Fee for service from commissioning
Milling, cold storage, water, charging and logistics are paid services on platform-owned equipment. The model does not depend on selling kilowatt-hours — electricity is an input, not the product.
Funding the platform
Funding the platform.
How the hubs and the continental base are financed: fee-for-service revenue from commissioning, grant and concessional capital directed at measured proof, and commercial capital once performance is verified — attached to programs already financed in each country, never to host-state budgets.
Credit to the hub's users — producers, cooperatives and women-led enterprises — is set out under Credit at the hub.
How the platform is financed.
Overhead diffused, not duplicated
Engineering, importation, warranties, legal, accounting and government interface sit at continental and country level; each hub adds services at low marginal cost.
Attach, do not invent
Funding is sought jointly with sector partners and from programs already established and financed in the host country — national programs, donor and multilateral windows, climate finance. Never from host-state budgets.
Prove, de-risk, then raise commercially
Grant and concessional capital is directed at the first cluster to produce measured proof: utilization, collections, maintenance performance and enterprise outcomes, published against the indicator set. Each verified cohort reprices the next for private capital.
From fee-for-service to contracted revenue
Generation scaled beyond the hub's own needs and sold to commercial and industrial offtakers under long-term power purchase agreements is the most stable revenue in the portfolio — the bridge that makes verified cohorts financeable on commercial terms.
Funding windows the hubs attach to.
Donor and concessional programs, approached with the network member and the government — never a call on the national budget.
| Window | Route and themes |
|---|---|
| National energy compacts · Mission 300Government-led, private delivery | The World Bank and African Development Bank compact framework and national access programs. A program enters by being named in the compact implementation plan or its next financing phase — which needs a private operator on the other side. Themes: renewable energy, last mile, connections, clean cooking. |
| Development banks and their facilitiesSovereign or private window | Project preparation, rural electrification, youth and women's agro-entrepreneurship, regional development banks for concessional and local-currency finance, guarantees and political-risk cover wrapping commercial tranches. |
| Climate and energy-access fundsAccredited entity or direct | Green Climate Fund, Global Environment Facility and Adaptation Fund, plus results-based and catalytic energy-access windows. Access usually runs through an accredited entity or the national designated authority, so the member and the ministry apply with the platform rather than behind it. |
| Food security, agriculture and nutritionConsortium with the mandated body | The Global Agriculture and Food Security Program, the International Fund for Agricultural Development, the Food and Agriculture Organization, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization and European Union food-systems programs. The hub is infrastructure inside someone else's mandate, which is why the sector partner co-applies. |
| People: youth, women, skills, health, inclusionPhilanthropy and United Nations agencies | Youth and women's employment foundations, United Nations Development Programme country programs, financial-inclusion and clean-cooking facilities, and education and health programs that can deliver through hub counters and tele-services. |
The landscape
The funding landscape, by window.
The programs, funds and facilities a country program can attach to — by type, stage, region and sector. A reference, not a claim: eligibility and the route in are established per country during the launch phase.
| Program or institution | Instrument | Stage | Region | Sector | What it does | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mission 300 (World Bank Group and African Development Bank), incl. the National Energy CompactsWorld Bank Group and African Development Bank Group, with the Rockefeller Foundation, GEAPP and SEforALL as partners | Public program | Any stage | Continental | Energy access · Clean cooking · Productive use | Continental drive to connect 300 million people by 2030; national compacts set access, mini-grid and clean-cooking targets that frame public and DFI energy financing.Launched Jan 2025 at the Dar es Salaam summit; compacts published for DRC and Nigeria (Jan 2025), Burundi and Cameroon (Sep 2025) and Uganda (Jun 2026) | Active |
