Our flagship innovation
Community Climate Finance Hubs
Locally governed climate-finance institutions designed to mobilize, manage, invest, implement, and sustain climate solutions.
What is a CCFH?
Permanent community-owned climate infrastructure
Unlike traditional donor projects, CCFHs create permanent community-owned climate infrastructure that continues delivering impact beyond grants.
Each hub functions simultaneously as a climate bank, a climate innovation centre, a governance platform, a project accelerator and a resilience-building institution.
Because the hub is owned locally, decisions about what gets financed are made by the people who live with the consequences — and the institution remains standing when a funding cycle closes.
Climate Bank
Holds, appraises and deploys climate capital at community level.
Innovation Centre
Incubates local climate technologies, enterprises and practices.
Governance Platform
Community assemblies decide what gets financed and why.
Project Accelerator
Moves community ideas into bankable, implementable projects.
Resilience Institution
Sustains delivery, maintenance and learning long after grants end.
How it works
From mobilisation to lasting delivery
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Communities mobilise and register a hub with inclusive membership.
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Governance is constituted, with women, youth and marginalised groups holding the majority of leadership roles.
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The hub is capitalised from blended sources and builds fiduciary and technical capacity.
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Local projects are appraised, financed and implemented by community institutions.
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Results, finances and lessons are reported openly and reinvested into the hub.
Funding sources
Blended capital, local control
- Donors and philanthropies
- Global and regional climate funds
- National and county governments
- Carbon markets
- Development finance institutions
- Private sector investment
- Community savings groups
Sustainability model
Built to outlast the grant
Hubs reinvest returns from productive assets, enterprise portfolios and community savings into new climate projects. Governance, fiduciary systems and technical capacity stay in the community — so each cycle of finance strengthens the institution rather than replacing it.
The last mile should be first in line.
Fund a Community Climate Finance Hub, partner with communities, or contribute expertise to locally led adaptation.