Program Design & Management

Programme design turns a budget and a policy goal — electrify a number of unelectrified villages — into a deliverable programme: the right technology for each village, at a known cost, with institutions and tariffs that keep the plants running after the project team leaves.

It starts with geospatial, least-cost planning: which settlements should be reached by grid extension, which by hydro, solar or hybrid mini-grids, and which by standalone systems, based on resource mapping, settlement size and dispersion, distance to the grid and demand from households, schools, clinics and productive users. The design then fixes service levels, technical and procurement standards, the delivery model (public, community, private operator or hybrid), subsidy design — typically a capital subsidy with cost-recovering tariffs, since rural users rarely fund the full investment — tariff and metering policy, an operator training pipeline, and a results framework with budget and phasing. Management keeps that design honest across a portfolio of many small sites: unit costs, procurement, supervision, quality assurance and reporting.

• Geospatial least-cost planning: grid vs mini-grid vs standalone
• Demand assessment including institutions and productive use
• Service levels, technical standards and delivery model
• Tariff, subsidy and management / operator model
• Budget, phasing, procurement and results framework

What you receive: a programme design document: target-area and technology allocation, standards and standard designs, the institutional and tariff model, budget and implementation plan, procurement plan and a monitoring framework.

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