| International Development Association (IDA), incl. the IDA Private Sector Window (PSW)World Bank Group | Concessional debt | Scale | Global | Energy access · Agriculture · Infrastructure | Concessional credits and grants to the poorest countries finance national electrification and agriculture projects; the PSW de-risks IFC and MIGA deals in IDA countries.IDA21 replenishment of about US$100 billion agreed Dec 2024 for FY2026-2028 | Active |
| International Finance Corporation (IFC)World Bank Group | Commercial debt | Scale | Global | Energy access · SME finance · Agriculture | Private-sector arm of the World Bank Group; lends, takes equity and structures blended finance for distributed energy companies, agribusiness and financial intermediaries.Founding shareholder of Zafiri at its Jun 2026 commercial launch; investor in Acumen H2R Amplify (final close Jan 2026) | Active |
| Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA)World Bank Group | Guarantee or insurance | Construction | Global | Infrastructure · Energy access | Political-risk insurance and credit-enhancement guarantees for private investors and lenders; has covered mini-grid and hydropower investments in DRC and Cameroon.World Bank Group guarantee platform consolidated under MIGA in Jul 2024 | Active |
| Accelerating Sustainable and Clean Energy Access Transformation (ASCENT) ProgramWorld Bank (IDA) multiphase program for Eastern and Southern Africa | Concessional debt | Scale | East Africa | Energy access · Mini-grids · Clean cooking | US$5 billion multiphase World Bank envelope for grid, distributed renewable and clean-cooking access in 20-plus Eastern and Southern African countries, delivered through national operations.FY2024-2030 envelope; 2024 factsheet lists Burundi, DRC and Uganda in the next wave; Cameroon and Nigeria are outside the program | Active |
| Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP), incl. the Global Facility on Mini Grids (GFMG)World Bank multi-donor trust fund | Technical assistance | Preparation | Global | Energy access · Mini-grids · Productive use | Finances analytics, project design and mini-grid market building behind IDA energy operations, including the Mini Grids for Half a Billion People handbook.GFMG program profile and FY2025 clean-cooking results published on the ESMAP site | Active |
| Clean Cooking Fund (CCF, ESMAP)World Bank / ESMAP, with donor contributions | Results-based financing | Scale | Global | Clean cooking | Results-based co-financing for clean-cooking components of IDA projects; pays companies for verified stove sales, as in Uganda and the DRC.US$500 million in commitments since 2019; DRC results-based window under the FOREST project launched Feb 2026 | Active |
| ZafiriIFC, African Development Bank (incl. SEFA), Rockefeller Foundation, TDB Group, Nordic Development Fund, MacArthur Foundation and FirstRand; managed by Inspired Evolution | Equity | Scale | Continental | Energy access · Mini-grids · Productive use | Patient-equity vehicle for distributed renewable energy companies and projects, with at least half its capital earmarked for mini-grids, solar home systems and clean cooking.Commercial launch 17 Jun 2026 with US$176 million; final close of US$300 million targeted within 12 months | Active |
| Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa (SEFA)African Development Bank multi-donor special fund | Blended facility | Preparation | Continental | Mini-grids · Productive use · Energy access | Grants, project-preparation money and concessional capital to unlock private renewable energy, including mini-grid and agriculture-linked pilots.Mar 2026: US$5.65 million to a P-REC aggregation facility covering 14 fragile states incl. Burundi, DRC, Nigeria and Uganda | Active |
| Leveraging Energy Access Finance Framework (LEAF)African Development Bank with Green Climate Fund co-financing | Guarantee or insurance | Scale | Continental | Energy access · SME finance · Climate | Credit-enhancement and local-currency debt program for distributed renewable energy companies, US$960 million overall, in six countries including Nigeria.GCF FP168 approved Jul 2021; under implementation to 2033 in Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Nigeria and Tunisia | Active |
| Affirmative Finance Action for Women in Africa (AFAWA), the Gender Equality Trust Fund (GETF) and the African Guarantee Fund (AGF)African Development Bank; AGF is a pan-African guarantee institution backed by AfDB, Denmark, Spain and Nordic partners | Guarantee or insurance | Scale | Continental | Women-led enterprise · SME finance | Guarantee-for-Growth scheme and trust fund that lower the risk of bank lending to women-led SMEs; AGF also guarantees SME and green-energy loan portfolios.AFAWA finance-series events with AGF continued through 2025; AFAWA-AGF line with Bank of Industry for Nigerian SMEs | Active |
