Final Assembly Africa of premanufactured completley knocked down kits,

Prewiring, soldering cables and connectors
Assembly housing, source houshold switches

2008: Europe Nice France, London, Accra Ghana, Togo first tests
2009:     100 pcs, 1000 pcs Electrobox
2010:  10 000 pcs Electrobox / year Final assembly Africa
        1 000 kits DrLight portable to ship by air emergency lighting
2011:  70 000 pcs Electrobox
      180 000 pcs DrLight

Actor: Alliance Consortium "Lighting Africa & Islands"
       contact: ip21st@lycos.com

                                            

ACCRA Accord on Lighting Africa:

Catalyzing Off-Grid Lighting in Africa

Lighting Africa seeks to catalyze access to modern electric lighting
for over 250 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa without access to
electricity by 2030. It will help individuals, housholds, small and
medium enterprises and others get access to cleaner, cheaper, and 
reliable consumer friendly lighting products tailored to their needs
and a b i l i t y to p a y. Lighting Africa - managed by the World
Bank Group - is working in partnership with providers, to include
global lighting industry, local distributors and service providers,
governments, financiers, academia, research organizations, and
bilateral and multilateral organizations. It aims to break down
barriers for industry and accelerate entry into this emerging market
area. Lighting Africa is positioned to help to capture the US$38 bn
spent on kerosine and ohter fuel-based lighting, of which an
estimated $ 17 bn is spent in Africa alone. The "Accra Accord" sets
forth Strategic principles for partner collaboration to catalyze
improved, off grid lighting in Africa. It is an outcome of the
Lighting Africa 2008 Conference held in Accra, Ghana, may 6-8, 2008.

O Enhance human and institutional capacity in the design and 
  delivery of improved lighting products and services
O Undertake activities with other Lighting Africa partners as
  appropriate.
O Promote quality market creation, including durable, long-life
  products; maximize energy efficiency, minimize material waste
  in production and packaging; avoid/minimize use of toxic materials
  while providing means for collection/recycling such materials
  (e.g., batteries); make spare parts and repair services; and 
  consider adoption of a Lighting Africa "quality" mark to describe,
  differentiate and designate product quality.

  Who Should Participate in Lighting Africa and Why ?

O International Lighting Manufacturers/Assemblers:
  diversify products for off-grid lighting solutions
O Local Distributors/Service Providers:
  existing networks with new products into new markets
O Governments:
  deliver rapidly lighting services to unelectrified rural areas
O Donors:
  support innovative large scale & public private energy solutions
O NGO's:
  Lighting Africa is searching for experienced and qualified NGO's
  to support project implementation.
O Financial Institutions:
  
  Lighting Africa seeks to create innovative business models to
  deliver modern lighting to unelectrified rural areas, and is
  lookign for financial institutions, microfinance institutions,
  and investors to serve as partners.
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  As a Lighting Africa partner I support this principles 

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