One framework
A continental framework agreement with AAIN, signed at the 11th African Agribusiness Incubation Conference and Expo, Bujumbura, August 2026.
How it deploys
The network that makes country by country possible.
One framework, one proven base, one modular design. The African Agribusiness Incubators Network (AAIN) — technical partner of the African Union Commission for agribusiness incubation — supplies the skeleton in every member country. PURE Power Africa supplies what none of its members should build alone.
Country agreements
Uganda (Excel Hort Consult Agribusiness Incubator, Mbarara) and Nigeria (Africa Projects Development Centre, Abuja) signed under the framework in August 2026; further countries are sequenced behind them.
One technical base
The Rusi campus in Burundi — assembly, repair, central warehousing and the continental train-the-trainers academy, opening progressively to every country program.
Use what exists.
Network members already carry reach: cooperatives, farmer field schools, demonstration farms, universities, government relationships, offices, staff, accountants, lawyers, customs brokers and local context. Premises and relationships exist; power does not. The hub overlays them — no site acquisition, no cold-start demand risk; the program funds equipment, not establishment.
What the network member carries
- Incubation and training delivery, under its own methodology and standards
- Government, partner and donor interface, on an agreed strategy
- Premises and field structures as local headquarters for the spokes
- Local legal counsel, accountants, company secretarial, customs clearance and warehousing
- Cooperative, university and market relationships; site sourcing and prioritization
- Monitoring and evaluation support
What the platform carries — built once, used everywhere
- Hub design and engineering standards; oversight of construction and commissioning
- Aggregated procurement of standardized, modular equipment — unit cost falls with every wave
- Warranty and guarantee management, the spare-parts and service chain behind it
- The train-the-trainers academy: management, technical and incubation curricula, certification
- Software and data: metering, enterprise and customer records, geospatial records of every installation, one reporting spine
- Contract templates, the funding database and joint applications with pillar partners
- Operating data from hubs already running, so each new country starts from evidence, not assumptions
What sector pillar partners carry
Agriculture and food security, health, education and skills, logistics and offtake, banking and microfinance — each delivered through the hubs by the institution mandated and budgeted to do it. The agricultural partnership in Burundi with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations is the template.
What a host government provides
A site with clear tenure; permits and sector authorizations; customs, duty and tax treatment of equipment; counterpart institutions and agricultural data; written alignment and access to programs already financed in the country. No budget contribution is required: the state does not fund construction, does not operate the hub, does not guarantee revenue and carries no tariff risk.
Two seats in Burundi, one continental base.
Operations headquarters — Rusi
The CEFORE-Rusi polytechnic campus in Gitega province: engineering and technical direction, the continental train-the-trainers academy, the demonstration hub and farm, assembly and quality control, the main repair center and central warehousing, and the anchor of the e-mobility network.
Administrative headquarters — Bujumbura
Direction and standards, program design, the financing seat, aggregated procurement and vendor negotiation, template legal work, government and institutional interface, indicators and data for the whole network.
Burundi chairs the African Union in 2026; the reference platform sits in the year the continent's agenda is set from Bujumbura.
First steps — how a country program starts.
The ninety-day launch phase: what the network member and the platform each do, in order, before a site is committed.
- 1
Focal points and agreed strategy
Country member and platform
Each side names a focal point. The country strategy is agreed between the continental headquarters and the country headquarters before any approach to government, funders or donors.
- 2
Country knowledge pack
Country member
Contacts and relationships, existing premises and field structures, crops and volumes, post-harvest losses, existing processing capacity, and what the district will actually pay for.
- 3
Government and program map
Country member with the platform
Which agency holds which decision; the licenses and permits required, each with the instrument and date creating it; the customs, duty and tax route for equipment; the national, sub-national and donor programs already financed that the hubs can attach to.
- 4
Candidate sites and configuration
Platform with the country member
A shortlist of sites with tenure, host institution, access, water and grid position for each. Equipment configured to local crops and volumes; costing built on the country's own prices, logistics and duties.
- 5
Country plan of action and funding roadmap
Both, jointly
Pilot region, cluster composition, sequence, partner list and funding roadmap, signed off jointly — then engagement with government and funders begins. Due within ninety days of the country memorandum of understanding.
Sequencing — clusters, waves and country order.
One region
Wave 1 — the pilot cluster
One anchor hub with standard hubs and their light spokes inside a single district cluster, so engineering, logistics and training move once rather than criss-crossing the country. Verified on utilization, collections and maintenance before the next wave is committed.
Adjacent districts, then the national layout
Waves 2 and 3 — adjacent, then national
Clusters added next door, where the spares depot, technicians and e-mobility fleet already reach; procurement aggregated per wave. Provincial anchors placed so every site sits within a working day of the technical base; mini-grids and direct commercial supply where the gates are passed.
How the countries after the first are ordered
Across countries — the six tests
Partner readiness and physical footprint, electrification gap, national energy compact status, logistics corridors and regional blocs, language grouping, and security — plus proximity to the base. Hubs are staffed by seconding the host partner's field staff; the platform adds equipment, capital, curricula and management.
What travels, and what does not.
Method, structure, sequencing and framing travel between countries. Legal, regulatory, fiscal and tariff requirements do not. Every country dossier states which requirements are met, which are absent and what closes the gap — and country programs are sequenced on what can actually be signed locally, not on the reference timetable.
Where this lands in government — four mandates, one operator.
Ministry of Energy
Licensing and the decentralized segment: the hubs build productive demand ahead of the network and interconnect on a published basis.
Ministry of Agriculture
Agro-processing, irrigation and cold chain are where the hub pays for itself; the hub is infrastructure inside the ministry's own programs.
Ministry of Finance
Customs and duty treatment of imported equipment, guarantees and risk cover, and the fiscal terms that decide whether a rural site is viable at all.
Ministry of Education and Skills
Certified training and apprenticeships: hub operation and maintenance, agricultural best practice, solar installation as a transferable trade.
One channel, all seventeen Sustainable Development Goals.
Delivered together at one site instead of one program at a time, reported on a single spine for governments, funders and partners.
Energy, industry and production
- 7 Affordable and clean energy
- 9 Industry, innovation and infrastructure
- 12 Responsible consumption and production
Food, water, health and poverty
- 1 No poverty
- 2 Zero hunger
- 3 Good health and well-being
- 6 Clean water and sanitation
People: work, women, youth and learning
- 4 Quality education
- 5 Gender equality
- 8 Decent work and economic growth
- 10 Reduced inequalities
Climate, community and partnership
- 11 Sustainable cities and communities
- 13 Climate action
- 14 Life below water
- 15 Life on land
- 16 Peace, justice and strong institutions
- 17 Partnerships for the goals