Directory of climate & sustainable finance institutions for Africa
453 profiled sources of capital — multilateral banks, development finance institutions, climate funds, guarantee and insurance providers, foundations, impact investors, blended finance facilities and carbon credit buyers. Each profile shows geography, instruments, sector appetite and the instruments or open calls you can actually approach them for.
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Blended Finance Facility (60)
- &Green Fund — Netherlands
- aBi Finance and aBi Development — Uganda
- Africa Adaptation Acceleration Program — Ivory Coast
- Africa Agriculture and Trade Investment Fund — Luxembourg
- Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund — Kenya
- Africa Fair Seaweed Finance Facility — Tanzania
- Africa Go Green Fund — Netherlands
- Africa GreenCo — Zambia
- Africa Guarantee Fund — Kenya
- Africa50 — Morocco
- African Guarantee Fund — Kenya
- Agri-Business Capital Fund — Luxembourg
- AGRI3 Fund — Netherlands
- Attijariwafa Bank – African Energy Efficiency Fund — Morocco
- Bamboo Capital Partners – BLOC Smart Africa Impact Fund — Luxembourg
- Bank of Africa (BMCE Group) – Tatwir Croissance Verte / Green Value Chain — Morocco
- Beyond the Grid Fund for Africa — Finland
- Blue Catalyst Fund — United Kingdom
- CAFI Private Sector Investment Facility — Global
- Camco / REPP (Renewable Energy Performance Platform) — United Kingdom
- Catalytic Africa — Ghana
- Catalytic Climate Finance Facility — Canada
- CDC Group Catalyst Strategies (BII Catalyst) — United Kingdom
- Climate Finance Facility (DBSA) — South Africa
- Climate Fund Managers — Netherlands
- Climate Fund Managers Climate Investor Two — Netherlands
- Common Fund for Commodities — Netherlands
- CrossBoundary Energy Access — Kenya
- Danish SDG Investment Fund — Denmark
- Emerging Africa & Asia Infrastructure Fund — United Kingdom
- Emerging Markets Climate Action Fund — Luxembourg
- Energy Access Relief Facility — United States
- Energy Entrepreneurs Growth Fund — Netherlands
- Etihad 7 — United Arab Emirates
- Fonds Africain de Garantie et de Coopération Économique — Benin
- FSD Africa Investments — Kenya
- Global Agriculture and Food Security Program — United States
- Global Fund for Coral Reefs — Multilateral
- Green Outcomes Fund — South Africa
- GuarantCo — United Kingdom
- InfraCo Africa — United Kingdom
- InfraCredit — Nigeria
- Ireme Invest — Rwanda
- Ireme Invest (Rwanda Green Investment Facility) — Rwanda
- Land Degradation Neutrality Fund — France
- Mastercard Foundation Africa Growth Fund — Rwanda
- Mini-Grids Partnership / Africa Minigrids Program — United States
- NEPAD Infrastructure Project Preparation Facility — Ivory Coast
- Ninety One Emerging Africa Infrastructure Debt — Mauritius
- Norfund Climate Investment Fund — Norway
- Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance (ORRAA) — United Kingdom
- Private Sector Foundation Uganda — Uganda
- PTA Bank Trade Fund — Mauritius
- SANAD Fund for MSME — Luxembourg
- SEFA - Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa — Côte d'Ivoire
- Technical Assistance Facility (TAF) - PIDG — United Kingdom
- Uganda Energy Fund / GET FiT Uganda — Uganda
- UNCDF - UN Capital Development Fund — United States
- Universal Energy Facility — Austria
- Zanzibar Blue & Green Economy Transformation Fund — Tanzania
Carbon Finance Mechanism (20)
- Article 6.2 Bilateral Cooperation - KliK Foundation — Switzerland
- BioCarbon Fund Initiative for Sustainable Forest Landscapes — United States
- BioCarbon Partners — Zambia
- Cercarbono & ACX Buyer Networks — Singapore
- CHOOOSE / Klimate Buyer Platforms — Denmark
- CORSIA Eligible Credit Demand (ICAO) — Canada
- Everland — United States
- Frontier Climate — United States
- Japan Joint Crediting Mechanism — Japan
- LEAF Coalition — United States
- NextGen CDR Facility — Switzerland
- Permian Global — United Kingdom
- Removall Carbon — France
- Singapore Carbon Tax Article 6 Procurement — Singapore
- South Pole — Switzerland
- Symbiosis Coalition — United States
- Terra Global Capital — United States
- West Africa Blue — United Kingdom
- Wildlife Works Carbon — United States
- World Bank Transformative Carbon Asset Facility — United States
Catalytic & Enabling Capital (22)
- Africa50 Project Development — Morocco
- ANAVA Fund of Funds — Tunisia
- Bezos Earth Fund — United States
