I. First Progress Report(April 29, 2010 ):
Undertaken Activities:
Building technical capacity of target population on renewable energy through
?Youth education ( Youth camp on ? Reducing Global Warming by Sustainable Energy)
?Study tour on energy management
Results and indicators:
1. About 350 persons from youth groups and community members actively participating nearly all expressing thoughts & ideas through essay, questions & answer and drawing contest, in which story of prize winners getting publicized in English by a mass media in Lao PDR.
2. 50 project members learning more about several kinds of renewable energy the project planned to promote and other land about other environmentally-friendly livelihood activities followed by putting into demonstration of water hammer, biomass energy ,solar energy and bio-fertilizer.

Project Communication:
Project activities were made known through reporters of Prachatham Magazine soliciting public to follow.

Experience , lessons Learnt, problem and issue:
The project referred to re-scheduling some activities as a minor problem where anticipated participation was not fully received from targeted communities resulting in more preparatory work. However, the project management was satisfied with the immediate result.

Project Expense:
The project report the expense of THB: 188,750 out of the first disbursement of THB: 342,496.49.

II. Monitoring Visit by NC/NSC (23 October 2010 ):
Findings & Observation:
Tambol Hardkhamphi?s Baan (village) Khokwao, one of the 6 target villages in Parkchom District was visited. It is situated along Mekong River with one side facing the river and the other hilly terrains. Majority of community members earn their living through agricultural practice. Major crops include native paddy, and selective seasonal crops and fruit trees for cash. Fishery was once the main source of cash income but now seemed to be limited because of price fluctuation. In term of agricultural practice and daily energy supply, conventional energy such as grid electricity, and fossil fuels have been playing major role. Piles of fire woods were seen here and there in the village. In term of expense on conventional energy on agricultural practice, gasoline for small tractors and water pumping, this community spent over THB: 100,000 per year.

In term of progress, the visiting team was shown a premises along the river equipped with a high efficiency charcoal-production facility built for demonstration after technical capacity-building activities. According to project leaders, the facilities had produced charcoal for use replacing a significant portion of canned gas, direct use of fire-woods and rice husk. Each participating village would have 10 facilities of this design collectively managed. After demonstration for a few months, there were several non-project members being interested in participating. With limited budget for this additional members, project leaders would purchase equipments in a lump sum quantity, expecting more equipment to cope with the additional demand.

The second spot of visit happened in another premises of target population. This one was a show of biomass stove intended to use with rice husk. In a similar manner, the stove was fabricated through modification of project member after receiving relevant training.

Due to time constraint and difficulty in communication in the previous day, the visiting team did not have and opportunity to visit and interacting with another participating villages. However, what were witnessed and shared, the team was led to understand that technical capacity of target population was increased and that proposed activities were being carried out as planned. Activities to be completed were solar dryers, water hammer pumps and manual energy.

III. Second Progress Report(12 January 2011 ):
Undertaken Activities:
Demonstrating the uses of renewable energy as follows:
1. Surveying location for water hammer installation
2. Building check dams to ensure sustainable management of water
3. Fabricating and installing 35 sets of water hammers and putting into use
4. Fabricating and installing one set of solar dryer and putting into use
5. Fabricating and installing 50 sets of high-efficiency charcoal production kilns and putting into use
6.Fabricating and installing one 10 sets of high-efficiency biomass stoves

Results and indicators:
1. More water available for 400 community members during dry seasons of about five months ? saving expense of community in addressing water shortage issue (through TAO budget) by approximately THB: 15,000.
2. Water hammer sets prompting a saving of expense on fuels for pumping water to gardens and orchards by about THB: 2,000/ family ( among 35 families)
3. The solar dryer prompting a time reduction from 3-7 days to 2-3 days , for traditional medicine drying process
4. The charcoal production kilns prompting a saving of expense on charcoal from markets by THB: 100-200/family/month ( among 100 families)
5. Indicated saving of expense on chemicals for black bean cultivation, through the use of the by-product ?wood vinegar? , by THB: 1,500-2,000/family ( among nine families)
6. The biomass stove using rice husk prompting a saving of expense on canned gas by THB: 100-200/month/family (among 10 families)

Project Communication:
1. The project activity on check dam building which was participated by students from Rajabhat University Udornthani was aired by the Thai Public Broadcasting Service (TPBS), during May 2010.
2. The project was made more visible through educational forum where project leaders were invited to talk about global warming and community waste issues for community schools.

