Mission 300: Powering Development in Sub-Saharan Africa | The Development Podcast

Many of us take turning on a light switch or connecting our devices to a home Wi-Fi network for granted. If our phones need charging, we plug them in, if we want hot water we boil a kettle. These are things we don’t think about, because we don’t have to. But around 600 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa still live without access to electricity.
In this episode of The Development Podcast (worldbank.org/en/news/series/the-development-p…), we look at Mission 300 (worldbank.org/en/programs/energizing-africa), an ambitious plan from the World Bank Group and partners, which will link 300 million people to electricity by 2030.
Speakers
• Ajay Banga, President, World Bank Group
• Samia Suluhu Hassan, President of Tanzania
• Victoria Kwakwa, Regional Vice President for Eastern and Southern Africa, World Bank Group
• Andrew Herscowitz, the CEO of Mission 300 Accelerator, established by Rockefeller Catalytic Capital
• Hassanein Hiridjee, CEO, Axian Group
• Klaartje Schnade, Co-founder, Mwani Zanzibar
• Nora Anyidoho, Ghanian Poet

Timestamps
[00:00] Introducing the topic: Powering Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
[03:33] Mission 300 Africa Energy Summit
[06:28] The link between electrification and jobs: Visions of an entrepreneur in Zanzibar
[10:50] Achieving the Mission 300 target
[14:21] Partnerships are key to achieving the targets set by the Mission 300 plan
[20:13] The private sector is a crucial part of the energy puzzle
[28:12] Poem from Ghanaian poet, Nora Anyidoho
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