Presenting Innovations in the Impending Arrival of the Masterpiece on Effective Sustainable Development Strategies

Effective Sustainable Development Strategy



Francis Isugu



Anti-Climate Change Innovative Ideas


Introduction
Out of 40 winners of the Zayed Future Energy Prize, no winner has come from Nigeria from 2009 to 2015, whereas, USA has had the highest number of winners, 8 out of 40 others making 20% of the Zayed Future Energy Prize for recognized innovators.
USA is followed by India having 4 winners, the UK, Germany, Romania, Tanzania, China, Japan, and Australia have come third with 2 winners each; while Canada, Mexico, Brazil, France, Switzerland, UAE, Kenya, Malawi, Swaziland, Maldives, Tonga, Philippines, Bangladesh, and Denmark take the fourth position with 1 winner from each.
The above list of nations with recognized innovators winning the Zayed Future Energy Prize from 2009 to 2015 does not include Nigeria. And I am prompted with concern to ask, ‘why hasn’t Nigeria had a winner yet, if Tanzania, Kenya, Swaziland, Maldives, Tonga and Malawi have produced winners from Africa?’
Until 2016, when I started writing this discourse, spurred by the Agudabi Sustainability Week held in June 2016, 7 years have entered the annals of the history of the Zayed Future Energy Prize, and the 8 was just been marked as I was writing this work on the 8th of June 2016, yet Nigeria hasn’t come up with an innovator with the idea of finding solutions to meet the global challenges of climate change, energy security and the environment.
Another question is prompted with deep concern, ‘what are Nigerians doing about making a recognizable contribution to the need of finding solutions that will meet the challenges of the global economy threatened by climatic, energy and environmental crises of depletion, insecurity and degradation respectively?’ 
There are five prize categories for the 4 Million Dollar Annual Awards, while 22 Million Dollars were already awarded by 2015, this triggers another question: ‘isn’t such a prize an attractive incentive enough for individuals, organizations and schools in Nigeria to begin taking seriously the need of finding effective sustainable development strategies with their innovative ideas?’
I have undertaken to write this discourse for the purpose of speaking directly to Nigerians in a familiar way, believing we understand each other’s dialects, in order to be challenged as one people, to start conceiving innovative ideas for finding solutions that will meet the global challenges of climate change, energy security and the environment.
I started writing after watching and recoding the video of the opening ceremony of the 2016 Agudabi Sustainability Week. Seeing the prizes won by innovators from other nations, I felt Nigeria shouldn’t be left out, and if Nigerians are not aware, someone needs to inform them, so I chose to pass the information. Even I had no foreknowledge or precognition of what was happening known as the Zayed Future Energy Prize, despite the fact I was always online every day.
I got informed when I received an email prompt while browsing my email inbox after midnight of June 8, 2016. I was still awake by 1.00am when I saw this email flash on my mobile phone and I took a quick dive of click to see the sponsor of the email announcing the Zayed Future Energy Prize which caught my attention and got my prompt response.
After clicking on the email link, I was virtually teleported to the landing page of the Zayed Future Energy Prize (http://www.zayedfutureenergyprize.com/en/?utm_source=GSP&utm_medium=CPC&utm_term=Nigeria&utm_campaign=ZFEP) showing the page translated in English, and even the link above shows that the link was via a CPC and UTM campaign, hence was sponsored by the Zayed Future Energy Prize, and must of caused some thousands of dollars to reach me, in fact even my click was a cost on the sponsor (CPC means cost per click)
This shows that Nigeria was among the list of places the campaign organizers wanted to reach, as shown on the link; that was why I got the information. Otherwise, I would not have heard anything of it. Moreover, such a campaign was time-bound, and if I didn’t go online at the right time, I would also have missed the information.
This explains why I said Nigerians need to be informed if they are not aware and I write this discourse for information purpose. I only had the privilege of having data connection.
Data is quite expensive in Nigeria and less than a handful of Nigerians can actually afford the data to stay connected for email updates online on daily basis. My ability to use data is because I have been working as a researcher and content strategist, curating, developing and creating contents to earn a living.
Not all Nigerians have this complex data-oriented lifestyle, so I can understand with those who miss such sponsored information annually, and are unable to compete for the prize. But with this book completed and circulated in Nigeria, I expect Nigerians will respond, who become aware of the happening and will do something about bringing Nigeria on the winners list of the Zayed Future Energy Prize for subsequent years, by following the recommendations I have made here.
It was the information I found on the Zayed Future Energy Price web site that inspired me to write this informative discourse calling on Nigerians to do something about the cause the prize was all about. Another privilege I had that made me interested in the prize was my job experience in the energy sector, which not many Nigerians have the privilege.
My entry into the oil and gas industry in January 2016 exposed me to the energy crises of insecurity and insufficiency, which made me quit my job only after 4 months, but with the Zayed Future Energy Prize, the fire of my interest in the affairs of the energy sector is re-enkindled, and I set out to rouse a similar interest in all Nigerians through this discourse.
I know from observation that many Nigerians are not well informed about the magnitude of the global economic crises factorized by the challenges of climate change, energy security and environment.
So, I write this discourse to connect with the vision of the late Founding Father and President of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al Nahyan, who championed environmental stewardship, to call Nigerians to follow the momentum of the Zayed Future Energy Prize as a stimulus to innovations that will commit to finding solutions that will meet the challenges of climate change, energy security and the environment.
I have made certain useful recommendations here. Focusing on twelve issues, this discourse will drive innovations anew.          