- Blue Haven Initiative — United States
- Ceniarth — United States
- Climate Finance Accelerator — United Kingdom
- Convergence Blended Finance — Canada
- Elemental Impact — United States
- Energy Catalyst — United Kingdom
- FASA - Financing for Agri-SMEs in Africa — France
- Fonds Souverain d'Investissements Stratégiques — Senegal
- Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet — United States
- Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance — United Kingdom
- Green Earth Impact Fund — Switzerland
- iDICE (Nigeria) — Nigeria
- MacArthur Foundation Catalytic Capital Consortium — United States
- Open Road Alliance — United States
- P4G - Partnering for Green Growth — Denmark
- Prime Coalition — United States
- Private Infrastructure Development Group — United Kingdom
- Roots of Impact — Germany
- Village Capital — United States
Climate Fund (23)
- Adaptation Fund — United States
- Africa Climate Change Fund — Ivory Coast
- BACoMaB Trust Fund — Mauritania
- Blue Action Fund — Germany
- Central African Forest Initiative — Belgium
- Climate Investment Funds — United States
- Congo Basin Blue Fund — Republic of the Congo
- Congo Basin Forest Fund — Ivory Coast
- EEP Africa — South Africa
- Environmental Investment Fund of Namibia — Namibia
- Fondation pour les Aires Protégées et la Biodiversité de Madagascar — Madagascar
- Forest Carbon Partnership Facility — United States
- GEF Small Grants Programme — United States
- Global Environment Facility — United States
- Green Climate Fund — South Korea
- Green Climate Fund Readiness Programme — South Korea
- Least Developed Countries Fund — United States
- National Environment Trust Fund Tanzania — Tanzania
- Nordic Development Fund — Finland
- Rwanda Green Fund (FONERWA) — Rwanda
- Seychelles' Conservation and Climate Adaptation Trust — Seychelles
- South Africa Green Fund (Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment / DBSA) — South Africa
- Special Climate Change Fund — United States
Commercial Investor (51)
- Absa Group Sustainable Finance — South Africa
- Access Bank Plc Sustainable Finance — Nigeria
- Acre Impact Capital — United Kingdom
- Actis — United Kingdom
- Adenia Partners — Mauritius
- Africa Infrastructure Investment Managers — South Africa
- Africa Renewable Energy Fund II — Mauritius
- AfricInvest — Tunisia
- Allianz Global Investors Emerging Market Climate Action Fund — Germany
- Amethis — France
- ARM-Harith Infrastructure Investment — Nigeria
- Bank ABC — Bahrain
- Bank of Kigali Green Finance — Rwanda
- Baobab+ — Senegal
- Berkeley Energy — United Kingdom
- Commercial International Bank (Egypt) – Sustainable Finance Loan — Egypt
- CRDB Bank Green Finance — Tanzania
- Development Partners International — United Kingdom
- Ecobank Group — Togo
- Equator Africa — Kenya
- Equity Bank Group / Equity Africa Recovery — Kenya
- Fidelity Bank Ghana Green Lending Fund — Ghana
- Gaia Fund Managers — South Africa
- Google Carbon Removal Portfolio — United States
- Helios Investment Partners — United Kingdom
- I&M Bank Green Finance — Kenya
- Inspired Evolution Investment Management — South Africa
- Investec Bank Limited – Energy and Infrastructure Finance — South Africa
- Kenya Commercial Bank Group (KCB) Sustainable Finance — Kenya
- Masdar (Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company) — United Arab Emirates
- Meridiam — France
- Metier Sustainable Capital — South Africa
- Microsoft Carbon Removal Procurement — United States
- Mirova — France
- Nedbank Corporate and Investment Banking – Sustainable Finance — South Africa
- Ninety One Africa Credit Opportunities — South Africa
- NMB Bank Tanzania Green Finance — Tanzania
- Old Mutual Alternative Investments — South Africa
- Public Investment Fund (Saudi Arabia) — Saudi Arabia
- Rand Merchant Bank / FirstRand — South Africa
- Satgana — France
- Shell Nature-Based Solutions — United Kingdom
- Silk Road Fund — China
- Societe Generale Africa Sustainable Finance — France
- Stanbic Bank Uganda Sustainable Finance — Uganda
- Standard Bank Group — South Africa
- Standard Chartered Sustainable Finance — United Kingdom
- Swiss Re Carbon Removal Purchases — Switzerland
- Trafigura Carbon Trading — Singapore
- Verod Capital — Nigeria
- Vertree (Macquarie) — United Kingdom
DFI (51)
- Agence Française de Développement — France
- Agricultural Bank of Namibia — Namibia
- Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development — Kuwait
