Edore Onomakpome has worked in the field of energy and infrastructure financing for more than two decades, overseeing projects in Africa and Asia. As the manager of International Finance Corporation’s infrastructure portfolio in South Asia, Onomakpome identifies and develops opportunities to finance decarbonization and climate initiatives, aligning her efforts with the World Bank’s mission to end extreme poverty and promote shared prosperity. 

To achieve this goal, Onomakpome is developing renewable mini grids that will spur rural electrification.

“I am actively designing a sustainable and scalable finance program that will promote development of renewable rural electrification away from a grant-funded approach to a more project finance-based approach,” Onomakpome says. “Mini grids sit perfectly in this nexus of decarbonization and lifting populations out of extreme poverty.”

Onomakpome enrolled in the Financing and Deploying Clean Energy online certificate program to learn new strategies for project-based financing, which, she says, will help her develop and strengthen relationships with key regional private sector operators and government stakeholders.

“FDCE provides the opportunity to examine the viability and financial sustainability of mini grids to address energy needs in underserved communities,” Onomakpome says. “And it allows me to meet other professionals from different fields and backgrounds with a singular similar interest.”