At the Africa Climate Summit 2025 (ASC2), three projects funded by the Mitigation Action Facility took centre stage during the official side event “From Pilots to Scale: Mitigation Action Facility projects in Africa”, hosted by World Resources Institute, ICLEI Africa, and UNDP. The session spotlighted the Kenya Small Vehicles E-mobility, Rwanda E-mobility, and Kenya Post-Harvest Solar-Cooling projects.
While each project focuses on one of our priority sectors (energy, industry, transport), they all demonstrate how innovative financing models – from credit guarantees and rebate schemes to blended finance instruments – can overcome barriers to scale and deliver lasting impact.
The event highlighted that partnerships between governments, financiers, and technical partners are critical to advancing systemic transformation in Africa’s transport and food systems.
Key takeaways for the projects
We have asked the projects representatives that facilitated the joint event about their key takeaways and that is what they shared:
- Innovative finance offerings need technical assistance over the long term to have an impact. This enables the interventions to be institutionalised locally in existing government structures or to set up new ones, and to grow understanding through learning by doing.
- Partnerships and collaboration are essential in each project, between government, private sector, financiers and end beneficiaries, with a partner funded by the Mitigation Action Facility that acts as intermediary and ‘impact broker’.
- Using the grants to secure and leverage local financing lowers risk from, e.g., fluctuating exchange rates, and enables the global South to meet its own needs without dependency on the global North.
It was particularly encouraging to see several funded projects engaging together in one platform, showcasing the Mitigation Action Facility’s role as a Knowledge and Learning Hub, catalysing cross-learning and collaboration across countries and sectors.
