Amba Tadaa / International development
Development finance and national financing frameworks
Development-finance work connects the availability of resources with the institutions and policies that determine their use. Amba Tadaa’s portfolio includes national financing assessments, Integrated National Financing Frameworks, budgeting and costing, investment strategy and debt-related advice across several distinct country settings.
Scope of experience
The principal body of work examines public, private and international financing together. Assessments in Malaysia, Indonesia, Botswana, and Bosnia and Herzegovina consider flows and trends alongside regulatory conditions, public responsibilities and investment constraints. Subsequent strategy and monitoring work asks how those findings can become sequenced reforms and measurable implementation. Related assignments address SDG budgeting, investment promotion and debt-management capacity. This is analytical and advisory experience: the records support diagnostics, instrument appraisal, dialogue and strategy design. They do not justify a blanket claim of investment transaction execution. The value of the portfolio lies in the links between fiscal analysis, institutional feasibility, financing choices and nationally owned priorities.
Diagnosing a financing ecosystem
Data and policy mapping bring together revenues, expenditure, development assistance, lending, private investment and other sources. In Indonesia, this included climate finance and a taxonomy of financing modalities. Botswana’s diagnostic considered revenue diversification, fiscal space and private-investment barriers. Bosnia and Herzegovina added a strong institutional-coordination dimension. Country-specific interpretation is central to choosing feasible options from a wider financing menu.
Connecting strategies with budgets and institutions
Malaysia’s work linked financing analysis to annual and medium-term expenditure, including costing approaches in health and education. Comparative SDG-budgeting guidance examined how national objectives could be reflected in fiscal systems. Botswana’s financing strategy translated a diagnostic into a roadmap with governance and monitoring arrangements. These examples connect strategy formulation with the systems through which allocation and implementation decisions are made.
Investment conditions and practical reform choices
Botswana’s investment strategy examined facilitation, aftercare, sector targeting and institutional coordination, alongside a performance framework. Debt-restructuring support in Kyrgyzstan connected creditor analysis with institutional capacity and possible pathways. Somalia’s blue-economy framework related financing options to sector regulation and investment constraints. Each addresses a defined decision problem without treating a recommendation as a completed transaction.
In practice
Selected assignments
Malaysia
Malaysia’s development finance, SDG budgeting and costing
Malaysia’s Development Finance Assessment connected financing needs and flows with government budgeting and sustainable-development priorities. The assignment combined financial and institutional mapping, thematic dialogues and costing work in health and education to support a more integrated approach to public and private finance.
Explore assignmentIndonesia
Indonesia’s Integrated National Financing Framework
Indonesia’s Development Finance Assessment and Integrated National Financing Framework examined how public, private and international finance could support national priorities. Financing data, institutional analysis and national dialogues connected instrument choices with implementation constraints, green investment and arrangements for monitoring and review.
Explore assignmentBotswana
Botswana’s development-finance diagnostic and INFF roadmap
Botswana’s Development Finance Assessment mapped public, private and international financing alongside the policies and institutions shaping resource mobilisation. The diagnostic and national workshops informed an Integrated National Financing Framework roadmap, connecting financing options with national priorities and sequenced institutional reforms.
Explore assignmentBosnia and Herzegovina
Development finance and institutional coordination in Bosnia and Herzegovina
A Development Finance Assessment opened Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Integrated National Financing Framework process. It examined financing flows across the country’s political entities, connecting fiscal and investment analysis with institutional responsibilities, coordination constraints and practical options for SDG financing reform.
Explore assignmentBotswana
Botswana’s integrated sustainable financing strategy
The second phase of Botswana’s INFF translated financing diagnostics into a strategy and implementation roadmap. It connected public, private and external finance with institutional reforms, financing instruments and a Monitoring and Review Framework for tracking both actions and changes in financing mobilisation.
Explore assignmentReports & publications
UNDP · BAPPENAS / 2022
Indonesia Integrated National Financing Framework (INFF) 2022 (opens publisher website in a new tab)
Connecting national development priorities with public, private and international finance.
Somalia National Economic Council / 2022
Somalia Blue Economy Assessment, Taxonomy and Investment Framework (opens publisher website in a new tab)
A policy, taxonomy and investment framework for the blue economy.
UNDP · Government of Botswana / 2024
Botswana Sustainable Financing Strategy 2023–2030 (opens publisher website in a new tab)
A framework for aligning finance with national sustainable-development priorities.
UNDP Malaysia / 2024
Malaysia Development Finance Assessment (opens publisher website in a new tab)
Financing flows, institutions and the conditions for sustainable development.