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Financing the Future: How Off-Balance-Sheet Special Purpose Vehicles Could Fund Africa’s Cleantech Transition
Across Africa, founders are tackling some of the world’s most difficult development challenges with cleantech solutions that require significant capital expenditure. But according to Julia Lawson-Johns, and Amar Inamdar at KawiSafi Ventures, beneath this wave of innovation lies a capital architecture that is still too shallow to enable the scale these firms now require. They argue that off-balance-sheet financing via special-purpose vehicles could provide cleantech enterprises with an alternative means of securing upfront liquidity to finance growth, and explore how these vehicles could power Africa’s cleantech transition.
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- Agriculture, Energy, Finance, Investing, Transportation
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Analysis: AI Offers Promise for Agriculture, but Smallholder Farmers Risk Being Left Behind
Precision tools lift yields in rich countries, but without finance, training and data rights, small farmers in poorer regions may miss out.
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- Agriculture, Energy, Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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WFP and Government of Nepal Launch Innovation Accelerator for Climate and Food Security
The accelerator supports local start-ups to pilot and scale solutions across the food system, including solar-powered irrigation and clean energy solutions, digital advisory platforms for farmers, satellite-based insurance and climate data tools and market and value chain innovations for smallholders.
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- Agriculture, Energy, Investing, Technology
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- South Asia
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Cascador Pitch Day 2026: Over $5 Million Deployed to Seven Transformative & Impactful Entrepreneurs In Nigeria
Cascador’s ScaleUp Program works with an elite cohort of entrepreneurs to strengthen leadership, sharpen strategy, and prepare founders to scale sustainably.
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- Agriculture, Energy, Investing, Social Enterprise, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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OPEC Fund Provides $150 Million Loan to South Africa
The loan forms part of a wider international financing package co-financed by the World Bank, the African Development Bank, KfW and the Japan International Cooperation Agency.
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- Energy, Environment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Analysis: Beyond the Horizon: What Off-Grid Solar and Clean Cooking Can Reveal About the Road Ahead for Clean Cooling
Clean cooling is at an inflection point. The need is clear, proof-of-concept technologies exist, and the market is forming. The decisions made now will shape the sector for a generation. The experience of off-grid solar and clean cooking tells us what might lie over the horizon.
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- Energy, Environment
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- Global
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British International Investment Commits $20 Million to Anzana Electric Group to Scale Distributed Renewable Energy Access Across Africa
This will support Anzana to accelerate the development of small and medium-scale hydropower projects in East, Central and Southern Africa, with the first project expected to be in Zambia.
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- Energy, Investing, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Analysis: India’s Cooking Fuel Crisis Needs a Multi-Fuel Clean Energy Strategy
A multi-fuel strategy built around electrification, biogas and solar can offer energy security, affordability and fiscal relief to India.
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- Energy, Environment
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- Asia Pacific
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