Africa Minigrids Program

The Africa Minigrids Program (AMP) is a USD 50 million country-led technical assistance programme designed to stimulate the solar-battery minigrids market to boost electricity access in 21 countries. The goal is to bring the development benefits of energy access to a wide array of communities across the continent by focusing on supporting productive uses of energy, which supports socio-economic development by enhancing the quality of sectors that require energy input such as agriculture, healthcare, education, and small businesses.

Funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and implemented by UNDP in partnership with RMI (founded as Rocky Mountain Institute) and the African Development Bank (AfDB), AMP aims to build on, and complement, the existing work done by stakeholders across the minigrids space in Africa.

With country-level projects led by national implementing partners, the program benefits from regional coordination and knowledge-sharing activities co-led by UNDP and RMI including an AMP community of practice implemented by RMI’s Energy Transition Academy.

The AMP started implementation in 2022 and will continue until 2027. Participants include Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Chad, Comoros, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eswatini, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Sao Tome e Principe Somalia, Sudan, Zambia.

Learn more about the AMP here.