Energising Development (EnDev)

👋 Curious how Demand-Side Subsidies (DSS) are transforming emerging #PURE markets? Join our second End User Subsidy Lab webinar! We'll showcase case studies from Malawi and Uganda on how DSS has made solar technologies like water pumps and fridges more accessible. Plus, our expert panel will share insights on the shift from price reductions to advanced financing solutions as markets mature. Dive into this discussion: ⬇️ https://buff.ly/4hhSTP8 The webinar is co-hosted by GOGLA, The World Bank's ESMAP - Energy Sector Management Assistance Program, Energising Development (EnDev), and Clean Cooking Alliance (CCA), with special collaboration from SNV, supported by the IKEA Foundation, and featuring panelists from Maeve Project, Uganda Energy Credit Capitalisation Company, and SNV.

🔍 How to Make RBF Projects Truly Inclusive?  EnDev’s new guide breaks it down!🔌  This practical resource takes practitioners step-by-step through the phases of Result-Based Financing (#RBF) project design, offering strategies to integrate the Leave No One Behind (#LNOB) principle. The report advises on pursuing LNOB objectives at two distinct levels:     1️⃣ customer level: for example, RBF incentives paid to an energy appliance provider to improve the affordability of energy good    2️⃣ the company level: for example, RBF incentives to an energy appliance provider to reward specific LNOB outcomes within the company’s operations, such as the inclusion of women in the workforce    With real-world examples from EnDev’s projects, this guide brings theory to life—showcasing successful approaches that practitioners can implement to achieve more inclusive energy access outcomes.    And EnDev’s goal? By 2025 more than a quarter of all additional beneficiaries will come from underrepresented LNOB groups. 📈     Ready to make your projects more inclusive?  📥 Download the guide now! #EnergyAccess #LNOB # #GenderEquality #SDG7    

🌞💡 EnDev’s Energising Health initiative, supported by Germany’s special funds for vaccination logistics, provides solar home systems for lighting and fridges to health centres in rural areas in Africa. This helps bridge significant gaps in healthcare delivery and benefits both patients and medical staff.  In Lulwe, a small village near Malawi’s border with Mozambique, Agness Bauleni works at the local health centre that serves over 10,000 people. Until recently, the centre used an old gas-powered fridge to store vaccines. Due to power outlets and fuel shortages, refrigeration was unreliable and often left vaccines at risk.  ❄️Since the installation of solar-powered refrigerators, vaccine storage at Lulwe Health Centre has significantly improved. “The arrival of solar fridges has allowed us to stock various vaccines, including those for COVID-19, helping to meet vaccination needs as cases decline,” says Agness Bauleni.  💉The upgrade has been crucial in ensuring vaccines – including for Tuberculosis, Hepatitis, Yellow Fever, and COVID-19 – stay effective. Plus: Now various other medical products can be cooled efficiently as well. With its new solar fridges in place, Lulwe Health Centre noticed a remarkable improvement in maintaining a steady supply of vaccines, which ultimately leads to better health for the whole community.   #EnDev #SDG7 #SDG3 #EnergisingHealth #VaccineStorage #GlobalHealth  GIZ Malawi

Save the Date! 📌 Want to learn how Demand-Side Subsidies (DSS) can make #PURE solutions more affordable in underserved markets? Join us for the second End User Subsidy Lab webinar, where we'll explore how DSS helps build strong #PURE ecosystems. 🌍 We'll share case studies from Malawi and Uganda, showcasing how DSS is making products like solar water pumps and fridges more accessible and strengthening local economies. Register now to join the conversation: ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/d94fyusF The webinar is co-hosted by GOGLA, The World Bank's ESMAP - Energy Sector Management Assistance Program, Energising Development (EnDev), and Clean Cooking Alliance (CCA), with special collaboration from SNV, supported by the IKEA Foundation, and featuring panelists from Maeve Project (Maya Stewart), Uganda Energy Credit Capitalisation Company (Fred Tuhairwe, MSc. RET, (PMP)®), and SNV (Kansiime Peace).

