Electrifying Africa: Delivering on Mission 300 Faster Together | February 26, 2026 | 9:00 - 10:00am EST

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Burundi faces persistent challenges in ensuring that electrification of public facilities translates into reliable delivery over time. While progress has been made in expanding access, weak maintenance arrangements, fragmented responsibilities, and limited financing mechanisms continue to undermine system functionality. Under the SOLEIL Nyakiriza project, the World Bank Group is supporting the electrification of 700 health and education facilities, alongside a comprehensive approach to system sustainability.

Join us for this session to explore SOLEIL’s standardized, modular system design and maintenance approach for public facilities, and how sustainability is being addressed beyond installation. The event will focus on how technical design choices, financing incentives, and institutional arrangements are jointly leveraged to keep systems operational. Drawing on concrete implementation experience in Burundi, the session will highlight lessons on designing modular systems based on current service needs, embedding maintenance into health financing, and building a cross‑sector national maintenance architecture to support long‑term service delivery.

This event is part of the ESMAP–Africa learning series Electrifying Africa: Delivering on Mission 300 Faster Together. The Electrifying Africa Program, established under ESMAP, is designed to accelerate electrification in Sub‑Saharan Africa and align with SDG7 to achieve universal electricity access by 2030.