AfDB Launches Tracker to Monitor Africa’s Electricity Drive

The African Development Bank Group has launched a new digital platform to track progress on efforts to expand electricity access across Africa, as part of the Mission 300 initiative.

The Mission 300 Progress Tracker was unveiled at the bank’s 2026 Annual Meetings in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo. It provides real-time, public access to project-level data on electricity connections, financing, operational status and geographic coverage across participating countries.

Mission 300 is a joint African Development Bank and World Bank initiative aimed at connecting an additional 300 million Africans to electricity by 2030.

At Launch, the tracker showed that 5.2 million people had already been connected through active Mission 300-supported operations. It also listed 74 active energy access projects across several African countries, with another 35 million people expected to benefit from the current pipeline.

The platform recorded $9 billion in approved Mission 300-aligned operations, including $6 billion from African Development Bank resources. It also showed that 30 national energy compacts had been endorsed so far.

Vice President for Power, Energy, Climate and Green Growth at the African Development Bank Group, Dr Kevin Kariuki, said the tracker was created to make progress visible and measurable.

He said the platform would allow governments, investors, development partners and citizens to follow how the bank is helping expand electricity access, while also showing where further work is needed.

Among the projects featured are Kenya’s Last Mile Connectivity Project, which has delivered new household connections benefiting more than 815,000 people, and Sierra Leone’s Bo-Kenema Distribution System project, which has connected about 195,730 people.

The tracker also highlights regional projects such as the Rusumo Falls Hydropower Project, which supplies power to Burundi, Rwanda and Tanzania, and the Côte d’Ivoire, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea (CLSG) transmission interconnector, which has expanded access across parts of West Africa.

The bank said the new platform is intended to improve transparency, strengthen monitoring and help speed up electricity access across the continent.