Bridging the financing gap for meeting the development and climate goals
Capacity statement
GOPA Group
Our identity: GOPA is an international multidisciplinary consultancy with strong German roots, combining tradition and global expertise to deliver impactful solutions worldwide.
Our approach: Your trusted partner for progress, a champion of sustainability, and a team dedicated to creating meaningful impact for generations to come.
Our focus: People. Planet. Prosperity.
Our brands
GOPA Consulting Group
GOPA competencies
• Financial Sector Development
• Blended finance
• Investment Readiness & Economic Competitiveness
• Private Sector Development
• Enabling Business Environment
• Sustainable Infrastructure & Advisory
• Natural Resources and Environment
• Climate Protection
• Rubble Removal
• Damage Assessment
• Critical Infrastructure
• Fund Management
• Power Systems
• Renewable Energy
• Transport & Mobility
• Water & Sanitation
• Architecture, Urban Development, & Civil Engineering
• Agriculture & Food processing
• Agribusiness Development along the Value Chain
• Access to Clean Water
• Outreach & Public Diplomacy
• Justice & Security
• Good Governance & EU Accession
• Civil Society
Blended Finance: delivering more (impact) with less (development finance)!
Strategic approach that aims to de-risk investments, making them more attractive to private investors, while also achieving social, environmental, and developmental outcomes.
. Public or philanthropic sources. Blending Concessional Funding
Equity investments, local currency loans, credit guarantees, etc. With Private Capital
Social, Environmental & Developmental outcomes. For Development Impact
We use blended finance as a strategic approach that aims to de-risk investments, making them more attractive to private investors, while also achieving social, environmental, and developmental outcomes
Our products and services
Our approaches
• Grants management
• First loss capital
• Guarantees
• Technical assistance
• Patient capital
• Impact orientation
• Catalytically deploying development finance to de-risk capital
Administering TA Facilities
Impact assessment
Project structuring and feasibility
Investment readiness and match-making
Climate finance
Fostering partnerships
Innovation
Building capacity
Focus on greener solutions and climate resilience Just Energy Transition
Placing people and planet at the heart of solutions design. Sustainable Development
Catalytically mobilzing private capital. Private Sector Engagement
INCLUSION: Women, Youth,
Underserved People
Knowledge and Networks
Some selected projects!
• Goal: To improve agricultural competitiveness through productive and resource efficient agribusiness value chains.
• Funding source: Asian Development Bank (ADB).
• Approach:
• Financial and technical support to the agricultural sector in the form of grants for selected value chains.
• Facilitating investment in private businesses (Matching Grants) to upgrade their production capacity and technology and support Agricultural Production Groups (APGs), thus strengthening financial sector capacity for agricultural lending.
Key Highlights:
58 APGs (1,325 households), received investments worth
USD 1.25 million.
35 agri-businesses trained.
$ 1.45 million to 21 agri-businesses for technology upgrade.
Green finance lending skills of 50 staff (20 women) improved.
15,000 households Informed on risk mitigation instruments.
Leveraged $0.96 m ffrom private sector
• Goal: To finance biodiversity conservation through wholesale lending to three Partner Financing Institutions (PFIs), targeting sectors with direct biodiversity impact.
• Funding source: GIZ and KfW.
• Approach:
• Established a €6 million loan facility for biodiversity investments.
• Provided capacity building for PFIs on biodiversity financing
• Prepared pipelines of investment projects, developing appraisal model and standards for biodiversity friendly investments.
Key Highlights:
€2.7 million disbursed to PFIs.
Over 200 PFI staff trained in contact classes.
Over 400 PFI staff trained in virtual training sessions.
993 borrowers operating agri-SMEs received loans, with women accounting for 25.4%.
Development of an E-learning course “Climate Risk Finance”.
3-pillar model for Biodiversity Investments.
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• Goal: To support EIB Global to provide advisory services to financial institutions in the areas of innovation, digitalization, MSMEs and Mid-Cap Finance, Climate Action and Sustainable Finance.
• Funding source: EIB.
