Getting your schooling, electricity, or policing from someone other than the government doesn’t mean your services come free of politics. Those private, religious, nonprofit and community organizations are not purely free market or politically neutral. In many cases, they are highly politicized.
In Kenya and Uganda, the NGOs and businesses call for the state to get more involved in regulating the standards for energy products, such as solar lanterns and solar home systems, to ensure their products can compete with inexpensive Chinese imports, and be used safely and reliably