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How London charity is helping Kenyan energy entrepreneurs break distribution barriers
Kenyan businesses, like in most of sub-Saharan Africa, face numerous roadblocks on the way to delivering clean energy products to ‘hard-to-reach’, low-income customers in rural regions.
By Jerry Abuga 9 years ago
How London charity is helping Kenyan energy entrepreneurs break distribution barriers
Business mentoring bringing solar to more off-grid customers in Rwanda
27-year-old Mbacyenge Jean Bosco dropped out of high school in 2003 to let his younger sister acquire an education, as his parents could not afford the school fees for the two of them.
By Jerry Abuga 10 years ago
Business mentoring bringing solar to more off-grid customers in Rwanda
Clean technology innovator powering off-grid lake island
Award-winning renewable energy company PowerGen is providing distributed energy services to yet another remote community through a 1.5kW solar mini-grid.
By Jerry Abuga 10 years ago
Clean technology innovator powering off-grid lake island
Can financial rewards induce new and effective means of getting transformative development solutions to scale?
There has been renewed interest in challenge prizes over recent years, as a tool to drive development through innovation.
By Jerry Abuga 10 years ago
Can financial rewards induce new and effective means of getting transformative development solutions to scale?
Kapenguria Makutano sewerage project sparks anger
Rift Valley
By Irissheel Shanzu
1 hr ago
Pictorial: Drought ravages parts of Kenya
National
By Ronald Kipruto and Mercy Kahenda
2 hrs ago