Our Solutions
At the intersection of climate science, policy, finance, and delivery.
We support African institutions across the full climate finance value chain — from analysis to implementation.
Our Integrated Value Chain
Climate Analysis
Effective solutions begin with understanding climate change risk.
SSA provides robust, decision-oriented climate risk assessments that help African institutions understand how climate change is affecting their economies, sectors, and communities — today and in the future.
Using advanced climate models and observational data, our team analyses hazards such as droughts, floods, storms, heatwaves, and water stress. But we also go beyond climate variables. Our assessments integrate land use dynamics, socio-economic exposure, institutional vulnerabilities, and sector-specific sensitivities to produce a realistic picture of climate risk on the ground.
Our work helps partners to:
Annual mean maximum temperature projections across three climatic zones in the DRC (1985–2100) under mid-emission (SSP2-4.5) and high-emission (SSP5-8.5) scenarios, compared against observed trends and statistically downscaled model outputs.
Macro-economic impacts of climate change
Climate change is not just an environmental challenge — it is a macro-economic risk that shapes growth, fiscal stability, debt sustainability, and long-term development pathways.
SSA supports institutions to understand and quantify these risks and impacts, and integrate them into national economic planning and policy frameworks. We apply macro-econometric models, scenario analysis and fiscal risk frameworks to assess how climate shocks and long-term trends affect GDP growth, public revenues and expenditure, balance of payments, employment, and poverty.
Impacts could include higher disaster-response costs, reduced tax bases, increased food imports and growing pressure on social protection systems. Our analysis links sector-level climate impacts — such as reduced agricultural productivity, infrastructure damage, health burdens and disruption from extreme weather — to economy-wide outcomes under different climate and policy scenarios.
Our work helps partners to:
Source: Sustainable Solutions for Africa (2026), internal MacMod model.
Nigeria — Macroeconomic impacts of climate shocks. Climate shocks affect Nigeria mainly through lower growth and weaker external balances over the short-to-medium term. Under moderate shocks, growth slows around 2025–2040 before partially recovering; severe shocks bring pronounced stress, wider current-account deficits and a longer, more volatile adjustment. The core vulnerability is amplified macroeconomic volatility — not permanent growth collapse — underscoring the need for climate-resilient infrastructure, agricultural resilience, economic diversification and stronger external buffers.
Climate Policies & Strategies
Clear implementation pathways turn climate ambition into lasting impact.
SSA works with African institutions to design, strengthen, and operationalise national, sectoral and subnational frameworks that translate long-term climate scenarios and commitments into prioritized action plans and financing pathways.
Informed by integrated risk and impact analysis, our team supports the development and update of National Adaptation Plans (NAPs), Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), Long-Term Low Emission Development Strategies (LT-LEDS), climate finance strategies, and sector-specific adaptation and mitigation frameworks. Our approach deliberately connects climate and economic scenarios to policies and strategies, then to investment prioritization, planning and pipelines.
We also help governments embed climate considerations into core development systems — strengthening governance, inter-institutional coordination, climate-responsive budgeting, and developing MRV and M&E frameworks aligned with international climate finance standards.
Our work helps partners to:
- Align climate objectives with national development priorities
- Develop robust planning based on long-term transition scenarios
- Identify priority sectors, programming opportunities and investment pipelines
- Develop investment plans and identify financing pathways
- Strengthen institutional coordination and accountability
Access to Climate Finance & Project Development
Climate action requires finance — and finance requires strong projects.
SSA’s core business is working with African institutions to turn national priorities, climate strategies and development goals into investment ready projects and access to climate finance.
Through platforms like the Adaptation Project Incubator for Africa (APIA), implemented in collaboration with Africa Adaptation Initiative (AAI), SSA deploys end-to-end project preparation and finance-access support – helping partners overcome common financing barriers: limited capacity, complex fund requirements, fragmented pipelines, and insufficient structuring expertise.