| Special Agro-Industrial Processing Zones (SAPZ) and Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT)African Development Bank (Feed Africa strategy), with IsDB, IFAD and other co-financiers | Concessional debt | Construction | Continental | Agriculture · Infrastructure · Productive use | SAPZ finances agro-industrial hubs with power and processing infrastructure; TAAT disseminates proven agricultural technologies. Nigeria hosts the largest SAPZ program.Nigeria SAPZ Phase II first tranche of US$200 million approved 1 Dec 2025 for 10 states | Active |
| Africa50 and the Alliance for Green Infrastructure in Africa (AGIA)Africa50 (AfDB-sponsored infrastructure investor) with the African Union Commission and AfDB | Blended facility | Preparation | Continental | Infrastructure · Climate · Energy access | Project-development capital for green infrastructure, aiming to raise US$500 million for preparation and catalyze US$10 billion of private investment.AGIA project development fund secured a further US$50 million from Italian and French development finance in Aug 2026 | Active |
| Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet (GEAPP)Rockefeller Foundation, IKEA Foundation and Bezos Earth Fund, with public and DFI partners | Grant | Pilot | Global | Energy access · Productive use · Mini-grids | Philanthropic alliance funding productive-use and mini-grid programs, technical assistance to agencies such as ANSER, and results-based facilities like DREEF in Nigeria.Jan 2025: US$10 million to the Mission 300 technical assistance facility; TA to ANSER (DRC) and DREEF (Nigeria) | Active |
| Green Climate Fund (GCF)UNFCCC financial mechanism funded by contributor governments | Blended facility | Scale | Global | Climate · Energy access · Agriculture | Largest climate fund; works through accredited entities such as AfDB, Camco and Acumen, co-financing energy-access programs including LEAF, REPP 2 and Hardest-to-Reach.GCF-2 programming period 2024-2027; co-financier of REPP 2 (FP222) and Acumen H2R Amplify (final close Jan 2026) | Active |
| Global Environment Facility (GEF) and the Africa Minigrids Program (AMP, UNDP-GEF)GEF, implemented by UNDP with RMI and AfDB | Grant | Pilot | Continental | Mini-grids · Productive use · Climate | GEF-funded technical assistance and pilot grants to build national mini-grid markets, including productive-use business models, in 21 countries.Nigeria in round 1, Burundi and DRC in round 3 (program site 2026); Uganda and Cameroon not participating | Active |
| Climate Investment Funds (CIF), incl. the Renewable Energy Integration (REI) programMultilateral climate trust funds channeled through AfDB, World Bank and other MDBs | Concessional debt | Scale | Global | Climate · Energy access | Concessional co-financing blended into MDB projects; the Dedicated Private Sector Program co-finances Uganda's Electricity Access Scale-up Project.DPSP III co-financing for Uganda EASP (approved 2022) listed on the CIF project page | Active |
| Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP)Multi-donor fund hosted by the World Bank; IFAD, AfDB, FAO, WFP and IFC act as supervising entities | Grant | Scale | Global | Agriculture · SME finance | Grants to governments and producer organizations, plus a private-sector window, for smallholder productivity, post-harvest handling and value-chain investment.Operating since 2010 | Active |
| International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)UN specialized agency and international financial institution | Concessional debt | Scale | Global | Agriculture · SME finance · Climate | Lends to governments for smallholder agriculture, rural finance and value chains; has active country programs in all five program countries.IFAD13 replenishment period 2025-2027 | Active |
| Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Investment CentreFAO, working with the World Bank, IFAD, GCF and other IFIs | Technical assistance | Preparation | Global | Agriculture | Designs and appraises agricultural investment projects for IFIs, including energy-in-agrifood-systems and cold-chain work.Operating since 1964 | Active |
| United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the UN Capital Development Fund (UNCDF)United Nations | Technical assistance | Pilot | Global | Energy access · SME finance · Climate | UNDP implements the Africa Minigrids Program and country energy projects; UNCDF provides catalytic grants, guarantees and loans for local infrastructure and enterprises.UNCDF 2025 annual report presented to the Executive Board in Apr 2026 | Active |
