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Building a Climate Coalition: Aligning Carbon Pricing, Trade, and Development

September 2025

Copy of Report Beyond The Pilot Scaling Scaling the Africa Methane Abatement Bond to Accelerate Green Transition

Beyond The Pilot: Scaling The Africa Methane Abatement Bond to Accelerate Green Transition

July 2025

(Revision) The Climate and Health Nexus Country Priorities, Best Buys, Challenges, and Opportunities

The Climate and Health Nexus Country Priorities, Best Buys, Challenges, and Opportunities

June 2025

(Revision) Climate Change and Water Resources Leveraging High-Resolution Data for Adaptation and Resilience (1)

Climate Change and Water Resources Leveraging High-Resolution Data for Adaptation and Resilience

June 2025

(Revision) Climate Change and Nutrition in Sub-Saharan Africa Challenges and Pathways for Investment

Climate Change and Nutrition in Sub-Saharan Africa Challenges and Pathways for Investment

June 2025

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The Jubilee Report

June 2025

MAXIMIZING AFRICA’S INFLUENCE IN THE G20

Maximizing Africa's Influence in the G20

April 2025

Africa's methane abatement: role of banks.

Methane Abatement in Africa: The Role of Multilateral Development Banks

October 2024

Local currency financing: A case for IDA leadership

Local currency financing and multilateral development banks: A case for IDA leadership

October 2024

Africa Catalyst 2024 Annual Report

Annual report - 2024: A land mark year of development and climate finance

January 2025

African agency through borrower coordination.

Advancing african agency through borrower coordination

February 2025

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Chasing Capital: African Sub- Regional Development Banks in Focus

February 2025

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Mobilizing Finance for Methane Action In Africa

November 2023

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Advancing Africa's Climate & Development Finance Agenda

November 2023

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Revolutionizing Healthcare in Africa: Strategies, Alliances and Emerging Trends

November 2023

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Upscaling and Upsizing Debt for Climate & Nature Swaps in Africa

July 2023

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How the IMF RST and Innovative Climate Finance can serve Africa

June 2023

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Africatalyst in 2022:The Recovery endures

January  2023

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Country Platforms and Delivery of Global Public Goods Policy Paper 249, Center for Global Development

January 2022

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What Is Holding Back Private Climate Finance in Africa and How Can It Be Unleashed?

August 2022

Policy paper on SDR reallocation for Africa.

Africatalyst Options Paper on SDR Reallocations for Africa

December 2021

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Mobilizing External Financing for Africa’s Crisis Recovery,CGD Policy Paper 206

March 2021

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Macroeconomic Policy In Fragile States

January 2021

La course à la prochaine frontière de revenu: analyse des stratégies pour l'émergence économique du sénégal et des pays à faible revenu.

La course à la prochaine frontière de revenue

May 2019

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Fiscal Convergence in Africa: What Role for Regional Economic Communities

September 2018

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African Strategies to Boost Growth and Combat Poverty and Inequality

May 2017

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Poverty,Growth and Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa:Did the Walk Match the Talk under the PRSP Approach

June 2015

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Give Trust a Chance—A Model of Trust in Context of an IMF-Supported Program

February 2007

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Beyond the Money: How IFIs and MDBs Can Better Support Pandemic Recovery in Africa ?

October 17, 2023
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The case for boosting the lending capacity of international financial and development institutions has already been persuasively made. Expectations of…

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Is Africa Wasting the Pandemic-Induced Economic Crisis?

October 17, 2023
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In many African countries, the economic response to the crisis so far appears to have been broadly less consistent than…

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SDR Reallocations for Africa: Meeting Civil Society Organizations from Senegal and Ghana

August 8, 2023
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AfriCatalyst recently met with officials and representatives from several civil society organizations in Senegal and Ghana to discuss issues pertaining…

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SDR Reallocations for Africa: Meeting with Ghanaian authorities

August 8, 2023
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AfriCatalyst visited Accra to discuss with selected stakeholders about innovative and strategic ways to mobilize additional financing for Africa. We…

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The Role of the International Monetary Fund in a Changing Global Landscape

August 8, 2023
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AfriCatalyst CEO, Daouda Sembene, testified at a US Congressional hearing on the role of the International Monetary Fund in a…