Africa Clean Energy (ACE) is a 4-year DFID program with the objective of catalyzing a market-based approach for private sector delivery of renewable energy electrification technologies, with a specific focus on high quality stand-alone solar systems. This is expected to lead to improved energy access for people in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) who are currently without modern energy. ACE is working in 14 priority countries: Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, Somalia, Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leonne and Senegal. IFC's role in DFID's ACE program is: 1. Act as a strategic advisor, guiding DFID and its implementing partners, to design and deliver strategies that will lead to sustainable commercial off-grid solar markets through sharing insights, best practices and implementation of regulatory policies that support its development. For IFC, one of the outcomes of this project will be the incorporation of recommendations made by IFC to DFID and their implementing partners into the design and implementation of the 14 country programs, based on the experience from the Lighting Africa/Global programs. 2. Implementation support for the development and/or harmonization of country-level quality standards and development of quality verification testing laboratories. IFC's SSA Energy Access project is expected to contribute to the following outcomes/impacts by the end of the project: - DFID and its implementing partners developing an overall strategy and country implementation approach for the development of off-grid solar markets in the 14 countries which incorporates IFC's recommendations: - Introduction of quality standards (IEC 62257-9-5)/policies/regulations into the countries' regulatory framework. - Set-up of operational solar testing laboratories/facilities to undertake market check tests to mitigate the impact of low-quality products infiltrating the market; - Country laboratories/regulators reporting improved operations (solar testing, standards enforcement); and - Increase in market share of quality-verified SHS across the countries where QA work is undertaken.

Indicator	Calendar Year 2020 Results	Cumulative Results as of 2020
Number of procedures/firm-level policies/practices/standards recommended for improvement or elimination	9	25
Number of workshops, training events, seminars, conferences, etc.	16	19
Number of recommended procedures/firm-level policies/practices/standards that were improved or eliminated	9	23

Performance Standard	Description & Potential Impact	Mitigation
PS 1. Assessment and Management of Environmental and Social Risks and Impacts	As part of its Due Diligence, and as mandated by IFC's Sustainability Policy, IFC team has screened this project to assess consistency with IFC's Performance Standards.	IFC's advice will be provided in a manner consistent with the principles of the relevant Performance Standards. The IFC team will assist the client, as the final decision maker, in gaining a good understanding of IFC's Performance Standards.