Who We Serve

A small staff. An entire country's pipeline to manage.

Climate Finance Intelligence gives NDA secretariats a real-time view of every concept note moving through their country's pipeline — and the tools to assess whether each one belongs there.

CFI NDA Pipeline Tracker

As the only field-tested knowledge platform for climate finance practitioners, our tool has been presented directly to technical and review teams at the world's top multilateral funds. It has earned a near-perfect rating from project developers at one of the largest GCF Delivery Partners and is a proud U.S. Commercial Service Gold Key client. Several Accredited Entities and Focal Points are integrating the platform into their capacity-building programs.

THE PROBLEM  →  THE SOLUTION

Informed oversight requires a view of the whole pipeline. Most NDAs don't have one.

Climate Finance Intelligence gives NDA secretariats a real-time view of the national pipeline — from the first concept note to the last disbursement — so nothing moves forward on judgment alone, and nothing stalls without anyone noticing.

Gaps
Solutions
01
Oversight without visibility

A handful of secretariat staff are responsible for an entire country's pipeline across multiple Accredited Entities and Delivery Partners, and what's in development, stalled, or submitted is rarely consolidated in one place.

A live view of your country's pipeline

See every concept note and funding proposal in motion across all Accredited Entities and Delivery Partners. Spot sector or regional over-concentration before it reaches the Donor.

02
No-objection decisions made without precedent

NDAs are asked to no-object to concept notes without easy access to what's already been approved in the same sector, and the rationale behind each decision isn't consistently documented or retrievable.

Informed no-objection decisions

Check any incoming Concept Note against your Country Programme priorities and NDC commitments in seconds, surface comparable approved projects, and generate a documented rationale to attach to your no-objection decision.

03
Institutional memory lost to staff turnover

Secretariats are lean, and when experienced staff leave, the context behind past decisions leaves with them. Each new intake starts over rather than building on what the secretariat has already learned.

04
Approval isn't the finish line

Once a project is approved, tracking implementation progress and disbursement against schedule falls back on scattered emails, consultant handoffs, and informal check-ins — the same visibility gap reappears downstream.

Implementation tracking in the same pipeline view

Implementation status and disbursement tracking surfaced in the same pipeline view used for pre-approval oversight — no separate system to maintain.

How It Works

The Pipeline Overview Dashboard

A real-time command center for your country's pipeline — every submission, decision, and disbursement in one place, without relying on ad hoc reporting from entities.

Pipeline Dashboard Step 1 — Home page action queue
Step 1: Check Immediate Action Items on the Home Page
A single, ranked action queue surfaces exactly what needs attention right now — no-objection decisions due, overdue entity follow-ups, and newly detected submissions. Every item opens directly into the underlying submission.
Pipeline Dashboard Step 2 — Pipeline status page
Step 2: Track Every Submission on the Pipeline Page
Every concept note, no-objection request, funding proposal, and readiness grant lives in one place — tracked from submission through approval and into implementation. A dedicated no-objection register shows which decisions are pending, overdue, or already issued.
Pipeline Dashboard Step 3 — Big Picture page
Step 3: Report the Big Picture
A minister-ready view of your country's entire portfolio — total approved and disbursed financing, progress against national priorities — exportable in one click.

Meet Our Assistants

Purpose-built for NDA oversight work. Single runs, no commitment — each assistant draws on the full body of what's been approved and what your Country Programme requires, not one engagement's slice of experience.

Live Assistant Report
MEALS Research Assistant
Surfaces comparable readiness proposals, funding proposals, and approved GCF projects — precedent for monitoring plans, results frameworks, accountability mechanisms, and reporting structures used by similar Direct Access Entities. Every finding is linked to its source citation.

Live Assistant: $450 USD ?Self-serve access — run the assistant yourself, ask follow-up questions, and iterate in real time.
On-demand report: $950 USD ?We run the assistant for you and deliver a completed report — no self-serve access.
Live Assistant Report
Concept Note Evaluator
Score Concept Notes against approved known donor criteria benchmarked against similar approved submissions. Red flags missing data, unsupported claims, and provides fix actions. Run it before issuing your no-objection to know exactly what the Donor's reviewers will find.

Live Assistant: $450 USD ?Self-serve access — run the assistant yourself, ask follow-up questions, and iterate in real time.
On-demand report: $950 USD ?We run the assistant for you and deliver a completed report — no self-serve access.

TIER 2: PAID PILOT

A Co-Design Sprint: Design it around your specific requirements.

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$20,000–$30,000 USD
4–6 weeks, scoped to your secretariat's capacity · Typically paid directly from operating budget

Includes a kickoff co-design workshop, a Country Programme–configured instance, Gap Analysis and No-Objection assistants built for your secretariat, and a configuration blueprint you control.

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Why Pilot First
  • ✓Fully credited toward the perpetual license. Nothing here is a sunk cost — the fee rolls straight into Tier 3 if you move forward.
  • ✓De-risks the Enterprise decision. You evaluate CFI against your own live pipeline and real submissions before committing to $95k — not a generic demo.
  • ✓Readiness-fundable. Doesn't compete against your secretariat's own discretionary budget.
  • ✓Your secretariat builds real proficiency. You help configure it, not just receive a finished black box.
TIER 3: ENTERPRISE OPTION

Deploy Climate Finance Intelligence (CFI) as your country's permanent oversight infrastructure.

$25,000 – $50,000 USD
Annual subscription
$95,000 USD
Perpetual license (Buy once don't subscribe forever)

CFI is a capital investment in your digital infrastructure. A perpetual license pays for itself in under 18 months by streamlining project development and quality assurance and reducing reliance on external consultants.

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Any Co-Design Sprint fee already paid credits in full toward the license, or your first year of an annual subscription.

Key Benefits
  • ✓Deployed on your own infrastructure — internal files stay under your control, meeting data security mandates.
  • ✓National pipeline tracking — no-objection status and decision history across all accredited entities.
  • ✓Searchable institutional record — your Country Programme and submission archive, indexed and retrievable by any officer.
  • ✓Secures your institutional memory — when staff transition, the knowledge that delivered past success stays securely in-house.
  • ✓Staff training and onboarding included — no separate consulting engagement required.

What They're Saying

"The gap between what a country office submits and what actually gets approved used to be invisible to us. CFI makes that gap legible — and that changes how we advise proponents before they submit."
NDA Focal Point · Pacific Islands
"Reviewing a concept note for no-objection used to mean pulling precedent from memory or searching through years of email threads. Having the historical record searchable and structured is a fundamental shift in how we work."
Senior NDA Official · Sub-Saharan Africa
Bundled Pricing

Built for coordination and oversight: Concept Note Evaluator, Readiness Application Builder, plus a Knowledge Vault of 3,000 approved project files. Pricing starts at $4,500 / 3 months, reflecting GCF's own priority-access framework.

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