Enabling Scalable Climate Finance Through Financial Institutions

Climate Gateway Africa provides strategic climate finance advisory to commercial banks and development partners focused on one outcome:


Moving climate capital from commitment to sustained deployment through domestic financial institutions.

Our work is grounded in the institutional realities of how banks allocate capital, manage risk, and scale portfolios, and how DFIs and donors deploy catalytic capital credibly and efficiently.

Commercial banks account for over 90% of SME financing in Sub-Saharan Africa

Yet only an estimated 10–15% of SME portfolios are currently climate-aligned

For African banks, climate finance is not a parallel activity.
It is an opportunity to:

  • Expand SME portfolios in priority growth sectors

  • Access concessional and catalytic capital aligned to commercial lending

  • Strengthen portfolio resilience and risk diversification

  • Meet evolving regulatory, ESG, and shareholder expectations

  • Position the bank as a long-term leader in sustainable finance

The challenge is not demand, it is execution at scale.

Strategic Advisory for Banks

What We Enable

  • Balance-sheet aligned: no distortion of core financial metrics

  • Credit-led: consistent with existing underwriting and approval processes

  • Operationally executable: deployable through current teams and systems

  • Scalable by design: designed to replicate across sectors and geographies

Strategic Advisory for DFIs & Donors

Enabling Credible, Bank-Anchored Deployment

CGA supports DFIs, climate funds, and donors to deploy capital through domestic banks, reducing execution risk and improving real-economy impact.

Climate finance will only scale in Africa when it is:

  • Embedded in domestic banking systems and locally owned

  • Designed around real institutional constraints

  • Executed through repeatable, portfolio-level approaches

CGA exists to enable that shift.

What We Enable

  • Bank-anchored deployment pathways aligned to institutional governance

  • Facilities that banks can absorb, operate, and scale

  • Stronger origination pipelines and portfolio-level deployment

  • ESG, gender, and reporting architectures embedded within bank systems

  • Reduced reliance on parallel vehicles or bespoke structures