A Case Study of One Winner at a Time from 2009-2015

            The Zayed Future Energy Prize website gives access to candidates interested in the award to apply for the SME, NGO or Global High School Category, or nominate a candidate for the Large Corporation, or Lifetime Achievement Award.
            This portends an opportunity for Nigerians to compete at the global level of combating climate change and other challenges to the global economy by bringing relevant innovations into SMEs, NGOs and Education at particularly High School level.
            How innovations can be brought into each of the three categories that Nigerians can compete for the Zayed Future Energy Prize is not to be conceived as the concern of a single writer as I am. Instead, it should be a collective concern for Nigerians operating in any of the categories of industry.
            These players should be concerned and thoughtful about bringing innovations into SMEs, for the needed solutions, also in their NGOs for same solutions and make High School a breeding ground for innovations to respond to the same challenges of global climate change, energy supply and environment.
            It is a matter of interest and willingness to do the right thing that will make Nigerians think of innovations when starting their SMEs, to solve real problems of relevance to the ailing global economy.
Same concern is expected of and should be expressed as well as applied by Nigerians founding NGOs or managing sole proprietary High Schools in Nigeria. In fact, introducing innovations that will solve human problems across all sectors, affected by the global economic crises, is the responsibility of every Nigerian.
Today, the world supports the vision of Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the late president and founding father of the United Arab Emirates 1918-2004 because he pursued legacy now evolved into  the Zayed Future Energy Prize, Nigerians need to be inspired by such an icon of sustainable development, to pursuing sustainable visions in all they do.
I have taken note of the ways the legacies of Zayed have been celebrated in lives of the winners of Zayed Future Energy Prize since 2009, and this shall inform the content of the entire section of this discourse that is meant to show Nigerians what to start thinking about and do in the light of relevant innovations that would be recognized globally.
The first winner to be highlighted among the winners and runners up of the 2009 Zayed Future Energy Prize is Mr. Dipal Barua. This first section shall discuss the contribution of Mr. Dipal in the light of making him a model for Nigerian innovators. Sections following this will hone other models.            
         Mr. Dipa Barua is the Founder & Chairman of Bright Energy Foundation. He’s been dedicated to finding and developing sustainable, market-based solutions to the social and economic problems faced by rural people, for over 35 years.
Being the Founding Managing Director of Grameen Shakti, a clean energy company, and developing an innovative installment-based payment plan for solar systems, as well as being able to lower the monthly cost of solar to the equivalent of Kerosene made Dipal Barua a winner of the 2009 Zayed Future Energy Prize.
            I will first ask, aren’t there people in Nigeria who can also do what Mr. Dipal did that will make the lives of Nigerians easier? As a business idea, there will be lots of gain in doing a similar thing in Nigeria, most investors in hospitality could diversify, Nigerians who have the means should think of helping the government to increase the supply of affordable power for energy sufficiency in the country.
            It is now on record that 2.2 million people in Bangladesh benefitted from Mr. Dipal’s work of facilitating the construction of 245,000 solar electricity systems in homes.
            Here I’ll like to state for note to Nigerians that solar energy system is a clean energy that can substitute gas turbines if harnessed in the country. The solar system is readily available and can be subsidized when locally harnessed for power generation in the country suffering from incessant power failure. Business men and women should invest in sustainable energy initiative to drive development.
Nigerian SMEs startup founders can do like Mr. Dipal, bearing the cost he bore in Bangladesh also in energy insufficient Nigeria. Dipal was a business man not a public officer, and yet he had concern for development and Nigerian businessmen and women aren’t bar from taking a similar initiative for sustainable development without waiting for the government to do all the work required, lest Nigeria will remain in darkness.
The Nigerian government is currently unable to guarantee an effective sustainable development strategy for the supply of electricity to the homes of 170 million Nigerians. I see no reason why the same government should remain the focal point of power generation and distribution in the country.
Private investors can do in Nigeria what Dipal did in Bangladesh. I mean individual Nigerian businessmen and women should learn from Dipal not to depend on the government for guaranteeing supply of electricity to both rural and urban people in Nigeria.
Rural people need electricity for development like the urban people, and this is a sector for SMEs to invest their resources in diversification to include the generation of alternative power through solar energy systems that will solve the perennial problem of clean energy scarcity in the country.
Mr. Dipal takes credit for the jobs created through Grameen Shakti for thousands of people including women in his network of after sales-repair and maintenance services. Who will take a similar credit of creating thousands of jobs in Nigeria, at a corporate or an individual investment level?
Nigeria is a country with a continuously growing population of unemployed graduates with unused certificates and unharnessed talents piling up into a stack of latent potentials amounting to wasted human capital and resources.
I encourage Nigerians to see the many job potentials of maintenance services and so should take interest in acquiring maintenance skills that will be of relevance to SMEs creating maintenance jobs through the technical services they can offer.
If Nigerian SME startups diversify to offer technical services like Mr. Dipal’s network of after sales-repair and maintenance, they will help to create new job opportunities to hire and train technicians for their network of repair and maintenance services in Nigeria.
In this way the stack of unemployed graduates will be cut into figments of hope, hence creating job for more and more Nigerians to start rendering technical services and accepting maintenance job offers to keep them busy and earning a source of livelihood for themselves and family.      

