Genesis was chosen to advise the National Treasury and the Presidency on the creation of an off-balance sheet financing framework.

Genesis was contracted by the African Development Bank (AfDB) to conduct a Mid-Term Review (MTR) of the five-year (2019-2023) Africa Disaster Risk Financing (ADRiFi) programme.

Nedlac, representing South Africa’s Presidential Climate Commission (PCC), engaged Genesis Analytics to undertake a pivotal task – developing a concept note for an investment plan focused on resilience and adaptation.

Genesis Analytics provided support to the Government of South Africa, particularly the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and Environment Affairs (DFFE), in developing a robust investment plan for adaptation actions.

In collaboration with Genesis, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) released guidelines for conducting country-level green employment diagnostics, aligning with the goal of facilitating just transitions.

Genesis Analytics, in collaboration with Nedlac and South Africa's Presidential Climate Commission, has embarked on an exciting mission to pave the way for innovative adaptation financing mechanisms in South Africa.

Genesis was put at the helm of a project consortium to study the impact and mitigation of the planned shutdown of seven ageing coal-fired power plants in Mpumalanga, South Africa. The project was commissioned by the Nationally Determined Contributions Partnership, on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, and involved economists, engineers and social experts.

How will Africa fare in the next 10 years and beyond? To tackle this question, Genesis was commissioned to write a research paper on what future growth scenarios could look like for the continent over the next decade. The work was background research for the African Development Bank’s strategy for 2023 to 2032.

Genesis was commissioned by Bio2Watt Energy Holdings, a producer of renewable energy sourced from organic waste, to provide consulting services to guide the firm’s strategy for the next five years.

Genesis worked with the Nationally Determined Contributions Partnership (NDCP) to provide analytical support to inform decision-making related to the development of Partnership Plans and NDC implementation across a range of NDCP developing-country members.

Genesis was contracted by the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) to integrate a climate adaptation and risk financing concept into one of its Zambian projects.

Financial Sector Deepening Africa contracted Genesis Analytics to help co-create and implement proportional and fit-for-purpose environmental, social and governance (ESG) supervisory approaches and interventions in the insurance sectors in Ghana, Kenya and Nigeria

Genesis provided technical support to fine-tune the United Nations’ comprehensive risk management (CRM) approach in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The initiative was commissioned by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction’s (UNDRR) Regional Office for Africa (ROA).

Genesis was commissioned by the South African Reserve Bank to conduct a 12-hour capacity-building course about climate change including the challenges and opportunities it poses for the financial and banking sector.

Genesis provided skill-share services to develop the capacity of the Bank of Thailand and enable it to develop and publish policy guidelines for financial institutions on climate stress testing by 2022.

Genesis was contracted to develop a Disaster Risk Financing (DRF) Strategy and Action Plan to increase the financial resilience of the Government of Mongolia.

Genesis is playing a key supporting role to the IFC APEX team reviewing the data inputs that have been collected so far for Cape Town’s Green Investment Pipeline Analysis.

Genesis is work closely with South Africa’s National Treasury Asset and Liability Management Division and the Presidential Climate Finance Task Team to provide strategic advice and recommendations as regards the resource mobilisation and coordination function for the JET IP.

Genesis, in partnership with Acumen Consulting, is working with PwC as a delivery partner for the Climate Finance Accelerator (CFA) programme, which aims to develop a sustainable pipeline of bankable, low-carbon projects in Egypt and to identify suitable financing options for them.

Genesis partnered with FSD Africa and Umoa Titres to develop a study that determines the feasibility of deploying a financial instrument to address climate change, environmental and/or waste management challenges in the city of Saint-Louis, Senegal.

Financial Sector Deepening Uganda (FSDU) commissioned a Genesis study of the climate change adaptation ecosystem in Uganda. The FSDU’s aim was to better understand the climate finance gap in Uganda and help smallholder farmers build their resilience to climate change by improving their access to climate and green finance.

The International Fund for Agricultural Development contracted Genesis to inform IFAD’s portfolio for private sector engagement in climate change adaptation (CCA).