| United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)United Nations | Technical assistance | Pilot | Global | Productive use · Agriculture · Infrastructure | Supports agro-industrial parks, energy for productive use and SME upgrading, often with GEF funding.UN specialized agency since 1985 | Active |
| Universal Energy Facility (UEF)Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL); funded by Shell Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, IKEA Foundation, UK FCDO, Germany (BMZ/GIZ), Bezos Earth Fund and GEAPP | Results-based financing | Construction | Continental | Mini-grids · Productive use · Energy access | Pays verified-connection incentives to developers under country mini-grid windows and a stand-alone solar for productive use (SSPU) window.2026 programme page lists Sierra Leone and Zambia windows plus SSPU and mini-grid windows | Active |
| Energy and Environment Partnership Trust Fund (EEP Africa)Multi-donor trust fund managed by the Nordic Development Fund; funded by Finland, Austria and NDF | Grant | Pilot | East Africa | Energy access · Productive use · Clean cooking | Early-stage grants of EUR 200,000-500,000 with co-financing for clean-energy innovations including productive use, mini-grids, clean cooking and e-mobility in 17 countries.2026 call: EOI closed 16 Mar 2026, full proposals due 27 Jul 2026; Burundi and Uganda eligible, DRC, Cameroon and Nigeria not | Active |
| Renewable Energy Performance Platform (REPP), incl. REPP 2Managed by Camco; REPP funded by the UK government, REPP 2 backed by the Green Climate Fund and others | Blended facility | Construction | Continental | Mini-grids · Energy access · Productive use | Development capital and debt for small renewable projects and companies across sub-Saharan Africa, historically active in mini-grids and commercial and industrial solar.REPP 2 reached first close in Dec 2024 with US$185 million (GCF FP222); original 2015 REPP continues as a Camco-managed portfolio | Active |
| Electrification Financing Initiative (ElectriFI)European Union; managed by EDFI Management Company with FMO governance | Equity | Scale | Global | Energy access · Mini-grids · Productive use | EUR 253 million EU facility investing EUR 0.5-10 million of equity, quasi-equity and debt in energy-access companies; country windows for Nigeria (EUR 30 million) and Uganda (EUR 5 million).Recent approvals in Uganda and Nigeria across solar, clean cooking and e-mobility (EDFI MC site, 2025-2026) | Active |
| Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund (AECF), incl. REACT and the Energy Transition Challenge Fund (ETCF)Nairobi-based challenge fund; ETCF funded by Germany (BMZ) through KfW | Grant | Pilot | Continental | Energy access · Productive use · Women-led enterprise | Competitive matching grants for private companies in renewable energy and agribusiness; ETCF offers EUR 100,000-800,000 windows in Nigeria including productive use and clean cooking.ETCF Nigeria page live Sep 2026 with three windows; REACT programs were AECF's earlier renewable-energy windows | Active |
| Beyond the Grid Fund for Africa (BGFA)Nefco (Nordic Green Bank) with Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Germany | Results-based financing | Scale | Continental | Energy access · Mini-grids | Results-based incentives to off-grid companies for verified energy-service subscriptions in six countries, including DRC and Uganda.Over 4.3 million people reached by end-2025 (May 2026 report); countries: Burkina Faso, DRC, Liberia, Mozambique, Uganda, Zambia | Active |
| Modern Cooking Facility for Africa (MCFA)Nefco with Sweden, Norway and the European Union | Results-based financing | Scale | Continental | Clean cooking | Results-based financing for clean-cooking companies in seven countries including DRC; over EUR 34 million committed to 22 companies.2025 annual results report; countries DRC, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe; Uganda not covered; mid-term evaluation tendered Sep 2026 | Active |
| Clean Energy and Energy Inclusion for Africa Foundation (CEI Africa)Germany (BMZ) through KfW; Luxembourg foundation managed with Triple Jump and GreenMax Capital | Results-based financing | Construction | Continental | Mini-grids · Productive use | Results-based grants, debt and crowdlending for green mini-grids serving households, businesses and social institutions; calls run on the Odyssey platform.Third RBF window (2025) open to Kenya, Benin, Sierra Leone and Mali; none of the five program countries | Active |
| Energising Development (EnDev)Germany, Netherlands, Norway and Switzerland; coordinated by GIZ and RVO | Results-based financing | Scale | Global | Energy access · Clean cooking · Productive use | Multi-donor program using results-based financing and market development for household energy, clean cooking and productive use in over 20 countries including Burundi, DRC and Uganda.2025 progress report published; partner countries include Burundi, DRC and Uganda | Active |
