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Road Network Improvement Project (Phase 2) The project will support the government's transport sector priorities to enhance connectivity and efficient movement in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) through national and provincial road rehabilitation and development. The project will also help improve axle load control and strengthen awareness of road safety and potential social problems.
Second Financial Sector Program Cluster (Subprogram 1) The  program  comprises  (i)  a  program  cluster  approach  for  the  Second  Financial  Sector  Program  Cluster  (FSP  II)  comprising  four subprograms for an aggregate amount not exceeding $40  million  equivalent;  (ii)  a  program  loan  of  $10  million  equivalent  for subprogram 1, and (iii) a technical assistance (TA) grant for $1.7 million. The four subprograms will be implemented back-to-back with each  succeeding  subprogram  to  be  processed  sequentially  upon  completion of the preceding subprogram.
Energy Transition Sector Development Program, Subprogram 1 Building on ADB’s assistance to Cambodia on climate change since 2011 and clean energy since 2016, the program will provide comprehensive support to the government’s energy transformation agenda, to (i) mainstream renewable energy and energy efficiency while transitioning away from fossil fuels, (ii) adopt data-driven regulation and planning for the power system to enhance flexibility and resilience, and (iii) anchor infrastructure investments on planning with new technologies and business models as well as implementation through competitive procurement. The programmatic approach will enable sequenced actions to successively strengthen sector governance and the enabling environment, and to provide flexibility for learning and updates, in phases, in the dynamic context of recovery from the coronavirus disease (COVID19) pandemic. The program’s combination of policy reforms and project investments will mutually reinforce each other and maximize ADB’s value addition. The policy actions enable and provide a platform for public and private sector investments in critical new technologies, such as energy efficiency and storage; set clean energy targets for the country; and integrate improved power development and energy use planning across sectors, including climate proofing critical infrastructure. The project investments will demonstrate new technologies in energy efficiency and storage including (i) the country’s first grid-connected energy storage system, which will enable additional renewable sources to enter the grid and improve grid stability for consumers; and (ii) comprehensive city-level efficient street-lighting systems in Kampot and Kep provinces, which will demonstrate cost savings and benefits for tourism and public safety. The project component will also improve capacities for new technology scale-up to kick-start new markets.
Provincial Roads Improvement Project–Additional Financing The project will rehabilitate the pavement of about 157 km of roads in Kampong Chhnang, Kampong Speu, Prey Vang, and Svay Rieng. The rehabilitation program will provide a safer, climate-resilient, and cost-effective provincial road network with all-year access to markets and other social services for provincial centers of southeastern and Midwestern Cambodia.
Greater Mekong Subregion Tourism Infrastructure for Inclusive Growth Project The project will have the following outputs: (i) last-mile tourism access infrastructure improved, (ii) environmental services in cross-border tourism centers improved, (iii) institutional capacity to promote inclusive tourism growth strengthened, and (iv) effective project implementation and knowledge management.18 Project areas include Kampot province, with well-preserved Khmer and colonial architecture, and seaside towns in Kep and Koh Kong provinces. The following criteria guided the selection of output 1 and output 2 subprojects shown in Table 1: (i) infrastructure constraints; (ii) location in a GMS corridor with good tourism and economic development potential; (iii) the site is in a multi-country tour circuit prioritized in the GMS Tourism Sector Strategy and national tourism strategy; (iv) private enterprises and local communities are interested in managing public tourism amenities that will be developed by the project; and (v) local stakeholders, including women, endorse the subprojects.
