In Uganda, many solar installations are carried out by freelancers. These often have little knowledge about solar technology and are therefore unable to provide customers with professional information. The consequences are: incorrect dimensioning of the … read more
Forty-nine motorcycles made little noise but raised much interest in Nairobi’s Karura Forest this morning, as the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) launched a pilot electric bikes project in the presence of Kenyan government officials and … read more
More than 260 charities on Monday urged banks not to finance a $3.5 billion oil pipeline in East Africa, concerned the project could lead to the loss of community land and livelihoods, environmental destruction and … read more
Do you have a mature product or business idea and/or a first prototype for the East African decentralized renewable energy sector? Then you are right at the Energy Camp East Africa! Individuals and teams who … read more
I recently visited a constituency where a government minister was defeated as the area MP in the just-concluded parliamentary elections. As I went about my work, I asked some of the people I met why … read more
Infrastructure development must be linked to a broader system of financial inclusion, a strong regulatory and institutional framework to govern service delivery and construction, resilient economic demand for services, long-term low-cost capital, and technology and … read more
AFSIA has been tracking solar projects in Africa for several years and conducts a daily surveillance of new projects being announced, awarded and commissioned. So far we have identified more than 6,200 largescale, Commercial and … read more
Sendea Academy, a department of Sendea Uganda, has been successfully offering training courses in solar technology since 2018. These courses aime to reduce the skills gap in the solar industry in Uganda. Therefore the biggest … read more
Uganda’s Batwa community are highly vulnerable; they don’t own much land and often don’t have access to capital. They were one of the earliest residents of the Equatorial Forest – consisting of Uganda, Burundi, Rwanda and Democratic Republic of … read more
There is a disconnect between startup ambitions and market realities. The 10- or 20-yearold African VC thesis predicated on a growing, young, tech-savvy, middle class has yet to be proven, notes one investor: “Earlier this … read more
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