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Multi-Stakeholder Approach: Close collaboration with universities, companies, local authorities, aid organizations, NGOs and other interested stakeholders
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Education: Integration of training programs within local universities based on a 'train the trainer' scheme
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Electrification: Restriction of electricity sources to renewable energies with focus on solar energy
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Entrepreneurship: Help for self-help through training and coaching of local entrepreneurs to bring solar energy to remote areas
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Sustainability: No commercial training of entrepreneurs without teaching how to maintain and repair solar systems
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Business Infrastructure: Import, warehousing and wholeselling of solar systems etc. in participation with local companies or managers
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Working Capital for Entrepreneurs: Supply of starting entrepreneurs not with money but with working tools and sales material.
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Business Growth: Training of entrepreneurs to invest the sales margins of their activities in a growing equipment with sales material and after this to by
their material direct from the wholeseller.
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Market Development: Avoidance of any kind of market destruction or manipulation which e.g. could happen by product subsidies or by preferential promotion of products
independent from price-quality aspects
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Product Competition: Ensuring state of the art product supply by integrating several import organization and a product variety of at least three producers
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Quality Assurance: Careful and regular evaluation of project concepts and performance as well as of their economic and social impacts
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Project Duration: Timely restriction of single projects
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Ethical Compliance: No profit skimming out of publicly financed projects beyond declared fees for worked days or hours
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Overall Guideline: Orientation of all activities towards the objectives and principles of the United Nation's Program "Min-Electricity Access" (Min-E Access) of the
UN Division of Sustainable Development