Experience , lessons Learnt, problem and issue:
1. During planting/harvesting season, the project was not able to receive full participation from communities . Project leaders, however, decided to work with communities in the gardens and orchards , and at the same time, coordinated to search for equipment/spare parts for fabricating water hammer, stoves, solar dryer, etc.
2. Spare parts for water hammer, especially the valve of better efficiency was not available in nearby market in Udornthani and Loei Province, rendering a delay on planned activities.
3. Changed management of participating community schools caused a delay in planned activities.
4. The recent flood (late October-November) caused an interruption of the high-efficiency stoves.
5. The metal required for fabricating biomass stoves was of a high quality and not always available in nearby market ? making the first cost of stove too high.

Project Expense:
The project report the accumulated expense of THB: 535,950 out of the sum of first and second disbursement of THB: 673,911.61.

IV. Completion report (26 March 2012):
Date of Participatory Evaluation( 24 March 2012):

Number of Beneficiaries/ Participating personnel:
Women: 670
Men: 800
Children: 500

Number of persons trained/ attending seminars, joining study tours:
Women: 120
Men: 60
Children: 300


Expense:
Amount received from SGP (3 disbursements): THB: 990,448.96
Total amount spent out of SGP budget: THB: 1,140,300
Balance: THB : (-149,851.04)
Amount authorized for the final payment: US$: 3,420.20

Activities undertaken:
1. Building technical capacity of target population on renewable energy through study tour and youth education (????????????????????????? 1??? 15)
2. Demonstration of uses of renewable energy: water hammer, solar heater, biomass energy, wind pump, and manual energy (???????????????????????????????????????????? 2-9)
3. Participatory Evaluation ( ??????????????????????????? ?????????? 17)
4. Knowledge Management and outreach ( ???????????????? ????????????????????????? ?????????? 10,11,12,13, 14??? 16 )

Results and indicators:
1. Community members and youth groups gaining insight on alternative energy witnessed through capacity and eagerness to articulate and put what being learnt into practice
2. Reduced expense on gasoline consumption on agricultural practice (water pumping by water hammer) by THB: 36,000 litres /year among 60 families ? (36,000 litres x 2.2 kg/litres of emitted CO2)= 79.2 tons of CO2 avoided/year)
3. Explainable increased income from sales of products heated by solar heater among housewives? group with less production time
4. Avoided canned gas consumption (using biomass stove) by 500 cans/years among 60 families ? ( 500 can X 26 litres/can X 1.5 kg/litre of emitted CO2) = 19.65 tons of CO2/year
5. Reduced consumption of fire-woods by 540 kg/family/year ? (540 kg/year/family X 1.46 kg of CO2) = 0.78 ton/family/year
6. Formulated plan and budget for community energy under support of Tambol Administrative Organization and emerging community learning centre on energy

Project Communication:

Plans and Activities for Sustainability:
1. With the established community learning centre on renewable energy in a community school, the mainstream and replication of adoption of renewable energy would continue under the oversight of school staff. One forthcoming activity was to formulate a curriculum on renewable energy for schools in Tambol Hard khamphi , with plan to expand to cover Tambol Huay Phichai. Besides,a portion of budget to promote activities of the centre was expected to derive from Hard khamphi TAO.
2. As to the activities at household level, project members gained enough skill and experience on the renewable energy to transfer or share knowledge with others, such as on production of charcoal production kiln, water hammer, solar dryer, manual water pump (bicycle), biomass stove.
3. There was a collection of fund for making biomass stove whereby a project members using the stove was required to contribute 30 % of the cost of stove.

Experience , Lessons Learnt , Problems and Issues:
As alternative energy issue is fairly new to communities and grantee, launching activities at beginning was rather slow and faced with problems. But with willingness to learn new things of communities in conjunction with support from network of ex-SGP grantees, more data and information were obtained. There was also a change in activities where proposed wind water pumping was replaced by wind for electricity generation. The change was proven to be quite a success.