BGFZ Impact

BGFZ News

BGFZ Wins 2019 UN Global Climate Action Award

26-09-2019, New York, USA/ We are delighted to announce that the Beyond the Grid Fund for Zambia has won a 2019 UN Global Climate Action Award in the category Financing for Climate Friendly Investment.

BGFZ Wins 2019 Ashden Award for Innovative Finance

26-06-2019, London, UK / We are delighted to announce that the Beyond the Grid Fund for Zambia has won the 2019 Ashden Award in the category Innovative Finance.

BGFZ Shortlisted for 2019 Ashden Award

08-05-2019, London, UK / The Beyond the Grid Fund for Zambia has been selected as a finalist for this year's Ashden Awards, which identify and promote organisations and businesses implementing excellent practical and innovative sustainable energy projects.

Press Release: BGFZ connects 100,000 Zambian Households

10-04-2019, Lusaka, Zambia / Innovative Sweden-funded programme that brings clean energy to over 100,000 Zambian households, benefiting 500,000 individuals, will now be expanded to three additional countries.

Lighting up Zambia (Publication)

01-03-2019, Lusaka, Zambia / 'Lighting up Zambia: The impacts of 1.5 years of Beyond the Grid Fund for Zambia' presents the impacts thus far of this highly successful programme. Nearly 500,000 Zambians have gained access to modern energy since the programme started in July 2017 - meet some of them in this brochure.

Steven Miyoba shows the solar panel on the roof of his house

How innovative payment systems are helping Zambians electrify their lives

01-02-2019, Lusaka, Zambia / For just a few Kwacha a day, subsistence farmers in rural Zambia can pay off solar lighting and phone charging systems supplied by Vitalite and Fenix International – two of four companies providing clean and reliable off-grid energy solutions through the Beyond the Grid Fund for Zambia.
"We are not only providing services and products, we’re also building capacity and improving quality of life."

Lister Sithole, Vitalite’s first agent in Zambia, shows customer Kennedy Matabula how the solar system works to provide lighting, phone changing and powers a radio

Sweden's Beyond the Grid Fund for Zambia signs first contracts with Energy Service Providers. The goal: modern energy for one million Zambians

10-07-2017, Lusaka, Zambia / Sweden’s Ambassador to Zambia Henrik Cederin signed four contracts last Friday with companies offering a variety of rural energy solutions, marking the start of operations of the Power Africa: Beyond the Grid Fund for Zambia (BGFZ)