The workshop responds to country needs and expressed demand for support to strengthen capacity of National Designated Authorities, Direct Access Entities (DAEs) , and water ministries to prepare climate resilient and resilience-building water security projects that can access Green Climate Fund (GCF) financing.
Workshop Objectives
The workshop responds to country needs and expressed demand for support to strengthen capacity of NDAs, DAEs, and water ministries to prepare climate resilient water security projects that can access GCF financing. Specifically, the workshop aims to:
- Present the GCF, its mandate, investment criteria, and its operational modalities and procedures for delivering climate finance through different windows
- Discuss GCF financing instruments, along with fit-for-purpose examples of climate rationale, project design, and financing instrument selection in the African context
- Discuss methodologies for articulating incremental costs of climate-proofing water projects
- Review challenges and constraints, and explore solutions for DAEs to coordinate with NDAs, and water ministries, water-related sectors in preparation of GCF projects
- Identify opportunities and follow-up activities for Concept Note preparation
Expected Outcomes
The expected outcomes of the workshop are:
- Enhanced understanding of the GCF impact criteria, operational modalities and procedures
- Clear understanding of GCF investment criteria, finance instruments and concrete steps needed to prepare strong water-related adaptation project proposals
- Methodologies understood for articulating climate rationale and estimating incremental costs of climate-proofing water-related investments
- Enhanced understanding of the roles and responsibilities of all parties involved throughout the project cycle
- Identification of potential GCF project concepts and launch of post-workshop support mechanism - Climate Resilience Partnership for Preparation of Water Projects
Workshop Convenors
The workshop is organised by Global Water Partnership as part of its ongoing global support programme in Africa on NDCs, Water, Climate and Development. The workshop is organised in collaboration with the GCF Secretariat, Africa Water Facility, Africa Climate Change Fund (ACCF) and Climate Resilience Development Facility (CRIDF).
Participants
The workshop, will draw at least 75 participants are expected. The workshop targets participants from Africa and supports GCF project preparation and delivery by strengthening capacity of:
- GCF National Designated Authorities
- Current and potential GCF Direct Accredited Entities
- Water ministries – water resources planners
- GWP Africa Programme Managers and Regional Coordinators
- Technical advisors to the above (e.g. national universities, think-tanks, consultants)