The Green Finance Facilitator (GFF) is a technical assistance program that supports green businesses in Ghana to enable them to become investment ready
Ghana is taking significant steps towards
transitioning to a sustainable and climate-resilient economy. This can unlock significant
investment opportunities in clean energy, clean transport, sustainable agriculture, and other
sectors.
To attract green investments, a pipeline of bankable green projects is needed. Currently,
there is a gap between green finance providers, who report a lack of investable green business
proposals, and Ghanaian businesses, who often lack the capacity to present green projects that
meet the requirements of financial institutions. GFF was created to help bridge this gap.
The Green Finance Facilitator (GFF) is a technical assistance program that supports green
businesses to enable them to become investment ready, equipping them with the necessary tools,
strategies, and resources to access financing from potential investors and financial
institutions. This support spans financial feasibility review and financial modeling, business
plan improvement and market analysis, structuring support to respond to financier requirements,
and assistance with contractual negotiations and transactions, delivered through top-tier local
business advisory firms.
The objective is to build a
pipeline of bankable/investable green projects, to support increased scale and pace of green
investments in Ghana. Supported businesses will be presented to financiers for funding
consideration.
The GFF will work through small cohorts. In each cohort, an estimated 15-25 businesses will
receive customized technical assistance at no cost through top-tier business advisory firms.
Project eligibility and application criteria will be reviewed and potentially expanded for each
successive cohort to reflect, for example, the evolving Ghana Green Finance
Taxonomy.
The Green Finance Facilitator (GFF) is a project funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and implemented by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, in collaboration with a wide range of stakeholders, including private sector actors, financial institutions, government agencies, and international development partners.