The ENACT project aims to create a conducive enabling environment to improve energy security in Africa (more specifically Uganda and Sierra Leone)’s urban areas with focus on the urban poor, by introducing market-led interventions for energy access. Through this project, ICLEI Africa’s team will contribute to creating suitable conditions for local governments to engage with the private sector in planning and delivering sustainable energy services to households and social institutions – for both cooking and lighting –for the urban poor living in informal settlements. This will be done through three main pillars:

• Capacity building of local governments in urban energy data collection and planning
• Private sector involvement to test and implement financing and business models for improved delivery of clean energy interventions, and
• Knowledge dissemination to share lessons for scale-up and replication in urban areas across sub-Saharan Africa.