Final Project for Financing for Development: Unlocking Investment Opportunities

1. Developing Solar Powered Home
Systems: A case of Zimbabwe
By
Chigbo Ogualili

2.  This is a private sector driven project towards making
electricity available to low income earners, and off-
grid residents.
Objective and Target audience

3. Expected
derivatives
To improve the living
conditions of the people
through good access to
electricity
To improve the
economic activities of
the place,
Delivering the Sustainable
Development Goals,
through utilization of
Renewable Energy
Sources.
To bring the people
closer to
government thereby
enhancing political
stability
Expected derivates

4.  Southern Africa, between South Africa and Zambia,
area of 390,757 sq km. Population of 14,546,961. GDP
$28.33 billion (2016 est.)
 A $1.5 million Climate Change Technical Assistance
program is helping Zimbabwe fill knowledge gaps on
how climate change is affecting agro-ecological
zoning, irrigation, and livestock.
About Zimbabwe

5. Large sum
investment capital
Political instability and
violence in the countryCorruption
Challenges to Overcome

6.  Zimbabwe receive ODA from WBG CPIA and AfDB.
Some of these funds, through Climate Financing,
could help in subsidizing the investment cost of the
project by certain percentage. This will help the
private investors to source the counterpart funding to
make the project a success.
The impact of the ODA

7. This is very necessary, to initiate and sustain this
project. The government should guarantee and ensured
that the risks are less, create more enabling
environment for the private sector participation. The
banks and other financial institutions should be liberal
with the investors, to facilitate easier access to funds
for the projects.
Public and Private Partnership