Productive Use Financing Facility
The Productive Use Financing Facility makes efficient equipment more accessible for businesses and farmers in emerging markets in Africa.
About the Productive Use Financing Facility
The Productive Use Financing Facility makes it easier for small businesses and entrepreneurs to buy energy-efficient, productive-use technologies such as solar water pumps, mills, and refrigerators at favorable prices. Productive use appliances and equipment are technologies that people use to generate income. The financing facility is an innovative program that provides grants, subsidies, and technical assistance to appliance suppliers and distributors to increase affordability and reach more customers. The financing facility is informed by over a decade of learnings that CLASP has gathered from supporting off-grid solar appliance companies.
CLASP designs and implements the financing facility, with support from the Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet.
For more information, contact financing@clasp.ngo. Follow us on LinkedIn for regular updates on how the facility is benefiting people and our planet.
Programmatic impact
24 companies
From 2022 to 2024, the financing facility worked with 24 companies across six countries
16,000 appliances
The financing facility helped deploy nearly 16,000 appliances
58,000 households
The financing facility's deployment of appliances directly improved the lives of over 58,000 households
Photo credit: CLASP
Photo credit: CLASP
Photo credit: CLASP
Photo credit: CLASP
Credit: CLASP
Financing Facility 2.0 Launches in 2025
CLASP and GEAPP scale up their innovative financing program to support more African businesses and farmers with affordable, energy-efficient appliances.
Check out our funding windows:
The application period for the 2026 open window will run from 30 January to 13 February 2026.
The application period for the 2025 Clean Energy Solutions for Women (CES4W) funding window is now closed. Access resources like terms & conditions and testing guidance overview below.
This funding window, in partnership with the Energising Women & Youth in Agri-Food Systems (EWAS) programme implemented by RMI and GEAPP, is by invitation only.
