Turning climate and biodiversity commitments into delivery requires more than ambition.
We design the programmes, institutions, and pathways that make it happen.
The RA Group works at the intersection of climate and biodiversity finance, international policy, and implementation, including emerging approaches to non-market cooperation and locally led delivery.
We support partners to design programmes that can be funded, implemented, and sustained — and to build the institutional pathways required to deliver them. From global frameworks to local systems, we operate across the full pathway from commitment to execution.
We work within existing systems — and where necessary, at their limits — to ensure that capital reaches the organisations and communities positioned to deliver real change.
From global commitments to grounded implementation
We design and deliver integrated programmes that connect policy, finance, and implementation — ensuring that ambition translates into measurable outcomes.
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We structure complex, multi-partner programmes aligned with international funding frameworks and institutional realities.
Design of climate and biodiversity programmes across donor platforms
Engage non-market pathways for implementation and finance mobilisation
Multi-country and multi-institution programme structuring
Climate finance strategy, donor alignment, and capital mobilisation
Blended finance and innovative funding approaches
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We engage directly in the international and national processes that shape climate and biodiversity action.
Strategic advisory on UNFCCC, CBD, and related frameworks, including non market approaches under Article 6.8 of the Paris Agreement
Support to negotiations, submissions, and policy positions
Development of national strategies, NDCs, and sectoral frameworks
Legal and regulatory analysis
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We build the institutional systems required to access, manage, and deliver climate and biodiversity finance.
Governance, fiduciary, and safeguard systems
Institutional strengthening and organisational development
Accreditation pathways and readiness support
Monitoring, evaluation, and learning systems
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We ensure that programmes translate into viable, accountable delivery.
Development of project pipelines aligned with funding frameworks
Structuring of implementation models grounded in institutional and community capacity
Community-based and locally led approaches, including renewable energy
Stakeholder engagement and Free, Prior and Informed Consent processes
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We support complex, multi-stakeholder processes that require coordination, continuity, and trust.
Secretariat functions for intergovernmental and multi-partner initiatives
Facilitation of international and regional processes
Strategic communications and knowledge management
Interpretation and multilingual coordination
A senior network, assembled around delivery
Our work is delivered by senior practitioners with direct experience in the institutions, frameworks, and systems they help shape — across climate finance, governance, law, and implementation. Each engagement is led by people who have operated at the level where commitments are tested in practice.
HOW WE WORK
A platform for complex, system-level delivery
The RA Group operates as a curated network of senior experts across climate finance, governance, law, and implementation.
We assemble and lead teams around specific programmes and processes — combining global expertise with regional and local capability — to deliver work that exceeds the capacity of any single organisation.
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We apply a human rights framework across all engagements, including Free, Prior and Informed Consent and participatory governance — ensuring that solutions remain legitimate, inclusive, and sustainable.
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Many initiatives stall at the level of compliance or design. We focus on what happens beyond approval — ensuring that programmes translate into delivery that is effective, accountable, and scalable.
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We are engaged to design and deliver programmes — not to provide isolated inputs. Our work is structured around outcomes, timelines, and implementation realities.
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We work in environments where delivery is shaped by institutional, political, and financial realities. We bring independent judgement to these contexts — supporting partners to navigate constraints, address structural barriers, and move beyond approaches that do not deliver in practice.
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Climate finance, institutional capacity, and implementation are treated as a single system. We design across that system — ensuring that programmes are both fundable and deliverable.
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We work within existing funding structures while supporting a transition toward more direct and equitable access to climate finance. This includes strengthening the institutional, governance, and delivery capacities of Indigenous Peoples’ organisations and local actors — enabling them to access, manage, and deploy funding over time.
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We work in support of Indigenous Peoples’ organisations and networks, strengthening the systems required for them to access and manage climate and biodiversity finance. Leadership and decision-making remain with those organisations; our role is to support the institutional pathways that enable delivery.
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We work in partnership with governments, Indigenous Peoples’ organisations, and community networks — ensuring that programmes are shaped by those closest to the outcome and grounded in local realities.
Our Role
We operate at the point where commitments are tested in practice.
We support:
Translate global commitments into fundable programmes
Build institutions capable of managing and deploying climate finance
Develop pipelines that translate into real projects
Translate global commitments into fundable programmes
Where We Work
We support partners across the delivery chain.
Including:
Multilateral climate and biodiversity funds
Governments and National Designated Authorities
Accredited entities and candidate institutions
Donor-funded and philanthropic platforms
Indigenous Peoples’ organisations and community networks
Move beyond incremental progress