The off-grid household energy market has grown dramatically in recent decades, yet with current levels of financing and new connections, SDG7 – access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all – will be missed by more than 100m households in sub-Saharan Africa alone.

SF is focused on helping its portfolio to improve efficiency of operations in order to reach low-income consumers, coordinating sector actors to address key challenges and supporting new models working with local entrepreneurs in ‘frontier markets’, where millions of low-income consumers remain largely unreached.

• 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