Over USD 850,000 in funding will support electrification projects benefitting over 7,000 people in Sinlita, Gbowele and Don Akadjamey

The Chief of Staff to the President, Federal Republic of Nigeria, Femi Gbajabiamila, alongside the UN SRSG for Sustainable Energy for All, Damilola Ogunbiyi, visited the Iponri Market in Lagos to witness the success of the UEF and its partners.

The Universal Energy Facility (UEF) – a multi-donor results-based financing facility managed by Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) – is signing several grant agreements with mini-grid companies in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Madagascar and Sierra Leone in the coming weeks. The grantees will receive financial support to build solar mini-grids in communities without access to clean energy and where other polluting energy sources, such as diesel and petrol generators, charcoal and firewood, are common.