Powering Africa through Mission 300

The World Bank Group and the African Development Bank, working together with SEforALL, the Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet (GEAPP) and The Rockefeller Foundation have embarked on an ambitious effort to help provide electricity access to 300 million people in Africa by 2030, known as Mission 300.

Access to electricity is the critical link to any successful development effort. Yet nearly 600 million Africans – which is about half the region’s population – lack access to electricity, creating significant barriers to health care, education, productivity, digital inclusivity, resilience and jobs creation.

Our SEforALL analysis shows that at the current pace of electricity access expansion and high demographic growth on the continent, the number of Africans without electricity access will remain largely unchanged unless we step up our efforts.

We cannot wait, now is the time to fast-track energy access. Technology breakthroughs, digitization, and innovative financing and business models are creating unprecedented opportunities, that make achieving universal energy access more feasible than ever.

We need to work together and at pace

To succeed, Mission 300 needs partners from diverse sectors — governments, philanthropies, the private sector, and multilaterals — to come together in ways that allow us to work quickly and differently than ever before.

Together, we can make a historic change in global energy access accelerating the pace of electrification across Africa.