Designing Technical Assistance Activities for Adaptation and Resilience Companies

This research paper by the Climate Policy Initiative examines the barriers preventing adaptation and resilience companies—specifically those providing climate risk analytics—from scaling in developing countries. It proposes a design for a technical assistance (TA) facility, the CRAFT Resilience Accelerator, to be linked with a private equity fund to catalyze the market by addressing context, business model, and internal capacity barriers.

• Global financial and economic losses from climate change were USD 1.5 trillion between 2003 and 2013, with USD 550 billion of those losses occurring in developing countries.
• Companies in the adaptation and resilience sector face three primary categories of barriers to expansion in developing countries: context barriers (policy, institutional, and market environments), business model barriers (unclear value add, high costs, or lack of demand-side technical capacity), and internal business capacity barriers (financial and business management skills).
• Resilience intelligence companies, which provide data analytics and modeling to help customers manage climate risks, face a significant 'market making' barrier, where potential clients are unaware of the technical effectiveness or financial impact of climate change on their specific businesses.
• The report identifies four archetypes of technical assistance (TA) models: the Venture Capital (VC) Model (integrated services), the Standalone Technical Assistance Facility (independent or linked), the One-off Activity (donor-financed), and the Strategic Partnership (Public-Private Partnerships).
• The proposed CRAFT Resilience Accelerator is designed as a USD 20 million TA facility to complement a USD 500 million global private equity fund. It recommends three support lines: 'Preparation' (legal/regulatory analysis and business plans), 'Partnerships' (local stakeholder linkages and technology demonstrations), and 'Resilient Systems' (policy studies and impact methodologies).
• Effective TA facility governance must balance efficiency and development impact. The report recommends that 'Preparation' activities be managed by the fund manager for efficiency, while 'Partnerships' and 'Resilient Systems' could have separate governance to ensure development additionality.

APA

Hallmeyer, K., & Tonkonogy, B. (2018). Designing Technical Assistance Activities for Adaptation and Resilience Companies. Climate Policy Initiative. https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Designing-Technical-Assistance-Activities-for-Adaptation-and-Resilience-Companies.pdf

Chicago

Hallmeyer, Karoline, and Bella Tonkonogy. Designing Technical Assistance Activities for Adaptation and Resilience Companies. Climate Policy Initiative, 2018. https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Designing-Technical-Assistance-Activities-for-Adaptation-and-Resilience-Companies.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{hallmeyer2018designing, author = {Hallmeyer, Karoline and Tonkonogy, Bella}, title = {{Designing Technical Assistance Activities for Adaptation and Resilience Companies}}, institution = {Climate Policy Initiative}, year = {2018}, month = may, url = {https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Designing-Technical-Assistance-Activities-for-Adaptation-and-Resilience-Companies.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }