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From Declarations to Delivery: Making Energy Access Real by Africa Climate Summit 2025
By ACCESS Coalition Team At the Africa Climate Summit 2023 in Nairobi, African leaders sent a powerful message through the Nairobi Declaration on Climate Change and Call to Action: energy access is no longer optional,
COP30 is Coming Fast. Let it NOT be another Global Gathering of Good Intentions…
By Patricia Mbogo, Executive Director, ACCESS Coalition In February this year, ACCESS Coalition-with support from ENERGIA , Kenya Climate Change Working Group and Christian Aid Kenya-convened civil society organizations, government agencies, and development partners for a
Reaffirming African Development Bank’s Commitment to a Socially Just Energy Transition in Africa
By Patricia Mbogo, Executive Director, ACCESS Coalition At the 2025 African Development Bank Annual Meetings held in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, the Bank reaffirmed its ambition to tackle one of Africa’s most pressing development challenges: energy
Digital Advocacy for Civil Society Organizations
By Florence Gichoya ACCESS convened a virtual capacity development session for civil society organizations (CSOs) on digital advocacy, on October 9th 2024. Digital advocacy plays a key role in shaping policies by raising awareness, educating
Impact of Mini-grids in Ghana’s Island Communities
By Florence Gichoya The Strategic Youth Network for Development (SYND), ACCESS Coalition’s Western Africa node, conducted a community engagement activity in Ghana. The study evaluated the impact of solar mini-grids that were set up in
Unlocking Financing for Clean Cooking Access in Southern Africa
By Florence Gichoya Action 24, the southern node of the ACCESS Coalition, held a webinar on, ‘Unlocking Global Finance Streams for Clean Cooking and Energy Access in Southern Africa.’ The webinar aimed to create awareness
ACCESS Regional COP 29 Webinar on Climate Finance and Just Transition
By Florence Gichoya The ACCESS Coalition’s regional nodes convened a pre-COP 29 webinar on Climate Finance and Just Transition. Representatives from the ACCESS Secretariat, Action 24, Kenya Climate Change Working Group (KCCWG), and Strategic Youth
DRC-Kenya Learning Exchange on Inclusive Energy Planning
By Florence Gichoya Energy stakeholders from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Kenya participated in a five-day learning exchange workshop on ‘Accelerating Development Through Inclusive Energy Planning’ in Naivasha, Kenya, on July 1-5, 2024.
AfDB Side Event – Shaping the Financing Architecture for an Equitable Energy Transition
Henry Paul Batchi Baldeh, AfDB’s Director for Power Systems Development By Florence Gichoya The African Development Bank (AfDB) Annual Meetings were held on May 27–31, 2024, in Nairobi, Kenya. ACCESS Coalition co-hosted a side event