AfCEN — Africa Climate and Energy Nexus
Programs

Six flagship programmes. One continental mission.

Each AfCEN programme tackles a different layer of the climate & energy transition — from intelligence to capital to convening.

01 · Flagship · Live

Energy Pools Programme.

Live intelligence on the five African power pools — WAPP, EAPP, SAPP, CAPP and COMELEC. Generation assets, transfer capacity, cross-border trading routes, and policy gaps.

  • • 24,600 MW of generation tracked across the network
  • • 6 interconnectors mapped at field scale
  • • 9 active trading routes with live pricing
02 · Flagship · Live

Climate Finance Rails.

MRV-aligned pipelines that match bankable climate, energy, and mineral projects to NDC-linked capital, DFI facilities, and offtakers.

  • • 38 active facilities mapped to project pipelines
  • • $2.4B in MRV-aligned project pipeline
  • • 12 NDC-linked deals tracked through close
03 · Flagship · Live

CorridorDesigner.

Ten strategic energy, mineral, and trade corridors mapped at field scale — infrastructure assets, capital flows, and risk overlays.

  • • Lobito (DRC · Zambia · Angola)
  • • Mano River (Sierra Leone · Liberia · Guinea)
  • • Abidjan—Lagos (5 coastal ECOWAS states)
  • • Northern Corridor (Kenya · Uganda · Rwanda · DRC)
04 · Flagship · Live

MineralIQ.

AUDA-NEPAD-aligned intelligence on critical minerals — deposits, concession risk, processing capacity, and corridor logistics.

  • • 412 concessions tracked across 14 states
  • • Cobalt, copper, lithium, manganese, rare earths
  • • Pit-to-processor supply chain mapping
05 · Flagship · Live

Compliance Suite.

Continuous coverage of EU regulatory regimes hitting African exports — CBAM, EUDR, CSDDD, Critical Minerals, Battery Regulation.

CBAM
Carbon border adjustment
EUDR
Deforestation regulation
CSDDD
Supply chain due diligence
Critical Minerals
Strategic raw materials act
06 · Convening · Annual

EGM Summit.

The annual gathering of ECOWAS energy ministers, regulators, and partner DFIs — hosted on the AfCEN platform every October.

3
Days
15
ECOWAS members
400+
Delegates
How programmes are built

Every programme follows the same four-step rhythm.

01
Scope

Co-design the question with member ministries.

02
Build

Ingest sources, ground-truth, and structure into the graph.

03
Publish

Briefings, dashboards, and machine-readable datasets.

04
Iterate

Re-run with new data quarterly. Open changelog.