CrossBoundary Group

Making mini-grids work for everyone: A tariff harmonization pilot in Sierra Leone reveals the benefits and challenges of lowering prices

An overview of student housing as an asset class in Africa

CrossBoundary Real Estate launches Mosaic – a coliving residence for Nairobi’s students and young professionals

Money for people and planet: mobilizing climate finance for climate action

Q&A with CrossBoundary Managing Partners

The concept of localization was central to the founding of CrossBoundary in 2011. Having participated in large, top-down efforts to transform societies, our founders believed a better answer lay in bottom-up innovation and development. This wasn’t because top-down approaches are inherently bad (though often they are), but rather because a bottom-up approach forces one to be disciplined by local context. Read on for insights from our Managing Partners Jake Cusack, Matt Tilleard, and Tom Flahive on how localization and decentralization influence CrossBoundary’s mission and operations.

Beyond ‘Localization’: Trust the ship captains of nature-based solutions

CrossBoundary Access Coordinates: an open-source approach to expanding energy access in Africa

In a remote village in Niger State, Nigeria, the hum of generators is fading into the past as the future arrives in the form of solar mini-grids. This shift is enabled by the efforts of CrossBoundary Access, which is laser-focused on building the electricity grid of the future in Africa, one connection at a time. Here’s how CrossBoundary Access is connecting communities.

Amazon Private Sector Investment Landscape: Unlocking capital for a standing forest economy

The Brazilian Amazon is at a pivotal moment in its journey from deforestation-driven development toward a regenerative, standing-forest economy. For decades, unsustainable practices such as large-scale agriculture, cattle ranching, and logging have fueled economic growth at the expense of the forest, leading to widespread deforestation and biodiversity loss. However, growing local and global awareness of the Amazon’s critical role in climate regulation and biodiversity conservation has created a unique opportunity to shift the region’s economic model.

Southern Africa Carbon Markets Assessment

Southern Africa holds immense potential for carbon markets, but advancements in carbon project implementation and policy development vary widely across the region.

CrossBoundary engages with investors in Laos on unlocking climate finance into the country to support the government’s NDC priorities

A recent NDC Partnership and CrossBoundary initiative convened experts from the private and public sectors to explore strategies for mobilizing climate finance in Laos. The discussion emphasized the need for innovative financing mechanisms and targeted investments to address the country's vulnerabilities to climate change, particularly in critical sectors like renewable energy, agriculture, and infrastructure.