- Banco de Desenvolvimento de Angola — Angola
- Banco Nacional de Investimento — Mozambique
- BIO - Belgian Investment Company for Developing Countries — Belgium
- Botswana Development Corporation — Botswana
- British International Investment — United Kingdom
- China Development Bank — China
- COFIDES — Spain
- DEG - Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft — Germany
- Development Bank of Ethiopia — Ethiopia
- Development Bank of Ghana — Ghana
- Development Bank of Mauritius — Mauritius
- Development Bank of Namibia — Namibia
- Development Bank of Nigeria — Nigeria
- Development Bank of Rwanda — Rwanda
- Development Bank of Southern Africa — South Africa
- Development Bank of Zambia — Zambia
- ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development — Togo
- Emirates Development Bank — United Arab Emirates
- Eswatini Development Finance Corporation — Eswatini
- FinDev Canada — Canada
- Finnvera / Finnfund — Finland
- FMO - Dutch Entrepreneurial Development Bank — Netherlands
- Fonds de Solidarité Africain — Mali
- Ghana Infrastructure Investment Fund — Ghana
- IFU - Investment Fund for Developing Countries — Denmark
- Infrastructure Development Bank of Zimbabwe — Zimbabwe
- International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation — Saudi Arabia
- Invest International — Netherlands
- Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector — Saudi Arabia
- Kenya Development Corporation — Kenya
- KfW Development Bank — Germany
- Land and Agricultural Development Bank of South Africa – Agro Energy Fund — South Africa
- Lesotho National Development Corporation — Lesotho
- National Development Bank Botswana — Botswana
- National Empowerment Fund — South Africa
- Nordic Environment Finance Corporation — Finland
- Norfund — Norway
- OeEB - Development Bank of Austria — Austria
- Proparco — France
- SIFEM - Swiss Investment Fund for Emerging Markets — Switzerland
- SIMEST — Italy
- Société Financière de Développement (DRC) — DRC
- Swedfund — Sweden
- Tanzania Agricultural Development Bank — Tanzania
- The Arab Energy Fund (APICORP) — Saudi Arabia
- TIB Development Bank — Tanzania
- U.S. International Development Finance Corporation — United States
- Uganda Development Bank — Uganda
Export Credit Agency (16)
- Atradius Dutch State Business — Netherlands
- Bpifrance Assurance Export — France
- China Export & Credit Insurance Corporation — China
- EKN / Swedish Export Credit Agency — Sweden
- Etihad Credit Insurance — United Arab Emirates
- Euler Hermes / Bundesdeckungen (Germany ECA) — Germany
- Export Credit Insurance Corporation of South Africa — South Africa
- Export Development Canada — Canada
- Export-Import Bank of India — India
- Export-Import Bank of the United States — United States
- Ghana Export-Import Bank — Ghana
- Japan Bank for International Cooperation — Japan
- Nippon Export and Investment Insurance — Japan
- SACE — Italy
- Türk Eximbank — Turkey
- UK Export Finance — United Kingdom
Foundation (35)
- Africa Climate Foundation — South Africa
- Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa — Kenya
- Aqua for All — Netherlands
- Arcadia Fund — United Kingdom
- Autodesk Foundation — United States
- Bezos Earth Fund — United States
- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation — United States
- BIOFUND – Foundation for Biodiversity Conservation — Mozambique
- Charles Stewart Mott Foundation — United States
- Children's Investment Fund Foundation — United Kingdom
- Climate Emergency Collaboration Group — United States
- David and Lucile Packard Foundation — United States
- Ford Foundation — United States
- Global Center on Adaptation — Netherlands
- Global Greengrants Fund — United States
- Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation — United States
- Hewlett Foundation — United States
- IKEA Foundation — Netherlands
- Jeff Skoll / Skoll Foundation — United States
- Malawi Environment Endowment Trust — Malawi
- Mastercard Foundation — Canada
- Mastercard Foundation Climate and Green Jobs — Rwanda
- Namibia Nature Foundation — Namibia
- Nature Conservancy Africa (NatureVest) — United States
- Oak Foundation — Switzerland
- Peace Parks Foundation — South Africa
- Rockefeller Brothers Fund — United States
- Rockefeller Foundation — United States
- Rockefeller Foundation Power and Climate — United States
- Shell Foundation — United Kingdom
