Tracking progresses and
enabling impact assessment at the household level
Your organization is fully committed to the development of your customers.
The testimony of a few clients is just the tip of the iceberg of what you are truly achieving.
Monitor your clients’ progress based on reliable data and set your next goals.
The HEDERA Impact Toolkit helps you work more efficiently, focus on your customers’ needs,
remain competitive in rural areas, and visualize and understand your achieved impact.
Household by household.
We support you in identifying energy needs of the rural populations, design
energy access programs, evaluate the impact and monitor the progress out of
energy poverty.
MOBILE APP: FIELD DATA COLLECTION
Our mobile survey application enables quick and easy data collection in the field.
No internet coverage required.
Forms are already integrated, based on latest SDG standards
Integrate your own forms and questions
Easy to install
Minimal training, easy to use
Household data collection in less than 10 minutes
THE DASHBOARD: DATA MAPPING AND VISUALIZATION
The dashboard visualizes the collected data in real time,
based on the surveys you have undertaken.
Locate your clients and identify their needs, see the work of your loan officers, and filter your clients according to specific indicators.
Digital reports are instantly generated based on your field data.
Reports are automatically generated with
the latest collected data
Create and select interactive graphs and chapters,
and report what matters to your partners
Digital report as PDF or as interactive and navigable web applications
Accessible anywhere through a URL
Latest impact indicators (SPI4,
IRIS, or
Gogla Impact Metrics)
are calculated automatically based on the data collected.
Consolidated all in one place, ready to report
With HEDERA you will be able to efficiently screen the investees market to
find the ideal partners, as well as monitor the impact of funding programs.
Financial Institutions
Our solutions help
inclusive finance institutions
in implementing
data-driven and cost-efficient market assessment studies,
generate SDG-aligned impact report, and
finding the right investment partners
Energy Technology Providers
HEDERA will assist you in developing impact assessment
pipelines and in establishing robust
partnerships with financial
institutions, and impact investors
MEASURING ENERGY ACCESS
Energy access is multidimensional.
Binary indicators (such as off-grid/on-grid, or cooking
with/without biomass) are
not sufficient for measuring energy
poverty. Especially in remote regions where energy access depends on very diverse sources, simple
binary indicators are often misleading.
The ESMAP(Energy Sector and Management Program - The World Bank) has
recently introduced the Multi-Tier Framework (MTF).
Resulted from a set of studies in collaboration with academics and practitioners,
the scope of the MTF is to track energy access and energy poverty along
all the relevant dimensions,
such as apacity, durability, quality,
affordability, legality, availability,
convenience, health and safety.
In the MTF, each household is ranked in a Tier (from 0 - the lowest - to 5), according
to the available electricity source, illumination appliances, and available cooking solutions.
RETHINKING SDG ASSESSMENT: PEPI & MTF
The HEDERA Impact Toolkit is based on the
Progress out of Energy Poverty
Index (PEPI). The PEPI builds upon the MTF, measuring all dimensions of energy access.
Tayloring the framework and the
survey to be used within the Microfinance industry,
the PEPI has been designed to track the progress towards SDG7 at the level of single households.
The HEDERA Impact Toolkit combines the PEPI with a a microfinance-driven
crowdsourcing of field data, drastically reducing costs for energy needs assessment, baseline
assessment, and monitoring.
REFERENCES
In 2019 we launched our products. These have been tested in different local contexts.
See also our
portfolio
The aim of this case study is to assess and analyze the level of
access to energy of a sample of clients of the inclusive financial institution Fondesurco.
The purpose of the analysis is to obtain insights and relevant information
concerning energy needs, energy usages, energy expenses.
Moreover, this study aims at evaluating several attributes describing energy access
(access to electricity and access to modern cooking solutions).
The data collection has been performed using the App HEDERA collect.
The sample - and the evaluation of the energy access attributes -
allows also to evaluate a baseline with respect to
SDG 7: Affordable, reliable, and safe energy for all.
The baseline evaluation is based on standard metrics,
implementing the Multi-Tier Framework (MTF)
developed by the ESMAP sector of The World Bank. The case study is also a pioneer application of the Progress out of Energy Poverty Index (PEPI) (N. Realpe, PhD Thesis 2017), which is also based on the MTF.
Fondesurco is a Peruvian savings and credit cooperative established in the
city of Arequipa. With more than 26 offices in the South of the country,
located in the departments of Arequipa, Moquegua, Puno, Ayconcho and Huancavelica,
Fondesurco has the vision of consolidating his presence in rural areas where access to
finance is limited. As a pioneer institution in the country offering green credits,
within the framework of its Renewable Energy Solutions Program (SER),
its objective is to offer better access to clean energies and increase energy
efficiency for the rural population with low resources.
The aim of this case study is to assess and analyze the level of access to energy of
a sample of clients of Microbanco Confiança, and to test the applicability
of the HEDERA Impact Toolkit in the target rural region
(including the HEDERA collect mobile App and the software for data analysis and evaluation).
The data collection has been performed by two loan officers, in the offices of Boane and Magude.
Microbanco Confiança
is a microfinance institution, established in 2017,
providing small loans for smallholder farmers and entrepreneurs
in the rural areas of Maputo Province
(Southern Mozambique).
HEDERA collaborates with Hillary Kipcoech Korir, a master student at the
Panafrican University for Water and Energy Sciences
(PAUWES) of Tlemcen (Algeria),
providing software support for data collection in rural region.
Mr. Korir instructed five research assistant providing installation and support
in using the HEDERA collect App.
Access to energy is multidimensional. In order to quantify and
address energy demand and energy needs of the rural population,
it is highly necessary to implement tools that are not limited to a
purely binary assessment (household connected/not connected to the grid).
Assessing energy needs shall take into account a wider range of attributes,
measuring energy access in terms of affordability, reliability, quality,
and safety of energy, as well as include the possibility of using modern and
alternative sources (e.g., solar home systems, mini-grids).
The purpose of this pilot study was to
Analyze the access to energy of a sample of clients of the Mexican microfinance institution Te Creemos
Collect a large amount of household data within few weeks
Perform energy access assessment according to the
Multi-Tier Framework (MTF)
developed by the ESMAP sector of The World Bank.
The sample - and the evaluation of the energy access attributes -
allows also to evaluate a baseline with respect to
SDG 7: Affordable,
reliable, and safe energy for all. The case study is also a pioneer application of the
Progress out of Energy Poverty Index (PEPI), which is also based on the MTF.
For more informations and preliminary results have a look at
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