Our Programme Partners provide valuable advice and consultation along with support around communication and dissemination activities. If you are interested in becoming a Programme Partner, please contact info@efficiencyforaccess.org.
60 Decibels are an impact measurement company, best known for their Lean Data approach. They measure social impact across the world, gathering customer, agent, staff, stakeholder insights, and social impact data.
The Alliance for Rural Electrification (ARE) is an international business association with the aim to promote a sustainable decentralised renewable energy industry for the 21st century, activating markets for affordable energy services, and creating local jobs and inclusive economies. ARE enables improved energy access through business development support for more than 175 Members along the whole value chain for off-grid technologies.
BASE uses its unique combination of expertise to unlock investment in sustainable energy and meet the challenge of climate change. We develop innovative ideas and tailored market-driven solutions for public and private organisations. With a strong global network of expert professionals and specialist organisations, we deliver effective solutions to each project.
The Energy and Environment Partnership Trust Fund (EEP Africa) provides early stage support to innovative clean energy projects, technologies and business models in 15 countries across Southern and East Africa. EEP Africa focuses on three core activities: grant and catalytic financing; investment facilitation & business development support; and knowledge, policy & partnerships. The overall objective is to enhance clean energy access, development and investment, with a focus on benefitting poor and underserved groups. EEP Africa is hosted and managed by the Nordic Development Fund (NDF) with funding from Austria, Finland and NDF.
Energy 4 Impact is a UK-registered non-profit organisation seeking to reduce poverty in Africa by accelerating access to clean energy, helping businesses and communities make better use of that expanded access, and working with the private sector to support the sustainability of these efforts. Energy 4 Impact values access to energy not as an end in itself but for the difference it makes to people’s lives every day, in terms of agricultural development, economic growth, humanitarian recovery and climate resilience. In September 2021, Energy 4 Impact merged with Mercy Corps to expand its impact and scale by integrating its expertise across Mercy Corps’ operations in new contexts and geographies
ENERGIA is an international network of like-minded organisations and professionals, active in Africa and Asia. Our vision is that women and men have equal and equitable access to and control over sustainable energy services as an essential human right to development. To achieve this, we contribute to energy access for all by scaling up the delivery of energy services through women-led micro and small businesses. We advocate for and provide technical support to mainstream gender approaches in energy policies and programmes. We provide the evidence base for improving energy investment effectiveness through research. We raise awareness and enhance knowledge of issues related to gender and energy through networking and knowledge products. Our efforts are consistent with the global agenda on poverty eradication, universal access to energy and gender equality under the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Energypedia is a non-profit online platform offering free access to expert information on renewables, energy access and energy efficiency in developing countries. We are motivated by our belief that knowledge sharing is power! Registered users can easily create and edit content on the platform. Our community includes energy practitioners, experts from the private and governmental sectors, academics, and other interested stakeholders from all over the world. Share your knowledge and expertise to help achieving sustainable energy for all!
Engineers Without Borders UK engages and galvanises the engineering community to serve all people and our planet better than ever before. Part of a global movement of over 60 Engineers Without Borders organisations, they inspire, enable and influence the engineering community and together take action to put global responsibility at the heart of engineering.
An example of their work is the award-winning Engineering for People Design Challenge. Every year they educate over 6,500 students so that they understand their responsibility and develop the skills to act on this. Engineers Without Borders UK are creating a generation that are entering the workplace ready to tackle our global challenges.
Engineers Without Borders USA (EWB-USA) is a nonprofit organization that builds a better world through engineering projects that empower communities to meet their basic human needs and equip leaders to solve the world's most pressing challenges. EWB-USA’s thousands of highly skilled volunteers work on more than 650 projects in partnership with local communities, NGOs, governments and UN agencies in 45 countries to design and implement sustainable and technologically appropriate infrastructure solutions.
The Global Distributors Collective (GDC) is a collective of last mile distributors around the world, dedicated to supporting distributors to reach millions of unserved customers with life-changing products, and to developing the last mile distribution sector as a whole. The GDC has more than 180 members in 50 countries who have jointly helped over 30 million people benefit from products with high positive impact such as solar lights, improved cookstoves and water filters. The GDC’s ambition is to make last mile distribution the first priority, so that life-changing products can be made affordable and available to all. The GDC is hosted by international development organisation Practical Action and activities are delivered in consortium with two implementing partners, Bopinc and Hystra.
GOGLA is the global association for the off-grid solar energy industry. Established in 2012, GOGLA now represents over 135 members as a neutral, independent, not-for-profit industry association. Its mission is to help its members build sustainable markets, delivering quality, affordable products and services to as many households, businesses and communities as possible across the developing world. The products and solutions that GOGLA members sell transform lives. They improve health and education, create jobs and income opportunities and help consumers save money.
The Just Rural Transition initiative (JRT) brings together a diverse group of stakeholders to champion people-centred solutions to food systems challenges. They aim to transform food systems by catalysing policy reform, encouraging investment partnerships, and mainstreaming food, land use, justice, equity, and rural livelihoods at the centre of efforts to realise sustainable development goals and the Paris Agreement.
The MECS programme is working across Sub-Saharan Africa to increase the uptake and accelerate the market for clean cooking solutions. The programme coordinates across the clean cooking industry to provide funding opportunities, lead design innovation, and offer insights on market transitions to modern energy cooking services.
Power for All is a broad-based coalition of more than 200 organizations campaigning to ensure a central role for distributed renewable energy solutions in ending energy poverty before 2030.
Practical Action is an innovative international development organisation putting ingenious ideas to work so people in poverty can change their world. They help people find solutions to some of the world's toughest problems made worse by catastrophic climate change and persistent gender inequality. Practical Action works with communities to develop ingenious, lasting and locally owned solutions for agriculture, water and waste management, climate resilience and clean energy.
RMI engages businesses, communities, institutions, and entrepreneurs to accelerate the adoption of market-based solutions that cost-effectively shift from fossil fuels to efficiency and renewables. We employ rigorous research, analysis, and whole-systems expertise to develop breakthrough insights. We then convene and collaborate with diverse partners—business, government, academic, nonprofit, philanthropic, and military—to accelerate and scale solutions.
RMI’s Africa program is working in sub-Saharan Africa to increase access to the productive use of sustainable electricity. Our goal is to transform the power sector and demonstrate how a whole-systems approach improves lives and accelerates economic development. To date, the program has worked with partners in Rwanda, Uganda, Sierra Leone, Malawi, Nigeria, and Ethiopia.
SNV is a not-for-profit international development organisation that makes a lasting difference in the lives of people living in poverty by helping them raise incomes and access basic services. We focus on only three sectors and have a long-term, local presence in over 25 countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Our team of more than 1,300 staff is the backbone of SNV.
Sun-Connect News is the leading news platform for the decentralized solar energy industry in developing countries. We provide news, articles, company and country information as well as background information for the off-grid industry worldwide. Our weekly newsletter provides free informational service for more than 10,000 recipients. The target audience includes companies (manufacturers and distributors), investors and finance institutes, NGOs, practitioners, and state facilities worldwide.
Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) is an international organization working with leaders in government, the private sector and civil society to drive further, faster action toward achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 7, which calls for universal access to sustainable energy by 2030, and the Paris Agreement, which calls for reducing greenhouse gas emissions to limit climate warming to below 2° Celsius. SEforALL empowers energy decision-makers by marshaling evidence, benchmarking progress, amplifying the voices of the energy poor, telling stories of success, and connecting stakeholders to one another. The combination of these activities enables greater attention and resources to reach the speed and scale necessary to achieve SDG7.
