- Local farmers shall get organized through a cooperative to commercialize their products, build local technical capacity and establish a more stucutured communication channel with the other project partners
- Technological providers shall assess the feasibility of specific technologies and, where possible, refine them to lower the costs and make them adequate to local environmental conditions
- The local municipality shall provide strategic support to the project by launching a long-term program for the dissemination of efficienct agricultural technologies
- Local and regional micro credit and financial institutions shall develop specific credit programs with convenient interest rates to ensure replicability
- Government institutions shall support the introduction of specific technological solutions in the region by understanding the costs and benefits of subsidies or incentives such as tax rebates on specific technologies
- Universities shall carry out strategic study to understand the risks and opportunities of a possible scaling up
- Local NGOs shall manage the project locally and shall help developing local capacity
- The project developers through the project team shall ensure that all partners understand each other and work together towards the same objectives.
A multistakeholder meeting in Pintadas during the planning of the piloting phase in August of 2006.
Objectives
Pintadas alone has over 50 açudes with an estimated potential of about 100 hectares (250 acres) of irrigated land. About 200-300 families could participate in the scaling up of the project. There are several other municipalities with a potential of several hundred of these açudes can be used for irrigation purposes. The objectives of this phase are:
1. To improve the technological platform to serve a large number of possible sites and conditions
2. To install water pumping and irrigation systems over an minimum area of 20 hectares in Pintadas and in the other three municipalities of Quixabeira, Baixa Grande and Brumado
3. To create a self-replication mechanism based on micro-finance and on a coprehensive capacity building strategy and toolkit
Awards
In 2007, the project was awarded with the WISIONS PREP Award from the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy as "good practice in sustainable energy for poverty reduction".
- Brochure about Pintadas in the WISIONS Award
- More info about the WISIONS Award
In 2008, Pintadas Solar was one of the 5 projects that was selected from close to 400 applications from over 100 countries worldwide to win the SEED Award. The SEED Initiative is a “global network for action on sustainable development partnerships, founded by IUCN, UNDP and UNEP, to deliver concrete progress towards the internationally-agreed, aspirational goals in the UN’s Millennium Declaration and the commitments made at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in 2002". The project will work together with the SEED Initiative to address the key points that will make the scaling up more sustainable and feasible.
- Press notice
- More info about the SEED Initiative