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UNCDF- Renewable Energy Challenge Fund - Uganda - Renewable Energy Challenge Fund

In Uganda, 80% of households in rural areas use kerosene for lighting . In addition, 97.6% of rural households depend on biomass for their cooking energy needs. Access to renewable energy is driven by local SMEs in production, importation or redistribution of various renewable energy technologies. These SMEs however face multiple challenges including limited access to financing for their operations, low capacity levels and limited awareness of their products among target communities. Sweden aims at using this Renewable Energy Challenge Fund to enable at least 15 SMEs to scale up their initiatives to reach the rural poor with modern renewable technologies. The programme will provide winning SMEs with funding, access to advisory support for both technical and management capacity building and a marketing component to raise awareness on renewable energy hence driving increased demand for quality sustainable energy. The agreement partner is working closely with several sector and international stakeholders that will enable improving regulation and driving for high quality technologies to be distributed by the SMEs. Finally the programme will also aim at connecting renewable energy SMEs to private investment options thereby securing the results achieved through more sustainable funding options.

Project ID

SE-0-SE-6-5118012201-UGA-23030

Activity status

2 - Implementation

Aid type

C01 - Project-type interventions

% to Uganda

100.00

Organisations

Funding

Sweden

Extending

Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency

Implementing

United Nations Development Programme

Accountable

UNCDF/UNITED NATIONS CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT FUND

CRS code	%
Power generation/renewable sources (23030)	100.0