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The preparatory workshop for relocation has created a unique collaboration space for people who would never meet in any other situation.

The Solidarity Emmaus experience supports disadvantaged populations to determine the elements that better prepare them to obtain social housing. This is combined with educational engineering from the Leroy Merlin Training Centre, in which staff share DIY "job actions" and other skills with people who really need them.
- The animation module is carried out in a special training space, at a store with sales consultants, which reinforces participants’ pride and self-esteem.
- The store manager and human resources manager foster commitment that gives collaborators a sense of purpose and enhances their motivation.
- The instructors are enthusiastic about the experience of passing on their know-how.
- The teachers whole-heartedly live by the values upon which they instruct, they're committed to helping people make their dream homes a reality, even for those non-resident clients in a precarious situation.
- The participants as collaborators- organized video testimonies, helped generate an internal dynamics across the enterprise.
This partnership allows even lends itself to scaling, as these types of workshops can be replicated to other members of the FNARS (The National Federation of Reception and Social Integration Associations)

Aviation makes a massive global, socio-economic contribution (Oxford Economics 2011). Growth is generally fastest in developing countries, precisely because it’s so intimately linked to economic development. At the same time, it's clear aviation is carbon-intensive and in need of low carbon solutions. It’s a huge challenge, and huge opportunity to make a big difference. Any breakthroughs could not only change aviation, but also the wider transport industry, with its big carbon footprint (2% global carbon contribution for aviation, and growing; 4% for shipping; 12% for other transport: WRI, 2005). Our biggest opportunity to make a significant difference is by supporting next-generation, low carbon fuels, while avoiding the problems of earlier generation ‘biofuels’, by using novel feedstocks like waste gases, liquids and solids. (How amazing to make a fuel from ‘recycled’ carbon that would otherwise end up in our atmosphere, rather than taking new carbon out of the ground?) We insist on suppliers using the RSB gold-standard, international, independent, multi-stakeholder standard for sustainable fuels, which includes robust LCA methodology. We encourage the technological know-how. But much supplier work is early-stage, and there’s a big funding gap that airlines alone cannot address. We at Virgin are accelerating the fuels’ route to commercialisation by convening key leading stakeholders (inc. suppliers, NGOs, scientists, policy-makers, industry, and – crucially – financers) to create a market and solutions. Much of the detail is confidential, but this is the essence of it.

Our product is a moving device that can go where the customer is. This convenience can increase cell phone usage and access for millions as they go about their everyday activities. For example, let’s say John, a small business owner, is in the city conducting business. He has been on the phone for a long period of time researching and managing transactions for his business. His phone is nearly dead, but he still has critical business to handle. John sees an MSCC charge system next to his favorite restaurant so John plugs into the charge device. He gets a ticket that he will need to get his phone back and while he is having his lunch, his phone is charging. John does not need to worry about his phone because the franchisee is watching over it. 20 minutes later John is done with his lunch, he goes to get his phone that is almost fully charged. He pays 20 cents for the service, and goes to his next meeting. He did not waste anytime having to go back to his house to charge or look for an outlet .... he can continue his day with no interruption. The franchisee, Charles, knows that this restaurant is the most popular in Kigali. He loads the MSCC device he is renting on his bicycle, and picks a visible spot near the restaurant early in the day. After the lunch hour rush Charles moves to his afternoon location, a corner bus stop, to catch the rush hour traffic home.

Rickshaw Bank project is the flagship activity of the CRD. The project was started in November 20, 2004 with the strategy of mobilizing poor rural migrants, urban poor and facilitating them with asset-based micro-finance package to have their dignified livelihood. The project is being recognized as an innovative one and well-acclaimed both at national and international level. The project provides an asset-based micro-leasing package of tricycle, insurance, license, uniform with the terms of reference of handing over the ownership to the tricycles after realizing the cost of the package at Equal Daily Installment within a year or half. Besides, Rickshaw Bank provides other services to the pullers – health checkup, fuel package (LP Gas with Stove), educational exchange programme for the children of the rickshaw pullers etc.
Technical collaboration is made with Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati and MIT, USA for designing and sophisticating of different tricycles and carts like rickshaw, momo cart, Vegetable/Fruit Cart, Fish Cart etc.
The newly designed rickshaw is having a bigger advertisement space on the back side and the is initially purchased by the Indian Oil Corporation, Hindustan Lever Limited and Oil & Natural Gas Corporation Ltd. under their corporate social responsibility programme. Later on, different banks like ICICI Bank, Punjab National Bank also financed through their on-lending mode. The Govt. of Assam also supported, providing incentives by subsidize the cost under the Employment Generation Mission.

Example 1. XYZ Elementary School in Kelowna is participating in International Walk to School Week. The school invests it's resources in promoting the program, parents get involved, and hopefully more students walk to school. What is the measurement of success and how does the school justify the investment? Currently through anecdotal evidence only. With IST, the schools administrator registers, configures the calculator with the school location, crafts a program introduction message and establishes specific survey questions. Codes or a unique URL is for each classroom are provided to the students and parents. Prior to iWalk Week students and their parents use the calculator to record their current travel behaviour and set a goal for iWalk Week. Each student's result is uploaded. After iWalk Week is completed the exercise(which takes about 2 minutes)is repeated and results uploaded. The administrator now has Current, Goal and Result data to evaluate the success of the investment in the program.

Example 2. The City of Surrey is investing $30,000 in running a pilot School Travel Planning program in 3 schools in Surrey. The program brings together municipal engineering, school, public safety personnel, teacher and parents to identify impediments (city or school infrastructure, attitudes) to active travel to school and create solutions. Currently, paper surveys and hands up survey's are used to quantify pre and post program travel behaviours. Using the IST tools as in the above example, real qualitative data is now available to justify the program expenditure.

