scholarly journals SWOT Analysis of Solar Pumping Finance Fund (PV Fund)

Author(s):  
Ahmed Abdalla

Sudan is a country with a great abundance of fertile and arable land as well as water resources. However, unstable Nile levels and seasonal rain limit agricultural spans in the year, and agricultural activities far from river banks make it necessary to use underground water. Photovoltaic water pumping systems have been available in Sudan from early times, however high up-front costs for initial investment contributed to halting widespread use of the systems. A recent project developed by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Sudan, the PV fund, incentivizes the deployment of such systems for farmers by introducing a low-risk finance mechanism. This paper aims to conduct a Strengths, Weaknesses, Threats, and Opportunities (SWOT) analysis on this finance mechanism, and further propose recommendations and alternatives. The study concluded that the strengths are not requiring the beneficiary to provide any guarantees to obtain finance, solving the problem of high-cost PV pumping, distributing risks to the financiers, and attracting farmers and beneficiaries because the repayment period is 4 years. The weak point is the long-term operability. It also provides future opportunities for banks and financial institutions to finance the mechanisms of pumping water, which helps industrial and urban development. The main threats are the government, inflation, fluctuating exchange rates, and difficulty in pricing equipment.

Author(s):  
P. Murugiah

The ERNET network was only made available to educational and research communities. ERNET was initiated by the Department of Electronics (DoE), with funding support from the Government of India and United Nations Development Program (UNDP), involving eight premier institutions as participating agencies—NCST Bombay; Indian Institute of Science; five Indian Institutes of Technology at Delhi, Mumbai, Kanpur, Kharagpur, and Chennai; and the DoE in New Delhi. It is estimated that by 2017, internet users in India are most likely to be in a range of 450-465 million. The frequency of internet access among urban internet users in India is close to 51% or 137.19 million of internet users are using internet on a daily basis (at least once a day). On the other hand, 242 million or 90% of the urban internet user's use internet once a month. Analysis of ‘daily users' reveals that they are both in urban and rural India.


2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 99
Author(s):  
Anggraeni Yunita ◽  
Mrs Christianingrum

The purpose of this study is to measure the accountability of village funds management in Kabupaten Bangka. In relation to the Village Funds program which is a government program, the measurement of accountability of Village Funds management uses accountability principles consisting of Transparency, Liability, Controlling, Responsibility and Responsiveness which are the principles of accountability developed by the United Nations Development Program in measuring bureaucratic accountability. This research is a qualitative research by taking data from several villages in Bangka Regency. As well as qualitative research, the data taken in this study using snowball sampling method, where researchers take data by conducting in-depth interviews until the data obtained until the condition is saturated, meaning there is a repetition of the same information at the time of data collection. The results of this study indicate that villages in Bangka Regency have met the accountability principles of 5 (five) starting from planning, implementation and reporting when measured from 5 (five) accountability principles consisting of Transparency, Obligation, Controlling, Responsibility and Responsiveness.


2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 1019-1026
Author(s):  
Teuku Mochamad Nazar ◽  
Azmeri Azmeri ◽  
Eldina Fatimah

Abstract: Clean water as a primary need of human which is generally used for drinking, bathing, cooking and washing should be met in terms of quantity, quality, and affordability and sustainability. The government through the national development program of water and sanitation universal access which declared that by 2019, Indonesia will achieve the 100% target of proper clean water and sanitation for the whole Indonesian people. Water supply and Sanitation community-based Program (PAMSIMAS) is one of the prominent programs of the central government that adopt a community-based approach, where the main actors are the society as well as the person in charge to implement the project. PAMSIMAS II was launched in Aceh since January 2013 to April 2016 in which thre e districts joined PAMSIMAS are Aceh Besar, Pidie and Bireuen, with a total number of villages of the program as 46. The study conducted in the District of Aceh Besar with selected 15 (fifteen) villages as research object. This study aims to identify the level of success of PAMSIMAS II and identified community participation in managing water and sanitation infrastructure that has been built by the program. Those things were measured by the factors namely: 1. Adequacy, quality and continuity of water, also 2. Performance of BPSPAM as management body in village.  This study adopt quantitative analysis that supported by qualitative analysis. Data were collected by observation, questionnaires and interviews. At the end the SWOT analysis is performed for the formulation of a strategic planning in or order to make PAMSIMAS sustainable in achieving access of clean water. The result of this research is information about th position of The PAMSIMAS II after the calculation of EFAS and IFAS which conducted based on the questionair that deliver to the actors of PAMSIMAS II in district of Aceh Besar and also recomendation about priority strategy should be conducted for the development of PAMSIMAS II in the future. Abstrak: Air Bersih sebagai kebutuhan utama dalam kehidupan manusia yang umumnya digunakan untuk minum, mandi, memasak dan mencuci sudah seharusnya terpenuhi secara kuantitas, kualitas, terjangkau dan kontinu. Pemerintah melalui program pembangunan nasional akses universal air minum dan sanitasi menetapkan bahwa pada tahun 2019, Indonesia dapat mencapai 100 % target layanan air minum dan sanitasi yang layak. Program Penyediaan Air Minum dan Sanitasi Berbasis Masyarakat (PAMSIMAS) merupakan salah satu program andalan pemerintah pusat yang menggunakan pendekatan berbasis masyarakat, dimana masyarakat sebagai pelaku utama dan sekaligus penanggungjawab pelaksanaan kegiatan. Program PAMSIMAS II dilaksanakan di Provinsi Aceh mulai tahun 2013 sampai dengan April 2016 di 3 kabupaten yaitu Kabupaten Aceh Besar, Kabupaten Pidie dan Kabupaten Bireuen, dengan total desa yang bergabung adalah 46 Desa.  Penelitian ini dilaksanakan di 15 desa di Kabupaten Aceh Besar sebagai objek penelitian. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengevaluasi keberhasilan Program PAMSIMAS II dan mengindentifikasi peran serta masyarakat dalam mengelola infrastruktur air bersih dan sanitasi yang telah dibangun.  Hal tersebut diukur melalui beberapa faktor, diantaranya: 1. kecukupan, kualitas dan keberlanjutan air dan, 2. Kinerja dari badan pengelola di masyarakat. Penelitian ini menggunakan analisa kuantitatif yang didukung dengan analisa kualitatif. Metode pengumpulan data dengan melakukan observasi, kuesioner dan wawancara. Penelitian ini melakukan Analisa SWOT yang bertujuan untuk perumusan rencana strategis agar Program PAMSIMAS dapat berkesinambungan dalam pemenuhan akan air bersih. Hasil dari penelitian ini berupa identifikasi posisi Program PAMSIMAS II setelah dilakukan perhitungan EFAS dan IFAS yang dilakukan berdasarkan Kuesioner yang telah disebar kepada para pelaksana program PAMSIMAS II, dan kemudian dilanjutkan dengan rekomendasi prioritas strategi yang akan dilakukan untuk pengembangan Program PAMSIMAS II ke depan.


1971 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 938-949
Author(s):  
Johan Kaufmann

Partly by design, partly by coincidence the twelve months from September 1969 to September 1970 saw an “explosion” of reports about development problems. This article is particularly concerned with one of these, Sir Robert Jackson's A Study of the Capacity of the United Nations Development System. While the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) covers only a minor percentage of total assistance extended to less developed countries, its significance reaches beyond its quantitative development impact It has become the single most important United Nations cooperative effort and, more generally, represents an unprecedented example of intergovernmental and interorganizational cooperation.


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