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About the speaker: Gina Rodolico is a Clean Energy Investment Due Diligence and Portfolio Monitoring Specialist for UNCDF in Africa. She has supported UNCDF’s Energy Challenge Funds in Uganda since 2015. She has assisted, among others, in defining the portfolio’s social, financial and environmental indicators to track and aggregates results across UNCDF’s Clean Energy portfolio. Additionally, Rodolico transferred lessons learned from the Uganda Challenge Funds to Burkina Faso and DRC.

Rodolico has over 25 years’ experience in the clean energy business development for small and medium enterprise sector. She started her career as part of the founding team of the US non-profit E+Co, an international sustainable investment company whose mission was to support clean energy enterprises that deliver reliable, affordable energy in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Rodolico was the Chief Operating Officer and Director of Innovations with extensive travel to over 30 countries managing company business, building a pipeline of entrepreneurs, and facilitating business activity in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Rodolico designed and launched a first-time carbon finance program to monetize carbon offsets generated from developing countries energy enterprises.

She also pioneered the now widely used Triple Bottom Line Impacts Assessment Program that tracked and analyzed 30+ indicators to document the financial, social and environmental impacts of energy investments.