Eco Design Note Issue 7 on Product Repair and Manufacturer Best Practices
This new Eco Design Note continues a discussion about product repair, focusing on steps that manufacturers can take to enable and encourage the repair of their products. The Note identifies ...Read More
Lighting Asia/India Launches Partnerships to Boost Quality Solar Lighting Products in Rural India
Dharma Life, an initiative of Gajam India Private Limited that works with manufacturers, state-level distributors and local retailers to build a sustainable value chain to make affordable social-impact products available ...Read More
IFC’s Lighting Afghanistan Program Launches Successfully in Kabul
Omnivoltaic Energy Solutions, a Lighting Global Associate, is a manufacturer of quality verified solar lanterns and solar home systems. The company signed an agreement with Lighting Afghanistan for support in ...Read More
White Paper: Unlocking Commercial Finance for the Off-Grid Solar PAYG Industry
Last year, a team representing Lighting Global, GOGLA and Data Consultancy Impact Lab was awarded the Finance for Resilience Award at the Bloomberg New Energy Finance Summit in New York. ...Read More
Building Awareness is Critical to Building Markets
In a recent Power for All survey of leading decentralized renewable energy (DRE) companies (stay tuned for full results in March), marketing campaigns were pinpointed as “crucial for raising awareness ...Read More
Power for All Interviews Praveen Kumar of Lighting India on How Best to Run Last Mile Consumer Education Campaigns
How do you educate last mile consumers in India about new technologies? Visit 9,000 villages and engage over 200,000 people. With only 54 percent of India’s rural population exposed to television ...Read More
Case Study: Women Entrepreneurs Light the Way for Solar Products in India
Building markets for solar lighting, particularly among a widely distributed, low-income customer base, requires technical and business-model innovation. IFC’s Lighting Asia/India program accomplished both by partnering with solar distributors in ...Read More
Lighting Pakistan: Photo Stories of Impact
Kubra Khaliq, Qutub Ali Shah, Imran Khan, and Muhammad Ali are all harnessing solar lighting products to brighten their households at night and grow their businesses by operating after dark. ...Read More
Narrowing the Energy Gap: Mobisol Receives IFC Investment Boost
Less than a quarter of households in Kenya are connected to the national electric grid, but solar energy solutions are narrowing the energy gap. Thirty percent of unconnected households ...Read More
By Plugging in Africa, Lighting Global Program Associate Mobisol Connects a Continent to Change
Jacinta Auma used to stock kerosene lamps, flashlights, and candles to light her home in rural Kenya, but that changed when solar panels were installed on her roof. Now that ...Read More