Core discipline
The work starts from the obstacle, not the instrument. A grant, guarantee, technical-assistance envelope, concessional loan, or first-loss layer should have a defined job in making the decision and financing route workable.
Blended finance advisory
Public capital should solve a defined problem.
Blended finance is credible only where public or concessional capital has a clear and proportionate role in addressing a risk, market failure, affordability gap, or delivery constraint that commercial finance alone will not resolve.
Institutional fit
The structure must make sense for the project, policy objective, and participating institutions. That means linking risk, incentive, eligibility, evidence, governance, and implementation capacity.
Decision-useful material
The output should allow a public authority, DFI, company, or project sponsor to explain why support is justified, what it changes, and why the residual risk is acceptable.
Blended finance is weakest when it becomes a label for any mixture of public and private money. It becomes useful when the barrier is specific, the instrument has a defined role, and the sequence of grant, guarantee, debt, equity, or technical assistance is credible.
Questions addressed
What the work clarifies
- What risk, market failure, affordability gap, or delivery constraint justifies intervention?
- Which instrument addresses that obstacle most directly and proportionately?
- What should remain commercial, and what requires public or concessional support?
- How should grant, guarantee, debt, equity, quasi-equity, and technical assistance be sequenced?
- What evidence is needed to justify intervention and demonstrate additionality?
Typical outputs
What can be produced
- Blended-finance decision note
- Risk, additionality, and instrument map
- Capital-sequence logic
- Institutional-fit assessment
- Implementation and evidence roadmap
Public support should make a defined difference, not merely improve the presentation.
Discuss a blended-finance decision.
Send a short note on the project or facility, defined barrier, proposed support, target institutions, available evidence, and timing.