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Tuvalu

Project Pipeline

CFAN will deploy advisors remotely in the focal ministries in Samoa, Solomon Islands, and Tuvalu  with a targeted mandate to access international and domestic sources of public and private finance, and to structure finance for investment in their host country’s priority mitigation and adaptation projects.

Advisor Responsibilities (Specific Delivery for Tuvalu)

Develop  project concepts  for  two GCF proposals targeting ‘food security’ and ‘settlement infrastructure’ .

Support and provide relevant inputs and  technical  expertise in assisting the Climate Change Department to better integrate climate change into sectoral development mechanisms such as ‘Triple Dividend of Resilience’.

Tuvalu's Advisors

Walter Malau

Walter Malau

Walter has an accumulated 15 years professional experience in the Solomon Islands Public Sector accounting, financial management & reporting and auditing as an employee and consultant. This included operation risk management and investigations in the private sector and CSO.

His most recent project with the Solomon Islands Government in 2021 included undertaking a feasibility study for the Ministry of Education and provided options on whether a Student Loan Scheme (SLS) will be viable for the tertiary education sector. This included the provision of financial options and financial analysis using NPV and IRR to make recommendations using country data and other global practices.

“With the financial background that I have, I hope to offer diversity to the field of climate financing and renewable energy.”
Charlotte Sheppard

Charlotte Sheppard

Charlie has over 5 years of experience working in analytical roles in consulting and for the New Zealand Government. She has advised on energy policy and assessed infrastructure projects in the Pacific, Africa, and Asia. In the Pacific, she has advised on private sector participation as well as helped develop energy master plans, feasibility studies, funding strategies and investment pipelines.

Charlie has a Masters in International Relations from Victoria University of Wellington and a Bachelors in Economics from the University of Waikato in New Zealand.

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