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The Mini-Grid Innovation Lab is running a prototype to help developers test whether appliance financing can drive profitable revenue and improve the mini-grid business model. In this latest edition of Innovation Insight, we provide exciting new findings and insights.

Under USAID's East Africa Trade and Investment Hub, CrossBoundary closed US$118M deals across the region in various sectors including Agriculture, Health, Financial Services, ICT, and FMCG. These transactions were instrumental to the Hub’s goal of creating jobs, growing companies, and expanding markets.  …

This interagency initiative will boost US trade and development across the continent advancing American and African prosperity and security …

In a NextBillion article, CrossBoundary team members Gabriel Davies, Matt Tilleard, Erika Lovin, and Charlene Mburu write about the exciting results from the Mini-Grid Innovation Lab’s first prototype – reducing tariffs for mini-grid customers. CrossBoundary is an implementing partners for USAIDs Feed the Future Kenya Investment Mechanisim (KIM). Over the next 5 years, KIM will mobilize $400M into key sectors...

Tunuka Gray our Deputy Head, East Africa Advisory supported the Global Development Professionals launch of “Access for All” on a panel discussing inclusive markets and increasing access to vital services across East Africa.

Today, Jake Cusack, our co-Managing Partner, gave a talk at the Center for Global Development Power Lunch in Washington D.C., on our work in distributed generation in Africa and how we’re expanding in rural electrification. His host was Todd Moss, Senior Fellow, at the Center for Global Development. …