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60 Decibels, a leading social impact measurement company, is proud to announce the publication of Why Off-Grid Energy Matters 2024, the world’s most comprehensive impact assessment of the off-grid sector to date.
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Let’s start with a simple thought experiment – imagine a young girl (27) delivers a baby in a typical off-grid rural village in Kenya. One day, she’s highly excited about her new baby girl. The next day she’s highly anxious because she can’t find a place to vaccinate her baby.
When one GOGLA member developed a gender action plan for their distribution operations, they noticed for the first time that women were self-excluding from lease-to-own offers due to perceptions that they did not meet traditional bankable criteria such as land-ownership or other cultural aspects.
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Traditionally, mini grids have been viewed as “off-grid” systems that are built and operated solely for communities without electricity. The reality, however, is that millions of people in Sub-Saharan Africa and India who are connected to the main grid suffer from poor grid reliability (“weak grid”)…

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