Partners
The hub is the platform; the sector work is carried by the institutions already mandated and budgeted to do it. Each partnership is established on its own terms and diligence.
Deployment network — framework memorandum of understanding with Gigawatt Burundi S.A.
One of the technical arms of the African Union Commission on agribusiness incubation. Its members supply the country wheel: premises, incubation methodology, government and cooperative relationships in every member country.
Agriculture and food-systems lead — memorandum of understanding
Value-chain design, cooperative mobilization, specification of processing, cold-chain and irrigation packages, and the agricultural results framework. Ground broken together on the first hub in August 2026.
Intended lead member, Uganda — memorandum of understanding with Gigawatt Burundi S.A.
Mbarara-based incubator and enterprise-development organization working across East Africa.
Intended lead member, Nigeria — memorandum of understanding with Gigawatt Burundi S.A.
Abuja-based incubation and project-development organization; several thousand young agripreneurs trained.
Operations headquarters, national technical base and academy — memorandum of understanding
Assembly, repair, central warehousing, the demonstration hub and the train-the-trainers academy in Gitega province, Burundi.
Cooperation protocol
The hubs inside the Ministry's own programs, including the national agro-energy hub program.
Endorsement in principle of the 150 MW integrated platform
The platform covers new generation on and off the grid: hydropower, solar with battery storage and decentralized mini-grids. Ten mini-grid sites and five small hydropower sites awarded.
Rural electrification agency — memorandum of understanding with Gigawatt Burundi S.A.
A framework for accelerating rural electrification through productive-use energy hubs, mini-grids and household solutions: ABER leads planning and programming; Gigawatt Burundi S.A. develops, finances, builds and operates over the long term, in step with REGIDESO's national grid.
Women's banking partner — collaboration agreement with Gigawatt Burundi S.A., Gitega
Burundi's public investment and development bank for women. Gigawatt Burundi S.A. is BIDF's technical partner for bringing women-led enterprises in the energy value chains into its offer and for qualifying women in energy trades; hubs as banking infrastructure for women's cooperatives are under discussion.
In every country the same invitation is extended to the institutions and companies that carry a pillar best. What the platform brings: the powered site, the counter, the route to the last mile, the data spine and an operator that stays.
National agricultural agencies, research institutes, cooperative federations and food-security programs delivering through the hubs under their own mandates.
Certified manufacturers and distributors whose products the hub points of sale carry — with the hub's enrollment, pay-as-you-go collection, spares and life-of-product aftercare behind every unit.
Electric two- and three-wheeler makers and battery-as-a-service operators running fleets through cooperatives from hub charging.
Satellite and mobile connectivity providers for the hub business centers, tele-education, tele-health and the network's own telemetry.
Domestic banks, microfinance institutions and cooperative savings networks operating the financial-service point and lending against hub records.
Health ministries, agencies and organizations delivering maternal and child health, vision screening and referral through hub clinics and last-mile agents.
Universities, technical institutes and accreditation bodies running programs through the hub business centers and certifying trainers.
Food, nutrition, livelihoods and resilience programs that need a powered, staffed, permanent site and a logistics route to the last mile.
Ministries and agencies for energy, agriculture, local development, education, health, transport, gender and youth, and finance, delivering their mandates through one national hub network. Working with governments
Development finance institutions, climate funds, foundations and private investors financing at platform level, by instrument, from the first cluster to the national layout.