Resource Mobilization & Project Development
Turning ideas into funded, deliverable projects.
Overview
Good ideas only change things when they are financed and delivered. CLEEN helps governments, research centres and organisations across Africa convert priorities into fundable, well-structured projects — and to mobilise the resources needed to implement them.
Our team has written and won competitive grants and proposals to international funders, structured investor-facing financing frameworks, and built the partnerships that move projects from concept to delivery. We combine technical rigour with a practical understanding of what funders and investors need to see.
From concept notes and full proposals to financing structures, partnership brokering and project preparation, we support the full development cycle — helping clients access capital and deliver results.
Capabilities
What we offer
Proposal & Grant Development
End-to-end development of competitive proposals and concept notes for international funders and research programmes, from logframes and budgets to partnership coordination and submission.
Project Preparation & Structuring
Feasibility studies, project documentation and investor-facing financing frameworks that make projects bankable and ready for funding decisions.
Partnership & Consortium Building
Brokering the institutional partnerships and consortia — across universities, government and the private sector — needed to design, fund and deliver projects at scale.
Resource Mobilisation Strategy
Strategies to diversify and grow funding — mapping funders, building pipelines, and strengthening the systems and capacity organisations need to win and manage resources.
Case studies
Related work
UN Climate Technology Centre and Network (with West African Development Bank, BOAD) · 2021
Sahel Multi-Country GCF Concept Note & Project Preparation
Development of a Green Climate Fund concept note and support for a project-preparation funding application for a multi-country initiative across the Sahel region.
RCEES, UENR & WACEENET · 2024
Research Grant Mobilisation & Partnerships (RCEES / WACEENET)
Mobilising research funding and partnerships for RCEES — co-developing more than ten proposals (including a USD 150,722 award) and brokering new business and research partnerships across the West African Centres of Excellence network.