A credible public or development mandate should connect the intended outcome to evidence, affordability, funding, risk allocation, legal authority, procurement, implementation capacity and measurable reporting. NCDF helps clarify these dependencies and identify which specialist role is required.
State the service, infrastructure, market or institutional result to be achieved and the decision criteria that will determine success.
Examine demand, operating model, costs, revenues or savings, funding gap, assumptions and delivery constraints.
Clarify sponsor authority, governance, evidence, financial model, approvals, data room and implementation capability.
Consider appropriate debt, equity, hybrid, issuance, partner or staged funding options within approved legal and procurement frameworks.
Segment cash by purpose and horizon; define risk counterparties, authority, reporting and possible mandate requirements.
Translate the approved route into workstreams, owners, milestones, dependencies, reporting and escalation.
Ministries, departments, agencies, subnational governments, public corporations and authorised project or programme units.
Development finance institutions, bilateral or multilateral partners, foundations, donors and approved programme sponsors.
Authorised sponsors of infrastructure, enterprise, market, service-delivery or institutional-capacity initiatives requiring commercial or capital discipline.
Professional advisers acting with confirmed authority and a clear request for NCDF’s role, subject to conflict and confidentiality review.
Business-case diagnostics, financial-model support, evidence and data-room preparation, partner mapping and management readiness through NCDF Commercial Services.
Debt, equity, hybrid or approved capital-markets route assessment and issuing-house functions through NCDF Securities, subject to mandate acceptance and applicable approvals.
Liquidity segmentation, governance, risk, counterparties, reporting and potential institutional mandate discussion through NCDF Investment Management.
A separately scoped implementation office, workstream coordination, milestone tracking and management reporting through NCDF Commercial Services.
Nigeria market, customer, partner and route-to- market diagnostics where the public or development objective depends on commercial participation.
One Group Client Team review where the programme spans project preparation, transaction, institutional capital and execution, while each company retains separate responsibility.
Clarify the sponsor, authority, project or programme stage, required output, procurement route, stakeholders, timing and specialist dependencies.
Review the business case, model, information, governance, evidence and sponsor readiness before a funding or transaction process.
For a sufficiently prepared authorised issuer or sponsor considering structure, approvals, professional parties and an execution route.
For institutions responsible for operating cash, reserves, project funds, contingencies or long-term capital requiring governance and reporting.
For an approved project, strategy or programme that requires workstreams, owners, milestones, review cadence and escalation.
Where a development or public objective depends on private-sector participation, partner routes, customer evidence or commercial economics.
