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Making a project bankable

“Our file comes back from the credit committee with technical reservations we do not know how to clear.”

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What is happening

Your situation

You are carrying a project you believe in. Financiers, however, do not yet see a bankable file: production assumptions are not substantiated, land tenure is not secured, governance is not described, and the financial model does not survive a sensitivity analysis. The project is not bad — it is not yet structured.

What you risk

An unstructured project is not rejected: it stays under appraisal, indefinitely.
Project preparation accounts, according to the Global Infrastructure Hub reference framework, for 5 to 12% of total cost in an emerging economy, and up to 10% in a frontier market. Under-investing upstream is the leading cause of stalling downstream.
Project preparation supply is rationed: the African Development Bank's SEFA facility states it is at “full capacity, no new applications”.

Who is concerned

Investors, banks and insurers Government departments and ministries Local and regional authorities

Our answer

What we do

We assemble the file the committee expects. A multi-year financial model built on defensible productivity assumptions rather than regional averages. Full technical structuring: technical notes, site layouts, land tenure guarantees, impact assessments. A governance framework and legal structure. And an executive summary written to be read by a credit committee, not by an engineer.

In the Central African context

We express all flows in CFA francs, stating the exchange rate whenever a conversion is required. Assumptions are written down and can be contested line by line — a model whose inputs cannot be challenged is not a model, it is an assertion.

What you receive

Deliverables

Things delivered, not intentions.

Dynamic financial model with sensitivity analyses
Complete bankable investment file
Associated technical and mapping documents
Logical and institutional frameworks, and procedures manuals
Executive summary for the credit committee

Services involved

STR-202 — Business plan and financial modelling STR-205 — Technical structuring and bankable file STR-201 — Strategic client-side advisory support STR-204 — Legal structuring and public-private partnership

ODT structures and operates territorial programmes. XP-NOVA delivers the engineering.

Sources

Chapter 3 — Financing Project Preparation, Global Infrastructure Hub — edition date not shown on the chapter consulted
Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa — facility status, AfDB — consulted on 08/09/2026

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Recommended first step: A critical review of your existing file: what a credit committee will see in it, and what is missing to clear its reservations.

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