Country Programming & the Green Climate Fund GIZ´s Experience as a delivery partner for the GCF Readiness Programme 20.04.2019
GIZ´s GCF Readiness expertise: The Climate Finance Readiness Programme Active since 2013, on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) Co-financed by USAID and the Czech Minstry of Environment Delivery partner for the GCF Readiness and Support Programme Active in 17 countries on 4 continents 11 countries with BMZ/USAID/Czech support 7 countries with GCF support 20.04.2019
CF Ready – examples for support Georgia Tajikistan Morocco Bangladesh Laos Pakistan Caribbean (region) Vietnam Thailand Uganda Cambodia Tanzania Vanuatu Peru Zambia Namibia CF Ready Project Countries (11 + 1 region) GCF Delivery Partner (7) South Africa
GIZ´s country programming support: Key facts Support in: Georgia, Vanuatu, Bangladesh, Thailand, Peru, Uganda Focus on: Stakeholder consultation (local governments, NGOs, private sector) Country evaluation and need/vunerability analysis Raising knowledge on GCF priorities and requirements Goal: Streamline NDCs, development targets and sector priorities into a working programme for AEs to develop proposals 20.04.2019
GIZ‘s country programming support: Lessons Learned Country Ownership is key Build capacities of NDA to process information and coordinate stakeholder interests A sustainable programme will be firmly anchored within and actively communicated by the NDA Stakeholder consultations take time To ensure a thorough and comprehensive process Receive relevant information Informal exchange with line ministries crucial Awareness raising on GCF requirements and priorities Share knowledge with parties in the process Develop standardised processes for GCF–related requests Facilitate peer-to-peer exchange 20.04.2019
Country programming support: Lao PDR support GIZ Focus on accreditation support to Enviromental Protection Fund (EPF) Supporting EPF to built up a sufficient track-record – EPF as EE (Executing Entity) of the proposed GCF Project “Implementation of the Lao PDR Emission Reductions Program through improved Governance and Sustainable Forest Landscape Management” – Department of Forestry MAF, AE GIZ with development partners ADB, BMZ, FAO, IFAD, JICA, KfW, unlocking RBP of the World Bank FCPF 20.04.2019