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This fact sheet from the Institute for Economic Justice argues that a Universal Basic Income Guarantee (UBIG)—defined as a regular government cash transfer provided as a right to all adult citizens or residents—can advance gender justice and social cohesion by decoupling income from waged labour and reducing poverty-driven instability.

This briefing by the Stockholm Environment Institute argues that multilateral adaptation finance largely treats climate risk as a local phenomenon, failing to address transboundary and 'teleconnected' risks that cross borders through trade, financial flows, and shared ecosystems. The authors propose a shift toward 'systemic resilience'—interventions focusing on whole systems rather than individual countries—to deliver shared benefits for both recipient and contributor nations.

This policy brief examines the intersection of international trade and climate change, specifically focusing on how the World Trade Organization (WTO) can facilitate cooperation to support climate mitigation and adaptation goals while ensuring a just transition for developing countries.

This case study describes a pilot initiative by the NAP Global Network and Lensational to integrate the perspectives of underrepresented women into the National Adaptation Plan (NAP) processes of Ghana and Kenya. By using visual storytelling and photography, the project aimed to bridge the gap between grassroots experiences and national policy-making to ensure gender-responsive climate adaptation.

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.

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 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 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 Digital Financial Innovation Platform is an FSD Africa intervention running from 2022 to 2025, designed to increase the availability of affordable insurance products in Sub-Saharan Africa by developing insurtech ecosystems via an online 'one-stop innovation shop'.

The Geothermal Risk Transfer Facility is a programme funded by the FCDO (2021-2025) designed to catalyse private investment in African green energy by leveraging local insurance capital to de-risk early-stage geothermal development drilling.

The Risk, Resilience and Regulatory Lab (R3LAB) is a platform designed to enhance the capacity of insurance regulators and supervisors across Africa through collaboration, knowledge exchange, and the development of customized capacity-building programs.

This policy brief by the South African Institute of International Affairs examines the priorities and challenges for African nations leading up to COP27 in Egypt. It highlights the continent's push for climate justice, increased financial support for adaptation and loss and damage, and a 'just transition' that allows for the temporary use of natural gas to ensure energy security.

This research paper introduces a framework for assessing the societal impacts of resource recovery from urban organic waste streams at a city scale, which was tested using a case study in Naivasha, Kenya.

This case study describes the efforts of Lucy Lemashisha and the Rural Women Network (RWN) to build climate resilience among the Maasai community in Kajiado County, Kenya. It highlights the establishment of the Climate Resilience and Learning Center, which empowers local women to adopt alternative livelihoods and climate-smart agriculture to combat recurrent drought and famine.

The WAEMU Green Bond Scoping Report, published by FSD Africa in September 2022, evaluates the feasibility of developing a Green Bond market within the West African Economic and Monetary Union. The report identifies significant potential for sovereign and corporate issuance, particularly in energy, agriculture, and transportation, but highlights critical barriers including underdeveloped regional financial markets, a lack of government focus on climate-resilient regulatory frameworks, and limited technical capacity among stakeholders to meet international green standards. It recommends targeted capacity building, the development of harmonized regional guidelines, and the use of technical assistance and risk-transfer instruments to attract investors and build a pipeline of bankable green projects.

The Green Affordable Housing Finance instrument, proposed by Reall and analyzed by the Climate Policy Initiative, is a two-pronged financial mechanism designed to catalyze the construction and ownership of green affordable homes. It combines an Enabling Environment Facility (EEF) for technical assistance and direct construction finance with a Guarantee Facility that de-risks construction and mortgage loans for local financial institutions. The instrument will be piloted in Kenya in 2023, targeting the gap in sustainable housing for low- and informal-income households, before scaling to Nigeria, Uganda, India, and Pakistan.