KNOWLEDGE HUB
The PREO Impact Report 2022/23, explores the latest impact insights from the PREO programme, demonstrating the socio-economic benefits of investing in revenue and income-generating products and services in Africa. The report brings together programme level highlights on the breadth of PREO’s impact across companies, regions and sectors, and dives in to detailed examples from a range of PREO-funded enterprises – demonstrating the impact of PREO support on business model viability, knowledge building, and attracting scale-up capital, as well as the wider impact of this work on end users, communities, and local economies.
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This recent report from PREO, ‘Made in Africa: Impact of local manufacturing on profits, people and products. Insights from the off-grid energy sector in sub-Saharan Africa’, analyses the opportunity to capture the local ‘share of value’ while accelerating energy access in the off-grid sector. The report states that ‘local manufacturing and assembly can increase profitability by 10% to 40% by avoiding import duties, retaining supplier margins and reducing shipping costs’.
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The latest report from PREO, ‘Charging Ahead – Accelerating e-mobility in Africa’ outlines the market opportunity for e-motorcycles to become a driving force in the African e-mobility sector and examines how three PREO-supported companies – Roam (previously Opibus), Mobile Power and Zembo – are successfully addressing each of these barriers, and together are providing the solutions needed to support an enabling ecosystem to accelerate progress across the entire e-mobility sector.
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New analysis examining the scale of investment opportunity in the productive use of energy (PUE)
PUE market opportunity in rural sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is estimated to be $864 billion over the next ten years, $86 billion per year. The report highlights the economic and social benefits of
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The latest results from the PREO programme: demonstrating the business and impact case for investment in the productive use of energy (PUE)
Stimulating demand for off-grid renewable energy through PUE applications is a critical way to support sustainable business opportunities, grow local economies and reduce reliance on fossil fuels.
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Lacking reliable access to electricity, one in four healthcare facilities in sub-Saharan Africa struggle to provide quality care, resulting in poor outcomes like high infant and maternal mortality.
Discover how Afya Research Africa (ARA) is unlocking productive use of energy in healthcare by spearheading decentralised solar and information management systems in medical facilities across Kenya.
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