Skylight Strategic Partners

Turning Partnerships into Power

Skylight Strategic Partners is a boutique advisory firm advancing Africa’s energy and climate future through strategic partnerships and smart collaboration. We help clients navigate the complexity of energy transitions by unlocking public-private alignment, mobilizing finance, and enabling inclusive stakeholder engagement. With deep regional expertise and a track record in driving systems change, we turn partnerships into power.

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Market Strategy & Stakeholder Engagement

We advise companies on how to enter, expand, and build influence in Africa’s energy markets. With deep local insight and strategic networks, Skylight helps clients move with clarity—navigating political and regulatory environments while forging high-value relationships across the ecosystem.

Our Services:

  • Market entry research and expansion strategy

  • Stakeholder mapping and engagement strategy

  • Strategic partnership development and coalition building 

  • Development and facilitation of public private partnerships

  • Community, civil society, and political stakeholder alignment

  • Strategic advisory for navigating policy, regulatory, and political environments

  • Country risk analysis and mitigation strategies

  • Due diligence on local market actors and political economy dynamics

Visibility, Influence, & Brand Positioning

We help clients amplify their brand, shape their narrative, and build lasting visibility across Africa’s energy ecosystem. From strategic event participation to hosted engagements and thought leadership, Skylight ensures clients are positioned to lead and remembered for the right reasons.

Our Services:

  • Strategic planning and positioning for industry events, conferences, and forums

  • Event planning and preparation, including curated stakeholder engagements

  • Design and facilitation of bespoke client-led events and networking sessions

  • Thought leadership positioning (speaking opportunities, panels, op-eds)

  • Brand narrative development aligned with business goals

  • Media engagement, PR strategy, and visibility campaigns

  • Post-engagement follow-up and conversion strategy

  • Support engagement and participation in local and international industry associations and policy forums

Finance Mobilization & Program Design

We unlock funding and co-financing opportunities. Whether advising on how to align our client’s funding needs with development finance priorities  — or crafting compelling funding proposals or applications — Skylight brings deep insight and more than two decades of experience in mobilizing development finance opportunities and structures.

Our Services:

  • Strategy for engaging donors, DFIs, multilaterals, and climate finance facilities

  • Development of funding proposals and concept notes tailored to funder priorities

  • Identification of co-financing and de-risking instruments

  • Lead stakeholder alignment and consultation for program co-creation

  • Alignment with energy access, just transition, and climate objectives

Get to know us

Skylight Strategic Partners was founded by Megan Taylor, former Energy Transition & Partnerships Advisor for USAID’s Power Africa initiative. With more than 15 years of experience working for and with the US Government - in both Africa and Washington, DC - Megan has a demonstrated ability to build strategic partnerships across a multitude of actors to foster collaboration and promote coordination on shared priorities that address the energy trilemma in sub-Saharan Africa.

With a deep network of senior level contacts from local and international governments, the private sector, MDBs, DFIs, and philanthropic communities, Skylight brings unmatched insight and insider knowledge of the donor landscape — driving the acceleration of public-private collaboration to advance decarbonization in sub-Saharan Africa.

Megan Taylor, Founder & Managing Director

Phoebe Sullivan, Strategic Advisor

Phoebe has worked in international development for 2o years, across the forestry, agriculture, and energy spaces, working in the private sector, consulting and for the U.S. government. She has managed $150 million in technical assistance and transaction advisory services for USAID’s Power Africa in over thirty countries in sub-Saharan Africa and managed the New Forest’s Company carbon credit asset development. She designs impactful partnerships, drawing on resources and expertise across public and private sector actors with the aim to deliver tangible infrastructure projects, connecting capital to exceptional companies.

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