Reshaping Energy Access Finance
Advocacy
ACCESS advocates for reforms within multilateral development banks (MDBs) to prioritize decentralized renewable energy (DRE) and clean cooking.
Working with institutions such as the World Bank and the African Development Bank, the coalition pushes for more concessional, results-based, and locally accessible financing models.
Through policy engagement platforms and independent finance tracking, ACCESS strengthens accountability and ensure climate finance delivers for the energy poor.
Our Role
To realize the full potential of SDG7 and ensure effective implementation at the national level, there is a need for ACCESS to work actively with relevant government agencies and other stakeholders in focus countries to:
Engage Stakeholders
Ensure meaningful, timely and regular engagement of all stakeholders, including poor communities and civil society, in energy access decision making and ensure issues of gender equality and the needs of vulnerable groups are addressed;
Monitor & Evaluate
Create robust and regular monitoring and evaluation mechanisms with meaningful metrics for energy access and that can assess progress on energy access as well as its contribution towards other SDGs;
Integrate Energy Services
Promote participatory, inclusive processes for designing and delivering energy services for poor communities;
Deliver Energy Service
Promote integration of energy service delivery into wider sectoral and development planning (for instance, mainstreaming energy as part of sub-national development planning, integrating service delivery into agricultural, health and education sector planning);
Collaborate
Build understanding and collaboration with allies working in other development sectors on the role of energy access in enabling progress on other SDGs (for health, education etc.)
Other Strategic Priorities
Advancing Inclusive and Pro-Decentralization Policies
ACCESS promotes coherent national and regional policies that integrate DRE and clean cooking into core energy strategies.
Promoting Integrated, Cross-Sectoral Energy Planning
Energy access must go beyond connections to transform livelihoods.
Institutionalizing Civil Society Participation and Accountability
ACCESS strengthens civil society’s role in energy governance, ensuring communities are active participants-not passive recipients.
Our Approach
Bridging Stakeholders and Communities:
Connect governments and enterprises with energy-poor communities by strengthening CSO and CBO participation at all levels.
Championing Community Needs:
Amplify evidence and lived experiences to inform financing, planning, and policy reforms toward SDG 7 and a just energy transition.
Facilitating Knowledge Exchange:
Provide a platform for members to share lessons, innovations, and best practices in energy access.
Scaling Impact and Influence:
Grow funding and membership to expand regional reach, strengthen policy influence, and enable replication across countries.
Who We Are
Our Mission
Our mission is to advocate for Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 7) to ensure everyone has access to safe, reliable and affordable energy, and for environmentally sustainable and efficient energy systems globally
Who We Are
Our Vision and Values
Our vision is a world where everyone has access to reliable, affordable, safe and sustainable energy to enable inclusive and climate-resilient local development
Our work is anchored in the following organizational values:
- Equity and Inclusion
- Climate and Environmental Justice
- Collaboration and Partnership
- Accountability and Transparency
- Local Leadership and Ownership
- Learning and Innovation