The Innovation Hub Management Company’s Green Economy Unit engaged Genesis to identify potential opportunities that exist for SMMEs in the Gauteng city region to contribute to the growth of the South African economy by providing innovative solutions to the water-security challenge.

Genesis has proposed the development of a digital-credit scoring tool for micro, small and medium enterprise lending in Zimbabwe. The tool will be developed to enable financial service providers to lend to previously excluded entrepreneurs and MSMEs across a number of economic sectors using alternative data and non-traditional sources of data.

Genesis developed a seed business-development strategy for the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) as a tool that will guide, orient and define expected outputs in how the project interacts and collaborates with seed stakeholders in Mozambique.

Genesis has been comissioned by DFID to conduct an 18-month climate-smart agricultural education and policy support project that aims to support the governments of Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.  

Genesis provided support for the climate change risk assessment and the financing strategy of the Kikonge Hydropower Project in Tanzania.

Vuna commissioned a Climate Smart Agricultural (CSA) innovation models impact analysis to assess select Vuna Agriculture Development Facility (ADF) projects and identify intervention pathways to sustained climate resilience at scale.

Genesis was appointed by Vuna to work across a number of stakeholders to coordinate the implementation of a community-level seed production and distribution model in semi-arid districts of Zimbabwe.

Genesis was commissioned by a civil society organisation to review and comment on the South African government’s long-term energy planning documents, which were published in late 2016. 

Seven successful cases of climate-smart agriculture (CSA) in Zimbabwe, documented by Genesis, are to be included in a manual being written for the country’s eight agricultural colleges. Genesis was contracted by Vuna, a regional DFID-funded programme on CSA to document these cases.

Genesis was engaged by the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) to research a business case for engaging the private sector in designing and delivering climate-smart solutions.  

Genesis was engaged as the financial and economic adviser on a three-year project to support a holistic flood risk mitigation system in the Incomati Basin. Our work was integral in establishing the need for an early warning flood forecasting system (EWFFS) and its requirements for financial sustainability.

Genesis was part of a multi-disciplinary team providing input to the feasibility study of the Nondvo Dam in Swaziland. Given water-supply constraints in Swaziland, the government aims to augment water supply to the capital city, Mbabane, through the dam.

Genesis was appointed to assess the costs and benefits of an early warning flood forecasting system (EWFFS) in the Limpopo River basin, which shared between Botswana, South Africa, Zimbabwe and Mozambique.

Genesis was contracted by the International Finance Corporation to assess the unintended outcomes and impacts of the Climate Change Investment Programme (CIPA) South Africa (SA).

Genesis was retained to support CRIDF in their work to improve the livelihoods of local communities within and around the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA TFCA).

Genesis worked with the African Development Bank to provide technical support for the structuring and implementation of the Songwe River Basin Development Project – a transboundary project on the border of Tanzania and Malawi.

Genesis leads the financial work stream on a project to assess the viability of constructing a scheme that will bring water from northern border of Botswana to the large demand centres in the south east.

Genesis was retained as the project economists for the 12 Towns Project aimed at providing a sustainable and equitable supply of safe water and appropriate sanitation to 12 border towns in Zambia, a country strategically and centrally located in the SADC region. 

Genesis worked with the Climate Resilient Infrastructure Development Facility (CRIDF), a DFID-funded facility that prepares water and infrastructure projects across SADC, in the design and delivery of water infrastructure that fosters sustainable development of the region’s water, food and energy security.

Illovo Sugar Malawi wanted to improve the water supply for Nchalo town and the communities surrounding its sugar facility, which is an area characterised as very poor and lacking in clean water and sanitation.

Genesis was contracted to review PropCom Mai-Karfi array of interventions from a climate lens and advise them on how to “climate-proof" its intervention activities in light of regional and national policy and implementation practices.

Genesis was appointed by Business Unity South Africa (BUSA) to provide expert analysis and input in a review of the National Treasury’s discussion document regarding the possible implementation of a carbon tax intended to internalise environmental costs and reduce emissions.

Genesis was appointed to undertake an economic study to assess the impact of the National Treasury’s proposed carbon tax within the context of rapidly increasing energy costs and the anticipated additional costs of adapting to climate change.