Employment in times of pandemic opportunities

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It is very encouraging to witness how electricity changes people's lives when they are able to have this essential service for the first time. It is undeniable that access to electrical energy causes a profound change in populations that never had it . This change can have a double impact on rural electrification projects . On the one hand, the benefits of access to electrical service are evident in the improvement of health, education and new opportunities for productive activities. But this satisfaction can be even greater when the projects executed are also the result of the efforts of the beneficiary residents themselves through their work. In Bolivia, when we inspect electrical network extension projects or when we participate in the deliveries.

Of works of isolated systems in towns far from large urban centers - eight or 10 hours by vehicle on unpaved and difficult to access roads - the Bolivians welcome us With a lot of entusiasm. Mothers, grandparents C Level Executive List brothers and sisters come up to us and tell us with pride: my son works with you, my dad helps plant those poles, my sister is the truck driver. Each story proudly conveys the enormous satisfaction of having contributed to the well-being of the population with the contribution of their work. Electrification projects change people's lives , but they also generate employment, and we have analyzed and measured this during the execution of the works.



Local employment in rural areas Works to expand access to electricity through network extension or solutions with isolated systems not connected to the networks have a characteristic that distinguishes them from other traditional projects in the world of electrical energy. These projects demand local labor in very remote places where employment is not necessarily abundant. In this sense, Bolivia has not been the exception. Under the Rural Electrification Program II financed by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), studies have been carried out to estimate employment generation in projects to extend high, medium and low voltage electrical networks in rural areas of the country.