorate General of Rural Electrification |
Funded by | World Bank, Global Environment Facility and ESMAP |
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