54 African states. One continental mission.
AfCEN brings together national research bodies, regional economic communities, and development partners to coordinate the climate & energy decisions reshaping the continent.
A continental footprint, regional offices.
AfCEN is headquartered in Dakar with regional offices opening across the continent. Every member state is represented in the knowledge graph.
- Headquarters
- Dakar, Senegal
- East Africa hub
- Nairobi, Kenya 2026
- Horn of Africa hub
- Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 2026
- Coastal corridor hub
- Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire 2026
- Southern Africa hub
- Johannesburg 2027
All 54 states.
More than countries. Many kinds of partners.
National research bodies
Energy, climate, and minerals research institutions across the continent. They co-author research and host AfCEN data nodes.
Regional economic communities
ECOWAS, EAC, SADC, ECCAS, AMU, COMESA — the multilateral architecture AfCEN works through.
Development partners
DFIs, multilaterals, and bilateral agencies. They fund programmes, deploy capital matched on the platform, and second staff.
Implementing partners
Utilities, regulators, project developers, and civil-society groups using AfCEN intelligence on the ground.
Join the network.
If your institution works at the intersection of climate, energy, minerals, or infrastructure on the African continent, we’d like to talk.
- ✓ Access to the full AfCEN intelligence platform
- ✓ Co-author programme research
- ✓ Seat in working groups & the EGM Summit
- ✓ Eligible for joint funding applications