Turning climate and development priorities into financing that works.
ASEAN Nexus is a boutique advisory platform for climate and resilience financing, institutional strengthening, private sector engagement, and capital mobilisation for sustainable development — with a regional focus on Asia and emerging and frontier markets.
A boutique platform built around one problem: turning priorities into financing.
The firm supports governments, multilateral organisations, philanthropic funders, and corporate partners in translating development priorities into actionable financing strategies, credible institutional structures, and investment-ready partnerships.
Work spans climate and resilience financing, institutional strengthening, private sector engagement, and capital mobilisation for sustainable development, with a regional focus on Asia and emerging and frontier markets.
Climate & Resilience Financing Advisory
Financing-gap analysis, costing frameworks, revenue architecture and fund design for climate and resilience programmes.
Climate Finance Strategy & Investment Roadmaps
Design of national and sectoral climate finance strategies, including financing-gap analysis, priority-sector identification, and roadmaps for mobilising public, blended, and private investment.
Total Cost of Ownership Costing-as-a-Service
Standardised lifecycle costing frameworks for climate, environmental, and technical service infrastructure, closing the gap left by the absence of harmonised costing guidance in many public-service domains.
Institutional Revenue Architecture Design
Design of the legal, financial, and institutional mechanisms a public technical body needs to receive, hold, and manage new revenue streams, including comparative analysis of statutory bodies, state enterprises, and special-purpose vehicles.
Sector Cost-Recovery & Revenue Feasibility Studies
Cost-benefit analysis and ring-fencing design for revenue-generating technical services, including service-provider cost comparisons and risk or liability assessment where a public body is considering assuming a service currently outsourced.
National Fund Feasibility & Design
Feasibility studies and governance design for national climate or resilience funds, including assessment of consortium and pooled-financing options.
Climate Finance Access & Proposal Readiness
Support for governments and institutions preparing competitive applications to major climate finance mechanisms, including positioning for oversubscribed funding windows and country-level support pathways.
Debt-Linked & Innovative Financing Advisory
Advisory support, delivered alongside sovereign debt specialists, on debt-for-climate and debt-for-development swap structuring and other innovative financing instruments.
Sovereign & Non-Traditional Capital Bridge-Building
Structured engagement between governments or institutions and sovereign wealth funds, non-DAC governments, and other non-traditional capital sources active in climate and development finance.
Regional & Institutional Readiness
Diagnostics and coordination design for institutions taking on new regional-cooperation commitments.
Regional Accession & Institutional Readiness Assessments
Diagnostic studies of institutional preparedness for new regional-cooperation obligations, including sequencing of priority commitments and absorptive-capacity risk analysis.
Regional Coordination Architecture Mapping
Design of minimal viable inter-ministerial or inter-agency coordination structures to support new regional-cooperation commitments.
Policy Coherence Studies
Assessment of alignment between national policy frameworks and regional or international cooperation frameworks, identifying practical entry points and gaps.
Cross-Document Terminology & Consistency Governance
Mapping and reconciliation of naming and terminology inconsistencies across a government's own strategy and policy documents, a small but genuine signal of implementation friction.
Private Sector Engagement & Capital Mobilisation
Stakeholder mapping, instrument design and structured facilitation to connect public priorities with private capital.
Private Sector Engagement & Ecosystem Development
Stakeholder mapping, engagement strategy design, and facilitation of structured consultations between governments, development partners, and private sector actors.
Private Sector Sentiment & Entry-Point Studies
Structured surveys and analysis identifying where companies see opportunities or barriers in engaging development organisations and regional partnership platforms.
Blended Finance & De-Risking Instrument Design
Sector-specific structuring of blended finance and de-risking instruments for defined investment pipelines.
Donor & Investor Mapping
Sector- or country-specific mapping of development finance institutions, foundations, and private investors, aligned with a client's financing priorities.
Philanthropy, Foundations & Non-Traditional Financing
Entry-pathway design for philanthropic, family office and high-net-worth capital entering multilateral and development partnerships.
Multilateral Entry Pathway Advisory
Readiness assessment, entry-pathway mapping, funding-modality translation, and engagement sequencing for philanthropic and private funders considering partnership with multilateral organisations.
