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Nov 2025
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Reaching last mile markets togetherThe Global Distributors Collective (GDC) unites and empowers the unsung heroes of development: last mile distributors. These are organisations that bring solar lanterns, clean cookstoves, water filters, nutritional products and other essential items to the hard-to-reach and low-income communities that mainstream markets overlook. |
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Sep 2025
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Bringing power to people, one charge at a timeAfter developing a battery rental service that replaces fossil fuel with solar-generated power, MOPO received TEA support to validate its technology, and enter new markets. MOPO has now passed 28 million battery rentals across sub-Saharan Africa and raised more than £21 million in further investment. |
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Sep 2025
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Reducing post-harvest losses for smallholder farmers through accessible cold storageSolar-powered cold storage supports resilient food systems and limits post-harvest crop losses. With TEA funding, SokoFresh piloted a business model to bring these technologies straight to Kenya’s rural and often off-grid smallholder farmers, reducing spoilage to just 2%. |
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Jul 2020
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The catalytic impact of grant funding to stimulate wider investmentSecuring sufficient finance for energy access projects in Africa has been a real challenge, but TEA partners are demonstrating how grant funding, coupled with commercialisation and incubation support can be a catalyst to stimulate wider investment. |