Project Overview MGF supported the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), in its role as Secretariat of the Green Coalition of Public Development Banks in the Amazon, to identify sustainable finance models with potential for replication and scale across the Coalition. Working directly with public development banks and financial institutions in Latin America including in Brazil, Colombia, …
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Project Overview MGF serves as the lead Finance and Capital Structuring Advisor for Climate Policy Initiative (CPI)’s Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance (The Lab), an investor-led, public-private initiative that incubates innovative, well-designed, early-stage climate finance solutions and instruments. Since 2019, MGF has advised more than 30 finance vehicles spanning climate mitigation, adaptation and resilience, …
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Project Overview MGF’s core leadership team led implementation of USAID’s Climate Finance for Development Accelerator (CFDA), a $180 million flagship global climate finance initiative designed to mobilize private capital for climate adaptation, resilience, nature-based solutions, sustainable agriculture, energy transition, and other climate solutions across emerging markets and developing economies. MGF experts helped design and manage …
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Project Overview MGF helps organizations navigate the Green Climate Fund (GCF), from first engagement through to funded projects. We have supported GCF accreditation under the revised framework for a range of clients, from large international NGOs to international asset managers, guiding them through the initial screening through to full application and accreditation. On the proposal …
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Project Overview MGF, in collaboration with Planet Partnerships, supported the World Bank and the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) to assess the feasibility of developing a sustainable seaweed industry as a nature-based opportunity for economic diversification, livelihood development, food security, and climate resilience. The study combined field and technical assessments with market and value …
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Project Overview MGF worked with BHA personnel to strengthen their understanding of blended finance and its potential to support humanitarian assistance, disaster risk reduction, and resilience programming. MGF developed a primer for blended finance in the humanitarian context, and analyzed global blended finance structures and their applicability to humanitarian settings with a focus on financing …
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Project Overview The UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office’s Green Cities, Infrastructure and Energy Programme (GCIEP) provided technical assistance to FCDO posts and partner governments to advance greener, more resilient infrastructure and energy systems. Through its Technical Assistance Facility, GCIEP supported research and policy analysis, policy and regulatory reform, institutional strengthening, and the planning, design …
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Project Overview MGF supported the Investment Mobilisation Collaboration Alliance (IMCA) to design and manage the Adaptation Finance Window for Africa (AFWA), a competitive window launched at COP30 to deploy €40 million in catalytic capital into innovative, high impact investment vehicles positioned to mobilize at least €100 million in private investment for adaptation and resilience across …
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Project Overview MGF supports British International Investment (BII), participating signatories, and investors in the development and implementation of the Investors Resilience Challenge (IRC), a global initiative designed to bring greater clarity and consistency to how adaptation and resilience investments are identified, assessed, and communicated. Launched at COP30 with 16 founding signatories, the IRC provides a …
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Scarce catalytic capital makes allocation decisions more important than ever. Catalytic capital is scarce and becoming scarcer with declining Official Development Assistance (ODA). As a result, many donors are leaning into models that use this catalytic capital to unlock private investment to support sustainable development. This reality is amplifying the importance of a critical question …
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