Catalysing Climate Resilience (CCR)

Overview

Abstract

The CCR programme encompasses three integrated core components:

  1. TECA (Triggering Exponential Climate Action): A venture launcher for seeding and incubating bold new climate resilience solutions, developing ideas into viable businesses.
  2. Catalyst Fund: Accelerating the growth of promising climate resilience solutions and creating the demonstration models to attract further capital
  3. Ecosystem Development: Building the wider innovation ecosystem to achieve the leverage necessary for systemic acceleration of digital innovations for adaptation and resilience.

Uniting these three components is a shared set of underlying investment theses: products and services that help vulnerable households and businesses manage, adapt, and build resilience to climate change.

Results

  • 2,164 jobs created, protected and supported
  • 216,000 people supported to better adapt to the effects of climate change
  • 38 climate resilience solutions and businesses that receive follow- on investment (replicated/scaled-up)
  • $11m of finance mobilised/catalysed from the public and private sector for solutions designed to address climate resilience soon after FSD Africa funding
  • 70 innovative climate resilience start-ups in Africa supported through capital, TA and capacity building
  • £24,8m invested by co-investors alongside FSD Africa to support climate resilience business models
  • 70 strategic partnerships/collaborations established in support of ecosystem development
  • 36 knowledge products shared
  • 148 female entrepreneurs supported (40% of TECA and Catalyst Fund cohorts)
  • 296 African entrepreneurs supported (80% of TECA and Catalyst Fund cohorts)

Project Details

Project Title

Catalysing Climate Resilience (CCR)

Implementing Partner

BFA Global (Catalyst Fund, TECA, CIFAR Alliance)

Donor(s)

FCDO

Value (in £)

5,694,796

Implementation Period

2022 - 2026

Countries Covered

Africa

Project Description

The CCR programme encompasses three integrated core components:

  1. TECA (Triggering Exponential Climate Action): A venture launcher for seeding and incubating bold new climate resilience solutions, developing ideas into viable businesses.
  2. Catalyst Fund: Accelerating the growth of promising climate resilience solutions and creating the demonstration models to attract further capital
  3. Ecosystem Development: Building the wider innovation ecosystem to achieve the leverage necessary for systemic acceleration of digital innovations for adaptation and resilience.

Uniting these three components is a shared set of underlying investment theses: products and services that help vulnerable households and businesses manage, adapt, and build resilience to climate change.

Target results

  • 2,164 jobs created, protected and supported
  • 216,000 people supported to better adapt to the effects of climate change
  • 38 climate resilience solutions and businesses that receive follow- on investment (replicated/scaled-up)
  • $11m of finance mobilised/catalysed from the public and private sector for solutions designed to address climate resilience soon after FSD Africa funding
  • 70 innovative climate resilience start-ups in Africa supported through capital, TA and capacity building
  • £24,8m invested by co-investors alongside FSD Africa to support climate resilience business models
  • 70 strategic partnerships/collaborations established in support of ecosystem development
  • 36 knowledge products shared
  • 148 female entrepreneurs supported (40% of TECA and Catalyst Fund cohorts)
  • 296 African entrepreneurs supported (80% of TECA and Catalyst Fund cohorts)

Progress

Catalysing Climate Resilience

  • TECA’s first Blue Economy wave launched completed in May 2023
  • 30 fellows selected and taken through TECA venture launcher program.
  • 7 ventures selected for the initial investment and being supported to raise further funding.
  • Catalyst Fund entity established, and the first cohort of 10 ventures received $200,000 investment support.
  • Investor roundtables convened in Nairobi, Lagos and Cairo and Fintech x Resilience Challenges completed in Lagos and Cairo, with 2 winners announced: SosoCare in Nigeria and Baramoda in Egypt.
  • Supported the establishment of the CIFAR Alliance; a global initiative working to accelerate responsible innovation in digital finance for climate adaptation and resilience

Contact

Updated: October, 2023