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IMPLEMENTATION 03 OF 04 eVillage Programmes

Pilot Programs.

Early-stage deployments, innovation labs, and proof-of-concept rollouts that earn their way into the main portfolio.

Before a programme enters the eVillage main portfolio, it goes through a structured pilot phase — deployed at small scale, instrumented for outcomes, and held to explicit graduation criteria on adoption, retention, unit economics, and household impact. Pilots are how eVillage de-risks new product lines, new geographies, and new beneficiary cohorts before federal capital is committed at scale. Every pilot is time-boxed, has a clear measurement protocol, and either graduates into the main portfolio or is sunset transparently.

Pilot Pipeline

Active learning portfolio.

Active Pilots
14
Graduated to Scale
8
Pilot Households
12.3k
Avg Cycle (months)
9
What we're testing

The current cohort of pilot programmes.

Women-Led Vendor Pilot

Subsidised onboarding, mentorship, and working-capital lines for women entering the eVillage installer and vendor marketplace — targeting under-represented entrepreneurial cohorts in rural energy commerce.

Pilot · 6 states

School-Power Programme

Solar plus storage retrofits for federally-recognised primary and secondary schools, paired with after-school digital-literacy modules running on the energised infrastructure.

Pilot · 38 schools

Health-Power Programme

Solar refrigeration and lighting kits for primary health centres, with FMOH-aligned cold-chain monitoring and indoor air quality co-benefit measurement.

Pilot · 22 PHCs

Productive-Use Cluster Pilot

Bundled milling, water-pumping, and refrigeration packages targeting smallholder agricultural clusters, with revenue-share repayment models.

Pilot · 4 clusters

Carbon Credit Origination

Verifiable household tCO₂e displacement aggregated into NDC-aligned credit issuances, with a pilot offtake from a multilateral counterparty.

Pilot · 2 issuance cycles

USSD-First Onboarding

Smartphone-free onboarding flow over USSD for households below the smartphone-adoption threshold — expanding the addressable beneficiary pool beyond the digital frontier.

Pilot · 3 states
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