Dr Paul Greener, explains the role of challenge funds in stimulating the market to provide solutions to social problems. By investing in innovative ideas of small and medium enterprises in Africa, AECF is promoting agricultural resilience and transformation.

The Renewable Energy and Adaption to Climate Technologies Household Solar (REACT-HS) window is set to change the solar industries in Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Sierra Leone by funding innovative and transformational business models that adapt to markets and increase access to electricity through off-grid stand-alone Solar Household Systems (SHS).

Nairobi, 8th May 2017: The Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund (AECF) limited - a spin-off of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) - was today launched at an event held in Nairobi.