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As of: October 2016
GCF READINESS PROGRAMME
OBJECTIVE AND ACTIVITIES
The comprehensive GCF Readiness Programme prepares
selected countries to access financing through the Green
Climate Fund (GCF). As the central financing instrument
under the Framework Convention on Climate Change, the
GCF supports developing countries and emerging
economies in mitigating their greenhouse gas emissions and
implementing climate change adaptation measures. The
readiness of recipient countries to receive climate financing
is an essential precondition for gaining access to monies of
the Fund. To this end, the programme strengthens the
recipient countries institutionally and strategically, enabling
them both to plan effective and efficient uses of GCF
financing, and thereafter to apply for, manage, deploy and
monitor the funds. These measures must take place at an
early stage so that the target countries are in a position to
use the GCF monies as soon as the Fund is able to make
payments. The first step is to complete a preliminary study,
which is used to propose the structure of a relevant
programme, while identifying suitable activities for
implementation. Country programmes are then conducted
in cooperation with the target countries themselves. They
begin with an analysis of the respective local conditions,
then develop specific proposals for readiness activities,
based on those analyses. Thereafter, the programme
implements these activities. For example, it advises the
target countries on the preparation of specific projects
based on their national climate strategies, which can be
implemented at a later date using GCF financing, and it
supports them in developing monitoring systems in order to
trace any funds deployed. The programme has been set up
in the form of a trust fund, and plans call for expanding its
capital with money from other donors. This will allow the
programme to be extended to include additional countries.
STATE OF IMPLEMENTATION/RESULTS
The Program has advanced according to the different
starting conditions in the respective country. In close
coordination with the partner institutions activities are
being implemented on the basis of “readiness-plans”
according to the specific demands:
• Institutional: with focus on “direct access”; partners are
supported with identifying appropriate institutions as
“national implementing entities” as well as during the
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PROJECT DATA
Country:
Global: Benin, Colombia, El Salvador, Fiji, Ghana,
Kenya, Nepal, Philippines, Uzbekistan
Partner institution:
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP),
World Resources Institute (WRI)
Implementing organisation:
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
BMUB grant:
€ 15,000,000
Duration:
12/2013 till 04/2018
Website:
http://www.gcfreadinessprogramme.org/
accreditation process;
• Strategic: country programs are being developed for
climate finance;
• Project pipeline: in cooperation with the private sector
project and programmatic proposals are being developed
for the GCF,
• MRV of climate finance: tools are being developed so that
recipient countries are able to follow up national and
international climate finance flows within their country.
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