With the help of the World Bank Group, Ethiopia is pioneering a new model to promote equality between men and women while it works toward universal electricity access.
ESMAP helped establish the African Mini Grid Developers Association, the first ever association in the continent to promote mini grid solutions for rural and off-grid consumers and work with governments to integrate mini grids into…
Supported by ESMAP and a team of experts from across the World Bank, a new first-of-a-kind initiative is closing gender gaps and creating equitable institutions across Ethiopia’s energy sector.
The Rwandan government is dedicated to expanding access to electricity and aims to increase its electrification rate, first to 70 percent by 2018, and subsequently to 100 percent by 2020 – an ambitious target considering that approximately…
In the past decade, Ethiopia has become one of the world's fastest growing economies, with a 10.9 percent growth rate that represents twice the region's average growth rate of 5 percent. The Ethiopian government has made universal access…
The world is not on track to meet the global energy targets for 2030 set as part of the Sustainable Development Goals, but real progress is being made in certain areas according to a new report from five international agencies.
