…The pay-as-you-go (PAYGo) business model is proving to be an effective approach in delivering electricity access through distributed solar, and the sector has gained significant investment interest and activity. Still,…
…increase fairness for companies and better reflect the wide variety of products submitted for quality verification, putting the program on a more sustainable trajectory. Demand for quality-verified products and related…
…webinar we jointly hosted with GOGLA. Most respondents generally supported the proposed changes, and the feedback received enabled our team to make key improvements and clarifications to the draft, as…
All Lighting Global Quality Verified products are now listed on VeraSol’s product database. VIEW PRODUCTS What are off-grid solar products and what can they do? Off-grid solar products…
NAIROBI, July 8, 2011 The Kenya government today launched an open data portal, releasing several large datasets, including the national census and statistics on government spending at national and county…
…the areas that it is focusing on for these improvements are: More efficient testing – Testing products quickly and cost-effectively without diluting the strength of the quality assessment is a…
…Africa consumer studies focused on Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, and Zambia. Lighting Africa partnered with IFC’s Women in Business (WIN) program to author the report. For more information, visit www.ifc.org/gender…
…launch of the campaign in July. “This is a truly worldwide campaign. Our ultimate goal is for the PSAs to reach every person in the world who has no access…
…incorporation is timely as recently published studies such as IFC’s ‘From Gap to Opportunity’ highlight the massive untapped potential and viability of the nascent energy-for-the-poor sector. IFC values the global…
…strategy for governments to provide rural communities with clean energy while working on expanding national electricity grids. Despite this impressive growth, however, modern lanterns are only being used by 2-…
