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This fact sheet from the Climate Policy Initiative provides an overview of public adaptation finance flows, primarily for the year 2013, detailing the sources, instruments, sectors, and geographic destinations of these funds.

This fact sheet by the Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) analyzes the use of risk mitigation instruments by the World Bank Group (WBG) for climate-related projects. It concludes that while the WBG is a major provider of risk mitigation, these instruments have not been used at a significant scale for climate change, suggesting a need for a formal mandate to increase availability and the use of specific tools like guarantees and index-based instruments.

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 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.

FSD Africa is seeking a consulting firm to evaluate the first phase of its nature programme. The evaluation aims to document lessons learned and provide recommendations to inform the design of phase II, focusing on three primary workstreams: the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) framework, the African Natural Capital Alliance (ANCA), and regulatory support for natural capital.

FSD Africa is seeking expressions of interest from accredited executive coaches or firms to provide leadership development services for its senior management and executives.

FSD Africa is seeking a consultant or firm to design and deliver a comprehensive executive leadership development programme. The initiative aims to equip senior leaders with skills for strategic vision, managing complexity, and leading diverse teams within the financial development landscape of sub-Saharan Africa.

FSD Africa is seeking a consultant or consulting firm to design and deliver a tailored risk management training program for its staff and management. This initiative follows the approval of a new five-year strategy (2025-2030) and aims to institutionalize risk management practices to improve governance and compliance across the organization's Pillars.

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).

The Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) and Impact Policy outlines FSD Africa's framework for integrating sustainability, social responsibility, and impact considerations into its grant funding and investment activities. The policy establishes a systems approach via an Environmental and Social Performance Management (ESPM) system to avoid harm, protect value, and drive positive development outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa.

This fact sheet describes the Climate Finance Training Programme created by Financial Sector Deepening (FSD) Africa to address the green funding gap in Africa by building the capacity of policymakers, regulators, and financial experts to access climate funds and design financial products.

This fact sheet describes the activities of Persistent Energy Capital, a venture builder and fund that provides equity and support to green innovators in Sub-Saharan Africa, highlighting its partnership with FSD Africa Investments (FSDAi).

This guide by FSD Africa presents a regulatory response framework for insurance supervisors to manage systemic risks, developed from research across 31 countries following the impact of COVID-19 in sub-Saharan Africa. The framework consists of four phases: identifying the impact of the risk, implementing a response, monitoring efficacy, and adapting for future risks.

The RRI programme, a partnership between Cenfri and FSD Africa, aimed to increase financial inclusion and strengthen risk management in sub-Saharan Africa. It removed barriers for an estimated 5.6 million people, supported over 338,000 remittance users, and provided capacity-building to 750 regulators and 530 financial service providers. Key findings highlight the need for regional payment and data integration to support the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (ACFTA) and suggest that simple adaptations to supervisory processes are more effective for regulators than complex regulatory sandboxes.

This document is a Vietnamese translation of excerpts from the 'Boom & Burst Coal 2024' report by Global Energy Monitor and its partners. It analyzes global coal power trends in 2023, highlighting a dichotomy where new construction has hit a 9-year low outside China but an 8-year high within China. The report provides a detailed assessment of Vietnam's energy transition, focusing on the Power Development Plan VIII (PDP8) and the Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP), while noting that global coal capacity reached an all-time high in 2023.

This fact sheet by GreenCape, produced in collaboration with the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom, defines non-sewered sanitation systems (NSSS) and outlines their benefits, drivers, and the market potential for their implementation in South Africa and globally.

This report details a workshop held on March 5, 2019, at the Century City Conference Centre, organized by GreenCape, Inspired Evolution, and SAPVIA. The event brought together 39 delegates from industry, government, and academia to address the emerging challenge of end-of-life (EOL) solar photovoltaic (PV) panels in Sub-Saharan Africa, focusing on legislative barriers, technical recycling solutions, and logistical strategies to prevent landfilling.

This briefing analyzes the historical and systemic link between poverty and environmental degradation, arguing that sustainable development requires integrating these two goals. It highlights how extreme wealth inequality drives resource overconsumption and how the world's poorest populations are disproportionately affected by climate-related disasters, conflict, and zoonotic pandemics like COVID-19. The text advocates for shifting government metrics from GDP to national well-being indices and limiting the resource consumption of the wealthiest 10% to allow the poor to escape poverty within planetary boundaries.

This policy brief by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) examines the conflicting international legal frameworks governing germplasm and plant breeding. It highlights the tension between intellectual property (IP) rights favored by commercial seed firms and the traditional rights of farmers and Indigenous Peoples to save, share, and sell seeds. The document provides an overview of key multilateral agreements and offers guidance for developing country governments on creating national laws that balance commercial innovation with biodiversity conservation and equity.

The Sustainable Development Timeline is a fact sheet published by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) that chronicles key environmental, social, and economic milestones from 1962 to 2007. It tracks the evolution of sustainable development through the formation of advocacy groups, the adoption of international treaties, scientific discoveries regarding climate and ozone depletion, and major ecological disasters.