In 2020, GIZ reappointed us as consultant to the AEEP to research and write comprehensive reports on European Financial Flows on SDG7 to Africa for 2020 and 2022.

The requirement was to help overcome existing information gaps constraining international efforts to meet the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG7), to provide an understanding of financial flows and inform decision making, allowing for more effective and coordinated financing by donors and other actors, thereby ensuring funding reaches target populations, regions and goals.

Amongst the methodological improvements that we put in place were an expansion of the range of data to include non-European public financing, private financing, public contributions to funds and multilaterals, blended and leveraged financing, and investments by African governments, and collected data on disbursements.

We also presented spotlight topics on Lower and Middle Income Countries (LMICs & UMICs) European Union and member state’s support for the Continental System Master Plan, and regional interconnections, and for electrification projects across Africa.

Each report also provided feedback on future improvements to methodology, data gathering and processing.