Energy
Portable solar systems and charging points move with households.
Char resilience
Resilience that moves with the river.
EcoChar is a modular field system for riverine char communities: portable solar, preparedness, women-led services, health access, adaptive agriculture and livelihood training.
OngoingCurrent status
500Solar households
5 yrsRoadmap horizon
Year 1 package
The model starts with portable assets and verified outputs.
These are indicative Year 1 targets until field delivery records confirm the base.
Current status
Ongoing
Current status for the field package.
Solar households
500
Facilities
10
Trainees
50
Roadmap
5 yrs
Resilience layers
One platform, three kinds of protection.
The design responds to erosion, flooding and repeated rebuilding by keeping assets and services mobile.
Services
Community anchors support early warning, digital access, health linkage and coordination.
Income
Training and starter assets support sandbar cropping, pod gardening and practical livelihoods.
Preparedness
Drills, volunteer teams and asset safeguards reduce the cost of each shock.
What changes
Static infrastructure is the wrong promise for moving land.
The offer is a field-ready model built from connected interventions.
What char households face
- 01Land shifts, erodes and reforms across seasons.
- 02Homes, assets and service points are repeatedly rebuilt.
- 03Women carry service, care and livelihood pressure during disruption.
- 04Fixed systems become vulnerable when the settlement moves.
What EcoChar changes
- 01Portable solar and community anchors that can relocate.
- 02Preparedness routines before flood and erosion peaks.
- 03Women-led services that connect energy, health and income.
- 04Records that show outputs, assets and service continuity.
Output dashboard
Mobility is the design principle.
EcoChar is judged by whether assets can be moved, records can be verified, and households can keep services during seasonal disruption.
Service logic
The model works when the package can move.
This simple comparison is the partner story: the asset is useful only if the service layer survives disruption.
Fixed delivery
- Assets are stranded when households relocate.
- Service records break across seasonal movement.
- Response depends on ad hoc field visits.
Mobile platform
- Portable assets follow the household.
- Community anchors keep service continuity recorded.
- Preparedness, energy and livelihoods share one record.
Validation gates
Scale only after the mobility model holds in the field.
EcoChar is judged by continuity and field records.
Asset movement
Solar and service assets can move while records stay intact.
Preparedness
Households understand warning, evacuation and asset protection routines.
Women-led services
Service roles, payment flows and usage records are documented.
Health access
Remote consultation and referral use can be tracked by site.
Income layer
Training leads to income activity.
Replication
Only modules with field records move into the next char cluster.
Partner ask
Fund a package that can move with the community.
The partner mix needs climate adaptation funding, off-grid energy, health access, livelihood training and local implementation teams.
Keep the model modular and portable.
Track service continuity through seasonal disruption.
Scale only the modules that survive field movement.