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The Lighting a Billion Lives (LaBL) campaign enters its
ninth year of operations this year and continues its work
in delivering clean energy to deprived communities
through innovative, sustainable and responsive energy
access interventions. As of March 2016, the campaign has
successfully touched over 4.5 million lives across 24 states in
India and 13 countries across Africa and South Asia.
In India, LaBL has mainly operated on an intensive ‘direct-
implementation mode’, using its past experience of working
on independent off-grid solar projects as a bedrock to
expand technological and business solution innovations,
positioning itself as a pioneer in the delivery of distributed
clean energy solutions. In other regions across South Asia
and Africa, which include, Kenya, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Uganda,
Mali, Mozambique, Republic of Congo, Sierra Leone,
Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Myanmar, LaBL has
worked to build capacities, facilitate the creation of robust
value chains, has generated opportunities for technology
transfer and the exchange of knowledge and expertise in
energy service delivery.
Even after nine years of countrywide implementation,
the campaign continues to grow to find solutions to
the formidable energy access challenges faced by poor
communities in developing countries. This publication
attempts to document the coverage of the campaign and
its core implementation strategy, particularly with respect
to entrepreneurship, developing value chains, executing
partnerships and technology innovation. As the campaign
attempts to consolidate the lessons learnt from past
experience, it looks to the future with renewed focus on
expanding its reach to communities and energy access
challenges inadequately catered to in the business-as-
usual scenario.
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ninth year of operations this year and continues its work
in delivering clean energy to deprived communities
through innovative, sustainable and responsive energy
access interventions. As of March 2016, the campaign has
successfully touched over 4.5 million lives across 24 states in
India and 13 countries across Africa and South Asia.
In India, LaBL has mainly operated on an intensive ‘direct-
implementation mode’, using its past experience of working
on independent off-grid solar projects as a bedrock to
expand technological and business solution innovations,
positioning itself as a pioneer in the delivery of distributed
clean energy solutions. In other regions across South Asia
and Africa, which include, Kenya, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Uganda,
Mali, Mozambique, Republic of Congo, Sierra Leone,
Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Myanmar, LaBL has
worked to build capacities, facilitate the creation of robust
value chains, has generated opportunities for technology
transfer and the exchange of knowledge and expertise in
energy service delivery.
Even after nine years of countrywide implementation,
the campaign continues to grow to find solutions to
the formidable energy access challenges faced by poor
communities in developing countries. This publication
attempts to document the coverage of the campaign and
its core implementation strategy, particularly with respect
to entrepreneurship, developing value chains, executing
partnerships and technology innovation. As the campaign
attempts to consolidate the lessons learnt from past
experience, it looks to the future with renewed focus on
expanding its reach to communities and energy access
challenges inadequately catered to in the business-as-
usual scenario.
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