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This guide from the Climate Policy Initiative explains parametric insurance, a financial tool that provides rapid, fixed payouts based on predetermined triggers (such as wind speed or rainfall) rather than assessed losses. It details the instrument's role in maintaining fiscal liquidity and debt sustainability, the capacity requirements for governments to implement it, and the various commercial and concessional providers available globally.

This guide explains the mechanics, applications, and implementation requirements of securitization as a tool for climate finance. It details how pooling fragmented green assets into tradable securities can mobilize institutional capital, recycle balance sheets for originators, and manage credit risk through tranching. The document provides a framework for assessing financial market readiness across shallow, emerging, and mature markets, and outlines the specific capacity needs for ministries of finance and regulators to support these instruments.

Friends of the Earth International (FoEI) declares its institutional opposition to REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation), arguing that it commodifies forests, undermines the rights of Indigenous Peoples and local communities, and allows industrialized nations to avoid their responsibility to reduce fossil fuel emissions.

This case study describes the implementation of a three-phased leadership development programme at Jubilee Insurance Company of Kenya Limited to foster a coaching culture and improve business performance. The initiative, part of an FSD Africa project to stimulate the executive coaching market in sub-Saharan Africa, focused on increasing leader self-awareness and internal coaching capabilities to address historical challenges with staff morale and leadership effectiveness.

This report by EAVCA and Intellecap, supported by FSD Africa and FMO, analyzes the FinTech ecosystem in East Africa (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, and Ethiopia). It identifies key enablers such as high mobile penetration and gaps in traditional financial services, evaluates various FinTech business models—including lending, payments, insurance, and investment management—and examines regional investment trends, funding challenges, and the role of strategic partnerships between banks and mobile network operators.

This report analyzes digital credit innovations in sub-Saharan Africa, focusing on five key countries. It identifies seven primary innovation models—including telco-based lending, scoretechs, and invoicetechs—designed to overcome barriers like lack of collateral and poor credit history. While telco-based lending has significantly expanded access, the report notes risks of over-indebtedness and highlights the need for patient capital, regulatory sandboxes, and improved data privacy to ensure the sustainability of these models.

This synthesis report analyzes insurance innovation in eight Sub-Saharan African countries, identifying low penetration and structural barriers—such as high mobile data costs, a STEM skills gap, and low consumer trust—as primary constraints. It argues that while regulatory frameworks are not the main barrier, supervisory systems need upgrading and regulators should adopt more proactive market engagement to support insurtechs and reach underserved segments like MSMEs and rural populations.

The FSD Africa Supplier and Grantee Code of Conduct establishes ethical, environmental, and social standards for all entities providing goods or services to FSD Africa. The document defines a tiered compliance system based on contract value, with more stringent requirements and monitoring for higher-value partners, focusing on value for money, human rights, and climate risk management.

The FSD Africa Strategy 2025-2030 outlines a five-year plan to transform African financial markets to better support sustainable economic growth and climate resilience. The agency aims to mobilise domestic private capital—estimated at $2.4 trillion—to address systemic gaps in green economy investment, sovereign debt distress, and gender disparities through catalytic interventions, policy reform, and targeted investments via its arm, FSD Africa Investments (FSDAi).

This case study describes how Saglan Wajee General Hospital, a private facility in Holeta Town, Ethiopia, is transitioning into the country's first full-fledged health insurance company after participating in FSD Africa’s BimaLab Insurtech Accelerator Program. The hospital developed the 'Efoy' micro-health insurance product to improve healthcare access for low and middle-income families and is now establishing the Family Medical Network insurance company.

The Africa Green Bond Toolkit is a practical guide developed by FSD Africa and the Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI) to assist African capital markets in issuing green bonds according to international standards. It outlines the structural differences between green and vanilla bonds, provides a step-by-step issuance process, and details the requirements for creating a Green Bond Framework. The guide emphasizes the role of external verification and certification to ensure transparency and attract institutional investors to climate-resilient projects across the continent.

This case study describes AquaMnara, a startup supported by FSD Africa's 'Triggering Exponential Climate Action' (TECA) programme to build climate resilience for aquaculture farmers in Kenya, specifically around Lake Victoria in Kisumu.

The Africa Pensions Supervisors’ Network Programme, supported by FSD Africa (2021-2025), aims to increase pension coverage and assets in Sub-Saharan Africa, where coverage is currently only 9.6%. The initiative focuses on creating regulatory environments that encourage long-term savings and the investment of pension assets into the real sector, including collaboration with the Africa Pensions Supervisors Forum (APSF).

This report by the CIFAR Alliance Investors Working Group explores how fintech innovations—specifically in data and digital infrastructure, online marketplaces, and insurtech—can scale climate resilience solutions for vulnerable communities in emerging markets. It presents 11 case studies of ventures that address both acute weather-related disasters and chronic long-term climate changes affecting livelihoods.

This fact sheet from FSD Africa provides data on the cost of sending money from the UK to various African nations, alongside the size of the diaspora population in the UK and the annual amount of money sent to each country.

This report, prepared by JMiles & Co. for the Kenyan Ministry of Petroleum and Mining and funded by FSD Africa, provides a comprehensive gap analysis between international Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) reporting standards and Kenyan legislation. It serves as a guide for organisations in Kenya to align their practices with international requirements to become more competitive in obtaining international financing.

This case study describes the development and pilot of Kenya's first private-sector flood insurance product, created by Britam Insurance Kenya with support from FSD Africa. The project targeted vulnerable households in Tana River County, providing payouts to 300 families following heavy rains between October and December 2023.

FSD Africa and UK-based Parhelion have launched a programme to de-risk early-stage geothermal energy development in Kenya and Ethiopia. The initiative focuses on creating a Geothermal Risk Transfer facility to mitigate drilling risks and a training programme to build the capacity of local African insurers to underwrite geothermal risks, thereby attracting investment and reducing reliance on international insurance markets.

This case study describes EcoBodaa, a Kenyan tech startup that designs and manufactures electric motorcycles tailored for African road conditions. With support from Persistent Energy Capital, the company has developed locally assembled bikes with lower maintenance costs and a battery-swapping model to replace petrol-powered motorcycles in the boda boda and delivery sectors.

This case study describes how the BimaLab insurTech accelerator, backed by FSD Africa and the Insurance Regulatory Authority (IRA) of Kenya, supported the startup KaroPay in developing insurance-linked credit solutions for education in Kenya.