Our Future Focus
Our Sectors and Focus areas
We work across high-impact and emerging development sectors, bridging traditional donors, governments, and market actors to deliver impact
where it matters most for Africa’s future
Climate and Environment
Addressing climate adaptation, mitigation and supporting just transitions toward green economies and natural resource governance
Human & Social Development
Skills development, digital livelihoods, youth civic participation, policy
reform for social sector, foundational learning, accountability, digital
health, intersectional design, care economy, and gender-responsive
Sustainable Economic Development
Fostering resilient value chains, promoting inclusive economic growth initiatives, and building sustainable urban and rural development models.
Governance and Peace
Empowering communities (demand side) and strengthening government capacity (supply side), fostering dialogue (convenors), and promoting reforms, transparent institutions for sustained peace and development.
The next frontier of development is about fundamentally re-imagining how change happens. We are entering our next growth cycle with renewed clarity: our role is to help shape a fairer, more inclusive, and more resilient world by driving systemic transformation in the Global South.
As the urgency of climate disruption, economic inequality, governance fragility, and digital exclusion grows, we are sharpening our strategic posture around four catalytic areas of change:
1. Structural Transformation:
Supporting climate-smart transitions, inclusive innovation ecosystems, and integrated urban-rural systems through policy diagnostics, systems redesign, and institutional reform.
2. Inclusive Growth :
Driving rights-based development that prioritizes excluded groups, embeds social protection, and aligns public investments with people’s lived experiences.
3. Building Resilience:
Helping institutions move from reactive to resilient-by-design through crisis response systems, risk-informed planning, and climate adaptation in vulnerable zones.
4. Institutional Capability:
Enabling clients to embed digital transformation, redesign delivery systems, and build cultures of execution, experimentation, and strategic discipline.
5. Private Sector Engagement:
From ESG to CSR, we help businesses turn social investment into strategic advantage – building resilient workforces, future markets, and shared value across supply chains and communities.
6. Youth & Women as Drivers:
We invest in Africa’s demographic dividend by co-creating pathways with youth and women -the region’s most untapped and powerful engines for innovation, stability, and inclusive growth.