We support institutions across the full climate finance value chain, from early pipeline identification to proposal submission and implementation readiness. We also support accreditation, fiduciary strengthening, and institutional readiness for accessing climate funds.
Our work helps partners to:
- Identify and prioritize climate investments
- Prepare concept notes and full funding proposals
- Develop climate rationales; feasibility studies; economic and climate-adjusted financial analysis
- Design blended finance structures to mobilize public and private capital
- Establish environmental and social safeguards, gender and social inclusion frameworks
- Navigate climate fund accreditation and approval processes
- Embed long-term capacity to manage climate finance
- Develop results and monitoring frameworks
Economic & Financial Analysis
Climate investments must make economic and financial sense.
SSA provides rigorous economic and financial analysis to support climate-informed decision-making and investment design – helping partners build the economic case for climate projects and structure investments that are financially viable, impactful and aligned with funder requirements.
Our economic analysis begins with a diagnostic phase – building economic baselines, sector trends, climate-risk pathways and projected impacts on productivity, infrastructure and livelihoods. This informs economic feasibility assessments, cost-benefit analysis, and climate-adjusted investment appraisals.
SSA also develops investment-grade financial models for climate projects and programmes – including cash-flow modelling, sensitivity and scenario analysis, risk stress-testing, and blended-finance structuring.
A defining feature of our approach is integrating climate risk into financial analysis — adjusting revenue forecasts, costs, and risk assumptions to reflect projected climate impacts. This helps partners assess how climate hazards will affect project performance and bankability, and design instruments and terms to ensure projects are both climate-responsive and financially sustainable.
Our work helps partners to:
- Demonstrate the economic case for adaptation and mitigation
- Prioritise investments with the highest climate-risk adjusted returns
- Structure financially sustainable projects
- Mobilise concessional and private capital
- Embed capacity for economic appraisal, financing modelling and investment analysis
Training & Capacity Building
To sustain climate action, we must have the skills to accomplish our goals.
Since the beginning, SSA has been dedicated to growing Africa’s ability to design, finance, and deliver climate-resilient development – leveraging the skills of our continent and reducing reliance on external consultants.
We work on technical, institutional and operational capacity building with governments, financial institutions, enterprises, and communities. Our approach goes beyond short-term workshops. Training is embedded through hands-on learning, managing live project pipelines, vocational opportunities, and local academies, ensuring that knowledge is applied, retained, and institutionalised.
Participants in training programs work on actual concept notes, feasibility studies, financial models, climate-risk analyses, safeguards frameworks, and investment proposals — supported by SSA’s technical teams.
Our work helps participants to:
- Build applied expertise in climate finance and project structuring
- Contribute to strengthening pan-African climate finance capacity
- Amplify learning by training and upskilling others
Enterprise Incubation
Innovation in climate-resilience grows through local enterprises.
SSA supports the incubation of early-stage enterprises and community-based initiatives that strengthen climate resilience, food security, rural development, and low-carbon economic transformation. We work from the belief that local entrepreneurship is essential to resilience in climate-vulnerable regions.
By supporting MSMEs, cooperatives, and youth- and women-led enterprises, we help translate on-ground adaptation needs into tangible economic opportunities, jobs and livelihoods. Our incubation model combines business development with climate literacy – enabling enterprises to become financially viable and deliver climate benefits.
A key feature of our approach is the ability to connect start-up enterprises to climate finance investors and programmes, ensuring enterprise support is integrated into larger investment ecosystems.
Our work helps enterprises to:
ECOVERSE Incubator
Enterprise incubation is delivered primarily through ECOVERSE, the flagship AAI/SSA community-based resilience and enterprise platform. Through ECOVERSE, enterprises receive training on climate adaptation, business model development, financial planning, climate-risk integration, and tailored technical mentoring. Incubated enterprises are prepared to connect with investors, blended-finance instruments, and programmes such as the Food Security Accelerator — ensuring enterprise support feeds into scalable investment ecosystems.
Learn more about ECOVERSE Incubator