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Providing more funding to SEforAll, and others that are managing smaller RBFs
Looking beyond number of connections, to other metrics for success

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Build on existing initiatives, for example Venture Builder
- currently just SHS company in portfolio, but open to mini grids/appliance manufacturers and other businesses that meet a wide criteria

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Hosting conversations with peers (like those facilitated through EforA) and making connections

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- How to address risks with "overconsumption" - for example risk of water over extraction from SWPs in India? Planting excess crops, flooding markets
EnDev - when propose a new program, have to go through risk screening

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- Smart subsidy seed fund - to improve upon existing RBFs, working with UEF and in-country piloting smaller schemes, or schemes that work in a complimentary way to existing RBFs. There will be updates in the coming weeks.
- On productive use, setting up a partnership wtih CLASP/nithio for a global productive use financing scheme/facility that will be applicable in any country they are expanding this smart subsidy seed fund to

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- How can RBFs reach last mile customers, in lower income areas, reaching refugees

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RBF lite - open up to all producers in sector, but don't use cash, but incentives (e.g. materials needed for production)
RBF innovations - pilots with USAID
- Trying to reach more last mile customers, help companies go to higher risk customers
-using GIS to set subsidy, if customer is farther away from epicenter, subsidy goes up.

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We're supporting Venture Builder. They provide equity in lieu of working capital to early stage access-oriented companies, sometimes the only working capital available to firms like this.

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India - SWP financing/subsidy program. The subsidy goes to the financing institution to reduce interest rate and incentivize farmers to buy products, against which they will get the reduced interest rate.

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- Procurement - how to use subsidies through procurement programs (more WBG)
- IFC - market based program and will not engage in programs that has any risk in disupting or creating market distortions.

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- Considering how to demonstrate impact from a single connection (e.g. health clinic electrification) that may not come through in typical RBF approach/metrics for program success.

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- Grant funding - much of grants/subsidies go to mini-grid providers, to create conditions for scaling. Not focused on efficiency/appliances directly, but they have to engage with appliances to succeed and be sustainable. Goal of grants to crowd in private capital/funding. Work with firms who can demonstrate potential for scale.
- Funder of SEforAll's Universal Energy Facility (UEF) - focused on Madagascar and Sierra Leone (for now) - high subscription rate, hope to scale up and PA plans to do this, depending on data.
- SEforAll - looking at viability of RBF model, in the context of health clinic electrification. This is a single connection, how to capture all the benefits that accrue from this single connection.

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1. RBF Approach.
RBF Lite: Also experimented with FCDO on RBF Facility.
Smaller suppliers supported by subsidy in cooking program (if remote)
"Subsidy" through consumer awareness raising
3. Award Grant. Grant to leverage other