We have already started a crafter's co-op which allows area farmers to develop value-added products that are non-edible. It has brought income to two farms and ten other vendors, and that is growing. People are recognizing the value of local agriculture and their on potential abilities to "save, make or stretch a dollar." We have operated our co-op less than a year, but it is growing. Food always makes things grow faster.

Our solution will involve local people collecting the plastic wastes littered almost everywhere in our country. The plastic wastes will be cleaned and burnt in an oxygen free environment and the pyrolysis processes will follow. There will be continued research on the best method of operation hence we shall also involve students. Analysis will be a daily routine hence hence employment of skilled labor.

In cities like Bangalore and Pune, it is mandatory, for new structures to incorporate solar water heaters. Their demand is also increasing in Tier 2 and 3 cities where there are frequent power outages and electricity cost is high.

In process industries, there is need for steam in various applications. Also the ability to produce electricity with low pressure, high temp steam enables us to develop solar thermal power stations and run vapour absorption machines.

Our products will reduce carbon footprint in today’s world and also act as alternative source energy. Rural India can benefit a lot from such systems.
We plan to set up 2MW power plant in near future at rural areas.

The IIAK has established an interactive network of creative individuals and corporate entities in Kenya. Through this network we have increased the participation of ordinary people, who would otherwise be passive actors, in innovation as evidenced in the various conferences/exhibitions.
We are revolutionizing the way innovations are sourced in Kenya by identifying those people with working innovations/solutions from far afield. We are paying special attention to exhibitions by small scale rural innovators at the Agricultural Shows instead of depending entirely on research institutions for innovations.
For example, during the Central Kenya ASK Show last year, we identified a mechanic exhibiting an incubator. Because of the uniqueness of his innovation, we organized for him to exhibit during the ASK's Nairobi International Trade Fare in September. He also participated during the 1st National Science, Technology and Innovation Week in May 2012, courtesy of our project. This exposure has made him improve the incubator into a fully automated piece of innovation integrated with standby gas ignition mechanism that comes into operation during power outages.
He has received several orders for the incubator through our network and we are planning to keep one of his incubators in our Innovation Exhibition Center
This year, he applied for the Innovation Grant when the National Council for Science and Technology called for proposals in July and we are confident that he will get the funding. In case the grant is not forthcoming then our project should come in to assist him.

The videos are a part of the activities of the BC Women in Energy Network. The Network's goal is to increase the role that women play in the BC energy sector and to primarily support women in achieving their own defined level of success. We want women to feel that they are achieving their own professional goals, being valued in the workplace and balancing their person and work life. Part of this becomes building a community of people and support where individuals can share information, learn of opportunities, and create change. Young women will have an opportunity to see this, to see women making a difference and feel that they can achieve the same success and be a part of the industry and community.

A local group that chooses to work with us will first become more efficient in waste management. In our studies, we found that while there is tacit knowledge in waste collection within the local groups such as the optimal routes and service fee structure, such knowledge is often lost due to rapid turnover in the group membership, so that the approaches by different members are often haphazard. We use GPS tracking tags to spatially map the collection routes to identify underserved customers, and knowing the spatially uneven income distribution within the slum, work out a waste collection pricing structure that will increase the customer size. For example, since the group can earn income simply by selling the waste they collect, it may make sense to provide the waste collection for free for the poorest neighborhoods. The increased customer base (from 100 to about 250 households per group) will allow the groups to operate at full capacity (currently most groups work part-time and need to find other odd jobs). Many groups already sort their garbage, but if not, then we train the groups to separate waste into different streams (plastic/metal to sell to recycling plants, and organic waste to sell to us). We arrange for daily collection of organic waste at fixed time from the local groups, and inspect the sorted organic waste for quality control. Groups that consistently turn in quality organic waste will receive higher compensation (up to 2000 Ksh/ton of organic waste) from us. We estimate that a group operating at full capacity can triple each member’s income compared to before.

Organic waste locked underground without oxygen ends up decomposing anaerobically which produces methane gas. Methane gas represents a significant green house gas (GHG) which needs to be reduced. Organics represent nearly a third of waste entering our landfills as well. A composting program would reduce GHG emissions, extend the life in landfills, and provide jobs new green jobs.

Finished compost could be provided at no to low cost to residents, agencies and or local governments. This could represent a reduction in GHG as compost could be sourced locally rather than being transported from a long distance.

1. Educational benefits - Villagers will be enlightened about the improvement in educational level by inclusion of computers and increased hours when students can study in their homes with the help of electricity generated by solar energy.
2. Encouragement of village businesses – Electricity will open up opportunity for villagers to set up businesses like using flour machine, ironing of clothes, selling cold drinks using refrigerators etc. which require electricity to run.
3. Villagers’ ownership and involvement – Villagers will be made to realize that they will be involved in the development of solar power plant and electricity production under their own ownership by preaching the slogan “Hamari bijli hamare naam”.
4. Employment Opportunities – Villagers will be shown the long term forecast of the manpower requirement in the project with the future probable salary that will be offered so that it creates a hope for employment opportunity.
5. Development of the Village – Villagers will be shown the vision of future development where an uninterrupted power supply in the village may encourage investors and entrepreneurs to invest to develop hospitals, schools and banks etc. in the village along with other infrastructure development.
6. Skills for sustainable future – Solar engineers will impart skills to the selected villagers (mostly women) so that the village becomes self-sustainable for producing electricity and also for future operation & maintenance of the solar plant.
7. Real life examples of solar power implementation & Promotion through village students.