Arc Finance: Changing Lives Through Energy and Microfinance

 

Arc News Headlines

Electrifying the Poor: Highly Economic Off-Grid PV Systems in Ethiopia - A Basis for Sustainable Rural Development

Power off the grid: Solar panels empower the rural poor
Sep 25, '09 MediaGlobal

SELCO India Announces Social Growth Financing Investment
From The Good Energies Foundation, The Lemelson Foundation and E+Co

Jan 12, '09 Selco Press Release

The battle for the soul of microfinance
Dec 5, '08 Financial Times

Power to the people
October 27, 2008 Financial Times

 

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SERVICES

Advisory Services and Technical Assistance

Arc Finance provides tailored advisory services and technical expertise to financial institutions, particularly microfinance institutions, as well as to energy and water enterprises focused on serving the poor.

Technical Assistance

Arc Finance offers a comprehensive package of services to financial organizations that are interested in introducing energy-lending programs. These services include market research and energy needs assessments, technical assistance for designing business models and energy loan products, facilitation and development of partnership arrangements with energy enterprises, and design and evaluation of pilot programs. Arc also assists financial institutions with building the capacity of staff and management, client training and awareness raising, and establishing monitoring and evaluation systems. For those financial institutions with some experience in lending for energy services, Arc offers a comprehensive scale-up package aimed at identifying obstacles, refining processes, diversifying product offerings, and reaching scale.

Advisory Services

As more microfinance institutions and financial institutions around the world recognize the business case for energy lending, donors, governments, and investors are looking to Arc Finance as a resource for best practices in end-user and enterprise financing for clean energy. Our advisory services focus on assisting these stakeholders in planning energy-financing programs, identifying end-user financing investment opportunities, and building linkages with local stakeholders, including small and growing energy businesses & microfinance institutions.