Over half a billion people in Sub-Saharan Africa are at risk of being left behind without electricity access by 2030, with nearly 400 million of them living in countries subject to fragility, conflict, and violence. Africa is where the energy access battle will be won or lost. Without access to reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy, the region will not reach its development aspirations or achieve an economic transformation that can lift millions out of poverty.
Together with partners, the World Bank Group has already begun efforts to deploy innovative financial and technical solutions that are essential for accelerating electrification rates that outpace population growth.
The discussion will focus on what it will take to scale up the solutions and investments that will help connect millions more Africans to electricity and transform African economies.
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government and invests it in her small doughnut business. “I buy baking flour and make doughnuts for selling,” says Marcelina, a widow, who uses the money she makes to support her late sister’s five children. “From my last bi-monthly payment of 300 Kwacha ($14), I made doughnuts and sold them for 400 Kwacha that helps me pay for school fees for the orphaned children I look after. I urge all other widows to not only eat the money but grow it like I do.”
Netherlands for the World Bank 
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