Beyond the Grid Fund for Africa - Beyond the Grid Fund for Africa - Liberia

About this project

The Beyond the Grid Fund for Africa (BGFA) is a planned expansion and scale up of an innovative, results-based initiative incentivising private sector to provide affordable, efficient, high quality, renewable energy services to underserved people in off-grid rural and peri-urban areas that builds on experience of the Beyond the Grid Fund for Zambia. Sida's proposed support to BGFA includes, Burkina Faso, Liberia, Mozambique, Zambia, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. BGFA aims to reach 5-15 million people with clean, renewable and reliable energy services. BGFA is designed to stimulate and accelerate the emergence of new business models for provision of affordable energy access at scale whilst demonstrating sustainability over time. The BGFA particularly supports the objectives of the Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG 7), which aims to ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy access for all by 2030. BGFA is a tailored, results-based incentive scheme for private sector early movers in risky frontier markets that are targeting underserved market segments. BGFA uses a tailored tender process (Social Impact Procurement) to “procure” modern energy services that are currently not sufficiently profitable for purely commercial activity. BGFA works in parallel to improve market ecosystem conditions, utilising a combination of capacity building and technical assistance, stakeholder outreach and market intelligence development, in a “Platform for…

Goals

Sustainable Development Goals this project works towards

• 5Gender Equality
• 7Affordable and Clean Energy
• 13Climate Action
• 17Partnerships for the Goals

Published by

Sweden · Government

Focus

Gender equality · Also contributesEnvironment · Also contributesClimate mitigation · Main focus

Places

Gbarpolu County, Montserrado, Margibi, Bomi, Grand Bassa County, Lofa

Funded by

Sweden

Implemented by

NEFCO/Nordic Environment Finance Corporation

Accountable

NEFCO/Nordic Environment Finance Corporation

Passes funds through

Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency

Published by Sweden to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), last updated 2 Nov 2026 and imported automatically. IATI identifier: SE-0-SE-6-12534-12534A0107.

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