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At the Compact Delivery and Monitoring Units Convening in Nairobi, the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) and Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) unveiled a new initiative under the Africa Energy Sector Technical Assistance Program (AESTAP–Mission 300 Phase I). This strategic program directly supports Mission 300 — a historic, joint commitment by the AfDB and the World Bank Group to grant electricity access to an additional 300 million people across Africa by 2030.

Through AESTAP–Mission 300 Phase I, the African Development Bank Group will provide technical assistance to strengthen Compact Delivery and Monitoring Units (CDMUs), the national platforms established by participating countries to coordinate and drive their energy compacts. As the program implementing partner SEforALL will guide execution over the next 12 months by providing monitoring peer exchanges, stakeholder coordination, and knowledge sharing designed to accelerate Country Compacts.

The program builds on SEforALL’s role as the Secretariat to the Mission 300 Joint Working Group and the Compact Working Group. Over the past two years, these coordination structures, have collectively driven National Energy Compacts with SEforALL managing, technical engagement, cross-border monitoring and stakeholder alignment across all 30 participating nations.

As national delivery hubs, CDMUs coordinate implementation across government institutions, monitor Compact commitments, facilitating stakeholder engagement, and resolve implementation bottlenecks. By strengthening these institutional platforms, the program aims to enhance government delivery capacity, improve coordination, and accelerate implementation of reforms and investments required to achieve universal energy access.

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