Power / Mission 300

Mission 300

CURRENT INITIATIVE

Overview

Connecting people and businesses to electricity changes lives. Electricity powers schools and hospitals, creates job opportunities, and fosters investments and trade.

Access to reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy is critical for powering Africa, transforming economies, and reaching people’s development aspirations.

Yet nearly 600 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa live without access to electricity — nearly 83% of the world’s unelectrified population.

This is unjust. And it is counterproductive — not just to individual lives and livelihoods but to the prosperity and stability of entire communities and countries.

The World Bank Group is partnering with the African Development Bank on an ambitious initiative to connect 300 million people to electricity in Sub-Saharan Africa by 2030. This initiative, Mission 300, aims to accelerate the pace of electrification in Sub-Saharan Africa while ensuring that the transition to more diversified and cleaner sources of energy meets growing demand, brings economic growth, and creates jobs.

Why it Matters

  •  
    ~0MillionMillion

    people in Sub-Saharan Africa live without access to electricity

  •  
    ~0%%

    of the world’s unelectrified population

  •  
    0MillionMillion

    people could be connected to electricity by 2030 through this initiative

What Will It Take?

To succeed, Mission 300 needs partners from diverse sectors — governments, philanthropies, the private sector, and multilaterals — to come together in ways that allow us to work quickly and differently than ever before.

This is why the World Bank Group and African Development Bank have joined forces with and partners like The Rockefeller Foundation, Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet (GEAPP), and Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL), to mobilize resources and align efforts in support of powering Africa.

Together, we can make a historic change in global energy access that will transform Africa.

Learn more about how Nigeria is investing in innovative solutions to accelerate their renewable energy transition and provide a roadmap for the rest of the continent.

Impact Stories