Climate finance infrastructure for African markets
We turn climate capital into bankable SME portfolios.
Built with African financial institutions. Designed for deployment.
Climate Gateway Africa works with banks, development finance institutions and market partners to design and operationalise climate finance facilities that deploy through African financial institutions.
US$45M+
Capital Under Advisory
Sub-Saharan Africa receives only 3% of tracked global climate finance
The deployment gap
The problem is not only capital. It is the infrastructure to deploy it.
Ambition without institutional architecture stops at commitment. CGA builds the connective infrastructure between capital and the real economy.
African banks already serve the SMEs, producers and businesses driving the real economy. Most climate facilities are not designed around bank systems, commercial incentives or investable SME demand.
CGA connects these components — helping institutions translate climate ambition into finance that can be originated, deployed and measured.
Not a parallel structure. Not a workaround. The connective architecture the market is missing.
The architecture
How capital moves through the system.
Catalytic Capital
DFIs, donors and climate funds committing capital for adaptation, growth and inclusion.
African Financial Institutions
Products, governance and operating systems that can absorb, deploy and report climate capital at portfolio scale.
Investable SME Portfolios
Aggregated demand in priority value chains — agriculture, blue economy, logistics, energy, adaptation.
Real-Economy Impact
Growth, jobs, resilience and emissions reduction — measured through the institutions that delivered them.
What we build
CGA builds the missing middle
Five capabilities that turn climate capital into deployable, bankable lending — assembled inside the bank, not around it.
Bank Platform Architecture
Operating model, governance, decision rights and internal ownership.
Facility & Capital Structuring
Blended capital stacks, guarantees, first-loss, TA, results-based funding and DFI alignment.
SME Pipeline Development
Sector selection, value-chain aggregation, origination logic and bankable demand mapping.
ESG, Gender & MRV Systems
Climate tagging, reporting templates, donor metrics and bank MIS integration.
Execution Readiness
90-day diagnostic, pilot sequencing, partner alignment and deployment roadmap.
Evidence
The data behind the model
$2.8T
Africa's climate finance need by 2030.
Climate Policy Initiative, 2022$331B
SME financing shortfall across Sub-Saharan Africa.
IFC / SME Finance Forum3%
Of global climate finance reaches Sub-Saharan Africa.
African Development BankWe turn capital into measurable value for both people and the planet.
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Future Finance Report
A forward-looking analysis of why African banks must integrate climate finance into core SME lending, balance sheets, and risk frameworks over the next decade.
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Data That Tells a Story
Why sustainable climate finance in Africa will scale through banks, not parallel vehicles.
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Our Blue Future
A thematic deep dive into blue economy finance, outlining bankable coastal value chains, SME aggregation models, and facility structures for DFIs and donors.
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Country Climate Finance Readiness Briefs
Country-level snapshots assessing bank readiness, pipeline depth, and institutional conditions for climate finance deployment.
