Africa receives only about a quarter of the climate finance it needs each year, and reaching more of it depends on institutional readiness: entities accredited to international climate funds, pipelines of bankable projects, and banks able to grow green lending.

LIFT (Leveraging Investments and Finance for a Green Transition), funded by Sweden through Sida and implemented by the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) in eight African countries, supports institutions on each of these fronts. In this session, government partners from Zimbabwe, Kenya and Ethiopia and a partner bank share first-hand experience from LIFT’s first year: what they needed, what worked, what proved harder than expected, and what support would help them move from readiness to investment.