Associate Services (CN)
…lighting products to off-grid consumers. Supporting client companies to expand markets for their quality-verified products is a cornerstone of this work. Client companies become our Program Associates after one or…
Lighting Africa’s Consumer Education Campaign is in Full Swing
…and high-quality lamps. In conjunction with the forums, the campaign is also staging road shows in market towns to generate consumers interests in solar portable lights that have passed Lighting…
Register | Webinar on Rwanda’s Pro Poor RBF & Launch of New End User Subsidy Lab
…window 5). Rwanda is one of the most cited subsidy programs in the off-grid solar space. While the high-level design is well-known, the intrinsic mechanics of implementing the pilot successfully…
Distribution of Quality Tested Products Ramps Up and Out
In August of 2010, only 30 retail outlets in Kenya were selling products that passed Lighting Africa’s quality test and 95% of the vendors were electrical shops. However, entrepreneurs were…
Portable Solar Lamp Passes Quality Tests
…manufacturer, India Impex (SUNLITE), which joins a growing number of companies committed to developing and marketing high quality lighting products for families in Africa and Asia that are not connected…
Portable Solar Lamp Passes Quality Tests
…India Impex (SUNLITE), which joins a growing number of companies committed to developing and marketing high quality lighting products for families in Africa and Asia that are not connected to…
Market Intelligence
Conducting a market intelligence survey Before kicking off our first pilot programs under Lighting Africa in Kenya and Ghana in 2009, we conducted extensive research and discovered the huge potential…
IFC-World Bank Study Establishes Significant Climate Benefit of Solar Lighting Products
Children on the outskirts of Dakar use a solar-powered reading light to do their homework © Bruno Demeocq/Lighting Africa A new research study published by the IFC-World Bank Lighting Global…
Access to Finance
…pre-agreed targets, financing facilities like the one in Ethiopia, and unlocking commercial financing – in particular from local commercial banks. We also continue to develop innovative new avenues to address…