Our strategic priorities are delivered through our programmes

Our support is focused on three core programmes: energy access and transitions, adaptation and resilience, and green industrialisation. Alongside our priority areas are two cross-cutting enablers: sustainable finance and international partnerships – essentially the connective tissue that allows our programmes to reach scale, attract investment and endure beyond individual funding cycles. They represent the biggest leverage points for Africa’s climate transition and are inextricably linked, with progress in one area accelerating progress in the others. Intersectionality in Africa’s climate transition: health, gender, youth and livelihoods cut across every priority area and enabler.

We do not implement programmes directly. Our role is to reinforce the momentum that African actors are already generating. In practice, this means supporting governments and financiers in shaping enabling policy and redirecting capital towards Africa’s priorities. It means strengthening the civil society organisations, coalitions and movements that give African actors a greater collective voice. It also means building the ideas that help those actors act on the challenges they face.