Gamos was founded in the UK in 1989 as a platform to empower

disadvantaged individuals, communities and societies in the Global

South.  Gamos has a diverse track record, including social mobilisation,

renewable energy systems design and ICT for development. Gamos

is a small organisation with a big reach, working through a network

of partners across the Globe, primarily in Sub Saharan Africa and South/

Southeast Asia.

 

In the early 2000s, Gamos played a critical role in the development

of mobile money by identifying the opportunity to facilitate money

transfers for the unbanked using the increasingly accessible mobile

phone infrastructure (Batchelor, 2012). Gamos brought together the banking and telecoms sectors to take the idea from the drawing board into the

pockets of the poor.

 

In 2013, Gamos began championing eCooking as a transformative

solution that could leverage the enormous progress the world has                    made in electrification to drive forward the clean cooking agenda.                  Gamos worked closely with Loughborough University and the UK          government (DfID - now FCDO) to design and implement the Modern            Energy Cooking Services (MECS) programme. MECS aims to bring               together the clean cooking and electricity access sectors and create              a range of market-ready innovations and enabling policies that can                    create transformative social impact by electrifying kitchens across the              Global South.

 

In 2021, Gamos East Africa was incorporated in Kenya as a result of                     our growing engagement in the region through the MECS programme.          Gamos East Africa works closely with local institutions, such as the               Ministry of Energy and Kenya Power, to help them respond to the             emerging opportunities for the electrification of cooking in Kenya.                        In addition to identifying and implementing opportunities for              transformation, Gamos East Africa also seeks to build the capacity of                    its associates to identify and implement equally transformative            opportunities in the future.