Experience
Illustrative assignments delivered by FLAGG principals across development finance, agricultural finance, green finance, financial inclusion and evaluation.
The examples below reflect assignments delivered by FLAGG principals in current and prior professional capacities. They demonstrate the expertise available to FLAGG Advisory and are not presented as contracts necessarily awarded directly to the firm.
East Africa
Development-bank green lending capacity
Leadership of a multi-expert team supporting a EUR 20 million green investment facility for a national development bank. Work includes eligibility and appraisal tools, climate and environmental/social screening, GHG measurement, pipeline support, capacity building and impact monitoring.
Development finance | Climate finance | Institutional strengthening
East Africa
Agricultural finance & PFI strengthening
Team leadership under a major World Bank-funded agriculture programme supporting a development bank and more than 20 of its partner financial institutions that are accessing wholesale finance. The work combines agricultural lending product development, risk analysis tools, design of blended-finance facilities, training, mentorship and market adoption.
Agricultural finance | PFIs | Capacity building
Horn of Africa
EIB green agriculture credit line
Technical-assistance leadership for a EUR 20 million EIB-backed agri-value-chain credit line. The assignment combines ESMS strengthening, agricultural product development, gender-responsive finance, regulatory alignment, institutional diagnostics and pipeline development.
EIB | Green agriculture | ESMS
Western Balkans
Youth finance & inclusive banking
Multi-country advisory across six partner banks and MFIs, including youth-oriented market research, lending strategies, development and rollout of non-financial services, product development, institutional strengthening and knowledge transfer.
Financial inclusion | Youth finance | NFS
Multi-Country Africa
Guarantees, risk-sharing & SME resilience
Leadership of technical assistance linked to large guarantee and risk-sharing facilities across multiple financial institutions, supporting SME lending, portfolio resilience, emergency response, green finance and institutional performance.
Guarantees | SME finance | Risk sharing
Europe & Africa
Evaluation, impact research & M&E
Formal programme evaluations, peer reviews, household impact surveys, institutional assessments and applied research covering microfinance, entrepreneurship, agricultural finance, client outcomes and financial-sector development.
Evaluation | Research | Impact
Selected Results and Evidence
These examples can be used as compact proof points within experience cards or as a ‘results’ strip on the page.
| Result / evidence | Illustrative relevance |
|---|---|
| EUR 20m green investment facility | Development-bank green finance, appraisal systems, climate and E&S tools, capacity building and M&E. |
| 15+ partner financial institutions | Agricultural-finance product development, risk tools, training and market adoption under a major World Bank programme. |
| EUR 20m EIB agri-value-chain credit line | Green agriculture, ESMS, gender-responsive finance and pipeline development. |
| Six banks and MFIs across the Western Balkans | Youth finance, market research, lending strategy, products and non-financial services. |
| EUR 110m in guarantees across 15 financial institutions | Multi-country technical assistance linked to risk-sharing and resilience support. |
| 112% increase measured in a follow-on rural-finance impact assessment | Evidence of hands-on evaluation and measurement of programme outcomes. |
Selected Earlier Implementation Experience
FLAGG principals also bring substantial hands-on programme and transaction experience, including large USAID agriculture and agribusiness programmes in Rwanda and Liberia, agricultural and SME finance strategy assignments in Africa and Eastern Europe, credit-guarantee and leasing programmes, rural-finance product development, investment-facility management and financial-sector reform.
This breadth is useful because FLAGG’s evaluation and advisory work is informed by direct experience of implementation: building teams, managing facilities, training financial institutions, developing products, working with borrowers and investors, and being accountable for programme results.
Institutions and Partners
The principals have delivered assignments financed by or undertaken for organisations including the European Union, World Bank, European Investment Bank, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, KfW, GIZ, AFD/PROPARCO, African Development Bank, USAID, OECD, CGAP, development banks, commercial banks, microfinance institutions, investment funds and international NGOs.
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