Building Coastal Resilience with Private Sector Participation in the Western Africa Coastal Areas program

The overall goal of the project is to enhance the capacity of the governments of Togo and Benin to enable private sector participation in the development of biodiversity positive, climate adaption infrastructure.

The tasks assigned to Grid Advisors were to:

▪ Assess the biodiversity/resilience footprint of projects using objective metrics
▪ Establish a methodology for prioritizing projects considering social, environmental, and business criteria.
▪ Describe financing pathways/structures to enhance the projects’ bankability and PSP attractiveness.
▪ Assess how climate risks are impacting the VfM and affordability of the projects and propose commercial feasible PPP models.
▪ Opine on the robustness of the investment under varying climate and socio-economic development scenarios and conduct a preliminary market sounding.
▪ Recommend project-specific contractual provisions to manage climate uncertainty including tariff structures, climate risk sharing, KPIs and insurance coverage.