Consulting
Sapience provides climate finance and capital market consulting and advisory services to development finance institutions, government agencies and think-tanks in Africa, Asia and Europe.
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Investment evaluation
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Sustainable finance strategy and instrument utilisation
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Capital market advisory (debt and equity capital markets)
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Emerging and Frontier markets development
Expertise
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Debt Capital Market Investment Evaluation
Sapience undertakes capital market product evaluation for institutional investors (funds and structured products) and assists development banks/agencies to develop local capital markets through client investments.
Specialising in Emerging and Frontier markets Sapience delivers awareness, banking industry expertise + proven market knowledge.
Projects include work for the Asian Development Bank, European and UK agencies and the International Finance Corporation.
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Local Currency and Capital Market Development
Local capital market development is a long term and uneven process. Sapience is acutely aware of the complexities faced in many frontier and emerging markets having worked in them since 2000.
Examples of our work include:
Developing local currency franchises and strategies for:
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Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (2022-23)
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African Development Bank (AfDB 2024-25)
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TCX Fund (2026)
Research/diagnostics:
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ODI Global (2025/2026 research on donor-backed local currency facilities)
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ODI Global (2026 research on local capital market development)
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ESG and Climate Finance
We know that ESG and Climate finance needs to continue to scale. Sapience actively consults and teaches in these fields.
Projects include:
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Sustainable Transport + Logistics, African Development Bank (2025-26)
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Climate Finance in Egypt, 30x30 program (IFC, 2022 and 2025)
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Green bond assessment Rwanda (Euro Comm 2024).
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Green Bond consulting project in SE Asia (ADB 2024-25) to support municipal issuers.
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Sustainable Instrument advisory - a Senegalese corporate (2025)