Programme Strategy

Renewable World’s Central America strategy is driven by two distinct characteristics of the region: the variety of topology and climates and the resulting abundance of renewable energy resources; and  the disparity between  rich and poor across the region.

Despite national mean averages which show wealth, health and education to be above the majority of countries in sub-Saharan Africa and the Indian sub-continent, there are pockets of significant deprivation very across Nicaragua and the Central America region which are statistically masked.

Given this context, Renewable World targets the most isolated and disadvantaged communities within Central American countries and believes that here, due to the plentiful natural resource supply, renewable energy can make a significant contribution to the development of poor communities. Additionally, due to the relative accessibility of poor communities, as compared with East Africa & South Asia, our work in Central America significantly assists in the piloting of some programme activities.

Renewable World focuses the majority of its regional resources on work in Nicaragua, a country with one of the lowest HDI rankings in Central America . Nicaragua is particularly varied, both in terms of its physical environments and ethnicity: the majority of the Ladino (Mestizo) population lives in the mountainous west of the country, whilst the west is populated by Creole and indigenous communities The East coast has significantly lower levels of infrastructure particularly in the in the eastern autonomous regions, the RAAS and the RAAN.

Programme Activities

Nicaragua - Cajiniquil wind-solar hybrid

Nicaragua - Monkey Point solar power for health centre