Fund capital. Design delivery.

Ocean and climate funding that can survive operating reality.

BGA helps bilateral donors and private foundations align portfolio logic, governance, technical evidence, partner systems, and delivery before committed capital fragments into disconnected activity.

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Funding pathways2
Delivery lens1
Experience30 Years
Decision gate1
Moody top-down ocean waves
Funding architecture

Capital is committed. Delivery still has to hold.

BGA helps funders connect portfolio intent, technical evidence, partner systems, governance, and implementation before fragmentation becomes execution risk.

Pathway 02

Bilateral Donors

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How should a multi-country ocean or climate facility be designed and governed so that policy reform, technical assistance, finance, and local delivery remain aligned after mobilisation?

Where delivery breaks

  • Country workstreams inherit a common logframe but not a common operating system.
  • Consortium accountability becomes diffuse across technical and geographic layers.
  • Finance, governance reform, and community delivery are designed as parallel components.

What the work produces

  • Facility-level delivery diagnostic
  • Consortium governance and accountability map
  • Country adaptation and sequencing framework
  • Responsive technical-assistance architecture
Existing proof · £101 million · Four countries · 2024 to present

COAST Facility — FCDO and DEFRA Blue Planet Fund

BGA serves as core technical partner across governance reform, inclusive coastal stewardship, blue finance structuring, and responsive technical assistance in Indonesia, the Philippines, Viet Nam, and Mozambique.

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Pathway 03

Private Philanthropy

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How should an ocean portfolio allocate, sequence, and exit grants when policy reform, fisheries practice, market incentives, and sub-national governance move at different speeds?

Where delivery breaks

  • Portfolio themes are coherent on paper but disconnected from implementation conditions.
  • Grant decisions rely on activity reporting rather than system-level evidence.
  • Exit timing is set by funding cycles rather than institutional readiness.

What the work produces

  • Portfolio and evidence diagnostic
  • Grant sequencing and concentration options
  • Partner and institutional-capacity assessment
  • Transition or exit architecture
Existing proof · Marine conservation · 2012 to present

The David and Lucile Packard Foundation

A twelve-year engagement spanning portfolio strategy, fishery assessments, market traceability, and design of a phased six-country Western Pacific foundation exit.

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The Operating Model

BGA turns ocean complexity
into decisions that hold.

"One brain, eight arms, four domains. Every engagement pulls on the expertise it needs."

BGA is an ocean-only firm. The brain keeps the disciplines integrated. The arms ensure the work is technical, verifiable, and institutionalised.

Human-led AI Model

Institutional memory that compounds across 30 years of ocean engagements. The judgement is human. The leverage is AI.

Policy & Practice

Where the governance architecture sits.

  • Fisheries Reform & Governance
  • MPA & Spatial Planning

Finance & Economics

Where the capital stack is designed.

  • Blue Finance
  • Blue Economy Strategy

Science & Exponentials

Where evidence becomes decision-ready.

  • Marine Science & Data
  • AI & Digital Systems

People & Resilience

Where the communities sit.

  • Coastal Communities & Resilience
  • Donor Strategy & Capacity

Every capability is there because having it inside one firm is the difference between a coherent delivery pathway and a coordination problem.

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Bridge the Delivery Gap.

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