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Starting from October 2021, The BeCA partnership aims to scale up sustainable electricity generation at large and medium-sized pig farms for on-site conversion of the generated biogas into electricity through state-of-the-art equipment . For that purpose, the BeCA partnership will use the ESCO model for the sector in wherein:
ÔÄ≠ E-GREEN installs a biogas-electricity generation system to produce electricity for on-farm use.
ÔÄ≠ Nexus develops and registers the carbon revenue component.
ÔÄ≠ SNV assists E-GREEN with promotion and marketing, pre-feasibility assessments, carbon monitoring and reporting, gender and social inclusion.
ÔÄ≠ The farmer will pay a market-competitive tariff (below EVN‚ normal and peak tariffs). The agreement will extend to the transfer of potential environmental safeguards.
ÔÄ≠ The farm owner and E-GREEN then enter into a 3-year extendable contract wherein E-GREEN commits to deliver electricity at agreed timing and quantity and carbon rights will belong to E-GREEN.
Over the contract period, E-GREEN retains full ownership of the equipment. At the end of the contract period, the farmers will have the choice to extend the (re-negotiated) contract or take over the entire system to operate it themselves (possibly with a maintenance contract).
The BeCA partnership will reach a total of 300 farms/systems over 3 years, in particular, 60 systems in the first year, an additional 100 systems in the second year, and 140 additional systems in the third year

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Promoting gender-responsive biogas generation enterprises will help to change current social norms and encourage women to participate more in business and leadership in the livestock sector. SNV will bring in its expertise in creating gender-responsive businesses and leadership to support E-GREEN to reduce barriers and increase opportunities for women in the biogas gen-set ESCO business model. 
BeCA will provide support to female farm owners, female workers at the farm, female employees and female last-year students by identifying needs and developing gender-sensitive strategies to integrate gender interventions in the project activities in order to improve the enabling environment and create opportunities for women to be part of the initiative in different aspects and different positions.

Women in the workplace: The Project will continue the good policies of both partners E-GREEN and SNV in supporting female staff with flexible work, maternity leave, career development opportunities and a commitment to non-discrimination and prevention of sexual harassment. Considering the gender barriers in the energy sector where there are currently a limited number of female technicians, BeCA will encourage more female students from different backgrounds such as from the field of environmental impact assessment, economics, market surveys, social impact assessments, etc., who need to conduct the final thesis to pass graduation at their university to join the project through internships and contribute to project implementation. The Project will support E-GREEN in designing the template for job advertisements with women friendly working environment as benefits which will encourage women to apply and join the organization in the role of administration, finance, and sale & marketing. 
Economic empowerment for women: To help female workers at the farms in generating additional incomes, BeCA will provide support to women participating in two different values chains as biogas generator operators and organic fertilizer sellers. 
Women as BeCA‚ customers: In Vietnam, according to the 2015 Vietnam Civil Code and the 2013 Land Law, both husband and wife have equal ownership and rights with the common properties such as houses, land, and farms. However, the role of women in decision making, especially in investment decision, is always lower than that of men or even invisible.
To raise the women voice in family business, BeCA will support women on having same roles as her husband on making investment on biogas generation equipment through providing access to the capital and the right on access to information and knowledge. Specifically, E-GREEN will sign the service provider contract with both husband and wife, therefore will recognize the role of women in farm ownership and management and increase women‚ economic empowerment. 
Employment and capacity building: The proposed initiative will create opportunities for students through internship opportunities and job training after graduation so that youth will be able to get on well with the school-to-work transition. Besides, with each of the installed biogas electricity generation system, E-GREEN will provide training and pay the operational labour cost for local people, in particularly women and young men, to operate the system

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