Climate Fund Mobilisation
We help Nepali projects and institutions access the international climate finance they deserve.
International climate finance is available at an unprecedented scale. The Green Climate Fund, the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, bilateral donors, and private green funds have collectively pledged hundreds of billions of dollars to support climate action in developing countries. Nepal with its vast hydropower potential, its successful community forestry model, and its extreme climate vulnerability should be a prime beneficiary.
Yet the reality is stark. Nepal has historically struggled to access this finance at scale. The reasons are structural, not political:
Capacity gaps. Many Nepali institutions lack the dedicated teams to develop the complex proposals, data rooms, and impact reports that international funders require. A single GCF proposal can run to hundreds of pages, with annexes covering financial models, safeguard frameworks, gender action plans, and stakeholder engagement records. Most Nepali organisations simply do not have the staff to produce this.
Data deficits. Funders demand verifiable, audit-ready data on emissions reductions, additionality, and social safeguards. Most Nepali projects do not have this data readily available. Baseline studies have not been conducted. Monitoring systems are not in place. Historical data is scattered or missing entirely.
Language and format barriers. International funders operate in a specific technical language logic models, theory of change, MRV frameworks, gender action plans. Navigating this without experienced guidance is time-consuming and often unsuccessful. A proposal that does not follow the funder’s exact template, or that uses unfamiliar terminology, can be rejected on procedural grounds alone.
Fragmented efforts. Individual project developers chase individual grants, duplicating effort and missing opportunities for programmatic, multi-year funding. Instead of building a coherent pipeline of bankable projects, Nepal presents a scattered landscape of small, disconnected proposals.
The result: Nepal leaves money on the table while its climate needs grow more urgent every year.
This is where R.D. Advisors comes in.