| GET.invest (with GET.transform)European Union, Germany, Norway, Netherlands, Sweden and Austria; implemented by GIZ | Technical assistance | Preparation | Continental | Energy access · Productive use · SME finance | Finance-access advisory that readies clean-energy projects and companies for investors; 153 projects to financial close and a public funding database.IRENA partnership announced Oct 2025; news updates through Jul 2026 | Active |
| Acumen Hardest-to-Reach (H2R) initiativeAcumen, with GCF, IFC, BII, Norad, GEAPP, Nordic Development Fund, SDC and others | Equity | Scale | Continental | Energy access · Productive use | US$250 million blended initiative (Catalyze grants and the H2R Amplify debt fund) for off-grid energy companies serving first-time users in 17 countries.Amplify final close Jan 2026 at US$180 million; total raise US$250 million | Active |
| Shell Foundation, incl. the Energy Entrepreneurs Growth Fund (EEGF)Shell Foundation (UK charity); EEGF co-founded with FMO and managed by Triple Jump | Grant | Pilot | Global | Energy access · Productive use · SME finance | Philanthropic funder of energy-access business models and of the UEF; EEGF is a mezzanine fund for early-growth energy entrepreneurs.Listed among UEF funders (2026) | Active |
| IKEA FoundationStichting IKEA Foundation | Grant | Pilot | Global | Energy access · Climate · Agriculture | Major philanthropic funder of renewable energy access and smallholder livelihoods; co-founder of GEAPP and a funder of the UEF.Listed among UEF funders (2026) and GEAPP founding partners (2021) | Active |
| The Rockefeller FoundationUS private foundation | Grant | Any stage | Global | Energy access · Productive use | Anchor philanthropy behind GEAPP and the Mission 300 technical assistance facility; founding shareholder of Zafiri.Zafiri founding investor at the Jun 2026 launch; US$15.9 million committed at the Jan 2025 Dar es Salaam summit | Active |
| Mastercard FoundationCanadian private foundation | Grant | Scale | Continental | SME finance · Agriculture · Women-led enterprise | Young Africa Works strategy funds youth employment through agriculture, SME finance and skills, with large country programs in Uganda and Nigeria.Young Africa Works strategy runs to 2030 | Active |
| Gates Foundation (agricultural development)US private foundation | Grant | Pilot | Global | Agriculture · Health | Agricultural development program funds smallholder productivity, digital and market innovations; also a major health funder relevant to tele-health components.May 2025: foundation announced it will spend down by 2045, roughly doubling annual outlays | Active |
| Spark+ Africa FundManaged by Enabling Qapital; investors include the African Development Bank and impact investors; TA facility run by Stichting Modern Cooking | Commercial debt | Scale | Continental | Clean cooking | Debt, quasi-equity and carbon pre-finance for clean-cooking companies across 21 sub-Saharan countries.US$67 million deployed in 24 investments by 31 Mar 2026; first close US$40 million (2022) | Active |
| Mirova Gigaton Fund (formerly SunFunder)Mirova (Natixis), with EIB and other DFI investors | Commercial debt | Scale | Global | Energy access · Productive use · Climate | Debt fund for clean-energy SMEs, off-grid solar and productive-use companies in emerging markets; successor to SunFunder's solar lending.SunFunder acquired by Mirova in 2022; fund backed by the EIB (project 20220074) | Active |
| CrossBoundary Energy Access (CBEA)CrossBoundary Group, with DFI and impact investors | Commercial debt | Construction | Continental | Mini-grids | Project-finance platform that owns and finances mini-grid portfolios, including a US$60 million ENGIE Energy Access transaction in Nigeria backed by NEP grants.ENGIE Nigeria mini-grid transaction signed; project-finance tools open-sourced; US$25 million raise reported | Active |
| Odyssey Energy Solutions (platform)US-based private company | Technical assistance | Any stage | Continental | Mini-grids · Energy access | Digital platform through which RBF programs such as the Mwinda Fund and CEI Africa run applications, procurement, verification and remote monitoring.Hosts the Mwinda (DRC) windows and the CEI Africa 2025 RBF call | Active |
| NithioUS and Africa-based climate fintech; FAIR facility backed by DFIs and foundations | Commercial debt | Scale | Continental | Energy access · Productive use · SME finance | AI-driven credit analytics and the FAIR blended debt facility for distributed energy and e-mobility companies; offices in Lagos and Nairobi.2026: SPIRO e-mobility financing (Jan) and Ignite Mozambique facility (Apr); back-up servicer for Sun King (Jun) | Active |
