ACCESS & DELIVERY
Research Theme 2 focuses on access and delivery and investigates how poor people’s access to bioenergy can be created and sustained alongside food and water access.
There are many examples across South Asia and Africa of pilot initiatives on energy access that demonstrate it is technically, economically, and socially possible to improve energy access to the poor. Despite this success, many initiatives are not scaled up or rolled out, or they prove unsustainable in the medium term.
The PISCES project is investigating which models of financing, incentives and capacity development are best to create, sustain, and scale-up access to bioenergy for poor communities. Also directly relevant to policy makers will be assessments of how policy and institutional set-ups can strike a balance between community participation and innovative leadership when developing and providing bioenergy services.
PISCES is using market mapping to assess the sustainability of supply and value chains and consider how they can be regulated for delivery of bioenergy to poor communities while minimising negative impacts on food and water resources. These market maps provide a systematic assessment of the enabling environment for the bioenergy initiative; the actors in the market chain and their linkages; and supporting services.
Finally, PISCES is considering the trade-offs and impacts between centralised versus decentralised bioenergy service delivery.
PISCES Energy Delivery Models Tool
Publications
• FAO - PISCES Case Studies: Small-Scale Bioenergy Initiatives Executive Summary, January 2009
• FAO - PISCES Case Studies: Small-Scale Bioenergy Initiatives Final Report, January 2009: Fifteen case studies from Africa, Asia, and Latin America were undertaken to assess the impacts that different types of local-level bioenergy initiatives can have on rural livelihoods. The report concludes with preliminary lessons and recommendations for further work.
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