The Ghanaian Institution Powering Africa’s Green Transition
A New Model for Africa’s Sustainable Development
In its 2025 Ghana Edition, Forbes Africa has profiled CIPA Holdings Group, the Ghanaian-born climate-resilient infrastructure institution reshaping how sustainable development is financed, structured, and delivered across the continent. The feature recognizes CIPA’s integrated, governance-first model that bridges policy, project development, and technical execution, underscoring the company’s emergence as one of Africa’s most credible institutions driving the transition to clean and inclusive infrastructure.
At the heart of this transformation is Kwaku Osei-Sarpong, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of CIPA Holdings Group. His leadership has positioned CIPA as a central player in Ghana’s green-transition agenda, influencing national approaches to clean energy, electro-mobility, digital infrastructure, and climate-aligned investment.
“Africa doesn’t just need new infrastructure; it needs new institutions of trust. Our mission at CIPA is to build both,” he told Forbes Africa.
The Forbes recognition builds on a growing list of distinctions for Osei-Sarpong, including Gulf News UAE’s Focus on Ghana Feature, his interview with The Energy Year, Rising Star of the Year at the 2024 Ghana Energy Awards, the 40 Under 40 Award for Environmental and Climate Sustainability, the West Africa Nobles Award for Integrity and Business Excellence, the Enactus Global Leadership Award, and listings among the 100 Most Influential Young Africans and the 100 Ghanaians of Noble Disposition.
Expanding a Pan-African Infrastructure Footprint
Headquartered in Accra, CIPA Holdings is rapidly expanding its Pan-African footprint, with active engagements and development pipelines across Ghana, Nigeria, Mali, Burkina Faso, Zambia, and South Africa. This strategic expansion reflects CIPA’s ambition to build a continent-wide ecosystem of climate-aligned infrastructure solutions and to support governments, industries, and commercial clients in accelerating their transitions to sustainable and resilient operations.
“We combine strong governance and innovative financing with real local ownership,” says Bright Yamoah, Chief Financial Officer of CIPA Holdings. “Having worked across Ghana’s capital markets and advised clients across Africa for close to two decades, I have learned that credibility is currency. At CIPA, we manage risk with discipline and innovate with purpose.”
Providing overarching institutional guidance is Allan Okomeng-Mensah, President of CIPA Holdings, whose four decades of experience across Ghana’s and Africa’s engineering and infrastructure landscape reinforce the company’s reputation for technical reliability, value-for-money delivery, and corporate governance excellence. His leadership strengthens CIPA’s credibility as a trusted Pan-African institution capable of delivering across complex infrastructure sectors.
A Governance-First Institutional Model
CIPA’s governance architecture is one of its core strengths. The organization is built on a multidisciplinary team of infrastructure developers, engineers, project managers, financial strategists, and sector specialists whose combined expertise ensures meticulous attention to quality, risk, and accountability. This integrated institutional model enables CIPA to move seamlessly from concept development to project structuring and delivery, creating a single trusted platform for governments, industries, commercial clients, and investors.
Delivering Clean, Reliable, and Integrated Infrastructure across Africa
CIPA’s expanding portfolio centers on clean energy, including solar, battery-energy storage systems (BESS), natural gas, and clean transportation infrastructure that strengthen power reliability for governments, industries, commercial facilities, communities, and public institutions. The Group also delivers essential infrastructure across housing and real estate, public-sector infrastructure, and renewable-powered digital infrastructure, reinforcing its position as a developer of integrated, climate-aligned assets across Africa.
Driving Industrial and Commercial Decarbonisation in Ghana
CIPA is advancing a comprehensive industrial and commercial transformation programme designed to help both industrial and commercial players transition to efficient, low-carbon operations. In Ghana, the programme is intentionally structured around local-currency financing and delivery, addressing a long-standing gap in the market where clean-energy and decarbonisation projects have historically relied on foreign-currency funding, limiting affordability and scale for local businesses. By combining project development with innovative financing structures, CIPA is enabling industries and commercial clients to adopt clean-energy solutions without exposing their balance sheets to currency risk.
The programme supports manufacturers, mining companies, agro-processors, logistics firms, pharmaceuticals, industrial parks, and large commercial facilities such as malls, hotels, office parks, and mixed-use properties. Through solar and hybrid energy solutions, battery-energy storage integration, energy-efficiency upgrades, process electrification, and advanced digital monitoring systems, CIPA helps businesses modernize operations, reduce emissions, and strengthen reliability. By promoting electro-mobility through electric vehicles, fleet-charging solutions, and the integration of smart digital technologies, CIPA is positioning itself as a long-term partner to enterprises seeking competitiveness, resilience, and sustainability across Ghana and the wider African region.
Local Clean-Tech Manufacturing Through Sparq Systems
As part of its clean-tech industrialization strategy, CIPA is establishing local assembly capacity for renewable-energy components. Its first initiative, a partnership with Sparq Systems of Canada, will assemble micro-inverters in Ghana to serve selected African markets. This development enhances local manufacturing capability, reduces system costs, enables technology transfer, and positions Ghana as a growing hub for clean-energy supply-chain development.
Mobilizing Domestic Capital through Project Development Leadership
Aligned with Ghana’s sustainable-development vision, CIPA is working closely with leading financial institutions in Ghana to support the structuring of local-currency frameworks that will finance renewable-energy and clean-tech projects. CIPA originates, develops, and prepares projects to ensure that each initiative is technically sound, commercially viable, and aligned with national priorities. This developer-led approach strengthens Ghana’s financial ecosystem and enables private-sector and institutional investors to confidently participate in the country’s green energy transition.
Inclusion and Community Development through the CIPA Foundation
Beyond project delivery, CIPA advances inclusion and community development through the CIPA Foundation, which leads initiatives focused on women’s economic empowerment, youth development, climate resilience, and green-jobs creation. By integrating gender and youth participation into its programs, the Foundation ensures that infrastructure development delivers meaningful economic and social benefits to communities across Africa.
Recognition beyond Borders
Forbes Africa notes that CIPA represents a new archetype of African institution that merges the ideals of climate justice with the discipline of project finance. The publication commends CIPA’s governance-first approach, local expertise, and commitment to transforming Africa’s infrastructure narrative from dependency to self-determination.
“Being featured in Forbes reflects what happens when a team believes in excellence. It is a recognition of Ghanaian capacity, discipline, and credibility,” says CIPA’s President, Allan Okomeng-Mensah.
About CIPA Holdings Group
CIPA Holdings Group Limited is a Pan-African climate-resilient infrastructure company that develops, invests, and delivers sustainable solutions across clean energy, public infrastructure, digital systems, electro-mobility, housing and real estate, and climate-smart agriculture. Its mission is to empower governments, industries, commercial clients, and communities through climate-aligned investments and integrated infrastructure delivery.
To see more about CIPA Holdings Ghana check out their website www.cipaholdings.com
