Strategic Partnerships - Shell Foundation

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Strategic Partners

We form partnerships with public & private actors, sharing resources to tackle some of the world’s pressing issues. These partnerships encourage the incubation of new ideas, demonstrate the viability of market-based solutions and support widespread replication and greater collective impact.

Partnerships

Several ongoing partnerships with the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), USAID and Power Africa are driving access to energy and transport solutions around the world.

Transforming Inclusive Energy Markets (TIME)

Five year, £60m partnership launched in 2016
Create and scales pioneering energy enterprises and enablers that serve low-income consumers and small businesses in Africa
Part of FCDO’s wider Transforming Energy Access programme

Visit the FCDO website

Household Solar Funders Group (HSFG)

Based on an earlier, smaller, initiative SF is currently hosting the Household Solar Funders Group (HSFG)
The HSFG is a group of funders (donors & investors) with an interest in expanding the off-grid solar energy market at household level in Sub-Saharan Africa
The ultimate objective of the HSFG is to accelerate access to energy (SDG7), through funder collaboration on activities which address market barriers and benefit from a collective approach

Insights

As part of our strategic partnerships we are committed to sharing learnings from our portfolio to to encourage faster progress in the social investment sector.