…their mitigation. Key recommendations include increased political participation, enhanced awareness and education, addressing product quality issues, making high-quality products affordable and available in the market, and creating an enabling environment…
…and hazardous fuels in rural communities that are not connected to the grid. Lighting Africa’s approach is to accelerate the development of off-grid lighting markets by demonstrating the viability of…
…global manufacturers to partner with local distributors to take the products to rural communities. Since 2014, the Lighting PNG program has helped more than 1.8 million people, representing 22 percent…
…laboratory supporting the market development work of the IFC-World Bank energy access program, Lighting Global. Lighting Global’s quality assurance work is coordinated from the Schatz Energy Research Center, Humboldt University…
…businesses among the Bottom of the Pyramid (BOP) population. The report shows key findings from the market research study commissioned by IFC’s Lighting Africa/Tanzania program in 2017. The survey targeted…
…for 14 countries in Africa. The Index is based on various high-quality datasets covering critical aspects of the commercial opportunity and enabling environment conditions for the 14 selected countries, thereby…
…activities including developing quality standards and raising awareness catalyzing interest in modern solar lighting products among consumers, manufacturers and distributors. This has to date resulted in 500,000 high quality solar…
…commercial success and help improve social, economic or environmental conditions—otherwise known as inclusive business models—with winning companies engaged in diverse initiatives such as providing affordable clean energy to low-income communities…
…Congo (DRC), Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda, Senegal, and Tanzania. Policy-related issues have been identified by the lighting industry as key barriers to accelerating large-scale market penetration of improved, high quality,…
…(450 lumens) for over six hours after a single day of charging in the sun. The product also has several mobile charging ports and comes with a set of mobile…
