Announced in early 2024, Mission 300 is an ambitious initiative led by the World Bank Group (WBG) and the African Development Bank (AfDB) to connect 300 million people in sub-Saharan Africa to electricity by 2030. Aiming to mobilise $90 billion in public and private capital, the plan involves scaling up clean energy generation, expanding grid connections, deploying decentralised mini-grids, and improving transmission and distribution through regional interconnection and market reform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If delivered equitably and effectively, Mission 300 could represent a step-change for energy access in sub-Saharan Africa. However, if it adheres to the prevailing model of climate and development finance – marked by over-reliance on private capital, a preference for privatised energy systems dominated by fossil fuels, and limited engagement with local communities – it risks failing the very people it intends to serve and exacerbating Africa\u2019s soaring debt crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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This Power Shift Africa briefing critically examines the Mission 300 initiative and calls on its architects to confront the structural causes of Africa\u2019s underdevelopment and financial dependency.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":6074,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[25],"topic":[],"class_list":["post-6487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-publications","tag-energy-transition"],"acf":{"url":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Mission-300-Report-1.pdf"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6726,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6487\/revisions\/6726"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6487"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}