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Marketing skills are vital in securing success for small energy businesses. Find out how GVEP’s specialist training is addressing marketing-specific issues faced by small-scale energy entrepreneurs, including lack of promotion, suitable business premises, product range and awareness.

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A five-year programme rewards entrepreneurship across East Africa by supporting micro-businesses to establish energy services and create employment opportunities in rural areas.

As part of its Energy Small and Medium Enterprises programme (ESMEs), GVEP has completed a study which looks at the pico and micro-hydropower market in Rwanda.  

Our Impact

As a result of our work with businesses an estimated one million people now have improved access to clean energy, whether that’s through efficient cooking stove or a solar powered device to charge their mobile phone.

 

Carbon finance fuels market for cleaner cooking technologies

GVEP has teamed up with the Uganda Carbon Bureau to help improve access to carbon finance for small cookstove producers.

Making solar lanterns accessible to women in rural Kenya 

The LED solar lamps not only serve as sustainable energy solutions to the women and their families, but will also save household budgets for lighting fuel spent on kerosene.

Renewable energy for a sustainable future: a video documentary

Through the Developing Energy Enterprising Programme, GVEP continues to nurture businesses so they can meet the needs of people in their communities.

 

 

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