Publication database

This roadmap is a step-by-step guide for off-grid clean energy companies to identify and adopt strategies to serve female customers more effectively. The roadmap was developed by the Power Africa Off-grid Project following a pilot with GDC member Simusolar to develop a market-focused gender strategy. By following this roadmap, your company can gain a deeper understanding of female farmers’ demands and challenges—distinct from those of men—in gaining access to productive use of energy (PUE) technology. Power Africa is grateful to Simusolar for its collaboration and willingness to share the lessons and tools in this roadmap.

This how-to-guide from the Global Distributors Collective is useful for last mile distributors looking to expand their product offering for customers. Exploring what this means for different distribution models, as well as key factors to consider including market, impact, organisational and logistical fit, the guide also features four case studies from the GDC membership. It was produced via a project delivered in partnership with Solar Sister and financed by EEP Africa.

This Access to Finance Guide has been put together  to help entrepreneurs, and women-owned small and growing businesses, through their funding journey. The guide will provide information about the funding landscape in South Africa, types of funders, criteria, the process, tips from funders, and more. 

The booklet highlights the importance of impact measurement and management (IMM) in small and growing business support, drawing on stories from members of ANDE South Africa's Metrics Learning Lab. It highlights their measurement approaches, impact successes and their learnings in impact measurement. The booklet also shares conversations that have been taking place at the Metrics Learning Lab to encourage further dialogue in the sector and foster a greater commitment to IMM amongst SGB support organizations.

The report is split into two key sections: the first one is an overview of impact investors, and how active they are across the largest markets on the continent. Each investor in the overview section has a more in-depth profile, listed below. These profiles offer more actionable information about each investor: where they are active, a brief description about them, their office locations, as well as other useful data points. This directory is intended to help students, researchers, journalists, analysts, government officials, startups, investors, and many others to get a better picture of impact investing activity across Africa.

This report aims to help companies advance women’s economic empowerment in their operations and across their value chains in sub-Saharan Africa. It focuses on the economic, social, cultural, and political challenges facing women in the region and offers companies recommendations on how to promote women’s economic empowerment through their own actions and by enabling and influencing others.

Recent studies have suggested that open data policies could deliver significant economic benefits for both developed and developing countries. The African Development Bank has spearheaded the promotion and facilitation of open data policies in Africa. In 2012, when the implementation of the open data approach was still in its infancy in many countries, the Statistics Department of the African Development Bank launched the Africa Information Highway (AIH) initiative. This provided a data publishing platform for all its 54 African regional member countries. This paper was commissioned as a subsequent stage of this work.

The Power Africa Partners Toolbox provides a comprehensive view of the tools and resources Power Africa uses to drive deals and facilitate investment. These tools fall into six major categories: Transaction assistance, finance, policy and regulatory design and reform, legal assistance, capacity building and informational resources.

This study provides an evaluation of the impact of the Connected Farmer mobile agriculture (mAgri) solution and documentation of the lessons learned during its implementation. The Connected Farmer solution addresses the value chain management inefficiencies and increases productivity of both the agribusiness and the smallholder farmers who supply them.