Energy Access programs primarily aim at providing modern energy services – cooking and/or electricity - to the energy-poor. In order to subsequently do so sustainably, in parallel the context in which these services are provided must be strengthened, ensuring after-sales service, maintenance, replacement etc. are, and remain available to the end-user. In other words, sustainability requires strengthening the respective market in all its aspects to the point where such markets have matured sufficiently to subsequently be self-sustaining.

A “market” thereby is (considered to be) delineated geographically, technologically and sometimes also in terms of the type of end-user. Thereby for the latter usually a distinction is made between households, social infrastructure (schools, health-care facilities, governmental buildings, etc.) and productive use facilities (shops, workshops, factories, warehouses etc). In the execution of related programs this in turn requires a tool to “measure” the state of a market.

From this comparison the so-called Energy Access Market Development- or EAMD-model – in fact initially also developed for use in an EnDev project– was selected as the most appropriate model/tool to describe (development of) energy access markets for EnDev. In recent years the model was tested and used as a tool for describing the state of Energy Access Markets; primarily in the context of the EnDev program, occasionally also in the SDG7 program.

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1) Development, testing and operationalizing of additional versions of the tool adapted for Energy Access Markets with different dynamics, like Biodigesters, Mini-grids, Fixed Stoves and others as applicable;
2) Performing in-depth scorings of markets;
3) Managing, collection of scorecards and analysis of results for e.g. EnDev program reviews or as part of a programmatic tender (SDG7); provide backstopping to organizations/field workers filling out the scorecard;
4) Analyzing groups of such scorecards for trends and developments;
5) Structuring and maintaining a database of scorecards for Energy Access markets resulting from different programs
6) Present and explain the model externally / to third parties

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