Foundation & Philanthropy Engagement Strategy
Design of institutional strategies for engaging foundations and major donors as a diversified, non-traditional funding source.
High-Net-Worth Individual & Family Office Engagement
Mapping and engagement strategies connecting high-net-worth individual and family office capital with credible development and multilateral partnership opportunities.
Pooled Fund Design & Governance
Governance mechanism and business case design for pooled and inter-agency funds, including emerging locally-led and community-governed fund models.
Corporate Sustainability Advisory
Strategic review and partnership design so corporate CSR programming is coherent, costed and credible.
CSR Portfolio Coherence Review & Roadmap
Pre-implementation strategic review, thematic and geographic prioritisation, and a costed roadmap for corporate CSR and sustainability programming.
Partnership Structuring & Recognition Frameworks
Design of partner-selection criteria, recognition and visibility frameworks, and strategic success measurement for corporate sustainability partnerships.
Capacity Development & Institutional Briefings
Bespoke training programme design, and closed-door briefings ahead of specific multilateral engagements.
Training Needs & Capacity Landscape Mapping
Mapping of an institution's stated capacity priorities against its existing training options, identifying gaps that call for a purpose-built, bespoke programme.
Bespoke Training Programme Design & Delivery
End-to-end design, sequencing, and delivery management of tailored training programmes built around an institution's specific capacity needs.
Multilateral Engagement Briefings
Closed-door, one-day briefings for corporate and institutional leadership on the structure, protocol, and practical mechanics of engaging the multilateral system, prepared for a specific upcoming engagement rather than delivered as general orientation.
Connecting climate and development priorities to the capital that can fund them
A curated view across the firm's financing-advisory work — from public and multilateral sources through to blended, private, and non-traditional capital.
Positioning governments and institutions to access and structure large-scale public and multilateral climate finance.
Climate Finance Access & Proposal Readiness
Support for governments and institutions preparing competitive applications to major climate finance mechanisms, including positioning for oversubscribed funding windows and country-level support pathways.
National Fund Feasibility & Design
Feasibility studies and governance design for national climate or resilience funds, including assessment of consortium and pooled-financing options.
Debt-Linked & Innovative Financing Advisory
Advisory support, delivered alongside sovereign debt specialists, on debt-for-climate and debt-for-development swap structuring and other innovative financing instruments.
Sovereign & Non-Traditional Capital Bridge-Building
Structured engagement between governments or institutions and sovereign wealth funds, non-DAC governments, and other non-traditional capital sources active in climate and development finance.
Structuring investment pipelines and identifying the investors willing to fund them.
Blended Finance & De-Risking Instrument Design
Sector-specific structuring of blended finance and de-risking instruments for defined investment pipelines.
Donor & Investor Mapping
Sector- or country-specific mapping of development finance institutions, foundations, and private investors, aligned with a client's financing priorities.
Entry pathways for funders whose route into development financing is not through a conventional grant or loan.
Multilateral Entry Pathway Advisory
Readiness assessment, entry-pathway mapping, funding-modality translation, and engagement sequencing for philanthropic and private funders considering partnership with multilateral organisations.
High-Net-Worth Individual & Family Office Engagement
Mapping and engagement strategies connecting high-net-worth individual and family office capital with credible development and multilateral partnership opportunities.
Pooled Fund Design & Governance
Governance mechanism and business case design for pooled and inter-agency funds, including emerging locally-led and community-governed fund models.
Structured relationships between public, private, philanthropic and multilateral actors
Mapping, facilitation and structuring work that turns stakeholder goodwill into a credible, working partnership.
Bringing companies and public or development institutions into structured, well-facilitated dialogue.
Private Sector Engagement & Ecosystem Development
Stakeholder mapping, engagement strategy design, and facilitation of structured consultations between governments, development partners, and private sector actors.
Private Sector Sentiment & Entry-Point Studies
Structured surveys and analysis identifying where companies see opportunities or barriers in engaging development organisations and regional partnership platforms.
Partnership Structuring & Recognition Frameworks
Design of partner-selection criteria, recognition and visibility frameworks, and strategic success measurement for corporate sustainability partnerships.