Replicating Mr. Dipal’s Accomplishments among all classes of Nigerians

An innovative biogas process was developed by Mr. Dipal to convert cow dung and poultry waste into cooking, lighting and electrical generation, and slurry for organic fertilizer. Any concerned Nigerian rightly placed in business can and should try doing in Nigeria what Mr. Dipal did, with a genuine concern for or interest in sustainable development.
Mr. Dipal is credited for constructing approximately 20,000 biogas plants since 2006. Such credit can be ascribed to a Nigerian with the same concern. This would imply that the process of doing what Mr. Dipal did wouldn’t become more challenging either because it is being done by a Nigerian or because it is in Nigeria.
It would be even easier and more necessary to attempt the same process in Nigeria if opportune Nigerians will only learn and follow the example of Mr. Dipal or doing what he did not do, but only possible when the right focus is firmly fixed upon sustainable development, rural empowerment, community benefit and human capacity building for the interest and wellbeing of all Nigerians.
Mr. Dipal’s development of improved cooking stove program promoted low-cost, cleaner stoves in rural areas; for the protection of women from indoor air pollution and reduction of deforestation. This shows how interested Mr. Dipal was in protecting the people and the human environment for sustainable development.
It is exactly the same interest I am asking Nigerians to have when creating equal opportunity programs with innovative ideas for sustainable development. I wish to see all Nigerians who read this work start making contributions to better the lives of Nigerians, protecting people and environment for sustainable development. The best place to look to make such contributions is the rural areas of Nigeria.
Nigerians use kerosene-fueled stoves and firewood mostly in the rural areas. Nigerians who want to make contributions to better protect people and environment should first consider the impact of indoor air population and trees felling associated with the use of kerosene stove and firewood by the entire population of rural people in Nigeria.
This lifestyle can be changed when alternatives are considered and innovative Nigerians start doing something to protect the trees lost to the food cooking process in the rural areas where firewood is used on daily basis. The alternative can look like what Mr. Dipal did with cleaner and low-cost stoves in the rural areas.
I call Nigerian businessmen and women to see a new business opportunity in these alternatives that can be provided by also constructing improved stoves, and empowering the local people in the process of getting them involved in production of these alternatives. This will serve as a means to job creation for the rural people who will be happy to be involved, especially women.
Mr. Dipal was able to construct over 1,000,000 improved stoves since 2007 when the improved cooking stove program which he developed was enacted. His success was because he got women in the rural areas and less privileged people involved in achieving the purpose of the program. I think he has set the right example for Nigerians who will start thinking of doing something innovative.
I will emphasize clearly that Mr. Dipal has become a very successful achiever even without being a public officer. He wasn’t a governor, minister, commissioner, lawmaker, counselor or community chief, yet he felt responsible for developing his society.
This is equally how I call Nigerians to start feeling. Nigerians should feel responsible for the development of Nigeria through whatever business they are succeeding with. They shouldn’t think of their benefits alone, but think of the community benefits of all they do as successful Nigerians.
What is needed the most is a concern for others, for the environment, for people, for the community, for the society and for the state of the nation. Sustainable development should be the concern of all Nigerians as it was for Mr. Dipal.
Importation was not on the agenda of Mr. Dipal, and shouldn’t be on the agenda of Nigerians who are concerned about sustainable development. Importation does not enhance sustainable development.
If Mr. Dipal’s program could succeed solely by depending on local talent, Nigeria can develop sustainably by harnessing the potentials of local contents. Mr. Dipal’s success proves the veracity of the point. He did not import anything.
Believing that everything we need must be imported is an error that I stand to correct in this discourse as I did in my previous discourse titled “Effective Anti-Corruption Strategy” available on Amazon online store. Mr. Dipal’s use of local talent should challenge us to think differently about how we source the things we use in Nigeria. Local content should feature majorly in our stores.
We can make the things we use and need in Nigeria. This should be our new focus that will challenge us to think innovatively for sustainable development. Mr. Dipal did not depend on imported products for his program to succeed. Whatever he needed; he made sure it was constructed by his team, and whoever he needed; he made sure to train first. We can construct local technology in Nigeria.
