MFIs, SACCOs Key to Clean Lighting for Women
…up and expand their work with women through Lighting Africa’s Women Initiative in order to catalyze further uptake of the solar lighting products by women consumers, and to usher women…
Quality Assurance Update: Management Transition
…Currently over 110 quality-verified products are on offer globally from over 40 manufacturers, with sales of over 25 million quality-verified products to date. Now that the underlying test methods have…
Policy Engagement
Through ESMAP, Lighting Global’s off-grid experts are embedded into World Bank operational teams to advise on the off-grid components of energy-access projects. We help to develop country-specific strategies to increase…
Quality Assurance for Off-Grid Solar Powered Lights:
…also entered the off-grid lighting market and threaten to spoil customer trust of the technology. Lighting Global—a joint IFC and World Bank program—is working to support sustainable growth of the…
Revising Standards in line with Technology Developments, Consumer Expectations
…strengthen the quality standards and performance targets of off-grid lights in order to keep up with, and anticipate market trends, and to incorporate new research findings, for example, on end-user…
New Report: βThe Market Opportunity for Productive Use Leveraging Solar Energy (PULSE) in Sub-Saharan Africa.β
…kilowatt or less. We narrowed the scope to products that largely overlap in size with the off-grid household solar sector in order to explore the opportunity to catalyse growth in…
Focus Areas
Lighting Global seeks to build on existing success and lessons learned in order to expand off-grid markets to reach more than 600 million additional people with products that provide Tier…
Lighting Africa/Nigeria: Tackling Energy Poverty At Its Source
…worth nearly US$6 million to help their customers –over 80 percent of whom are women– purchase solar products. It has trained hundreds of technicians to repair products and brought over…
Improving the accuracy of our impact reporting through the Multi-Tier Framework
Why 59.9 million is equal to 15.8 million Access to modern, reliable energy is crucial to sustainable development. This fact underpins not only the mission of our work – to…
Lighting Global Quality Standards: A Guide to Complying with Consumer-Facing Information Requirements
…a webinar on the Compliance Guide for marketing and communications professionals who may have limited familiarity with the Lighting Global program and the Quality Standards. During the webinar, the QA…