Coordination structures and engagement strategies for institutions and funders working across organisational boundaries.
Multilateral Entry Pathway Advisory
Readiness assessment, entry-pathway mapping, funding-modality translation, and engagement sequencing for philanthropic and private funders considering partnership with multilateral organisations.
Foundation & Philanthropy Engagement Strategy
Design of institutional strategies for engaging foundations and major donors as a diversified, non-traditional funding source.
Regional Coordination Architecture Mapping
Design of minimal viable inter-ministerial or inter-agency coordination structures to support new regional-cooperation commitments.
Climate Financing Training Courses
Modular training built around the same practice areas the firm advises on. Each module can be delivered as a standalone session or combined into a full programme.
A draft sequence — from foundational concepts through to engaging the multilateral system directly. Modules can be reordered, combined, or delivered individually to suit an institution's priorities.
Climate Finance Strategy & Investment Roadmaps
Building national and sectoral financing strategies, including gap analysis and investment roadmaps.
Costing Climate & Technical Infrastructure
Applying standardised lifecycle (total cost of ownership) costing frameworks.
Designing Institutional Revenue Mechanisms
Legal, financial and institutional structuring for new public-sector revenue streams.
Blended Finance & De-Risking Instruments
Structuring private capital alongside public risk-mitigation tools.
Preparing Competitive Climate Finance Applications
Positioning proposals for major climate finance mechanisms and oversubscribed funding windows.
Debt-for-Climate & Innovative Financing Instruments
Swap structuring and other alternative financing instruments.
Engaging the Multilateral System
Structure, protocol and practical mechanics of working with multilateral institutions.
Philanthropic & Non-Traditional Capital Engagement
Entry pathways for foundations, family offices and sovereign capital.
Resource mobilisation and partnership strategies built to hold up under institutional scrutiny
A structured approach to designing how an institution diversifies its income and builds partnerships — not a template, but a sequence adapted to each mandate.
Each stage below feeds the next. Engagements can start midway when diagnostic work already exists.
Landscape & Gap Diagnosis
Mapping current income sources, dependency on any single stream, and the true size of the funding gap before designing anything.
Stakeholder & Donor Mapping
Identifying bilateral, multilateral, private-sector, and philanthropic actors realistically aligned to the mandate.
Diversification Design
Sequencing a shift away from reliance on a single funding source toward blended, private-sector, and philanthropic income.
Governance & Theory of Change
Embedding results-based management and a clear theory of change so the strategy holds up to institutional and donor scrutiny.
Implementation Roadmap
Translating the strategy into a costed, time-bound action plan with monitoring and reporting built in from the outset.
Direct Engagement Support
Where needed, structured support for donor outreach and high-level engagement to help convert the strategy into funding.
Resource Mobilisation Training
A practical course for NGO and UN teams reducing reliance on a single donor stream, drawing on strategies developed and delivered across the UN system and intergovernmental platforms.
Modules can be delivered as a full course or individually, as an open cohort or private in-house training.
Understanding the Funding Landscape
Why single-donor dependency is a risk, and mapping which funding sources are realistically reachable.
Working with Institutional Funders
Engaging bilateral and multilateral donors, and government-channelled funding mechanisms.
Foundation & Philanthropy Engagement
Positioning and engagement strategy for approaching foundations and major donors, distinct from a standard grant application.
Private Sector & Corporate Partnerships
Structuring board-level and corporate partnerships, including ESG- and SDG-aligned financing.
Member Network & Constituency Engagement
Mobilising member networks, national committees, and constituency-based fundraising structures.
High-Net-Worth Individuals & Family Offices
Building major-gift relationships and engaging family office capital.
Blended & Innovative Financing
Pooled and inter-agency funds, public-private partnerships, and other non-traditional instruments.
From Strategy to Funded Action
Costing and sequencing a resource mobilisation strategy, backed by direct donor outreach and negotiation.
Scoped to the engagement
Services above can be delivered individually or combined into a sequenced programme of work. Each engagement is scoped to the scale and timeline the client sets, from a single feasibility study to a multi-service programme run alongside an institution's own team.
Start a conversation about your priorities
Tell us which service areas are most relevant and the timeline you are working to. A member of the team will follow up to discuss scope.