Private Financing Advisory Network (PFAN)

PFAN's eligibility criteria include, but are not limited to, the following:

• To be eligible for PFAN support, your project or business must:
  • provide climate change adaptation benefits and/or
  • offer or use clean energy technologies, products or services that fall within PFAN's areas of work.
• Proposals should demonstrate that the project is commercially and technically viable and requires no or only minimal grant funding. If your project currently receives grant funding or has done so in the past, that does not affect eligibility.
• The investment amount, or investment ask, should lie between US$1 million and US$50 million. This may be disbursed in smaller tranches as requested.
  • ONLY for energy access and rural electrification projects (clean cook stoves, solar home systems, mini grids) an exception is made, and the investment ask can lie between US$500,000 and US$50 million. This too may be disbursed in smaller tranches as requested.
• For certain periods, PFAN may open applications to only a select list of countries that it operates within. Please visit the PFAN website to identify whether applications are only open to select geographies.  

Exclusion criteria
PFAN will not be able to support projects in the following sectors, notwithstanding their climate benefits:​

• Nuclear origin ​
• Carbon capture and storage​
• Combustion of fossil fuels​
• Waste incineration ​
• Gas venting and flaring​

Furthermore, PFAN will not support projects that​:

• Are likely to infringe on the protection of critical habitats​
• Use banned pesticides and/or chemicals​
• Cause involuntary resettlement or physical economic displacement ​
• Are likely to alter, damage, or remove any cultural heritage and/or sites​
• Use forced, trafficked, or child labour​
   

Please also note that PFAN does not accept grant requests as PFAN does not give out grants or other direct forms of financial support.