Sustainable Energy Interventions:

impact on women and children

Sustainable Energy for Development (SED) Programme

www.giz.de/bangladesh

SE4ALL Consultation Workshop: Manila, June 14, 2015

Energy Efficiency

o Improved Rice Parboiling System

- Al Mudabbir Bin ANAM

Renewable Energy

o Solar Drinking Water Pump

- JAN Soehlemann

Improved Rice Parboiling System (IRPS):impact on women and children

The Sector

50,000 Rice Mill SMEs

Produces 80% of the country’s parboiled rice

Parboiling produces 8 Million MT Rice Husk as

by-product

Rice Husk represents 23% of national biomass

resource

The Issues

Most boilers used in parboiling use rice husk as

fuel

The inefficient boilers burns up to 70% of rice husk

The boilers are usually unsafe and profusely

polluting

Rice Mills have mostly unhealthy environment for

workers and neighbors

GIZ Improved Rice Parboiling System

• Program Funding:

BMZ

• Beneficiaries:

Rice Mill SMEs of Bangladesh

• Govt. Counterpart:

SREDA, Ministry of Power,

Energy and Mineral Resources

• Partners:

o Rice Millers Association

o Banks / Fis

o Private Sector (Service Providers)

GIZ Interventions

o Development of locally customized technological solution

o Installation of Demo Units in Priority Rice Mill Cluster

o Development of Cluster based service provider

o Capacity Development of Rice Millers Association

o Capacity Development of Rice Millers on Technology Operation and Management and Access to finance

GIZ Interventions…..

o Capacity Development of Banks / Financial Institutions on Technology Orientation and Business Viability

o Policy Advocacy

o Communication and Outreach Campaign

Expected Program Output

o Commercial dissemination of IRPS

o Cluster based Service Providers

o Access to concessional loans for the beneficiaries

Expected Program Outcome

o Sustainable Market based uptake of IRPS

Sustainability: Technology Solutions

o Saved Rice husks and Rice Bran are valuable resources

Rice husk for briquettes, poultry spread, power generation

Rice Bran for Edible Oil and High Value Animal Feed

o Improved system has a longer working life o Saves labor hours and inputo Increased productivity through capacity enhancement o Increased financial viability through cost savingso Investment recovery within 1.5-2 years

Sustainability: Program Approach

o Ownership with Government o Implementation through Registered National

Rice Millers Associationo Market based approach, no subsidyo Access to concessional funding for holistic

business development

GENDER IMPACT

Satkhira rice-mill boiler blast victim diesThe Daily Sun, Bangladesh, 23 Jun 2014

Satkhira: A female worker, who sustained burn injuries in a boiler explosion at a rice mill in Tala upazila on June 11, died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) in the capital on Monday. The deceased was identified as Rokeya Begum, 32, a worker of 'Jatpur Rice Mill' and wife of Babar Ali of Aladipur village in Tala upazila.

On June 11, four workers of the rice mill were injured when a boiler went off while working at Jatpur in the upazila. Abu Bakar Siddique, officer-in-charge of Tala Police Station, confirmed the incident.

Baseline Scenario Impact after Intervention

Minimum or no safety to boiler explosion

Maximum safety

Exposed to smoke inhalation Not exposed to smoke

High heat from manual husk feeding through furnace openings

Mechanized husk feeding through close gates

Heat Radiation from Boiler Surface

Boiler surface insulated

IMPROVEMENT

Safety againstexplosion

Health

Better Work Environment

Apparently longer

working life

Income level?

Effects on employment?

The Scale

o Female workers share in rice mills is about 38% [BIDS, 2014]

o Female workers is about 50-60%, according to unofficial statements.

o Half a Million Female Workers, Half a Million Children living with mother in rice mills

Key Lesson Learnt

Energy Efficiency ……..

o not only improves efficiency, productivity and business viability

o but also improves conditions of women and children