Call to Action
Developing countries suffer from a financing deficit amounting to trillions of dollars per year to finance the most pressing needs for humanity. At Watershed Finance, we provide solutions for all stakeholders in the financing ecosystem. 

The firm is a trusted advisor to multilateral organizations, governments, think tanks, development finance institutions, multinational corporations, institutional investors, industry associations, and nongovernmental organizations.

 

We provide consulting and advisory services to support policy solutions, investment strategy, financial instrument innovation, project development, investor relations, private sector engagement strategy, and training of professional staff in the pursuit of increasing the scale of global finance to power sustainable development and decarbonize the global economy. We deliver thought leadership through policy briefs, serving on expert panels, giving keynote remarks at conferences and events, and creating design and branding solutions to illustrate development impact.

​

Our Philosophy

The firm’s name communicates its philosophy. Water is distributed based on its watershed. The watershed is fundamental to a community’s development and protecting the health and well-being of its residents. By embracing a watershed approach, water can be equitably distributed, responsibly consumed, and protected.

 

Like water, finance will flow in a relatively predictable fashion. The failure to understand or recognize how finance flows to investments leads to inadequate or misaligned solutions to the financing dilemma. At Watershed Finance, we help to unlock finance for development by taking a conceptual approach to the watershed of finance.

The firm embraces this philosophy by supporting its clients in their development of solutions to address project design, institutional reforms, risk sharing, return calibration, mobilization of private finance, and more to better redirect finance to the development needs facing severe financing shortfalls.