Building community engagement tools and frontline-informed stakeholder strategies that expedite progress for abundant nature, climate, and energy futures
Pacific Africa helps renewable energy providers forge alliances with communities that transform engagement challenges into breakthrough solutions for energy projects
About Us
At Pacific Africa, innovation meets connection. We build tools designed to expand community engagement and frontline-informed stakeholder strategies that create abundant nature, climate, and energy futures.
We empower companies and communities to combine their expertise, creativity, and wisdom towards solving implementation and communications challenges. Pacific Africa provides innovative, grounded strategies for energy companies, public utilities, and their community engagement teams to build productive and successful relationships with communities that can reflect the demands of a rapidly evolving policy, regulatory, and public opinion landscape.
Pacific Africa provides consulting services and tools to companies, international organizations, and leaders interested in expanding their professional presence, market access, and brand visibility across frontier markets, with a focus on Africa and North America. We tap into the powerhouse of emerging technology resources, ingenuity, and networks from both regions to facilitate strategy and investment in projects.
Whether you are an established energy utility provider working through stakeholder engagement challenges, or a start-up clean energy project just beginning to understand how to start engaging communities well, Pacific Africa provides you with the tools, strategies, and guidance needed to enable project success.
Our services include:
Stakeholder and Community Engagement Consulting
Thought Leadership and Brand Strategy
Community Discussion Event Facilitation
Frontline Community-Informed AI Tools
Consulting Staff
Kidan Araya is a global stakeholder engagement, policy, and communications strategist with over 15 years of experience working across the United States, Europe, and Africa on stakeholder and communication strategies related to clean energy, conservation, and technology projects. She has advised senior leaders at government agencies, philanthropic organizations, and private companies on climate, nature, and tech policy issues. Read more here on her professional experience.
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