Services
We work with:
- International developmental financial institutions
- International donors and private foundations
- International consultancies and think tanks
- Impact investors
Our services include:
- Designing Financing Programmes
- Technical Assistance, Capacity Building and Implementation
- Developing Capacities of Innovators and Entrepreneurs
- Research and Communications
Projects
We have a strong track record with international partners. Some major projects we have worked on include:
Designing Financing Programmes
Assessing a climate loan feasibility for a potential DEG client – one of Bangladesh’s largest commercial banks.
Examine the business case for solar charging of electric three wheelers in
Bangladesh.
Recommend how an innovation challenge fund can support the use of data and mobile in climate adaptation.
In evaluating the feasibility of a junior tranche for solar-powered systems and cookstoves for the Microfinance Initiative For Asia Debt Fund.
Develop climate adaptation financing projects with NABARD, India’s apex bank for agricultural and rural development.
Work with the World Bank and the African Development Bank to design a financing programme for grid-connected solar rooftops in Ghana.
Design a guarantee scheme for financial institutions to provide financial support for solar rooftops in the small & medium industries in India.
Assist the EU SWITCH-Asia facility in ensuring that grant support for sustainable consumption & production is leveraged on by other forms of capital.
Technical Assistance, Capacity Building and Implementation
Implementation of a USD 50 million Climate Taxonomy compliant line of credit from BII to Pubali Bank.
Implementation of a 64 million Euro line of credit from European Development Financial Institutions for environmental upgradation in the Bangladesh garment sector.
Identify investment targets, appraise deals, and communicate investment stories for Energize Africa, a UK-based climate crowdfunding platform.
Develop and support the implementation of their climate finance strategy, India’s largest impact investor.
Implementation of a 53 million Euro line of credit from KfW Development Bank to the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI).
Developing Capacities for Innovators and Entrepreneurs
Manage New Ventures in India through an investment facilitation service for climate entrepreneurs.
Support clean energy access companies in India to develop last mile distribution strategies.
Promote entrepreneurship for sustainable development, and provide capacity building services to environmental enterprises in India.
Facilitate investments in clean energy companies in India with USAID India and DOEN Foundation, Netherlands.
Research and Communications
Developed the Clean Energy Access Explorer to identify priority geographical areas for decentralised renewable energy.
Wrote research reports on the financing of small and medium green enterprises in India and Myanmar for the EU SWITCH-Asia Network Facility.
Wrote a case study on the financing of development infrastructure with renewable energy in Kenya.
Wrote a peer-reviewed paper on addressing the problem of lack of access to capital for local clean energy entrepreneurs in Kenya.
Wrote a peer-reviewed paper on financing pay-as-you-go energy access in Kenya and Tanzania.