Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent progress has been made on the Energy Africa access campaign.

Energy Africa aims to develop compacts with up to 14 African countries to remove policy and regulatory barriers to off-grid solar market expansion. Eleven countries (Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia and Uganda) have signed interim partnership agreements. The compact development process is well under way in these countries and one has been agreed with Sierra Leone. Several others are in final negotiations and are expected to be agreed in the coming months.

DFID is also providing technical assistance and other programmatic support to help with the implementation of the compacts.