{"id":6049,"date":"2025-06-16T17:40:58","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T14:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/access-coalition.org\/?p=6049"},"modified":"2025-12-15T11:36:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T08:36:38","slug":"reaffirmation-de-lengagement-des-banques-africaines-de-developpement-en-faveur-dune-transition-energetique-socialement-juste-en-afrique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/access-coalition.ingenuitydocs.com\/fr\/reaffirming-african-development-banks-commitment-to-a-socially-just-energy-transition-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"R\u00e9affirmation de l'engagement de la Banque africaine de d\u00e9veloppement en faveur d'une transition \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique socialement juste en Afrique"},"content":{"rendered":"

Par Patricia Mbogo, directrice ex\u00e9cutive de la coalition ACCESS<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

At the 2025 African Development Bank Annual Meetings held in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire, the Bank reaffirmed its ambition to tackle one of Africa’s most pressing development challenges: energy poverty. With the theme “Leveraging Africa’s Capital to Drive Development,”<\/em> this year’s meetings signaled a critical moment-not just for the Bank’s leadership transition-but for redefining Africa’s energy future.<\/p>\n

We at the ACCESS Coalition welcome the renewed commitments by the Bank, particularly the announcement of a joint initiative with the World Bank to connect 300 million people to electricity by 2030. The Bank’s pledge to provide 50 million of those connections is a strong statement of intent. We also applaud the Bank’s $200 million annual investment in clean cooking-an essential, yet long-neglected, component of the continent’s energy transition.<\/p>\n

Yet while these commitments are significant, they must be matched by bold, people-centered action. Africa is facing a deepening energy crisis. According to the 2024 SDG 7 Tracker, over 600 million people across the continent still lack access to electricity-80% of whom are in Sub-Saharan Africa. Even more concerning, nearly one billion people continue to cook with polluting fuels, with only 7% of rural households having transitioned to clean cooking.<\/p>\n

This is not just a crisis of infrastructure-it is a crisis of equity, health, and development. If we continue on our current path, 1.8 billion people will still be using polluting fuels by 2030, and 60% of them will be in Sub-Saharan Africa.<\/p>\n

The Bank’s strategic direction through initiatives like Light Up and Power Africa, Mission 300, and the Desert to Power program shows promise. But progress demands a transformation in how energy investments are planned, financed, and delivered. It’s time to center Africa’s poorest and most marginalized communities-the “last mile”-in all energy access efforts.<\/p>\n

As a global network of over 100 civil society organizations advocating for a socially just energy transition, ACCESS Coalition urges the Bank, African governments, development partners, and investors to take five priority actions:<\/p>\n