Research for ToR - Service Design and support livelihood entrepreneurs and farmers Program Designing in Karnataka

About SELCO Foundation:  

SELCO Foundation’s mission is to create a platform of solutions that uses sustainable energy as a catalyst  to bridge environmental sustainability and poverty alleviation. With holistic development as the primary  focus, the organization strives to create equitable societies, where services are accessed by all communities.  The interventions of SELCO lead to a sustainable delivery model of essential services like livelihoods,  education, and health till the last mile. (Read more about SELCO here: http://www.selcofoundation.org/) 

Summary of the project:  

SELCO Foundation's Solutions Portal is a transformative platform designed to address demand  driven, end – user centric solutions by leveraging sustainable energy. This portal is part of  SELCO Foundation's broader mission to catalyze holistic, scalable, and replicable solutions  tailored to local contexts. The online platform currently houses renewable energy based  productive use appliances for linking stakeholders who are seeking sustainable and forward looking solutions across Agriculture & Allied, Processing, Manufacturing and Production, Retail  and Services, Textiles, and Crafts livelihood activities as well as business development tools and  resources. 

Aim and Objectives 

Aim: To develop a Solutions Portal 2.0, a need-based platform that aims to enable users to adopt  clean and distributed energy-driven solutions organically at scale, enhancing productivity and  sustainability. 

Objective: The platform is being developed to enable users to adopt clean and distributed energy driven solutions organically and at scale. To undertake research for developing a comprehensive  framework for individual profiling of entrepreneurs and inputs for the platform. This will assist in  designing platform features that inform product design and improve the user interface, ensuring a  user-centric design approach.  

Scope of Work 

Organizations and individuals are requested to share their proposals outlining methodology and  approach for conducting design research for developing solution portal as a platform. 

The timeline for the following deliverables will be 6 weeks (about 1 and a half months) and the  focus geography will be Karnataka.  

a. Conduct primary research with various consumer segments including end users'  communities, NGOs, social enterprises, local govt. etc.  

b. Comprehensive mapping of different user journeys based on the research who may  access the platform and outlining problem statement of end users to create a scalable  program for Decentralized Renewable Energy (DRE) adoption.  

c. Recommendations of services + prototype design outline catering to different user journeys and different touchpoints with other stakeholders and suggestive work-plan to  build the platform