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Toby Karim

Toby Karim

Special Assistant to the CEO and UN SRSG at Sustainable Energy for All; founder of The African Feminist; energy data analyst and sustainable development advocate

Jul 2, 2026

3:55
make this a productive output it just leaves us in a place
3:59
what i will say is they are doing i think we need to be better actually talking about what is happening within kind of government and the different programs that they do have because they do actually focus a lot on productive use of energy um i mean the i don't know if you've heard of the dead program and so that is kind of rolling out a $750 million grant to developers, really focused on kind of that productive use aspect of things.
4:29
Because I think they've, and it's a top up to NEP.
4:34
And I think some of the learnings from that was actually how do we then, how do we make sure we don't lock in communities? And that's kind of something that, you know, they're really trying to push on at the moment.
4:47
But I don't think it's something people know about or think about.
4:51
And even with, because right now there's a huge World Bank and AFDB program called Mission 300.
4:56
It's looking to electrify 300 million people across Africa by 2030.
9:49
I think there's so much more work that the industry and all the players could be doing in spotlighting the progress that has happened over

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