What a week it was for EnDev’s Demand Side Subsidy component!   🗣 Last Monday the Demand-Side Subsidy team spoke at Global Platform for Action (GPA) Humanitarian Energy Conference about:   🔷 Clean cooking solutions in refugee settlements in Northen Uganda 🔷 Approaches to bridge the affordability gap for people living in displacement settings   From Tuesday to Thursday, the team attended GOGLA’s Global Off-Grid Solar Forum and Expo. EnDev, as part of the #EndUserSubsidyLab, co-organised a workshop on designing responsible demand-side subsidies. The session was attended by almost 70 government representatives and key stakeholders from both the private and public sectors.   The toolkit on designing responsible subsidies for off-grid solar and clean cooking technologies is an initiative of the End-User Subsidy Lab, comprising ESMAP - Energy Sector Management Assistance Program, Clean Cooking Alliance (CCA), GOGLA and EnDev.   Find the toolkit here ⬇ or drop us a message if you want to know more!   #HEC2024, #HumanitarianEnergy #SDG7 #GOGSFE24 Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) | Partner in Sustainable Development Marsida Rada,, Olivia de Vesci, Christian Borchard, Myrte van der Spek, Marcel Raats, Federico Hinrichs, Patrick Tonui, Jenny Tracy, Jean-Louis Racine Duda Slawek

Energy for Refugees: about 70.000 people reached    We need the whole package to drive the humanitarian energy agenda forward: collective action, political commitments, partnerships, and resource mobilisation.   At EnDev, leaving no one behind has been a core principle since the beginning of the programme: Refugees, internally displaced people (#IDP), and their host communities are some of the furthest left behind in terms of energy access. However, access to energy is essential to provide the most vulnerable populations with electricity, sustainable cooking technologies, clean water, and economic opportunities. We are working with both the private sector and civil society to support the development of the local market for renewable energy services in several refugee camps and host communities.     That way, we have reached almost 70,000 refugees and IDPs within the last year alone!    But let’s start at the beginning.     EnDev supports 12 countries with significant populations displaced by conflict or natural disasters. In these remote host communities, people often rely on harmful energy sources for their daily needs, such as charcoal, wood, kerosene, and diesel generators. Humanitarian organisations tend to either overlook the topic of energy access or rely on low-quality freely distributed products which can disrupt the development of local markets.   Meanwhile, EnDev empowers local entrepreneurs and works towards creating sustainable markets. This enables displaced populations to access clean energy technologies for lighting, charging devices, cooking, and starting small businesses.     The Smart Communities Coalition Innovation Fund (SCCIF), for example, aims to bring a paradigm shift in humanitarian settings by introducing innovations that provide clean drinking water, electricity, and e-mobility in Kenya and Uganda. Find out more about the SCCIF and how it works: https://lnkd.in/eR9iqJYd   #LNOB #EnDev #SDG7 #HumanitarianEnergy #Refugees USAID # LNOB

  📢 Out now: Publication on Innovative Finance for Energy Access     Achieving #SDG7 requires closing a $38 billion annual financing gap for energy access projects worldwide. Our publication provides critical insights and practical recommendations to help practitioners, donors, and investors unlock the capital needed to fuel sustainable energy access and empower vulnerable communities.     🔍 What’s Inside?      ✅ Defining Innovative Finance: Understanding how new or adapted financial tools can effectively channel capital and mobilise additional funds for energy access.      ✅ Energy Access Finance Toolkit: A deep dive into traditional tools like grants, debt, equity, and risk-sharing instruments, alongside emerging tools such as carbon finance, aggregation, and anchor-based financing.      ✅ Trends in Innovative Finance: Exploring the growing role of crowdfunding, local currency financing, and climate finance in overcoming barriers for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and locally-owned companies.      ✅ Key Challenges and Solutions: Insights into addressing ticket size mismatch, risk perception, due diligence burdens, and lack of local currency financing for early-stage companies.      EnDev and other development partners have a key role to play in helping companies secure reliable financing on increasingly commercial terms in order to grow their business and build markets that provide inclusive energy access. By sharing our learnings, we aim to enable EnDev practitioners to effectively attract finance to the energy access sector.      🔗 Have a look and stay tuned as we post recommendations and opportunities regarding innovative finance for energy access! ⏬      #InnovativeFinance #EnergyAccess #SDG7 #ClimateFinance #EnDev   New Silk Roads  

