Offering access to an online Matchmaking and Networking platform where companies can present themselves and request meetings with others.
Location: Global
Sector: Improved cooking
Stakeholders: Clean Cooking Alliance
From: 19th – 22nd October
Providing mentoring and support to women working in all aspects of business, to help them to succeed and achieve economic empowerment.
Location: Global
Sector: Not specified
Stakeholders: Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship
Deadline: 22nd October
Welcoming proposals to support clean energy projects that include innovative technology or business models.
Location: Sub-Saharan Africa
Sector: Renewable Energy
Stakeholders: Camco, UK aid, DBEIS, EIB
Deadline: 29th October
Inviting applications in the form of a 3-page Concept Paper from companies providing hard to reach customers with energy access. Winners will win exposure and prize money.
Location: Global
Sector: Energy access
Stakeholders: Empower a Billion Lives
Deadline: 1st November
Seeking to fund early-stage distribution companies keen to launch a three month pilot with a long-term vision for scaling a proven poverty intervention.
Location: Global
Sector: Agriculture, energy access, health, water, livelihoods
Stakeholders: D-Prize
Deadline: 7th November
Inviting applications (particularly from women owned/led businesses and gender-smart businesses) to receive grants, investment and support for innovative solutions to water and energy issues in food production/processing and agriculture in South and Southeast Asia.
Location: South and Southeast Asia
Sector: Food supply chain
Stakeholders: Water and Energy for Food, BMZ, EU, Sida and USAID
Deadline: 12th November
Offering tenders through results-based financing to companies currently or planning to increase access to sustainable energy (applications can be for at least €250,000 but max €1.5M).
Location: 17 countries in Asia and Africa
Sector: Energy access
Stakeholders: RVO.nl
Deadline: 22nd November
Inviting applications from locally-rooted or Global South organisations for grants to advance gender equity in female leadership, tackling systemic or organisational change.
Location: Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, and South Africa; India, Indonesia, Philippines, and Sri Lanka; Brazil, Mexico, and Peru.
Sector: Improved cooking
Stakeholders: Co-Impact
Deadline: 20th December
Welcoming applications from companies supplying cookstoves or fuels in Haiti and working to increase the accessibility of improved cooking solutions.
Location: Haiti
Sector: Improved cooking
Stakeholders: Clean Cooking Alliance
Deadline: 31st December
Providing loans starting at $50k to viable energy access companies facing liquidity challenges due to COVID-19.
Location: 50 countries
Sector: Energy access
Stakeholders: SIMA and 16 partners
Deadline: Rolling
Supporting the development of innovative approaches to solving a challenge faced by people living on less than US$5 a day e.g. a new business model, technology, or new ways of delivering products.
Location: Global
Sector: Not specified
Stakeholders: Global Innovation Fund
Deadline: Rolling
Supporting early-stage companies with high developmental impact to scale up.
Location: Africa and India
Sector: Not specified
Stakeholders: DEG
Deadline: Rolling
Helping companies that have been hit by unexpected obstacles to keep on track with impact aims.
Location: Global
Sector: Not specified
Stakeholders: Open Road Alliance
Deadline: Rolling
Welcoming funding applications from early-stage companies that are primarily owned by ‘local’ founders from any sector.
Location: Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, and Nigeria
Sector: Not specified
Stakeholders: UNCAP
Deadline: Rolling
Welcoming applications from social enterprises keen to access coaching and partner with corporations.
Location: Global
Sector: Not specified
Stakeholders: MovingWorlds
Offering workshops and webinars on a range of topics around improved cooking. Sessions cover distribution, products, gender and trade.
Date: 15th-22nd October
Offering bespoke English and French training programmes for managers and sales agents selling beneficial products in sub-Saharan Africa.
Application deadline: 21st October
Bringing together stakeholders from the health, energy access and environment sectors to explore cookstoves standards, use of data in decision making, and more. Hosted by WHO and HEPA.
Date: Throughout 2021
Exploring the improved cooking sector and access to cooking solutions around the world. A four-part online course from the World Bank Group.
Date: Rolling
Offering four modules in both English and Spanish, covering different approaches and benefits of inclusive business practice. An online course from iBAN.
Date: Rolling
Sharing findings from CGAP’s global review of credit risk management practices in asset finance and discussing the importance of managing credit risk with industry leaders.
Webinar Recording
Offering a step by step process to implement ESG reporting at your company and providing information about leading frameworks.
Blog
Bopinc and AYA’s webinar recording provides inspiring stories of ways in which female agribusiness entrepreneurs in Ghana have succeeded.
Webinar Recording
In the first episode of GOGLA’s podcast series, hear about the off-grid solar market including a candid conversation on the increasing demand in the sector and renewables as a climate action solution.
Podcast
Highlighting ways in which companies can integrate strategies for better gender equity, this interactive catalogue is relevant for companies working in the agriculture, energy access and health sectors.
Tool / Resource
IWMI have produced an online interactive tool mapping the high potential locations for solar irrigation pumps across sub-Saharan Africa.
Tool / Resource
This online sector-specific questionnaire generates a personalised gender scoring card for your company. The tool has been produced for companies in the Agriculture, Off-grid Energy, Power and Healthcare sectors.
Tool / Resource
These maps highlight where gender issues or opportunities may impact the financial condition or operating performance of companies in your sector, enabling you to identify business smart priority actions.
Tool / Resource
MovingWorlds have released a guide offering information and tools to help determine what impact looks like from a neutral perspective.
This impact report, by Power for All, draws from 35,000 customer interviews and offers a deep dive into why off-grid Renewable Energy matters to customers and how it can increase its impact.
This article explores the increase of the secondhand solar market around the world, the impact this could have, and the expected growth of this market segment going forward.
This GOGLA supported report highlights issues and offers suggestions on strengthening the sector in East Africa through a range of policy changes to affordability, innovation and skills development.
GOGLA have launched a Compact with the target that everyone will have power by 2030. Organisations are invited to join and show their commitment to this goal.
This publication, by iBAN, explores six ways off-grid companies could reduce the cost but maintain the quality of products. The advice includes embracing innovation and increasing collaboration.
This blog by GOGLA highlights the issues of stock shortage, product performance, and increasing prices currently faced by the off-grid solar industry.
Blog about the solar irrigation sector and offering an opportunity for companies to become involved in a collective effort to expand small-scale irrigation in Africa.
This blog highlights the societal factors, individual biases & mindsets influencing the adoption of solar home systems across Africa.
GOGLA explores the opportunities and challenges that greater standardisation and enhanced interoperability might have on the off-grid solar industry.
This blog explores the emergence of many new models for circularity in the off-grid solar industry.
Providing the latest market intelligence on products such as solar water pumps and refrigerators whilst also offering pathways to scale on 11 technologies.