PROJECT MANAGEMENT

ICEED has over the years of its establishment become Nigeria’s leading centre on energy access and climate change. Together with some of the world’s leading resource centres, we have brought world class political economy analysis, market development expertise, capacity building, project implementation and communication to Nigeria.

ICEED has led some of the most important clean energy and climate change reform activities including the successful promotion of the Bill to Establish the National Climate Change Commission; supporting the development of international negotiating positions on climate change, writing the Federal Government of Nigeria’s Renewable Energy Master Plan, supporting the development of the National Clean Cooking Policy and recently supporting the Borno State Climate Change Resilience Action Plan.

Our key expertise is in governance reform in responding to the challenges of net-zero energy access and climate change. ICEED has designed and managed the following projects:

Borno Climate Change Programme

This programme seeks to improve sub-national response to climate change in Northeast Nigeria by enhancing the governance and sustainability of climate actions in Borno State. The programme has supported the following:

The development of the Borno State Climate Resilience Action Plan;
establishment of a Borno State Climate Change Coalition – a multistakeholder network that supports the implementation of the action plan;
the development of a community level Climate Smart Agriculture Toolbox;
the establishment of six Community-based Resilience Groups that works with farmers in the pilot local communities to implement the CSA toolbox and mediate conflicts.

Clean Cooking Policy Reforms

With funding from the German HBF, ICEED has delivered the following outcomes:

Political economy analysis of the Nigerian clean cooking energy sector and mapping of the trajectory for future policy reforms.
National Clean Cooking Policy, and the formation of the Sub-committee on Clean Cooking under the Inter-ministerial Committee on Climate Change;
The project supported the development of the Ebonyi State Clean Cooking Programme seeking to achieve universal access to clean cooking in the state by 2030;
The project is currently working with the National Assembly to develop a legislative framework that potentially will result in a future National Clean Cooking Act.

Sustainability, Inclusiveness and Governance of Mini-grids in Africa (SIGMA)

This multi-disciplinary research project seeks to improve the understanding of sustainability, inclusiveness and governance of mini-grids in general and those in sub-Saharan Africa in particular by developing an enhanced evidence base and a multi-dimensional appreciation of issues and challenges that can support better decision-making for universal electrification globally. The project collected and analysed evidence from Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal and Tanzania. The project is coordinated by the University of Surrey with researchers from Sussex University, ICEED and three other African countries.

Propcom Mai-karfi – Awareness creation, access to and uptake of Dadinkowa fuel efficent cookstoves in Kano State

Solar Nigeria Programme

Together with Adam Smith International, ICEED consultants designed, developed and continue to manage the Solar Nigeria Programme. The programme seeks to create a sustainable distributed solar market in Nigeria with increased electrification rates in urban and rural areas and improved welfare outcomes in health, education and domestic arena while contributing to emission reduction.

MAIDA Response, Recovery and Resilience in Borno State

This Euro 15m project seeks to provide early recovery support to communities in Boko Haram ravaged Borno State, Northeast Nigeria with environmentally sustainable skills and livelihood. Over the three years, ICEED will build the capacity of youths and women to provide climate smart agriculture, solar energy and clean cooking solutions. ICEED will install solar home systems in 650 houses and 12 health and educational institutions. It combines market based approaches with high value social interventions in agriculture, health and education. The project is implemented in partnership with Mercy Corps Europe.

Farmer Managed Renewable Energy Production in Katsina State

This is being co-implemented in partnership with Oxfam. ICEED is responsible for delivering the clean cookstoves component by developing and implementing the design and production of at least 35,000 low cost locally-made efficient wood stoves; developing a financing mechanism, building a corps of women entrepreneurs and developing and implementing behaviour change communications. Since inception, the project has established a market-based supply chain for efficient woodstoves with up to 431 actors. In addition, over 50,000 stoves have been disseminated by the project through a purely market-based approach. ICEED is currently with Atmosfair GMBH to register the stoves as part of the Clean Development Mechanism of the UNFCCC.

Increased energy access for IDPs, returnees and host communities in Borno State through improved energy technologies

ICEED is supporting the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in the implementation of a Safe Access to Fuels and Energy (SAFE) project in Borno State, Northeast Nigeria. The project provided technical and business training to Internally Displaced Persons in the construction and marketing of efficient cooking solutions. ICEED has established 3 fuel efficient woodstove production centres in Jere, MMC and Konduga LGAs and built the technical and business capacity of 100 IDPs, returnees and host community members on production and sales of stoves. ICEED has further facilitated linkages to the market and this has led to the trained persons selling over 12,000 stoves. To expand access to alternative and more environmental friendly biomass fuels, ICEED developed a Roadmap for the Development of Briquettes in Borno State. The roadmap among other contents proposed the following:

Establishment of briquette production centres in areas of high feedstock yield
Capacity development among local farmers and artisans
Development of briquette-compatible fuel efficient stoves
Promotional campaigns; and
Pilot projects

Piloting Safe Access to Fuels and Energy for Internally Displaced Persons in Adamawa State Nigeria

The project facilitated an effective response to the cooking fuel and energy needs of three Internally Displaced Persons camps in Yola Adamawa State in a safe and sustainable manner without fear or risk to health, well-being and personal security. This was achieved through the training of 100 women and youths in the production of efficient clay/ceramics based cookstoves from locally available materials, and development of mechanism for stove distribution. Other activities included public awareness and campaign for behavioural change among households in the camp, dissemination of at least 1,000 stoves in Malkohi Camp II and provision of institutional stoves for NYSC and Fufore Camps.

NESP Clean Cooking Intervention; Market development for clean cooking energy solutions for rice parboiling in Niger State

This project aims to stimulate the launch of a viable commercial market for improved cooking energy solutions for the rice produce value chain. This was accomplished by strengthening the supply chain through appropriate stove design, production, stove performance testing, production and distribution training. Demand was enhanced by developing marketing, communication and behavioural change tools and exploring opportunities for micro-financing. Furthermore, the project supported the creation of an enabling policy environment by engaging with state, federal agencies, donors and other partnerships to ensure that lessons learned are carried forward and opportunities for scale up are explored. These activities led to the dissemination of over 100 fuel efficient parboiling stoves among rice processing clusters in the state.

Expansion of access to clean cooking energy services in seven NEWMAP States

This project seeks to expand access to clean cookstoves to households and institutions in Abia, Anambara, Cross River, Ebonyi, Edo, Enugu and Imo States. Beneficiaries are households and institutions such as boarding schools and hospitals. Components include: baseline research, market development, including the development and delivery of communication tools.

Rural Electrification Fund Implementation Plan

In consortium with Adam Smith International, ICEED provided technical support to the Rural Electrification Agency to develop an implementation plan for the Rural Electrification Fund. This includes fund mobilisation and fund operational frameworks.