/ WHAT WE OFFER
Top-down strategy, ground-level delivery.
Nature-positive strategy, finance architecture, and delivery for GEF Agencies, governments, funds, and enterprises. RDG’s multidisciplinary team designs national and sector strategies in alignment with governments and multilateral institutions, and combines technical, ecological, financial, institutional, policy, and community expertise to deliver projects on the ground.
/ FOUR WAYS WE WORK
Support across the full project and investment cycle.
02Organizational, program, and fund designFunder-ready blueprints and blended-finance architecture.Learn more ↓
03Strategic advisory and policy advocacyEnabling policy and strategy that make outcomes hold.Learn more ↓
04Implementation and management supportSurge capacity from inception through closure.Learn more ↓
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/ Service 01 — Assessments & Diagnostics
Assessments, financial diagnostics, and landscape scans.
Evaluating what exists, and scoping what to build next. For GEF-financed and multilateral-donor projects we support the full cycle — PIF development, ProDoc design, Mid-Term Reviews, Terminal Evaluations, feasibility and situation analyses, SESP screenings, and safeguards diagnostics aligned to GEF core indicators.
Ecological diagnostics are a distinct strength: biodiversity and habitat baselines, ecosystem-services valuations, land-use change analyses, and alignment with the Global Biodiversity Framework and TNFD. For enterprises and funds, we conduct organizational assessments, portfolio reviews, and investment-readiness diagnostics against the terms real investors and donors will accept.
What we deliver
/ Service 02 — Organizational, Program & Fund Design
Organizational, program, and fund design.
Regenerative enterprises, investment vehicles, and donor-financed projects live or die on their design — and sustainable-finance architecture is where most of them succeed or stall. We produce detailed, funder-ready blueprints that align strategy, operations, ecology, and finance.
For GEF-financed initiatives we produce PIFs, full ProDocs, CEO Endorsement packages, theories of change, co-financing strategies, and integrated risk, gender, and safeguards frameworks. Blended finance is a core competency — we design capital stacks combining concessional, catalytic, and commercial capital, structured to unlock projects that would otherwise remain unfundable.
What we deliver
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Luanda, Angola — Extended Central Plateau scoping mission, February 2024
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/ Service 03 — Strategic Advisory & Policy Advocacy
Strategic advisory and policy advocacy.
Regenerative outcomes rarely hold without the right enabling policy — on land and marine tenure, protected-area management, benefit sharing, carbon and biodiversity markets, PES, concessional finance, and safeguards.
We support governments, donors, and GEF Agencies with portfolio reviews, restructuring plans, safeguards and SESP compliance reviews, and lessons-learned syntheses. For enterprises and funds we lead strategy development, capital-raise planning, blended-finance structuring, and nature and climate risk reviews — culminating in action plans for scale-up, restructuring, or transition.
What we deliver
/ Service 04 — Implementation & Management Support
Implementation and management support.
Regenerative projects and donor-financed programs need to flex — scaling up during a financing tranche or MTR follow-through, and often needing surge expertise as co-financing partners, monitoring cycles, and reporting requirements evolve.
For GEF and other multilateral-donor projects we provide surge capacity during inception, after MTR findings, or during closure — M&E and reporting against GEF core indicators, ecological monitoring, financial management and co-financing tracking, procurement, SESP-aligned safeguards, ESMP roll-out, grievance mechanisms, FPIC and stakeholder engagement, and communications.
What we deliver
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Angola — Extended Central Plateau scoping mission, February 2024
/ HOW AN ENGAGEMENT WORKS
From first scan to delivery on the ground.
Scope
Diagnostics, landscape scans, and stakeholder mapping to define the problem and the opportunity.
Design
Theories of change, project documents, safeguards, and funder-ready program or fund blueprints.
Finance
Co-financing strategies and blended capital stacks matched to donors and investors.
Deliver & learn
Surge implementation support, M&E against core indicators, and evaluation.
/ WHO WE WORK WITH
Sustainable finance connects donor projects with the enterprises, funds, and institutions that sustain them.
GEF Agencies & multilaterals
Design, evaluation, and safeguards across the GEF project cycle.
Governments
National and sector strategies, policy, and investment planning.
Funds & investors
Blended-finance structuring and investment-readiness review.
NGOs & foundations
Program design, fundraising, and implementation support.
Regenerative enterprises
Business design, capital-raise planning, and scale-up.
Corporates
Nature and climate risk reviews aligned with TNFD.
/ LET’S WORK TOGETHER
Tell us about your project.
Where it is in its lifecycle, what capital or evidence you need, and what a good outcome would look like.
