The Latest from CoAction Global

Welcome to our newsletter, where we share updates on our work, highlight impact, and share ways you can engage with CoAction Global’s mission.

Our work is catalytic. At this moment of disruption, we exist to incubate and facilitate new ideas and ways of working across humanitarian, development, and climate challenges. We care about driving change in how we work and delivering impact for people living in complex and under-resourced situations.

The Next Generation of Energy Leadership in Africa

Nearly 600 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa lack reliable access to electricity. To advance Mission 300, an initiative led by the World Bank, the African Development Bank, and their consortium of partners, CoAction Global’s Mission 300 Fellowship enables high-caliber African energy professionals to provide support to government energy ministries to accelerate electricity connections.

To date, Mission 300 has connected more than 50 million people to electricity across 40 countries, marking significant momentum toward the goal of reaching 300 million people by 2030.

Fellows have served as catalysts, jumpstarting the development of Compact Delivery and Monitoring Units, drafting Mission 300 strategies, networking with private sector, civil society, and international financial institutions, and working on regulatory policy. Too often, global finance is raised and governments make commitments, but the public sector capacity is not there to deliver. Mission 300 Fellows are the glue and the grease making this ambitious agenda work.

Out of 3,000 applications from nearly every African country, Fellows have been deployed thus far to Burundi, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritania, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Republic of Congo, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Zambia. Engagements with additional governments are in development.

Mission 300 Fellowship News and Insights

• Devex: Mission 300 Sends Energy Fellows into Governments Across Africa
• World Bank feature on the Fellowship, by Elizabeth Campbell, CoAction Global Executive Director: Powering the Future: How African Energy Fellows Are Accelerating Mission 300 – CoAction Global and a New Model of Impact
• The Rockefeller Foundation perspective on the Fellowship: The Fellows Powering Mission 300
• World Bank panel featuring Desire Wade Atchike, Mission 300 Fellow in Burundi: Africa's Energy Boom: What's in It for Workers?

Engaging the Global Private Sector in Humanitarian Action

This fall, we will launch the first operational version of the Private Sector Humanitarian Alliance platform. This initiative seeks to facilitate global private sector financial giving and in-kind partnership support to communities impacted by climate shocks and natural disasters around the world.

The PSHA creates a means for private sector humanitarian contributions and goods to reach the local organizations that are best positioned to engage in humanitarian response – effectively, efficiently and at scale.

We’re doing this by building an active and engaged multi-stakeholder community. By pooling corporate contributions in advance, the PSHA model ensures that resources (cash, in-kind, expertise) are ready for immediate disbursement to partner humanitarian organizations at the time of need.

Join us. Reach out to PSHA@CoActionGlobal.org to learn more.

A Transformative Solution to Protracted Refugee Situations

For decades, the international system has treated protracted displacement as a temporary emergency.

But refugees often remain displaced for up to 20 years, with 24.9 million refugees now living in more than 1,300 protracted situations worldwide.

CoAction Global is working to transform a broken system of prolonged camps-based settings where millions struggle to survive, let alone thrive, into a future where governments, the private sector and development finance institutions partner to advance reforms that lead to social, economic and financial inclusion.

The Global Facility for Economic Inclusion seeks to change the economic logic of refugee response from short-term, emergency humanitarian assistance to long-term economic development.

This spring, CoAction Global joined Germany’s GIZ Refugee Inclusion Accelerator in Berlin to bring together senior representatives from donor governments, development finance institutions, and private sector actors to advance the GFEI Concept toward political feasibility. We are now prioritizing crowding in partners, identifying a pilot country, and launching the initiative with local leadership.

As we move this project forward, we welcome interested stakeholders joining our effort. Please contact info@coactionglobal.org to learn more.

“Being a refugee is meant to be a temporary situation, it’s not meant to be a permanent fate, it’s not meant to be a way of life.”

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