| African Trade & Investment Development Insurance (ATIDI) Regional Liquidity Support Facility (RLSF)ATIDI with KfW (Germany) and Norway | Guarantee or insurance | Construction | Continental | Energy access · Infrastructure | Liquidity guarantee protecting renewable IPPs up to 100 MW against late utility payments; MoUs cover 12 countries including Burundi and Uganda.2025 annual report; supported Songa Energy's 1.65 MW hydro project in Burundi; DRC, Cameroon and Nigeria are not RLSF signatories | Active |
| Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG): GuarantCo, InfraCo Africa and the Emerging Africa & Asia Infrastructure Fund (EAIF)UK, Netherlands, Switzerland, Australia, Sweden, Germany and IFC | Guarantee or insurance | Construction | Global | Infrastructure · Energy access | Group providing early-stage development capital (InfraCo Africa), local-currency guarantees (GuarantCo) and long-term debt (EAIF) for infrastructure including off-grid energy.PIDG 2030 strategy launched 2023; GuarantCo fully integrated into the group; PIDG exit from InfraCredit Nigeria announced | Active |
| Africa Finance Corporation (AFC)Pan-African multilateral development financier headquartered in Lagos | Commercial debt | Construction | Continental | Infrastructure · Energy access | Investor and lender for power, transport and industrial infrastructure, including renewable IPPs and industrial parks.Established 2007 | Active |
| African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank)Pan-African multilateral trade finance institution headquartered in Cairo | Commercial debt | Scale | Continental | Agriculture · Infrastructure · SME finance | Trade and project finance for agro-processing, industrial parks and intra-African trade under the AfCFTA.Established 1993 | Active |
| Trade and Development Bank (TDB) Group and the East African Development Bank (EADB)Regional development banks owned by Eastern and Southern African member states and institutional investors | Commercial debt | Construction | East Africa | Infrastructure · Energy access · Agriculture | Regional lenders for energy and agro-industrial projects; TDB Group is a founding shareholder of Zafiri and co-mobilizes clean-energy finance with the World Bank.TDB named a Zafiri founding investor at the Jun 2026 launch | Active |
| Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA) and the OPEC Fund for International DevelopmentArab Coordination Group institutions | Concessional debt | Construction | Continental | Infrastructure · Agriculture · Energy access | Sovereign and private-sector lenders co-financing rural electrification, agriculture and SME credit lines alongside AfDB, IsDB and national governments.BADEA founded 1974 and the OPEC Fund 1976 | Active |
| Islamic Development Bank (IsDB)Multilateral development bank of 57 member countries | Concessional debt | Construction | Global | Infrastructure · Agriculture · Energy access | Sharia-compliant development lender; Uganda, Cameroon and Nigeria are members, Burundi and DRC are not; co-financier of Nigeria's SAPZ Phase I. | Active |
| EU Global Gateway, the Africa-Europe Green Energy Initiative (AEGEI) and EIB GlobalEuropean Commission, EU member states (Team Europe) and the European Investment Bank | Concessional debt | Any stage | Continental | Energy access · Climate · Infrastructure | EUR 20 billion Team Europe pledge for renewable generation, access and reforms in Africa, delivered through EFSD+ guarantees, grants and EIB Global lending.AEGEI announced at COP28 in Dec 2023; EU-AU Global Gateway stocktake May 2025 | Active |
| KfW Development Bank and DEGGermany (Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, BMZ) and the KfW group | Concessional debt | Any stage | Global | Energy access · SME finance · Mini-grids | German public financiers behind CEI Africa, RLSF, ETCF Nigeria and grid programs; DEG invests directly in private companies.ETCF Nigeria and CEI Africa's 2025 RBF window are KfW/BMZ funded | Active |
| Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and Proparco, incl. SUNREF green credit linesFrench government | Concessional debt | Any stage | Global | Climate · SME finance · Energy access | French public lender and its private-sector arm; SUNREF channels green credit lines through local banks; AFD is an AGIA partner.AFD listed as an AGIA partner (Africa50 page, 2026) | Active |
| FMO and the Access to Energy Fund (AEF)Dutch entrepreneurial development bank; AEF funded by the Dutch government | Blended facility | Scale | Global | Energy access · SME finance | AEF provides higher-risk loans up to EUR 10 million and equity for private energy-access projects; FMO also governs ElectriFI.AEF page live Sep 2026; FMO 2025 annual report published | Active |
