{"id":1163,"date":"2014-06-13T16:21:35","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T16:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tonyelumelufoundation.org\/?post_type=article&amp;p=1163"},"modified":"2014-06-13T16:21:35","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T16:21:35","slug":"a-fundacao-tony-elumelu-e-parceira-do-governo-dos-eua-para-a-iniciativa-beyond-grid-new-power-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tonyelumelufoundation.org\/pt\/articles\/tony-elumelu-foundation-partners-us-government-beyond-grid-new-power-africa-initiative","title":{"rendered":"A Funda\u00e7\u00e3o Tony Elumelu faz parceria com o governo dos EUA em \u201cBeyond the Grid\u201d \u2013 uma nova iniciativa Power Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria; font-size: medium;\">As a partner, the\u00a0<b>Funda\u00e7\u00e3o Tony Elumelu<\/b>\u00a0has committed to a financial investment over the next five years to seed and scale distributed energy solutions across the continent. As a result will in turn enhance homes, businesses, schools and improve the livelihoods of Africans in Africa. Other partners of Beyond the Grid include the United Nations Foundation, Shell Foundation, Invested Development, and Acumen to name a few (27 in total).<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria; font-size: medium;\"><b>Beyond the Grid<\/b>\u00a0is aimed at unlocking investment and growth specifically for off-grid and small-scale energy solutions. This initiative is a step to significantly increase the current investment activities of Power Africa, by building on more than 25-small scale energy projects currently in the development.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria; font-size: medium;\">De acordo com\u00a0<b>Beyond the Grid<\/b>, this initiative\u00a0<span style=\"color: #333333;\">will strengthen the enabling environment and foster the clear, predictable rules needed for investment and operations. It will also catalyze private-sector investment through pre-investment technical assistance, risk mitigation, and new financial tools that strategically blend donor and private capital as well as aggregate small energy projects for investment at scale.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria; font-size: medium;\">Launched two years ago by President Obama,\u00a0<b>Poder \u00c1frica<\/b>\u00a0is focused on doubling electricity access in sub-Saharan Africa.\u00a0 Access to electricity has primarily become the debilitating factor in the growth of the African economy. More than 240 million people on the continent, in rural and peri-urban areas in the six Power Africa countries are living without electricity.<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enquanto parceira, a Funda\u00e7\u00e3o Tony Elumelu comprometeu-se a efetuar um investimento financeiro ao longo dos pr\u00f3ximos cinco anos para criar e expandir solu\u00e7\u00f5es de energia distribu\u00edda em todo o continente. Como resultado, as casas, as empresas e as escolas ser\u00e3o melhoradas e os meios de subsist\u00eancia dos africanos em \u00c1frica ser\u00e3o melhorados. Outros parceiros da Beyond the Grid incluem a Funda\u00e7\u00e3o das Na\u00e7\u00f5es Unidas, ...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tonyelumelufoundation.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tonyelumelufoundation.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tonyelumelufoundation.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonyelumelufoundation.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonyelumelufoundation.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonyelumelufoundation.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tonyelumelufoundation.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonyelumelufoundation.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonyelumelufoundation.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}