Clean energy access in Sub-Saharan Africa
Over 600 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa live today without access to electricity. For most of these people, connection to the grid is not likely to happen for decades, or even longer.
The Beyond the Grid Fund for Africa (BGFA) is a facility established in 2019 as an expansion and scaling up of Sweden’s innovative, results-based financing initiative in Zambia. It aims to reduce this energy gap by stimulating and accelerating new business models to incentivise the private sector to offer affordable and clean energy access at scale to people living in rural and peri-urban areas.
The BGFA programme aims to establish up to 1.75 million energy connections by 2029, benefiting more than 8.7 million people in Burkina Faso, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Liberia, Mozambique, Uganda and Zambia.
Read more about the BGFA programme and the funded projects at www.beyondthegrid.africa
The BGFA contributes to the following Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
How to apply for funding
The BGFA programme is based on Call for Proposals inviting private sector companies to apply for funding for a certain country. In total, six founding rounds have been announced between 2020-2024. Follow www.beyondthegrid.africa/funding-rounds/ for more information.
Eligible entities
Private companies working in the off-grid sector, and which have established or soon will establish a local business entity in a BGFA programme country.
Project implementation partners
Nefco is implementing the BGFA programme with support from its project implementation partners NIRAS and Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP).
Contributors
The Beyond the Grid Fund for Africa is funded by Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Germany. PowerAfrica, an initiative administered by USAID, is providing an in-kind technical assistance contribution.
Contact BGFA
Visit the BGFA website for more information: www.beyondthegrid.africa
For general enquiries, please contact the BGFA team by email to their beneath email addresses.
BGFA in 2023: Over one million lives impacted so far
Established clean energy access through BGFA in 2023 is benefitting 1,500 African businesses and impacting a total of 1.2 million lives across five Sub-Saharan African countries.
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