| Norfund, Swedfund and Finnfund (Nordic development finance institutions)Governments of Norway, Sweden and Finland | Equity | Scale | Global | Energy access · Agriculture · SME finance | State-owned investors taking equity and debt in renewable energy, agribusiness and financial institutions; Norfund's clean-energy portfolio includes off-grid companies in East Africa.Norfund est. 1997, Swedfund 1979, Finnfund 1980 | Active |
| British International Investment (BII)UK government | Equity | Scale | Global | Energy access · SME finance · Agriculture | UK DFI investing equity and debt in African energy and agriculture; committed to Acumen's H2R Expansion Fund.Listed as an investor at the H2R Amplify final close in Jan 2026 | Active |
| U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC)US government | Commercial debt | Scale | Global | Energy access · Infrastructure · SME finance | US development finance agency offering loans, guarantees, political-risk insurance and a new dedicated equity fund; required to prioritize less-developed countries.Reauthorized through the FY2026 NDAA passed by Congress in Dec 2025: liability cap raised to US$205 billion and a US$5 billion equity revolving fund | Active |
| Power Africa (U.S. Agency for International Development, USAID)US government | Public program | Any stage | Continental | Energy access · Mini-grids | Former US interagency initiative that gave transaction advice and grants for off-grid and mini-grid deals; its closure removed a major source of technical assistance.USAID ended Power Africa in Feb 2025; USAID's remaining functions were folded into the State Department on 1 Jul 2025 | Wound down |
| Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)Government of Japan | Concessional debt | Any stage | Global | Infrastructure · Agriculture · Energy access | Grants, ODA loans and technical cooperation in power, rice and irrigation; present in Nigeria, Uganda, Cameroon and DRC. | Active |
| Enabel (Belgian development agency)Government of Belgium | Technical assistance | Pilot | Continental | Agriculture · Health · Energy access | Belgian agency with bilateral programs in Burundi, DRC and Uganda covering agriculture, health, skills and, in some countries, energy.Burundi country page (2026) lists agriculture, health and education portfolios; grant calls published on open.enabel.be | Active |
| Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)Government of Germany (BMZ and other ministries) | Technical assistance | Any stage | Global | Energy access · Agriculture · Productive use | German implementing agency running EnDev, GET.invest and country energy and agriculture programs, including in Uganda, Nigeria, Cameroon and DRC.Coordinates EnDev (2025 progress report) and GET.invest (news through Jul 2026) | Active |
| SNV Netherlands Development OrganisationDutch not-for-profit, funded by Dutch, EU and other donors | Technical assistance | Pilot | Global | Energy access · Clean cooking · Agriculture | Delivers results-based energy, clean-cooking and agri-food programs; frequent implementer for EnDev, EU and Dutch-funded projects. | Active |
| Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative (We-Fi) and 2X GlobalWe-Fi is a World Bank-hosted multi-donor facility; 2X Global is the DFI-backed gender-lens investing body | Grant | Scale | Global | Women-led enterprise · SME finance | We-Fi channels donor funds through MDBs to expand finance for women-led SMEs; 2X Global sets the gender-lens criteria DFIs apply to investments.We-Fi launched 2017 and the 2X Challenge 2018 | Active |
| Agence Burundaise de l'Électrification Rurale (ABER)Government of Burundi | Public program | Construction | Burundi | Energy access · Mini-grids | National rural electrification agency responsible for decentralized electrification, including a compact target of 300 mini-grid sites (US$450 million).Named in Burundi's Sep 2025 Mission 300 compact; 33 mini-grid sites already identified; memorandum of understanding with Gigawatt Burundi S.A. | Active |
| Projet Soleil-Nyakiriza (Burundi solar energy access project)Government of Burundi with World Bank (IDA) financing | Results-based financing | Pilot | Burundi | Energy access · Clean cooking | World Bank-financed solar-access project with a market-development window for decentralized renewable energy products and clean cooking.World Bank-financed project approved 2020; its market-development window for decentralized renewable products is named in the Sep 2025 compact | Active |
