Lighting Kenya 2

completed

Building upon the success of the Lighting Kenya pilot program, this program will scale up energy access in the more remote, undeveloped rural areas that have not yet benefitted from the dynamic Kenya off-grid solar lighting market. This will be achieved by: (i) working with FIs and Associate distributors that are positioned to address the difficult last mile market segment to support the development and scale-up of new solar product finance and marketing offerings. The MFI channel in particular, provides a unique vehicle for directly enhancing gender participation in the off-grid supply chain.(ii) catalyzing commercial markets to enable development of the supply chains and scale up of RE products through consumer awareness and support to the supply chain (iii) addressing consumer and supply chain financing barriers that impede the development of the last mile off-grid lighting market by setting up after sales service support structures to redeem warranties and backstop the service level commitments that FIs have provided to their clients.