Capacity Building

Off-Grid Market Support; Mobilizing Finance; Enabling Environment; Power Africa Toolbox; Empowering and Powering Women

➢ Consulting (independent and professional consultancy services to governments, NGOs, aid agencies and the private sector)➢ Publishing (online bookshop with digital books, peer reviewed journals etc.)➢ School resources (innovative resources for primary and secondary schools focusing on sustainability, climate change and renewable energy)➢ Practical information - Technical information service (free downloads of technical information on a range of topics)

Acts as an efficient knowledge broker; Develops technical solutions; Uses a unique Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning framework to generate evidence-based intelligence toward further growing and replicating promising models.

Technical assistance, Access to risk mitigation instruments, Access to long-term lending and assistance with financial structuring, Results-based finance.

International Training Program; Trainings to local women who ensure after sell services to the beneficiaries; Repair work for warranty expire accessories. Training for assembling and repair of solar accessories such as charge controller, lamp shade circuit, switch and other spare parts of solar home system.

Develop entrepreneur capacity; Remove barriers to growth by offering low-cost capital

Provides support for early stage testing and scale up of innovative technologies and business models that will accelerate access to affordable, clean energy services for poor households and enterprises, especially in Africa

Understanding the energy needs and market opportunities in the specific off-grid community or region is the first step in D-Lab's Off-Grid Energy Roadmap. D-Lab has developed the Energy Assessment Toolkit to guide local organizations through the process of gathering the information needed to make informed decisions about what technologies and business models are best suited to meet the specific needs in their community through market based initiatives. The toolkit is designed to be modular so that organization conducting the assessment can determine the scope and scale of the assessment, and consists of the following threes type of documents:Data Collection Tools;Data Analysis and Visualization Tools;Training and Supporting Documents.

AKF measures success when beneficiaries report improvements in their lives, and when the processes which led to these improvements serve as useful models in other places.

Programs are developed to reach young women at different levels, those in Primary School, High School and University, those working in technology and those who wish to have a career in technology, making it an effectively wholesome program.