10/09/2026
The CEO, NETFUND, Mr. Samson Toniok, today participated in the CEPREC Kenya International Summit 2026 High-Level Policy Roundtable in Nairobi, where he delivered a keynote address on βFinancing Community-Led Clean Energy Innovation: Empowering a Sustainable and Circular Future.β During his address, he called for stronger financing systems that support locally driven clean energy solutions, enabling community innovations to grow into sustainable enterprises that create jobs, improve livelihoods, and advance Africa's clean energy transition.
Drawing on the success of Magiro Hydro Electric Power Limited, a green innovation supported by NETFUND through its Green Innovations Awards programme, Mr. Toniok highlighted how catalytic funding, incubation, technical support, and strategic partnerships transformed a community-based innovation into a thriving clean energy enterprise. From a modest beginning, the project has grown to serve hundreds of households, businesses, schools, health facilities, and industries, demonstrating the transformative power of investing in local ideas and community-led innovation.
He emphasized that Africa's clean energy future depends not only on technology but also on the financing, partnerships, skills, and institutions that enable innovation to deliver meaningful benefits to communities, while placing local people at the centre of the transition as innovators, entrepreneurs, and beneficiaries.
