FSD Africa’s 2025 Impact Report builds on previous editions, published in 2022, 2023 and 2024. It highlights our progress and the lessons learnt over the last five years as we concluded the implementation of our 2021-2025 strategy. The report highlights the impact of our interventions, implemented in collaboration with financial sector partners in areas of adaptation and resilience, renewable energy, support for MSMEs, and the deepening of local financial systems.

The report demonstrates our role as a market facilitator and thought leader, enabling the mobilisation and catalysation of finance for Africa’s sustainable growth. In the last five years, our interventions have contributed to the mobilisation and catalysation of $1.7 billion (£1.3 billion). Additionally, the impact report demonstrates how this capital has been effectively allocated to various sectors to drive systemic change.

The report also provides a snapshot of our ambitions for the 2025-2030 strategy, highlighting our strategic focus for this period to contribute to a more resilient future for Africa. It highlights:

1. Our impact figures on the number of jobs created, protected, and supported, people supported to better adapt to the effects of climate change, and those whose access to basic services has been improved.  
2. How support for renewable energy is building the sector through technical assistance and innovative de-risking structures. 
3. Our contribution to strengthening Africa’s financial ecosystem by improving the environment for effective capital flows, as evidenced by our support towards the establishment of the Ethiopia Securities Exchange. 
4. How support for MSMEs is transforming the investment frontier for businesses. We zoom in on a gender-focused fund that extends capital to women-led businesses in West Africa. 
5. How our early-stage support for climate innovations is creating a pipeline of bankable projects that are building Africa’s climate resilience. 
6. The power of advocacy and convenings as a market-influencing tool. 
7. The lessons learnt through our project implementation, providing insight into structuring more effective interventions tailored to Africa’s context.