Resilience Fund: Additional COVID related costs to 105908 Uganda Minigrids and Anchor Loads project

我们最初的项目旨在展示如何在乌干达农村离网社区创建一个农民企业中心（包括冷藏服务、碾磨或榨汁等作物增值设施以及其他与农业相关的服务），作为一个锚负荷，提高该社区微型电网的商业性能（即使其更可靠和负担得起），同时提高该社区成员的收入。让他们更容易付得起电费，同时参与更多新的创业活动，促进社区的发展。这将为我们提供一种技术和商业模式，使我们能够更快地将能源获取技术推广到离网农业社区，同时为这些社区创造更多的经济机会和发展，从而产生更可持续和长期的发展影响。到目前为止，我们一直在调整技术和商业模式，因此它现在对社区和资助者更具吸引力，并且可以以更快的方式实施。我们的估计是，通过使用我们的技术，农民的收入可以增加三倍，并且与其他方法相比，社区的电力和电力服务成本应该大大降低。该韧性基金项目是为了支持我们应对与COVID相关的意外成本，以及出于与COVID相关的资金考虑，在本财政年度结束前完成系统建设和安装的需要。这将使我们能够完成供社区测试的系统，并使我们能够继续收集验证方法所需的数据，并进入下一阶段的扩大规模，并能够更广泛地提供这些解决方案。

Our original project aimed to show how creating a Farmers' Enterprise Centre (which would include cold storage services, facilities for value-addition to crops like milling or juicing, and other agriculturally-related services) in a rural offgrid community in Uganda could act as an anchor load, improving the commercial performance of a minigrid in that community (ie make it more reliable and affordable), whilst at the same time improving the incomes of the members of that community, making it easier for them to afford to pay for the electricity, and also engage in more new entrepreneurial activities and catalyse development of the community more generally.This will give us a technology and business model which will allow us to more rapidly roll out energy access technologies to offgrid agricultural communities, while at the same time creating more economic opportunities and development in those communities, leading to more sustainable and long-term development impacts.Through the project to date we have been adapting the technology and business model, so that it is now even more attractive to communities and funders, and can be implemented in a more rapid fashion. Our estimate is that by using our technology, farmers can increase their incomes three-fold, and the cost of electricity and electricity services in the community should be greatly reduced compared with other approaches.This resilience fund project is to support us with unanticipated costs relating to COVID and the need to complete system construction and installation before the end of the financial year, due to COVID-related funding considerations. This will allow us to complete the systems for the communities to test, and allow us to continue to gather the data required to validate the approach, and move forward to the next phase of scale-up, and being able to supply these solutions more widely.