| Banque d'Investissement et de Développement pour les Femmes (BIDF)Government of Burundi | Concessional debt | Any stage | Burundi | Women-led enterprise · SME finance | State-owned bank lending to women-led enterprises and cooperatives at preferential terms.Launched 2022; website and recruitment notices live in 2026 | Active |
| Agence Nationale de l'Électrification et des Services Énergétiques en milieux rural et périurbain (ANSER), incl. the World Bank EASE and AGREE projectsGovernment of DRC; World Bank (IDA) financing | Public program | Construction | DRC | Energy access · Mini-grids | DRC rural and peri-urban electrification agency that manages the Mwinda Fund under the World Bank's EASE and AGREE projects.GEAPP technical assistance to ANSER announced Jan 2025; AGREE program launched with the Mwinda Fund on Odyssey | Active |
| Mwinda Fund (Fonds Mwinda)ANSER with World Bank (IDA) financing and GEAPP technical support | Results-based financing | Construction | DRC | Mini-grids · Energy access · Productive use | DRC's US$65 million results-based and catalytic grant fund for mini-grids and solar home systems, run through the Odyssey platform.Launched 2021; mini-grid and SHS grant windows opened Oct 2025; targets US$500 million of private participation by 2030 | Active |
| Uganda Electricity Access Scale-up Project (EASP), incl. the MEMD Rural Electrification ProgrammeGovernment of Uganda (Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development) with World Bank (IDA) and CIF co-financing | Concessional debt | Scale | Uganda | Energy access · Clean cooking · Productive use | Flagship access project financing grid connections, off-grid RBF, clean cooking and productive-use systems; MEMD leads grid extension and UECCC the financial intermediation.Approved 2022 with CIF DPSP III co-financing; UECCC off-grid RBF and working-capital windows running in 2025-2026 | Active |
| Uganda Energy Credit Capitalisation Company (UECCC)Government of Uganda | Blended facility | Scale | Uganda | Energy access · SME finance · Productive use | Government-owned financing vehicle offering working-capital facilities, end-user finance and results-based subsidies to solar and clean-cooking companies.Sponsor of the USEA National Solar Expo 2026 (Sep 2026); EASP financial-intermediation component ongoing | Active |
| Parish Development Model (PDM)Government of Uganda | Public program | Pilot | Uganda | Agriculture · SME finance | Parish-level revolving fund lending to household enterprises through SACCOs; the main public channel for smallholder working capital in Uganda.3.57 million beneficiaries and UGX 4.317 trillion disbursed by Sep 2026; repayment concerns raised in Parliament | Active |
| Generating Growth Opportunities and Productivity for Women Enterprises (GROW) ProjectGovernment of Uganda (Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development) with World Bank (IDA) financing | Grant | Scale | Uganda | Women-led enterprise · SME finance | Grants, loans through participating banks and business development services for women-owned enterprises, including agro-processing.World Bank fifth implementation support mission May 2025 | Active |
| Agence d'Électrification Rurale (AER) and the Rural Electricity Access Project for Underserved Regions (PERACE)Government of Cameroon with World Bank (IDA) financing; EIB and EU financing under negotiation for rural electrification | Concessional debt | Construction | Cameroon | Energy access · Mini-grids | National rural electrification agency and its World Bank-financed project using grid extension, mini-grids and solar to connect underserved regions.Over 140,000 rural households connected in the year to Jan 2025 (World Bank feature); procurement plan updated Nov 2024; Cameroon compact Sep 2025 | Active |
| Rural Electrification Agency (REA), NigeriaFederal Government of Nigeria | Public program | Construction | Nigeria | Energy access · Mini-grids · Productive use | Federal agency implementing off-grid programs (NEP, DARES, Energizing Agriculture, Energizing Education) and the Rural Electrification Fund.First DARES grant agreements signed with eight companies (REA release); Kogi State program launch Jun 2026 | Active |
| Distributed Access through Renewable Energy Scale-up (DARES) Project, successor to the Nigeria Electrification Project (NEP)Federal Government of Nigeria (REA) with World Bank (IDA) financing | Results-based financing | Scale | Nigeria | Mini-grids · Energy access · Productive use | US$750 million program of performance-based grants for solar hybrid mini-grids and stand-alone systems, targeting 17.5 million people and 1,225 mini-grids.NEP closed 31 Dec 2024 after 173 mini-grids and 1.08 million SHS; DARES grant signings under way, Kogi launch Jun 2026 | Active |
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