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Turning Africa's adaptation challenges into investable opportunities
Africa is facing the most profound climate adaptation challenge of our time—water scarcity, fragile food systems, rising heat, urban vulnerability, and increasingly frequent disasters.
Yet despite these urgent needs, adaptation remains dramatically underfunded.
Public institutions are stretched.
Private investors lack clear pipelines.
Innovators don’t know where to focus.
And development partners struggle to translate climate vulnerability into bankable, scalable solutions.
Innvestable exists to change that.
What we do
Innvestable is SQN’s flagship program dedicated to unlocking private-sector participation in climate adaptation and building powerful synergies between governments, innovators, DFIs, and NGOs.
We do this by translating Africa’s climate needs—often complex, messy, and systemic—into clear, investment-ready business models and public-sector projects.
Our work turns adaptation from a cost centre into an opportunity space for innovation, entrepreneurship, and development impact.
Why Innvestable Matters
Adaptation suffers from one of the biggest gaps in development today:
We know the risks. We know the vulnerabilities.
But we do not have enough investable models to solve them.
This is why private capital stays on the sidelines.
It’s why adaptation startups struggle.
It’s why DFIs report insufficient bankable pipelines.
And it’s why governments can’t attract large-scale investment into resilience.
Innvestable fills that gap.
We design, test, and structure adaptation solutions that are:
Financially viable
Technically sound
Aligned with national priorities
Attractive to investors and philanthropy
Locally grounded and scalable
In doing so, we help shift adaptation from “important but unfundable” to “mission-critical and investable.”
Our ambition
Kenya is our launchpad.
But our ambition is continental.
We intend to build a new generation of adaptation models, ventures, and partnerships that transform how Africa responds to climate risks.
From Nairobi to Lagos, Accra to Kigali, Maputo to Cairo—Innvestable will help unlock the business and development cases behind Africa’s most pressing adaptation challenges.
Join us
If you are a policymaker, DFI, investor, NGO, entrepreneur, or corporate leader looking to shape Africa’s adaptation future, Innvestable is your partner. Together, we can turn Africa’s climate realities into resilience, innovation, and investable opportunity.
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