Tag: solar

Keeping the Lights On: How PAYGo Solar Can Offer Customer Relief During COVID-19
PAYGo and Essential Services |

Keeping the Lights On: How PAYGo Solar Can Offer Customer Relief During COVID-19

Originally posted on the NextBillion Website, May 1, 2020  Off-grid solar delivers essential energy services for millions of people,...

By Jacob Winiecki
How the PAYGo solar sector can prepare for the coronavirus and keep the lights on
PAYGo and Essential Services |

How the PAYGo solar sector can prepare for the coronavirus and keep the lights on

Many parts of the world are currently locking down in an intense effort to contain COVID-19 before it takes...

By Jacob Winiecki
How financial institutions can deliver payment flexibility using lessons from PAYGo solar
PAYGo and Essential Services |

How financial institutions can deliver payment flexibility using lessons from PAYGo solar

Technology-enabled pay-as-you-go (PAYGo) has unlocked millions of loans in the off-grid solar sector, and the model is already being...

By Jacob Winiecki
Rethinking Agents to Scale PAYGo Businesses
PAYGo and Essential Services |

Rethinking Agents to Scale PAYGo Businesses

How to Leverage Agents for Critical Customer Relationship Management     Field agents have been critical to expanding digital...

By Jacob Winiecki
Why MFIs will (Finally) Crack the Solar Market
PAYGo and Essential Services |

Why MFIs will (Finally) Crack the Solar Market

  We have long hoped that microfinance would hold the key to unlocking access to energy for low-income households....

By Daniel Waldron
How can AI help PAYGo businesses be more efficient and improve performance?
Artificial Intelligence |

How can AI help PAYGo businesses be more efficient and improve performance?

The FIBR project with Mastercard Foundation explore how artificial intelligence and machine learning can help PAYGo business be more...

By FIBR
What is the FIBR AI Gallery?
Artificial Intelligence |

What is the FIBR AI Gallery?

BFA Global CEO, Amolo Ng’weno describes FIBR’s Artificial Intelligence gallery, which accompanies and demonstrates the work we do on...

By FIBR
Why is FIBR working with PAYGo and MSMEs in particular?
Livelihoods and Microenterprise |

Why is FIBR working with PAYGo and MSMEs in particular?

Amolo Ng’weno describes the primary reason that FIBR chose to work with the PAYGo solar sector and small merchants....

By FIBR
Escaping Darkness: Understanding the Consumer Value in PAYGo Solar
PAYGo and Essential Services |

Escaping Darkness: Understanding the Consumer Value in PAYGo Solar

This second report by CGAP and FIBR seeks to understand the value that customers derived from PAYGo solar and...

By BFA GLOBAL
LENDABLE: Case Study of a Marketplace Lending Platform in East Africa
PAYGo and Essential Services |

LENDABLE: Case Study of a Marketplace Lending Platform in East Africa

In this case study, we examine an alternative marketplace lending platform that connects impact and institutional debt investors with...

By FIBR