• Approach:
• Assignments in Honduras are to be expected to support financial institutions receiving funding from the EIB sovereign loan operation to the Government of Honduras, including for BAHPROVI, BANADESA, and SENPRENDE.
Key Highlights:
Consortium composed by GOPA AFC (Lead), GOPA Pace, GOPA Worldwide Consultants, GOPA Tech and MetaMeta.
Period: 03/2025 – 03/2029.
Value: €10.000.000.
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• Goal: To support the Micro Small Medium Enterprise Development Agency (MSME-DA) to promote financial inclusion for MSMEs
• Funding source: German Development Bank (KfW), and European Union (EU).
• Approach:
• €30 million Microfinance Credit Line.
• Feasibility Study.
• Risk Management Instruments.
• Value Chain Financing including training and technical assistance.
Key Highlights:
Over 19,000 MSMEs beneficiaries.
96% of loans extended outside Greater Cairo.
44% of the total and 41% of the volume of loans went to female-owned businesses.
46% of the loans extended to youth below 35 years old.
40,979 jobs created and sustained.
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• Goal: Improve MSMEs access to innovative financial services.
• Funding source: German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ).
• Approach:
• Strengthening Financial Intermediaries: Developing innovative financial products to MSMEs.
• Regulatory Support: Supporting the Central Bank of Jordan in regulating alternative financing, such as leasing and crowdfunding.
Key Highlights:
Over 13,000 MSME and individual users reached.
7,100+ women-led businesses and female clients reached.
Over JOD 11 million in credit disbursed.
Digital transformation strategies deployed in 4 partner financial service providers (PFSPs).
3 PFSPs equipped with credit scoring tools.
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• Goal: GOPA WorldWide supports the Ministry of Environment to improve investment conditions for the sustainable use of biodiversity, giving companies better access to funding and promoting responsible resource use.
• Funding source: GIZ.
• Approach:
• SME Readiness Support: Identify and train biodiversity-friendly companies with scalable business models.
• Match Making: Support matchmaking events.
• Development of Innovative Financing Mechanisms.
Key Highlights:
3rd edition of the BioInvest matchmaking event (11/2024).
36 biodiversity-friendly businesses and 13 national and international investors connected.
$13.8 million mobilized for projects that integrate biodiversity conservation with economic development.
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• Goal: to meet the demand of Central American MSMEs for adequate, efficient and sustainable financial products for investment in renewable energy and energy efficiency.
• Funding source: KfW.
• Approach:
• Support CABEI to design, implement, and monitor the Credit Guarantee Fund (CGF) and select eligible projects.
• Analyze and advise on projects and business plans submitted by International Financial Institutions (IFIs).
• Develop tools, processes, and training programs.
Key Highlights:
Value: 1,794,442.00.
Period: 11/2018 – 07/2024.
Countries: Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua.
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Key Take away’s
• GOPA provides one-stop solution for delivering deeper and wider development impact due to our multidisciplinary team
• GOPA has the technical competence and geographical coverage to think globally and act locally
• Innovation is at the core of our work. Through innovative partnerships, innovative business models, innovative financing, we can deliver impact for people and the planet by blending development finance with private capital.
THANK YOU!
Laos: Climate Friendly
Agribusiness Value Chains:
Financial Management Entity (FME)
GOPA AFC
Framework Agreement to support EIB GLOBAL Financial
Sector Advisory Services
GOPA AFC
Egypt: Empowering MSMEs through Microfinance and Risk Management
GOPA AFC
Uganda: Biodiversity
Financing Facility
GOPA AFC
Jordan: Innovative Financial Services for MSMEs
GOPA AFC
Peru Bio-Invest
GOPA Worldwide
GOPA TECH Environmental Credit Programme for MSMEs II
Blended Finance: doing more with less!
Strategic approach that aims to de-risk investments, making them more attractive to private investors, while also achieving social, environmental, and developmental outcomes.
Public or philanthropic sources. Blending Concessional Funding
Equity investments, local currency loans, credit guarantees, etc. With Private Capital
Social, Environmental & Developmental outcomes. For Development Impact