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The 2022 Forest Declaration Assessment Theme 4 report evaluates global forest governance systems and their capacity to halt and reverse forest loss and land degradation by 2030. It finds that while some countries have implemented effective legal tools like moratoria and inclusive policies, overall progress is insufficient, with persistent issues including widespread corruption, tenure insecurity for Indigenous Peoples and local communities, and the rollback of environmental protections in several major tropical forest nations.

The Rabobank Acorn Agroforestry Carbon Programme, supported by FSD Africa, utilizes a technology-enabled marketplace for carbon sequestration to provide financial sustainability for smallholder farmers in Africa transitioning to agroforestry. The program leverages carbon credits as Payment for Ecological Services (PES) to monetize natural capital, with pilot phase activities including the disbursement of carbon loans and technical training in Zambia, Kenya, and Nigeria.

The Africa Private Equity and Debt Programme, running from November 2020 to March 2025, is a pan-African initiative by FSD Africa designed to increase the availability of long-term financing for social and economic sectors by mobilising private equity and debt capital, specifically targeting increased participation from local institutional investors like pension funds.

The Climate Finance Training Programme, running from November 2020 to March 2025, aims to build climate finance capacity for policymakers, academia, regulators, and financial market participants in Sub-Saharan Africa through a twinning arrangement between the UK and African academic institutions.

A briefing by FSD Africa detailing a project to support the National Bank of Ethiopia in the acquisition and implementation of a Central Securities Depository (CSD) and Settlement System to modernize the country's capital markets.

This briefing describes a project (February–October 2022) to establish a regulatory and licensing framework for capital market service providers and self-regulatory organisations in Ethiopia. The initiative aims to improve investor confidence in Sub-Saharan Africa and drive inclusive economic growth through more efficient capital allocation.

FSD Africa is supporting the establishment of the Kenya Credit Enhancement Facility (KCEF), a proposed non-bank financial institution designed to provide 100% irrevocable and unconditional credit guarantees for long-term local currency debt tied to infrastructure projects in Kenya.

The Kenya Green Bond Programme (2017-2021) aimed to accelerate the use of green bonds to finance climate mitigation and adaptation in Kenya. The project successfully mobilised GBP 64.95 million in private finance, supported three green finance transactions (including Kenya's first green bond), established regulatory guidelines and tax incentives, and trained over 20,000 bank employees and 16 verifiers.

A report by FSD Africa detailing a project (April 2017 to June 2022) aimed at increasing long-term finance (LTF) in Sub-Saharan Africa through the creation of an LTF scoreboard and the improvement of public data availability.

This fact sheet describes the Debt Management Programme conducted by the Macroeconomic and Financial Management Institute (MEFMI) and FSD Africa from February 2021 to September 2022. The programme focused on supporting government securities markets in MEFMI member countries to foster economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and build market resilience through debt sustainability analyses, database development, and the formulation of debt management strategies.

This document outlines a scoping study (2022-2024) aimed at analyzing the green finance gap in Morocco and developing financial instruments to support green SMEs.

The Nigeria Green Bond Programme, running from January 2018 to March 2023, aimed to increase the use of green bonds to finance green projects and assets in Nigeria by developing market guidelines, a pipeline of investments, and a pool of licensed verifiers.

This briefing describes a technical assistance project by FSD Africa and KBA to establish an Over-The-Counter (OTC) Bond Exchange in Kenya, intended to improve bond market liquidity, transparency, and efficiency.

The SADC Green Bonds Programme, implemented by FSD Africa and the Committee of SADC Stock Exchanges (CoSSE) from April 2021 to March 2024, aims to increase the use of green bonds to finance climate projects across SADC member countries.

The SEC Nigeria Digital Transformation Programme, running from August 2020 to March 2025, aims to modernize the ICT systems and architecture of the Nigeria Securities and Exchange Commission to improve regulatory efficiency, security, and agility in a digital market.

FSD Africa is providing technical support to UMOA-Titres (UT) to implement an Electronic Trading Platform (ETP) for the WAEMU region to enhance the secondary trading market for debt securities.

This fact sheet describes the adaptation of the Cambridge Fintech and Regulatory Innovation (CFTRI) global executive online programme for Africa, a collaboration between the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF), Cambridge Judge Business School Executive Education, and FSD Africa.

The Carbon Value Exchange Platform (CaVEx), developed by 4R Digital with funding from FSD Africa, is a cloud-based digital marketplace designed to enable small-scale climate projects to participate in voluntary carbon markets through distributed ledger technology and mobile payments.

The Catalysing Climate Resilience (CCR) programme, funded by the FCDO and managed by BFA Global, aims to build climate resilience for vulnerable households and businesses in Africa through a three-part strategy of seeding new solutions, accelerating promising models, and developing the broader innovation ecosystem.

A fact sheet detailing the outcomes of FSD Africa's co-funding of the Digital Frontiers Institute (DFI) across Phases I and II from 2016 to 2022, focusing on professional training and institutional capacity for digital financial services (DFS) in Sub-Saharan Africa.