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FOREWORD 1.6 billion people do not have access to electricity. 3 billion people still use traditional biomass for cooking. This has serious consequences on the affected populations in terms of health, education, well-being, or development. As major stakeholders in the energy sector and the development of energy-based products and services, Total, Schneider Electric and GDF SUEZ each have respective ways of getting involved. Together they have decided to share their analysis of the issue, and to devise new possible forms of action in that realm. Those three corporations jointly entrusted Hystra, in collaboration with the international network of social entrepreneurs Ashoka, to conduct a study regarding different projects allowing energy access to poor sections of the population from developing countries — mostly initiatives started by local entrepreneurs. Focused on energy access projects for the most underprivileged sections of the population (BOP, Base of the Pyramid), the work consisted in an in-depth field study including on-site visits, interviews of the relevant parties, as well as workshops for evaluation and experience sharing. What is revealed through that study? First, it appears that the gap between the social and the economic realms is not unbridgeable, as it is possible to both take into account social-related issues (in our case, access to energy) and create economically sustainable companies that meet with the demand of those "markets", that are sometimes seen as insolvent prior to examination. The study also teaches us that the adequate response to the needs of underprivileged sections of the population can be elaborated not only by developing products and services that are cost and needefficient, but also through the optimization of the "human capital" of the above-mentioned sections— i.e. their organization skills, the existing solidarities between them, and their social networks.
Lastly, the study shows us that the most successful social entrepreneurs are also the ones who tried harder to get the users who were implied in the value-added processes involved. Indeed, viewing users as agents and including them in the production, transformation and distribution processes, does seem to be a key condition to the development of promising social businesses. We believe that corporations could have a supporting impact in bolstering, encouraging and developing the experiments that have been conducted in many countries, both in the "upstream" segments (development of adapted low-cost products, scaling effects, etc.) and the "downstream" segments (distribution channels, maintenance, etc.) of the value chain. All this work is to be shared by as many people as possible, in order to foster debate between and fuel thought amidst the relevant parties. That is why Total, Schneider Electric and GDF SUEZ have decided to make the results of the study public. This work should also make it easier to build up and implement partnerships in this realm. Bernard Saincy Director of Corporate Social Responsibility, GDF SUEZ Gilles Vermot Desroches Director of Sustainable Development, Schneider Electric Manoelle Lepoutre Senior Vice President, Sustainable Development and Environment, Total
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Page 8: INTRODUCTION The opportunity to wri
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80 Carbon credits is a challenging
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82 AFRICAN RURAL ENERGY ENTERPRISE
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84 E+CO Clean Energy Finance Global
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5 Recommendations
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5. Support favourable energy regula
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