Thus, there is a need for scaling up and expanding the coverage of the S&T initiative. The Lighting a Billion Lives (LaBL) initiative is a fitting example for such technological collaboration. Launched in 2008, the initiative has allowed some 35,000 rural households in India to replace their kerosene lamps with solar lanterns. The initiative is currently being piloted in Uganda in partnership with local, private distribution networks. There is significant scope for such initiatives to be implemented on a larger scale and in other African LDCs facing acute energy poverty.