Cleaner and healthier Baltic Sea
The reduction of pollutants affecting the Baltic Sea is a key priority for Nefco. Through our various instruments, we finance both public and private sector projects related to agriculture, wastewater treatment, and hazardous waste within the Baltic Sea catchment area.
Clean and affordable off-grid energy in Africa
Over 600 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa live today without access to electricity. The Beyond the Grid Fund for Africa supports scale-up of off-grid energy solutions to support energy access in rural and peri-urban areas in the project countries. So far three Call for Proposals have been launched in Burkina Faso, Liberia, Zambia, Mozambigue and Uganda.
Clean cooking solutions in Africa
Almost 900 million people in Sub-Saharan African countries lack access to modern and clean cooking solutions. The Modern Cooking Facility for Africa (MCFA) is a new groundbreaking results-based financing programme that aims to scale-up access to higher tier clean cooking solutions. The first Call for Proposals-based funding round will open during the second quarter of 2022.