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Institutional capital formation · during COP31
The COP31 Gateway
A curated delegation of African executives, asset owners and institutional investors meets Turkish private-sector investors in Antalya during COP31 — built for business, not conference scale.
Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis until places are filled.
Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis until places are filled.
Systems Capital Africa (SCA) 2026
Global capital allocated to Africa continues to grow, yet deployment remains well below potential. The constraint is not capital. It is the absence of trusted structures, risk allocation, investable pipelines and fit-for-purpose instruments to move capital into transactions.
SCA is a permanent, pan-African platform for institutional capital formation and market execution. It brings together the institutions that originate, prepare, de-risk and deploy capital, converting national and institutional priorities into investable pipelines, financing structures and transactions. Its convenings are the entry points: priorities to pipelines, pipelines to transactions, transactions to capital deployed.
SCA 2026 – The COP31 Gateway convenes in Antalya on 10, 13 and 14 November during COP31. A curated delegation of African executives, asset owners and institutional investors will meet Turkish private-sector investors with interests in Africa. The format is built for business, not conference scale.
The questions each morning answers
Identify
Which opportunities are ready to move? Who can finance them? What is blocking them?
Resolve
What must change to unblock them? Who must act, and by when?
Anchor
Who anchors each platform? What is committed in the next 90 days?
Deliver
What has closed? What has been verified? What carries forward into the next cycle?
Through transaction labs, systems-capital sessions and structured introductions
Opportunities
Advance priority African investment opportunities with relevant capital providers and institutional partners.
Execution
Define the financing structures, risk allocation, de-risking interventions and actions required to reach execution.
Relationships
Build direct relationships between African executives and Turkish investors, positioning Africa’s climate and growth priorities within COP31’s capital-mobilisation agenda.
Three stages and a roundtable
Outputs feed SCA’s annual, country-specific programme of transaction structuring and investment development.
Screened transactions are reviewed to identify deployment barriers and define the financing structures, de-risking interventions and next steps required. What can move, who can finance it, and what is blocking it?
Rooms work directly from those barriers across mandates and capital allocation, project preparation and bankability, local currency and capital structures, and guarantees and market infrastructure. Each produces a defined intervention, accountable owner, timetable and continuation pathway.
Country executives, domestic institutions and strategic partners convert selected priorities into country-platform mandates, anchor relationships and 90-day activation plans for the 2027 Systems Capital programmes.
On COP31’s Finance & Trade Day, a 60-minute roundtable at the Nigeria Pavilion brings African stock exchanges, DFIs, securities regulators and asset owners to one table to build local markets into development finance — a listed tranche in every major DFI-led financing — and leaves with two or three pilot transactions taken forward through SCA.
Explore
The three mornings at a glance, and the afternoon pathways around COP31.
Session-by-session detail for Days One, Two and Three.
Convenor, climate-finance institutions and country representatives.
Gateway and roundtable partners, and partnership opportunities.
The Finance & Trade Day roundtable at the Nigeria Pavilion.
Roles, fees and what every participant receives.
Venue, timing, accreditation, visas, transfers and hotels.
The participation application. It does not commit your institution to payment.
Each contributor takes a defined role, as transaction owner, capital provider, country-platform anchor, strategic partner or implementation lead, with engagement continuing beyond COP31.