Nigeria should end the era of importation of talents and technology. Local technologies should be developed by training and equipping local talents to first understand the challenge, the program designed and the needed skills to be acquired by everyone called to get involved in innovations for sustainable development.
When Mr. Dipal developed his program, he had only one thing in mind, to design, equip, train, construct and create from local sources. Where talent was lacking his program sought to train new talents. Where the educated was scarce he resorted to enlightening the uneducated through his program. Where the number of able and strong men was insufficient or unwilling, he co-opted women into his program and made good use of their disposition to learn, their will to work and their ability to grab new skills.
I see no reason why women should not be given roles to play in Nigeria, if they are disposed to learn, willing to work and able to acquire new skills. They are part of the population and should be allowed to play roles that will enhance sustainable development. Nigerian women should acquire technical skills also.
Every adult Nigerian is equal to the task of developing local technologies, so if the educated are scarce, the uneducated should be equipped and empowered. Importations should be buried with the past, and the present should witness capacity building for future inventions. Sustainable development requires building local capacity.
The people in rural areas who are able to acquire new skills should be empowered to acquire the needed skills for developing Nigeria’s local technology with innovative ideas. Not only should men be considered readily available, women should be included.
Women were actively promoted by Mr. Dipal in renewable energy technologies. This should challenge Nigerian women to pick interest in technology, and if men are not doing enough about developing local technologies in Nigeria, women who use most of the imported domestic technologies should come out with a program of empowerment to develop domestic technologies in order to stop technology importations in Nigeria.
Women in Nigeria should see themselves as capable of mounting the strong horse of innovative ideas and of competing innovatively to win the prize of sustainable development for Nigeria, by becoming developers and inventors of domestic technologies, for they understand the use of them better. They should pioneer technologies like cleaner and improved stoves that are more sustainable than those imported and used for their everyday domestic needs, among other technologies.
I will request at once that industry should not be limited to only certificate holders, graduates or educated people, even handicaps if trained can become industrious. Even the uneducated if shown what to do can perfect crafts, and even women if included in technology development programs can become powerful inventors. I insist on equal opportunities to be created for all Nigerians, irrespective of gender, status and privilege.
Mr. Dipal designed and developed village-based Green Technology Centers – an innovative model to create women entrepreneurs in green energy. Same initiative should be taken in Nigeria for women to be empowered in villages to become entrepreneurs to compete with those in cities. Rural-urban competitions should thrive favorably in Nigeria, based on entrepreneurial innovative ideas.
Technology Development Initiatives don’t have to be taken by foreigners or reserved for city-dwellers alone. It is, in fact, an effective sustainable development strategy to take and support local technology development initiatives; give equal opportunities for participation of rural and urban people competitively.
Technology is not the prerogative of any culture, people or nation. It is an equal capacity of the mind to take the initiative of owning innovative ideas for sustainable development. It is for men & women alike, who can acquire tech skills.
I call Nigerians to begin taking initiatives for the development of local technologies based on innovative ideas about sustainable development. This is my clarion call to Nigerians to become innovators of solutions for economic challenges.
Rural areas should be viewed as the place were willing helping hands can be sourced and new local technology development programs can be based. More so, no one should be left out, all people should be included in sustainable development programmes for a more prosperous integrated community.
All able Nigerian men and women should work together for the cause of developing initiatives to combat menace of climate change, energy security and the environment; and commit to innovative ideas for global sustainable development.
3000 young women received training in approximately 50 centers set up by Mr. Dipal in the rural areas. Many of the women Mr. Dipal trained were from disadvantaged families, yet they were trained to assemble, promote and repair solar systems. Let’s do likewise in Nigeria. Let all Nigerians be included; women, rural and handicapped people too. Together, Nigeria will be poised for economic competitiveness with innovative ideas for sustainable development to triumph.

