This pillar amplifies the voices of African communities engaged in renewable energy projects while crafting a compelling narrative that highlights the benefits of renewable energy for Africa, such as energy independence, economic empowerment, and environmental stewardship. By documenting grassroots initiatives and success stories, it ensures community perspectives shape the renewable energy discourse and influence policy and investment decisions, empowering communities to advocate for their rights and future.

This pillar engages with key political institutions to drive renewable energy policies by leveraging Africa’s influential positions in organisations like the Accelerated Partnership for Renewables in Africa (APRA) and the African Union’s Africa Energy Commission (AFREC). It also collaborates with countries in strategic roles, such as Malawi as LDC Chair and South Africa in the G20, to advocate for international support. Additionally, this pillar works to strengthen national regulatory frameworks, ensuring policies align with Africa’s renewable energy ambitions and removing legal barriers to adoption.

This pillar highlights the importance of transition minerals, such as lithium and cobalt, essential for renewable energy technologies. It promotes sustainable mining practices alongside local beneficiation and industrialization, ensuring that Africa not only extracts these resources responsibly but also processes and manufactures renewable energy technologies locally. By advocating for policies that support responsible extraction, local processing, and value-added industries, the campaign seeks to drive industrial growth across Africa, fostering economic empowerment while addressing the social and environmental impacts of mining.

This pillar underscores the critical need for sustainable clean cooking alternatives, as around 90% of African households rely on traditional biomass fuels, which contribute to severe health issues and environmental degradation. By promoting efficient renewable-based cooking technologies – such as solar cookers, biogas systems, and improved cookstoves – this campaign aims to reduce reliance on harmful fuels, improve health outcomes, and lower greenhouse gas emissions. Emphasizing standalone clean cooking systems is essential for empowering rural communities and enhancing energy independence, ensuring that the transition to renewable energy comprehensively addresses all aspects of energy access and sustainability while fostering healthier living conditions.

This pillar amplifies the voices of African communities engaged in renewable energy projects while crafting a compelling narrative that highlights the benefits of renewable energy for Africa, such as energy independence, economic empowerment, and environmental stewardship. By documenting grassroots initiatives and success stories, it ensures community perspectives shape the renewable energy discourse and influence policy and investment decisions, empowering communities to advocate for their rights and future.

This pillar engages with key political institutions to drive renewable energy policies by leveraging Africa’s influential positions in organisations like the Accelerated Partnership for Renewables in Africa (APRA) and the African Union’s Africa Energy Commission (AFREC). It also collaborates with countries in strategic roles, such as Malawi as LDC Chair and South Africa in the G20, to advocate for international support. Additionally, this pillar works to strengthen national regulatory frameworks, ensuring policies align with Africa’s renewable energy ambitions and removing legal barriers to adoption.

This pillar focuses on ensuring that public and climate finance is directed towards truly sustainable and equitable renewable energy projects in Africa. It advocates for increased investment from international, national, and multilateral development banks (MDBs) that prioritize renewable energy development over fossil fuels. The campaign emphasizes the need for financial mechanisms that support community-led initiatives, innovative technologies, and scalable solutions while addressing Africa’s growing debt crisis. It calls for investments that do not contribute to debt accumulation or economic dependency but instead foster long-term resilience and energy independence. Additionally, the campaign seeks to challenge green extractivism and exploitation by promoting financing models that benefit African economies and communities without perpetuating environmental harm.

This pillar highlights the importance of transition minerals, such as lithium and cobalt, essential for renewable energy technologies. It promotes sustainable mining practices alongside local beneficiation and industrialization, ensuring that Africa not only extracts these resources responsibly but also processes and manufactures renewable energy technologies locally. By advocating for policies that support responsible extraction, local processing, and value-added industries, the campaign seeks to drive industrial growth across Africa, fostering economic empowerment while addressing the social and environmental impacts of mining.