KEY FACTS 8 mini-grid sites ranging from 90kW to 100kW in West Africa, currently powering over 3,300 households and businesses Secured over $2m dollars in funding from GIZ to deploy two project site to power over 6000 interconnected grid/mini-grid customers Secured MOU agreement with three major electricity distribution companies to develop over 100MW project pipeline…
KEY FACTS Has provided seven loans to six investees for a total committed amount of US$15m Has invested in clean cooking (stoves, home biogas) and clean drinking water (in schools), reaching a total of approximately 3.1m low-income consumers With BIX Capital support, the SMEs were able to distribute >120,000 products. BIX is an investment vehicle…
The latest Uganda Energy Off-grid Market Accelerator (UOMA) report focuses on innovative models that can leverage digital financial services to accelerate access to energy. Increased mobile phone technology and digital services have created an array of new business models and opportunities for off-grid energy and this report looks at how digital financial services haves helped…
Key Facts Has built a platform known as OmniBranches that delivers financial and non financial services to the underserved market OmniBranches leverages a widespread network of about 20,000 agents to deliver services throughout Nigeria Is partnering with NoMap (the Nigeria Off-grid Market Acceleration Programme) to address the payment collection difficulties faced by Solar Home Systems companies Swifta…
KEY FACTS Servicing more than 30,000 households and empowering 23 waste picking entrepreneurs Created over 250 predictable livelihoods for wastepickers Diverting over 1000 tonnes of waste per month away from landfills Setting up a 30 tonne per day organic waste to compressed bio gas facility Hasiru Dala Innovations is a social enterprise that is focused…
Key Facts Promotes local assembly of solar lighting products Coordinates sector initiatives for higher impact Supports the organisation of networking events and follows-up on the implementation of agreed joint action points to solve the identified bottlenecks for accelerating energy access in Ethiopia Is innovating and piloting a remit-to-pay platform to tap into the capabilities of…
HIGHLIGHTS Wood energy makes up over 80% of African primary energy needs Trees and forests provide one of the most cost effective ‘climate solutions’ The Nature Conservancy (TNC) is one of the world’s leading conservation organisations working to conserve the lands and waters on which all life depends in over 70 countries around the world.…
KEY FACTS Part of the Cardano Development family of companies, Frontier Finance Solutions is creating a Development Impact Bond (DIB) to finance companies bringing better cooking solutions to market in sub-Saharan Africa. The DIB combines several impact measures using the Gold Standard multi-SDG impact methodology, including: Reduced CO2 emissions Improved life expectancy Time saved by…
S4S Technologies is an Indian food dehydration and preservation company with a solar-powered farm-based supply chain. It installs patented solar powered dehydrators at farm level to convert fruit and veg into value added dehydrated products. S4S then buys back these produce from women farmers and sells them in B2B and B2C markets to general assured…
The Uganda Off-Grid Energy Market Accelerator (UOMA) is a neutral intermediary focused on accelerating the growth of off-grid energy access in Uganda to enable universal energy access. SF co-created UOMA in 2017 in partnership with USAID, Power Africa and the UK Government, to be implemented by Open Capital Advisors, a management consultancy headquartered in Nairobi,…