Client Credit Enhancement Guarantee Fund (CCEF)
Ignite Power designed the CCEF to accelerate electrification for 600 million people living in rural sub-Saharan Africa.
Supporting blended structures to mobilize private capital for climate finance in developing markets
The CC Facility helps the most innovative blended climate finance structures become investable solutions that can be standardized, replicated, and scaled.
A partnership between Climate Policy Initiative and Convergence
What we offer
Grant funding up to
USD 500,000
Acceleration support
12-18 months
Learning hub
Coming soon
The CC Facility accelerates financing and implementation of innovative and high-impact climate structures in developing countries.
Now accepting applications
Call For Applications
To participate in the program, carefully review the eligibility criteria and apply by completing the concept note form.
Cycle 2 opens on March 20, 2024 and closes on April 24, 2024
Cycle 3 opens on September 19, 2024
Our funders are focused on making an impact in scaling climate finance
Our successful grantees
CC Facility grantees are market-ready blended climate finance structures looking to accelerate their launch and scale-up in developing economies.
Sustainable Guaranty Solutions (SGS)
SGS is designed as a guarantee mechanism that consolidates all the underlying risk mitigation components of a greenfield project into a single completion guarantee.
Acre Export Finance Fund I
Acre addresses the financing gap in the export finance market in Africa which prevents the closing of bankable climate-aligned essential infrastructure projects.
Amazonia Impact Fund I
Through impact-linked debt financing and technical assistance, Amazonia Impact Ventures (AIV) will support indigenous and Amazon-based organizations.
Smallholder Resilience Ventures (SRV)
One Acre Fund launched SRV to fill the agricultural financing gap in Africa, enabling SMEs to scale and provide guaranteed premium markets to smallholders growing climate-friendly crops.
A snapshot of our impact
We accelerate the implementation of impactful blended finance structures that can attract private investments toward climate solutions in developing economies.
Target size
USD 100 Million
Our ambitions are bold. We aim to raise USD 100 million of catalytic donor capital to accelerate launch of blended finance structures closing the climate financing gap and accelerate climate solutions for developing economies. Contact us to learn more about partnering with the CC Facility to meet these critical objectives.
Projects
6
Market-ready blended climate finance structures driving private investments into climate action.
Awarded
USD 2.4 Million
CC Facility grantees are awarded up to USD 500,000 to launch and scale their blended finance structures.
We’ve been a part of the Catalytic Climate Finance Facility and the experience has been powerful. With the grant and acceleration support from the CC Facility, we will be able to iterate on our structure, financial model and investor pitch, strengthen our gender strategy to be more transformative, and ultimately launch and raise private capital. The CC Facility team have been very directive, enabling us to be both bold and wise in a way that we wouldn’t able to do without the facility.
Jeremy Golan
Smallholder Resilience Ventures, One Acre Fund
