This week, Nairobi hosts the Energy Access Investment Forum (EAIF) 2026, bringing together investors, policymakers, and clean energy practitioners to accelerate Africa’s renewable energy transition. Organised by the Alliance for Rural Electrification (ARE) and supported by GET.invest, EAIF is a cornerstone platform for mobilising finance for renewable energy solutions that drive economic growth, decarbonisation, and climate resilience across the continent.
REEEP is a strategic partner of EAIF 2026, and is actively contributing to the forum through our Private Financing Advisory Network (PFAN) programme.
Key themes at EAIF 2026
REEEP’s participation at this year’s forum reflects several critical themes shaping the energy access investment landscape:
- Closing the missing middle – connecting climate SMEs in emerging markets to the capital they need to scale
- Evolving technical assistance – moving from generic capacity building to tailored, buy-side investment support
- Results-based financing – leveraging RBF mechanisms to de-risk frontier markets and drive market-based delivery
- Mobilising private capital – aligning investor strategies with climate impact in Sub-Saharan Africa and beyond
PFAN Workshop: From Capital to Climate Impact — Fixing the Missing Middle
Global climate finance has surpassed USD 1 trillion — yet only a fraction of that capital reaches the climate SMEs that need it most in emerging markets. Investors continue to report a shortage of truly bankable projects, while entrepreneurs across the Global South struggle to access the finance required to grow their businesses. The result is a persistent “missing middle”: promising climate solutions stall before reaching scale, and investment capital remains under-deployed.
Why does this gap persist, despite two decades of ecosystem building? As climate technologies mature and markets grow more complex, the traditional one-size-fits-all model of technical assistance is no longer fit for purpose. Investors increasingly need tailored pipelines, rigorous due diligence, and support structures that align with their specific investment strategies and risk frameworks.
To address this, we are hosting an interactive fishbowl discussion at EAIF exploring how climate ecosystems must evolve to close this gap. The session will present PFAN’s new buy-side investment services, designed to work directly with private equity funds, impact investors, and development finance initiatives to strengthen pipelines and accelerate the deployment of capital to climate-impact businesses. Together with investment professionals, participants will explore how the provision of technical assistance can be pivoted to further facilitate capital deployment while enhancing both economic and impact returns.
👉 Learn more about the PFAN event at EAIF
REEEP at the RBF Deep-Dive: Beyond the Grid Fund for Africa as a Case Study
REEEP is also participating in an invite-only workshop hosted by SNV, GOGLA, NEFCO, EnDev, Open Capital Advisors, A2EI and Acumen on Wednesday, 22 April (14:30–18:00 EAT): Results-based financing deep-dive: capturing learnings to inform future RBF design and implementation.
This session brings together over a decade of experience in results-based financing (RBF) design and implementation, drawing on flagship programmes including BRILHO in Mozambique, KOSAP in Kenya and the Beyond the Grid Fund for Africa (BGFA) in Zambia. BGFA builds on REEEP’s pioneering RBF programme, the Beyond the Grid Fund for Zambia, which began in 2016 and became the blueprint for today’s six-country, 128 million euro expansion. BGF is being presented as a case study of a successful RBF approach, demonstrating how results-based financing, combined with targeted technical assistance, can incentivise private off-grid energy service providers to reach underserved markets at scale. We’ll then move into group discussions on challenges in RBF design and implementation, with the aim of contributing to shared learning and more effective, standardised RBF approaches across the sector.
Get in touch
If you are attending the forum and would like to connect, reach out on LinkedIn to arrange a conversation!