- Sustainable Energy for All — Austria
- Sustainable Infrastructure Foundation / SOURCE — Switzerland
- The DIV Fund — United States
- Wallace Global Fund — United States
- Wellcome Trust Climate & Health — United Kingdom
Foundation / Philanthropy (2)
- GSMA Mobile for Development — United Kingdom
- Milken Institute & Motsepe Foundation Prize Programme — United States
Government Agency (70)
- Abu Dhabi Fund for Development — United Arab Emirates
- Africa Trade and Investment Programme (USAID) — United States
- Agence Béninoise d'Electrification Rurale et de Maîtrise d'Énergie — Benin
- Agence de Développement de l'Electrification Rurale (Mauritania) — Mauritania
- Agence Malienne pour le Développement de l'Energie Domestique et de l'Electrification Rurale — Mali
- Agence Nationale de Promotion de l'Electrification Rurale (Niger) — Niger
- Agence Sénégalaise d'Électrification Rurale — Senegal
- Agence Togolaise d'Electrification Rurale et des Energies Renouvelables — Togo
- Bank of Industry Nigeria — Nigeria
- Banque Camerounaise des Petites et Moyennes Entreprises — Cameroon
- BC-PME and Cameroon Rural Financing (CARFIC) — Cameroon
- Botswana / Southern African Development Community Green Facility — Botswana
- Citizen Entrepreneurial Development Agency — Botswana
- Egypt Sovereign Fund — Egypt
- Enabel — Belgium
- FCDO Climate and Nature Programmes — United Kingdom
- Fonds de Développement de l'Electrification Rurale (Senegal) — Senegal
- Fonds de Développement Economique de Djibouti — Djibouti
- Fonds de Promotion de l'Industrie (RDC) — DRC
- Fonds de Soutien à l'Agriculture (Congo-Brazzaville) — Congo-Brazzaville
- Fonds Gabonais d'Investissements Stratégiques — Gabon
- Fonds Régional de Développement Agricole — Madagascar
- Fonds Spécial d'Équipement et d'Intervention Intercommunale — Cameroon
- Food and Agriculture Organization Investment Centre — Italy
- Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office — United Kingdom
- Fundo de Energia Moçambique — Mozambique
- Ghana Carbon Market Office — Ghana
- GIZ — Germany
- Global Affairs Canada — Canada
- Grand Challenges Canada — Canada
- Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme Office — South Africa
- Indian Ocean Commission – Blue Economy Financing — Mauritius
- Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa — South Africa
- Japan International Cooperation Agency — Japan
- Kenya Carbon Markets Framework (Designated National Authority) — Kenya
- Kenya Climate Innovation Center — Kenya
- Kenya Green Bond Programme / Nairobi Securities Exchange — Kenya
- Korea Article 6 / ITMO Procurement — South Korea
- Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development — Kuwait
- Millennium Challenge Corporation — United States
- Morocco Agency for Sustainable Energy — Morocco
- Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) — Netherlands
- Nigeria Climate Change Fund / Climate Change Council — Nigeria
- Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority — Nigeria
- NIRSAL Plc — Nigeria
- Norad — Norway
- Norway Article 6 Cooperation — Norway
- Power Africa — United States
- Prosper Africa — United States
- Qatar Fund for Development — Qatar
- Rural Electrification Agency Nigeria — Nigeria
- Rural Electrification and Renewable Energy Corporation — Kenya
- Rural Electrification Authority Zambia — Zambia
- Rural Energy Agency Tanzania — Tanzania
- Rural Renewable Energy Agency Liberia — Liberia
- Rwanda Carbon Market Framework — Rwanda
- Rwanda Development Board Green Investment Facilitation — Rwanda
- Saudi Fund for Development — Saudi Arabia
- Scottish Government Climate Justice Fund — United Kingdom
- Sida — Sweden
- Sida Guarantees and Challenge Funds — Sweden
- Swedish Energy Agency Article 6 Programme — Sweden
- Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency — Turkey
- Uganda Development Corporation — Uganda
- Uganda Energy Credit Capitalisation Company — Uganda
- UNDP Climate Finance Network — United States
- UNEP Africa Climate Finance — Kenya
- USAID Development Innovation Ventures (DIV) — Archived — United States
- Water Sector Trust Fund — Kenya
- Zimbabwe Carbon Markets Authority — Zimbabwe
Impact Investor (54)
- Acumen — United States
- Acumen Hardest-to-Reach (A2R) — United States
- Africa Climate Ventures — Rwanda
- AHL Venture Partners — Kenya
- Alitheia IDF Fund — Nigeria
- All On — Nigeria
- Aqua-Spark Africa — Netherlands
