FSD Kenya to showcase green finance investment opportunities at AFSIC 2025 Kenya country summit

The work of independent trust Financial Sector Deepening Kenya (FSD Kenya) is all about unleashing the power of finance to enable people and businesses in Kenya to thrive, with their work over the past 20 years having tackled the barriers that prevent people and small businesses from fully participating in the economy.

“We generate evidence, such as FinAccess to understand the needs of underserved groups, work with partners to design and test solutions, and strengthen financial systems so they support resilience, growth, and opportunity,” says FSD Kenya, which is sponsoring the Kenya Country Investment Summit at AFSIC 2025 . “Our focus is on ensuring that women, youth, and marginalised communities benefit from finance, while also aligning innovations with Kenya’s green and climate goals.”

The Kenya Country Investment Summit at AFSIC, and corresponding FSD Kenya Deal Book, will include deals that will represent projects under the Green Finance Project Preparation Facility, sourced from green finance opportunities across 10 counties in Kenya. These projects are designed to attract private investment and support sub-national governments in developing bankable business models.

“The deals will represent projects under the Green Finance Project Preparation Facility, sourced from green finance opportunities across 10 counties in Kenya,” says FSD Kenya. “These projects are designed to attract private investment and support sub-national governments in developing bankable business models.”

FSD Kenya has a goal of creating a pipeline of up to 50 investible projects across ten counties and linking them with appropriate financing instruments, from debt and equity to blended finance. The Green Finance Project Preparation Facility aims to bridge the gap between local priorities and available capital to ensure that climate finance actually reaches communities and supports inclusive, resilient growth.

“Green finance and gender are two areas where we see both need and opportunity,” says FSD Kenya, whose work on green finance aims to stimulate interest and action in both ‘greening finance’ (mainstreaming climate and environment factors as a financial and strategic imperative in the financial sector) and ‘financing green’ (mobilising private and public finance for clean and resilient growth).

With its strong focus on green finance and women’s economic empowerment, FSD Kenya is working to ensure that finance contributes to resilience and prosperity for those who are often excluded. “We are working with the public and private sector, helping build models that channel investment into climate-smart solutions (eg renewable energy, sustainable agriculture) so low-income households and small businesses can adapt to climate risks while seizing new economic opportunities.”

As an example, FSD Kenya is helping unlock climate-smart investments at the county level in Kenya. The independent trust has assessed 10 counties—including Nairobi, Kisumu, Laikipia, and others—on fiscal performance, credit risk, green assets, and institutional capacity, to identify investible climate-ready projects.

“Building on those insights, we funded and launched a county green investment facility to prepare bankable green proposals and attract funding,” says FSD Kenya. “On gender and women’s economic empowerment, our work focuses on understanding the barriers women face in accessing finance, from social norms to product design, and work with partners to create solutions that expand women’s financial inclusion and agency. In both areas, the goal is the same: to ensure that finance contributes to resilience and prosperity for those who are often excluded.”

FSD Kenya is part of the FSD Network, a group of Financial Sector deepening programmes seeking to build diverse and inclusive financial systems across Africa, to enable inclusive growth and enhance the financial resilience and sustainable livelihoods for all. In the lead-up to this year’s London event, FSD Uganda has also launched a bespoke Deal Book in conjunction with AFSIC - Investing in Africa.

Having become perhaps Africa’s most important annual investment event, AFSIC is wholly focused on accelerating Africa’s economic emergence by matching investment opportunities, transforming Africa’s business, trade and investment environment, and sustainably growing Africa’s economy at a continental scale.

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