Tackling global development challenges with business solutions
Shell Foundation supports pioneering social enterprises and institutions that serve low-income communities across Africa and Asia lacking access to affordable energy and transport services.
Focus Areas
Shell Foundation’s portfolio of enterprises and institutions addresses two major global development challenges: access to energy and access to affordable transport.
Access to Energy
people live without reliable electricity globally, and 1.1 bn people live without power altogether (UN Sustainable Development Programme)
Sustainable Mobility
people in India will live in urban centres by 2030, up from 340 million in 2008 (McKinsey)
Insights
Learning reports, opinion pieces and news from across our portfolio of social enterprises and institutions.
Learning
Last Mile Solutions for Low-Income Customers
Learning
Last Mile Solutions for Low-Income Customers
Lessons learned from efforts to build sustainable rural value chains for essential products and services
Learning
Decentralised Utilities: Bridging the gap
Learning
Decentralised Utilities: Bridging the gap
First of a series of reports on the potential of decentralised utilities to bring in a new era of energy access in Africa
Learning
Reinvigorating the 'second wave' PAYG sector
Learning
Reinvigorating the 'second wave' PAYG sector
SF and Persistent present learnings in building PAYG companies in multiple African markets to address SDG7
Portfolio
Shell Foundation supports an holistic portfolio of pioneering social enterprises and institutions at various stages of growth with the potential to impact millions of lives.
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