Enabling women entrepreneurs to reach markets through technology
This project aim at creating a cold chain ecosystem with truck/boat mounted solar DC freezers to enable local farmers preserve their produce and reach markets. Innovative solar-powered DC freezers are used in each community group sharing the systems and jointly maintaining them. The target is primary women and girls in vegetable trading, food vendors and […]
Solar-Powered Irrigation Systems Transforming Smallholders Farming Practices in Rural Tanzania
In Tanzania, only 2.36%, of the land suitable for irrigation is being irrigated and the country’s reliance on rain-fed agriculture limits productivity and increases the vulnerability of farmers to droughts and the effects of climate change…
Women Empowerment through Economic Development (WEED)
This is not just an initiative; it is a transformative movement that empowers women in rural Tanzania by providing them with the tools, knowledge, and support they need to succeed in the bakery business. By identifying, training, equipping, and coaching women groups, WEED Malkia Bakery is not only fostering entrepreneurship but also nurturing culinary skills […]
Solar Power for Health Facilities in Tanzania
This project aims at accelerating access to reliable electricity services in rural health facilities as an enabler of quality and essential health services. In this project E-LICO design and install solar PV systems to power four priority areas of lighting, cold chain for storage of vaccines and other live saving medicines, laboratory and theatre
Powering Livelihoods in Tanzania
This project aims to demonstrate and boost Tanzania’s rural economy by scaling up the penetration of clean energy-powered appliances for livelihoods. In collaboration with SELCO Foundation the initiative is supporting sixteen Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise (MSMEs) and farmers groups to undertake commercial deployment of renewable energy solutions such solar powered sewing machines, solar powered […]
The Solar Powered Pumping Systems for Irrigation Project in Iringa and Dodoma Regions of Tanzania.
This project involves more than 100 farmers growing all types of beans for GBRI Farms who exports in European markets and vegetables and maize beyond their contracts. Funded by Mott Foundation, this Project involves installation of solar water pumps and drip irrigation systems to replace diesel-genset. The project also involves training, equipping and coaching farmers […]
Household bio-Ethanol Cooking
Consumer Impact Research Project involves promotion of bioethanol as a clean, alternative fuel for cooking in Tanzania funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and implemented by UNIDO in collaboration with the Vice President’s Office and the Ministry of Energy. ELICO Foundation in collaboration with Micro Energy International are involved in assessing the consumer impact […]
The Electric Mobility Revolution and the end of Fossil Fuels will not be about Climate Change
Human evolution theory has it that before the current human species called Homo Sapiens, there were Neanderthals. The Neanderthals were humans with far greater power in their arms and legs and unlike popular insults, they were quite intelligent and accomplished humans. They were no ‘ape-men’. The brain size of late Neanderthals ranged from at least […]
