The Adaptation Benefits Mechanism (ABM) is a results-based financing instrument designed to catalyze private investment into adaptation projects through grants ...

In 2017, the Seychelles became the first country to successfully undertake a debt for climate (DFC) swap aimed at specifically ...

The WACA program is aimed at strengthening the resilience of targeted communities and areas in coastal Western Africa. It was ...

ASFFII is a private equity fund that invests in companies active in the sustainable forestry value chain. Managed by Criterion ...

A forestry business based in Kenya whose mission is to move small-scale farmers out of poverty. SFV is an instrument ...

The ACF was established by Conservation International (CI) with the objective to align economic and conservation objectives in the communities ...

RISCO is a first-of-its-kind social enterprise that overcomes existing barriers to mangrove protection by connecting the adaptation and mitigation values ...

The Green Climate Fund (GCF) is co-financing the “Enhancing climate change adaptation in the North Coast and Nile Delta Regions ...

A major barrier for cities in effectively addressing climate shocks is the low capacity and fiscal autonomy to allocate budgets ...

Urbanization is contributing to growing energy demand and costs associated with providing cooling in cities. CaaS aims to deploy efficient ...

CRAFT, from the Lightsmith Group, is the first commercial investment vehicle to focus on expanding the availability of technologies and ...

TCX is a currency hedging solution that addresses two major financing barriers to energy investment in developing countries—currency risk and ...

Climate Investor Two, from Climate Fund Managers (of Climate Investor One, which reached final close at USD 850 million in ...

Climate Adaptation Notes is a structured funding mechanism aimed at increasing private, commercial bank debt, and institutional investment in water ...

With a project cost estimated at USD 390 million, the project aims to increase adaptive capacity and water supply through ...

This social success note (SSN) is designed to help provide schools in Uganda with access to clean water. Starting with ...

The Food Securities Fund seeks to provide working capital loans to agricultural aggregators (cooperatives, processors, traders) operating in developing and ...

A credit guarantee scheme (CGS) provides third-party risk mitigation to banks or lenders where a percentage of lenders losses due ...

AgDevCo is a specialized subsidized impact investor and project developer that focuses on early-stage small and medium agri-businesses that contribute ...

The African Risk Capacity (ARC) is a sovereign risk pool and early response mechanism designed to provide insurance to countries ...

Cash transfer programs including the World Food Program (WFP) effort for Mozambique provide unconditional cash transfers to poor and vulnerable ...

Ethiopian smallholder farmers are heavily dependent on subsistence agriculture. The Ethiopian government launched the Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) in ...

GATE addresses the barrier of revenue risks associated with providing mini grids to rural customers lacking credit histories. A baseline ...

Outside of the African context, in Cambodia, the World Bank is supporting implementation of performance-based contracts to increase private sector ...

The IDA’s Lesotho Transport Infrastructure and Connectivity project aims to improve access to social services in rural Lesotho, strengthen road ...

R4 Rural Resilience Initiative (R4) was launched in 2011 by the World Food Program (WFP) and Oxfam America (OA) to ...

The Agriculture and Climate Risk Enterprise (ACRE) is the largest input-linked, mobile-enabled index insurance programme in Africa. Smallholders buy agricultural ...