Carbon Project Feasibility Assessment & Capacity Building

Project Overview Since 2025, MGF has supported Mercy Corps (now Prosper Global) to advance its climate and carbon finance initiatives, combining organization-wide capacity building with hands-on support for the development of nature-based solutions (NbS) carbon projects. MGF has helped strengthen Mercy Corps’ internal understanding of carbon markets while advising on corporate readiness, organizational alignment, governance, …

Supporting the Green Coalition of Public Development Banks in the Amazon

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, …

Advising the Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance

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, …

Communicating the Value Proposition and Market Positioning of the 2X Challenge

Project Overview MGF supported 2X Global to strengthen the positioning and value proposition of the 2X Challenge, the world’s leading gender lens investing initiative. Through market research and consultations with investors and investees, MGF identified the motivations, proof points, and messages most likely to resonate with different audiences and translated these insights into a cohesive …

Mobilizing Climate Finance through USAID’s Climate Finance for Development Accelerator

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 …

Green Climate Fund (GCF) Accreditation and Project Pipeline Development

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 …

Advancing Geothermal Energy Commercialization

Project Overview MGF has advised governments and development partners such as the U.S. Department of State, World Bank, and Power Africa on the commercialization of geothermal energy in emerging markets and developing economies. Our work has focused on moving geothermal energy opportunities toward investment by assessing project readiness, designing financing and risk mitigation structures, strengthening …

Developing Sustainable Seaweed Business Models in the Marshall Islands

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 …

Blended Finance for Humanitarian Assistance

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 …