Power & Enterprise
Small traders lose more to unreliable power than to any other cost. This programme treats that as an enterprise problem.
This programme does not exist yet. It is published because the problem that would justify it already does — traders across Nigeria's markets working a few hours a day on failing feeders, with no one on their side of the table when power is discussed.
It becomes a programme when the triage rule is met: when a member or volunteer with off-grid power expertise joins, when movement is possible inside ninety days, and when a trade association co-owns the plan.
We would rather show you an empty programme with an honest condition on it than a full one with nothing behind it.
What it produces
- Planned: independent power assessments owned by the traders, not the installer
- Planned: honest costings, including the option of doing nothing
Where it runs
- Nigeria
The issues it answers
A programme with no problem behind it is a press release. These are the ones that justify this programme existing.
Across the continent · Enterprise
Small enterprises lose more to unreliable power than to any other cost
Tailors, welders, cold stores and radio stations run on a few hours of power a day, and the credible options for changing that rarely reach them.
The issue, and what we intend to do →Nigeria · Enterprise
Nigeria's markets rebuild themselves after every fire — except the power
Traders reorganise within days of a market fire; what does not come back is reliable electricity, and no one offers them an independent way to plan for it.
The issue, and what we intend to do →How to take part
This programme is waiting on one person: a solar or off-grid engineer with Nigeria experience. If that is you, it starts when you write.