🌾 Empowering Smallholder Farmers in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Uganda with Climate-Friendly Energy Solutions  Since January 2021, EnDev has promoted a targeted project for the Productive Use of Energy (#PUE) in the dairy and horticultural value chains across Ethiopia, Kenya, and Uganda. The Sustainable Energy for Smallholder Farmers (SEFFA) project, supported by the IKEA Foundation, is dedicated to improving livelihoods and strengthening resilience to climate change by integrating renewable energy technologies into agricultural practices. Why is this important?  In rural Ethiopia, Kenya, and Uganda, smallholder farmers often lack access to reliable energy services or rely on costly, harmful sources. This limits their ability to farm efficiently and preserve their products. By introducing climate-friendly technologies, SEFFA supports farmers reduce their dependence on fossil fuels, cut operational costs, and lower greenhouse gas emissions – making agriculture more sustainable and productive. The project focuses on solar technologies for irrigation, cooling, and drying, allowing smallholder farmers to, for example:  🔹 Utilise solar irrigation for fruit and vegetable production, as well as solar drying and cooling during post-harvest processes.  🔹 Improve milk and dairy production and preservation with solar cooling and water pumping systems, ensuring better water supply and feed for dairy cows. As SEFFA comes to a close at the end of the year, we’re proud to highlight one key success:  👩🏽🌾 At least 33% of the smallholder farmers supported are women! This not only ensures inclusive growth but also empowers these women to sustainably operate PUE technologies and contribute to their communities. Interested in learning more about SEFFA? Check out our video!    #EnDev #SDG7 #Sustainability #ClimateResilience #PUE GIZ Ethiopia and Djibouti GIZ Kenya GIZ Uganda    

Are you interested in business cases for productive use of energy (#PUE) in agricultural value chains? And how we can ensure no one is left behind (#LNOB) in terms of energy access in humanitarian settings?   Then, we're excited to announce that EnDev will showcase its approaches, successes and insights at the Global Off-Grid Solar Forum and Expo from 8–10 October in Nairobi, Kenya!   🤜 🤛 Join us and our partners at these side sessions and be part of the conversation! 8 October: 💡 Session: Outside the Box: Multi-sectoral cooperation for sustainable scaling of solar irrigation  ⏰ Time: 03:45 PM EAT  📍 Venue: Lenana Room, KICC, Nairobi  🎙️ Samwel Tobiko Naimasia, EnDev Regional Project Coordinator (GIZ) will join the discussion. 9 October: 💡 Session: Innovative Business Models to advance PURE (Fee for Service)  ⏰ Time: 3:45 PM EAT  📍 Venue: Aberdares Room, KICC, Nairobi  🎙️ Helen Kyomugisha, Programme Component Manager (GIZ Uganda), will be part of the panel. Looking forward to seeing you there!  #EnDev #SDG7 #GOGSFE GIZ Kenya GIZ Uganda IKEA Foundation   

Humbled ... ... by the wealth of knowledge shared on building energy access markets during the Energising Development (EnDev) exchange in Uganda in September with representatives from 20 EnDev countries, implementers and partners. Empowered to manage this programme in a team with Alexander Haack, Jelena Popovic, Barbara Richard, Patrick Pawletko. Very pleased with contributions from Netherlands Enterprise Agency colleagues Myrte van der Spek, Hannah Wijmenga Eva Top and Anne Grootenhuis Sacha Slootheer Marnix C.Alexander van Holland, Bianca van der Kroon Derk de Haan Evi Vogel Heidi Marchal Gopika Shibu and of course Marcel Raats who all contributed their part to the success of the partnership. Very grateful for collaborating with the wider GIZ/SNV/AVSI/MECS/PA/SE4All team Alicia Butterfield Verena Johanna Brinkmann Rianne Teule Al Mudabbir Bin Anam Mario Merchán Andrés Sarah Thomas-Parensen Pia Hopfenwieser Aukje De jager Bastiaan Teune Zibusiso Ncube Alessandro Galimberti Khadija Sungeni Mussa, MSS Elizabeth Wangeci Chege Victoria Butegwa Un-Young Yong Rebecca R. Simone Fehrenbach Nathan Moore Natty B. Davis III Maximilian C. R. Salima Salimo Johanna Hartmann Helen Kyomugisha and many more! Thank you and looking forward to working with you and many more to make universal energy access to modern sustainable energy a reality by 2030.