The majority of the developing world lives without access to energy, greatly restricting their potential for development in terms of health, education and enterprise. GVEP International is a non-profit organisation that hat works to increase access to modern energy and reduce poverty in developing countries. GVEP helps entrepreneurs to create micro, small and medium size energy enterprises to meet the local energy needs focusing on modern, affordable and renewable solutions. To take off and become self-sustaining and successful, energy businesses need access to enabling resources, such as technology, skills, capital and delivery network. Our programmes are designed to help SMEs overcome these gaps. We provide them with technical and business advice and link them with financial institutions to access the capital they need to deliver real results in their communities.
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Our Focus
Specific programmes and competitions help us meet the needs of energy entrepreneurs providing them with investment, business plan advice and the impetus to develop and improve their businesses.
Recent strategies and partnerships include:
Developing Energy Enterprises Programme (DEEP) training and supporting over 900 micro entrepreneurs in East Africa.
Supporting energy SMEs in Sub-Saharan Africa, a $30 million programme providing technical and financial assistance to small and medium enterprises.
Loan guarantee fund encouraging the flow of credit by underwriting loans to energy businesses.
Energy Access Finance Fund raising a new fund to invest in energy companies, together with impact investment fund manager, Alpha Mundi.
Business plan contests to award financial and technical help, such as the IDEAS Energy Innovation Contest and the Access to Clean Energy Challenge East Africa, run in tandem with the BiD Network.
Our Experience And Interest In The Four PCIA Central Focus Areas
GVEP International works with local entrepreneurs who are knowledgeable of the local needs, markets and viable solutions to energy poverty.
We aim to faciliate the development of local markets through offering business development assistance and access to ficinance to our local micro, small and medium entreprises.
GVEP International will actively support quality standards in renewable technologies
Our Monitoring and Evaluations experts, provide support to entrepreneurs with the monitoring of their own projects, as well as ensuring that GVEP is efficient at monitoring its own work.
Relevant Publications or Studies
Current and past GVEP publications can be downloaded in electronic format from this section. You can browse through our guides, studies and reports, technology factsheets, policy briefings, annual reviews and training material. to download GVEP publications please follow this link: http://www.gvepinternational.org/en/business/publications-0
Our Contribution to the Partnership
We hope to collaborate with PCIA to improve access to energy across the developing world.