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High quality information is guaranteed in this discourse on the Effective Sustainable Development Strategy. While writing the contents of this discourse I couldn’t avoid putting in magnanimous tons of academic research and analytic commitment, evident in the ‘ZFEP’ folder I created in the ‘Notes’ folder of the ‘document’ library of my PC on 10th June, 2016.
Highly informative text contents worth 168 MB, from different online local and foreign resources of white papers, were accessed and perused to obtain the tips needed to make my recommendations accurate, coherent and precise.
In fact, the largest single volume information content I perused, worth 29.7 MB content size, was the Conference Proceeding of the International Conference on Renewable Energy of 2012, held in Katsina, and it totaled 972 pages.
Over 100,568 pages of contents have gone into making the information in this discourse exactly what it is – a high quality information content, not a curated content but a master piece of informative and educative ideas on ‘Effective Sustainable Development Strategy’ for Nigeria.
I reviewed the entire 75 downloadable contents provided by the Energy Commission of Nigeria in fifteen linked web pages featuring 5 downloadable contents each, as part of my research, along with the entire contents available on the Zayed Future Energy Prize website which inspired and informed the stories of innovators I analyzed in this discourse.
From the third article, after the introduction, to the last article of this discourse, I have judiciously reflected the top rated quality research status of this discourse, putting in quality time of research work, to create an appeal for researchers, academics and scholars at all level of education in Nigeria.
Hence, this discourse is highly valued for knowledge transfer and is highly recommended for all Nigerians who are enthusiastic about local and global sustainable development. The Effective Sustainable Development Strategy is a real gem.

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