Partnership Objective: Improve country capacity for GCF programming
- Provide a continental platform for countries to access strategic and technical support for prioritization and preparation of climate resilient water projects for the GCF
- Support countries to understand specific standards and procedural requirements in accessing finance from the GCF and other climate funds
- Offer a facilitated, flexible mechanism that enables demand-driven technical assistance for national Direct Access Entities, NDAs, and national water agencies and ministries
- Support countries in documenting and exchanging lessons learned in the preparation and financing of climate resilient water projects
Expected Outcome: Improve quality of water projects for GCF investment
- Improved capacity of DAEs, NDAs, and water ministries to prepare GCF water projects
- Establishment of a facilitated knowledge management mechanism through which African countries can share knowledge, experience and access strategic technical assistance on a demand-driven basis to advance preparation of GCF water projects
- Increased quality of GCF water proposals with strong climate change rationale
- Countries supported to review and further develop their project ideas into project concept notes and proposals that meet GCF requirements
- Improved understanding of GCF investment criteria, finance instruments, and concrete steps needed to prepare strong water-related adaptation project proposals