1 » Training and capacity building
- Training for farmers and co-operatives
- Training for community mobilisers
- Training for cold-chain engineers
- Training for policymakers and financial institutes
- Development of the SPOKEs network and CoE programme in India
- Cold-chains through the GESI lens
- Undergraduate and postgraduate degrees
2 » Finance and Business Models
- Financeable Business Models and deployment approaches
- Inclusive Financing Mechanisms, including blended finance solutions
- Return on Investment Model (social benefits) to underpin Governments’ investments
3 » System Design and Modelling
- Peer-reviewed data collection tools
- Horizon scanning
- Virtual modelling
- Telemetrics and data collection
- Next-generation’ vaccine cold-chain infrastructure and systems
- Energy Transition and Access (including electrification of transport strategies)
- Agrifood system testing from soil to fork (SMART FARM plus Cold-chain campus)
4 » Technologies – testing and demonstration
- Climate resilience
- Build and demonstrate off-grid Community Cooling Hubs
- Testing new technologies
- On-farm pre-cooling
- Off-grid, low GWP, efficient solutions through the cold-chain
- Off-grid vaccine cold--chain incl. ultra-cold
- Development of protocols for testing food safety and vaccine efficacy and energy efficiency
- Support to existing technologies including transition to efficient, low GWP alternatives.
- Demonstrating new technologies (including through the SPOKEs and Try Before You Buy (TBYB)
- In-country assembly (Phase 2) to complement training activities and build capacity, improving accessibility and availability of alternative technologies.
- Lifecycle management
- Demonstration and sales channels for innovators
5 » Future-proofed sustainable vaccine cold-chains
- In addition to integration across the above pillars, specific work for Vaccines includes:
- mitigate need for cold-chain (vehicles and Point of Care storage) by combining Point of Care Lateral Flow Test with Aerial Unmanned Vehicle (UAV i.e Drone) delivery (including for refugee camps)
- develop vaccine cold-chain network analysis tools for efficiency re-design needed for the challenges of mRNA vaccines and climate change,
- the use of digital twins for stress testing threats and solutions
6 » Policy/Thought Leadership
- Promotion and adoption of a holistic, systems-based approach
- Risk radar and cold-chain security index
- Public, private community partnership financing
- Cooling as critical infrastructure
- Expansion of the Global Vision through a reference approach
- New strategies for energy savings and energy efficiency e.g. increasing set point for frozen food by three degrees
- GESI - The programme is underpinned by a cross-cutting GESI workstream to include a comprehensive framework, tools, training,monitoring and evaluation.