- Beyond Capital Fund — Kenya
- Blue Alliance — Netherlands
- BlueOrchard Finance — Switzerland
- Catalyst Fund — United States
- Cauris Management — Togo
- Climate Asset Management — United Kingdom
- Climate Resilient Africa Fund — Uganda
- Comoé Capital — Côte d'Ivoire
- Conservation International Ventures — United States
- Cygnum Capital — United Kingdom
- DOB Equity — Kenya
- E3 Capital — Kenya
- Enviu Ventures Africa — Netherlands
- Enza Capital — Kenya
- Factor[e] Ventures — United States
- Global Innovation Fund — United Kingdom
- GroFin — Kenya
- Incofin Investment Management — Belgium
- Injaro Investments — Ghana
- Investisseurs et Partenaires — France
- KawiSafi Ventures — Kenya
- Kenya Climate Ventures — Kenya
- Lion's Head Global Partners — United Kingdom
- Madica — Pan-African
- Mirova Sustainable Ocean Fund — France
- Novastar Ventures — Kenya
- Obudu Capital — Nigeria
- Oikocredit — Netherlands
- Pearl Capital Partners — Uganda
- Persistent Energy — United States
- Pyramidia Ventures — Kenya
- Rabo Rural Fund — Netherlands
- Renew Capital — Rwanda
- responsAbility Investments — Switzerland
- Root Capital — United States
- Sahel Capital Agribusiness Managers — Nigeria
- Sanlam Investments Sustainable Infrastructure Fund — South Africa
- SMEFunds Capital — Nigeria
- Spark+ Africa Fund — Switzerland
- SunFunder / Nithio — United States
- Symbiotics — Switzerland
- Teranga Capital — Senegal
- Triodos Investment Management — Netherlands
- Vantage Capital — South Africa
- Verdant Capital — Mauritius
- Village Capital — United States
- Water and Sanitation Pooled Fund / WaterEquity — United States
MDB (21)
- Africa Finance Corporation — Nigeria
- African Development Bank — Côte d'Ivoire
- African Export-Import Bank — Egypt
- Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa — Sudan
- Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank — China
- Banque de Développement des États de l'Afrique Centrale — Congo-Brazzaville
- East African Development Bank — Uganda
- Eastern and Southern African Trade and Development Bank Group — Kenya
- European Bank for Reconstruction and Development — United Kingdom
- European Investment Bank — Luxembourg
- International Development Association — United States
- International Finance Corporation — United States
- International Fund for Agricultural Development — Italy
- Islamic Development Bank — Saudi Arabia
- Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency — United States
- New Development Bank — China
- OPEC Fund for International Development — Austria
- Shelter Afrique Development Bank — Kenya
- Trade and Development Bank — Mauritius
- West African Development Bank — Togo
- World Bank / IBRD — United States
Other (1)
- Global Green Growth Institute — South Korea
Programme Window (27)
- aBi Trust Uganda Green Agri-Finance — Uganda
- AfDB Africa Climate Change Fund — Cote d'Ivoire
- AfDB Climate Action Window — Cote d'Ivoire
- Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund REACT — Kenya
- Ayrton Fund (UK International Climate Finance) — United Kingdom
- BOAD Climate Finance / Support for the Private Sector — Togo
- C40 Cities Finance Facility — Germany
- Carbon Accelerator Programme for the Environment — Kenya
- CIF Capital Market Mechanism / Climate Investment Funds windows — United States
- Climate Adaptation and Resilience (Global Center on Adaptation - Africa Adaptation Acceleration Programme upstream facility) — Netherlands
- Climate Investment Funds Renewable Energy Integration and Industry Decarbonisation Programmes — United States
- Energising Development — Germany
- EU AgriFI — Belgium
- EU ElectriFI — Belgium
- EU Global Gateway - Africa-Europe Investment Package (EFSD+) — Belgium
- Financial Sector Deepening Kenya — Kenya
- GEF Least Developed Countries Fund — United States
- GET.invest — Germany
- Global Environment Facility Small Grants Programme — United States
- Green Climate Fund - Private Sector Facility — South Korea
- Kenya Off-Grid Solar Access Project — Kenya
- Mission 300 Accelerator (World Bank / AfDB energy access) — United States
- MOBILIST (Mobilising Institutional Capital Through Listed Product Structures) — United Kingdom
- PREF-CEMAC Paris Round Table Mechanism — Congo-Brazzaville
- Private Financing Advisory Network — Austria
- PROBLUE (World Bank) — United States
- World Bank SCALE Trust Fund (Scaling Climate Action by Lowering Emissions) — United States