Innovative financing solutions to meet global water challenges

Bluechain Consulting is a UK-based consultancy specialising in development finance, resource mobilisation, and sustainable investment for the water, climate, and environment sectors. The firm provides economic and financial analysis, advisory services, and technical assistance to governments, international development organisations, and private sector clients. With the urgency brought by climate change, rapid population growth, and rising demand for water, we support our partners in rethinking and reshaping water related climate investments and management strategies. With the development finance landscape rapidly evolving, we help clients access finance from new sources and harness innovative financing models and mechanisms to deliver sustainable social, economic, and environmental outcomes.

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Blended Finance Pathways Water Security in the Middle East	IFI Landscape Analysis and Engagement Strategy	Hydro-Economic Analysis Rwanda and Ethiopia, World Bank
Public Private Partnerships Ethiopia, Mercy Corps	Sector Finance Strategies UNICEF	Financial & Economic Analysis Adadle Water Supply Scheme, Somali Region
Resource Mobilisation Strategy, Tanzania Government of Tanzania	Financing CWIS Citywide Inclusive Sanitation as a Public Service Series, Bill & Melinda Gate Foundation	Fund Development Ghana, Tanzania, Malawi, Nepal, India
Results Based Financing Bangladesh and Kenya, World Bank	Policy & Regulation Reviews Bangladesh, Kenya, Ghana, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Zimbabwe	Scaling Digital Solutions GMSA & City Taps
Value for Money Analysis Ethiopia One WASH Programme, FCDO	Microfinance Program Bangladesh, World Bank & Ghana, UNICEF	Poverty Diagnostic Ethiopia, World Bank

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From Aid Reliance to Resilient Financing

Debates on development finance have shifted from short-term aid disruptions to more fundamental questions about the future of assistance itself. What initially appeared as isolated shocks, such as the suspension of USAID funding, are increasingly understood as symptoms of a broader structural transition. While we may not yet be fully in a post-aid world, the underlying dynamics of such a shift are already becoming evident. Aid Has Peaked, What This Means for Water There is gr

From Contracts to Collaboration: What we’ve learned about water PPPs

Over the past few years, Bluechain has worked in a range of countries to support governments and utilities exploring and developing public–private partnerships (PPPs) in the water sector. These engagements have spanned very different institutional, economic, and social contexts, but the conversations have been strikingly similar. Again and again, the same opportunities, tensions, and learning points have emerged. What follows is a reflection on the most important lessons from

The Shifting Development Finance Landscape: Implications for Water Sector Financing in 2026

As developing economies move into 2026, development finance is entering a quieter but more consequential phase. The most significant shifts are unlikely to come from crises or large new funding pledges, but from financial trends already underway and a set of ongoing developments that are reshaping how essential public goods, particularly water infrastructure, are financed and governed. Water systems offer a revealing lens on these changes. They sit at the intersection of fisc

Innovative financing solutions to meet global water challenges

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Our Expertise

RECENT PROJECTS

Blended Finance Pathways

Water Security in the Middle East

IFI Landscape Analysis

and Engagement Strategy

Hydro-Economic Analysis

Rwanda and Ethiopia, World Bank

Public Private Partnerships

Ethiopia, Mercy Corps

Sector Finance Strategies

UNICEF

Financial & Economic Analysis

Adadle Water Supply Scheme, Somali Region

Resource Mobilisation Strategy, Tanzania

Government of Tanzania

Financing CWIS

Citywide Inclusive Sanitation as a Public Service Series, Bill & Melinda Gate Foundation

Fund Development

Ghana, Tanzania, Malawi, Nepal, India

Results Based Financing

Bangladesh and Kenya, World Bank

Policy & Regulation Reviews

Bangladesh, Kenya, Ghana, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Zimbabwe

Scaling Digital Solutions

GMSA & City Taps

Value for Money Analysis

Ethiopia One WASH Programme, FCDO

Microfinance Program

Bangladesh, World Bank & Ghana, UNICEF

Poverty Diagnostic

Ethiopia, World Bank

Blogs

From Aid Reliance to Resilient Financing

From Contracts to Collaboration: What we’ve learned about water PPPs

The Shifting Development Finance Landscape: Implications for Water Sector Financing in 2026

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