The Women in African Power Network connects CEOs and African Ministers of Energy to young women studying electrical engineering and women selling solar lanterns in remote villages, with the goal of creating a regional platform for networking, information exchange, professional mentorship, and exposure to new business
Since 2014, Power Africa is making a difference across all sectors, from health and education, to gender and agriculture. As of July 31, 2019, 56 of Power Africa’s 124 financially closed projects are up and running and turning more Lights On by producing 3,486 MW of new electricity that transforms businesses, economies, and livelihoods. More than 68 million people in sub-Saharan Africa now have first-time access to electricity thanks to the 14.8 million new home and business connections facilitated by Power Africa support.
Lighting Africa is part of the World Bank Group’s contribution to Sustainable Energy for All (SEforAll). It is implemented in partnership with the Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP), the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and the governments of Australia, Austria, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America.
The design, structuring, and implementation of an energy inclusion facility. The Facility will be focused on providing senior and mezzanine debt financing to small scale projects (on-grid, mini-grid and off-grid) with total costs less than USD 30 million and to distributed energy companies and other entities focused on off-grid energy solutions. The Facility will seek, through a stream-lined platform, to alleviate the barrier of high transaction costs faced by small scale projects and increase the flow of capital to the energy sector.
The EU has launched a Technical Assistance Facility (TAF), to assist partner countries in fine tuning their energy policies and regulatory frameworks to allow for increased investments in the energy sector. It supports countries which are committed to reaching the Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL) objectives, in particular those who selected energy not only as one of the priority areas of their national policy agenda, but also chose energy as a focal sector in their bilateral cooperation with the EU for the period; 2014-2020.
The EUEI PDF is a multi-donor facility that contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, in particular on energy. As a flexible instrument of the European Union, EUEI PDF promotes sustainable energy for equitable development in Africa, Latin America and Asia.
Therefore, the EUEI PDF:
The national improved cookstove program is designed to contribute to the implementation of the government of Ethiopia's improved cookstoves distribution plan through building a sustainable and vibrant market for improved cook stoves and building institutional capacity at all levels
The Energy Utility Partnership Program (EUPP) is a cooperative initiative between the United States Energy Association and the United States Agency for International Development under the Bureau for Economic Growth, Education, and Environment (E3). EUPP works around the world to promote energy security, clean energy access, and capacity building to achieve self-reliance.
The EUPP team strengthens the capacity of utility executives and employees in USAID-assisted countries to:
The development objective of the Energy Service Improvement Project for Benin is to improve power utility operational performance; expand electricity access in targeted areas; and promote community-based management of forest resources. The project comprises of four components. The first component, improvement of SBEE’s commercial performance will help SBEE reduce commercial losses and adopt a customer-oriented perspective. The second component, distribution
Energy Security & Resource Efficiency in Somaliland Programme (ESRES) has the objective to promote green growth and poverty reduction in Somaliland through increasing access to more affordable and reliable renewable energy services. This choice for renewable energies is based on the premise that green infrastructure investments in fragile states have potentially positive effects on economic development and poverty reduction while at the same time reducing the country’s vulnerability to the negative effects of climate change.