Increase in Trade and Consumer Protection in SADC Stärkung des regionalen Handels und Verbraucherschutzes in der SADC-Region The SADC Protocol on Trade forms the legal basis of the free trade area. The Trade Protocol is supplemented by the Technical Barriers to Trade Annex (TBT Annex, 2008), which is explicitly aimed at reducing TBT. The implementation of the TBT Annex poses major challenges to the member countries, since neither the capacities nor the competences within the framework of the quality infrastructure are mature enough, either at regional or national level, to meet the requirements of regional economic integration while at the same time ensuring consumer protection (core problem). The objective of the present project is: The quality infrastructure is strengthened to promote trade and ensure consumer protection. The central approach of the project is to enable the SADC Secretariat to accelerate the integration process and trade of the Southern African Development Community through a functional Quality Infrastructure (QI). To achieve this, policy guidance and harmonisation efforts will be transferred through the already well-established structures of the SADC Quality Infrastructure in the working fields of accreditation, verification, metrology, standards and technical regulations to the member states in a coordinated process. Das SADC Protocol on Trade bildet die gesetzliche Grundlage der Freihandelszone. Das Handelsprotokoll wird ergänzt durch den Anhang ?Technische Handelshemmnisse? (Technical Barriers to Trade Annex, 2008), welcher explizit auf die Reduktion derselben ausgerichtet ist. Die Umsetzung des TBT Annex stellt die Mitgliedsländer vor große Herausforderungen, da sowohl die Kapazitäten als auch die Kompetenzen im Rahmen der Qualitätsinfrastruktur weder auf regionaler noch nationaler Ebene so ausgereift sind, dass sie den Anforderungen der regionalen wirtschaftlichen Integration bei gleichzeitiger Gewährleistung des Verbraucherschutzes genügen (Kernproblem). Das Ziel des vorliegenden Vorhabens lautet: Die Qualitätsinfrastruktur ist zur Förderung des Handels und zur Sicherung des Verbraucherschutzes gestärkt. Zentraler Ansatz des Vorhabens ist die Befähigung des SADC Sekretariats, den Integrationsprozess und den Handel der Südafrikanischen Entwicklungsgemeinschaft mittels einer funktionsfähigen Qualitätsinfrastruktur (QI) zu beschleunigen. Um dies zu erreichen, werden die politischen Vorgaben und Harmonisierungsbestrebungen über die bereits gut etablierten Strukturen der Qualitätsinfrastruktur der SADC in den Arbeitsfeldern Akkreditierung, Eichwesen, Messwesen, Normen und technische Vorschriften in die Mitgliedsstaaten in einem abgestimmten Prozess übertragen. Further improvement of QI to increase trade and safeguard consumer protection Stärkung der Qualitätsinfrastruktur zur Förderung des Handels und Sicherung des Verbraucherschutzes.
Strengthening quality infrastructure for trade enhancement and consumer protection in SADC Stärkung der Qualitätsinfrastruktur für den Handel und den Verbraucherschutz in der SADC Region Enhances the efficiency of the SADC Directorate for Industrial Development and Trade. Strengthening of the SADC QI structures on national and regional level. Promoting SADC and pan-African relevant trade agreements (AfCFTA) as well as fostering the implementation of SADC Industrialization Strategy and Roadmap. Further improvement of quality infrastructure to increase trade and safeguard consumer protection in the SADC Region. Steigerung der Effizienz des SADC-Direktorats für industrielle Entwicklung und Handel. Stärkung der SADC-QI-Strukturen auf nationaler und regionaler Ebene. Förderung der SADC und panafrikanischer relevanter Handelsabkommen (AfCFTA) sowie Förderung der Umsetzung der SADC Industrialisierungsstrategie und Roadmap. Weitere Verbesserung der Qualitätsinfrastruktur zur Steigerung des Handels und zur Sicherung des Verbraucherschutzes in der SADC-Region. Quality infrastructure institutions support free, fair and safe trade in the SADC region Freier, fairer und sicherer Handel in der SADC Region ist durch Institutionen der
Qualitätsinfrastruktur gefördert.
Strengthening quality infrastructure for trade enhancement and consumer protection in SADC Stärkung der Qualitätsinfrastruktur für den Handel und den Verbraucherschutz in der SADC Region For the domestic markets of the Member States of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), closing ranks represents an important challenge. A progressing market integration is one of SADC's core priorities. Improving cross-border trade with goods and services is therefore an essential goal. One of the preconditions for trade and for ensuring the protection of consumers and their health as well as environmental protection, is that the traded goods and services fulfil standards that have been agreed upon, and that they comply with the respective technical provisions. This network of standardisation, measurements, testing, certification and accreditation is called quality infrastructure (QI).To implement market integration aimed at achieving a common market in 2015 along with international integration, the QI capacities and competences at the regional and national levels are still not sufficient to increase regional economic integration without neglecting consumer protection (core problem). Das Zusammenrücken der heimischen Märkte stellt für die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung von Mitgliedstaaten der Southern African Development Community (SADC) eine wesentliche Herausforderung dar. Die fortschreitende Marktintegration ist eine Kernpriorität der SADC und somit die Verbesserung des grenzüberschreitenden Handels mit Gütern und Dienstleistungen eine wesentliche Zielsetzung. Eine Voraussetzung für den Handel wie auch zur Gewährleistung des Verbraucher-, Gesundheits- und Umweltschutzes ist es, dass die Handelswaren und Dienstleistungen vereinbarten Standards und technischen Vorschriften entsprechen. Dieses Netzwerk aus Normen, Messwesen, Prüfeinrichtungen, Zertifizier- und Akkreditierstellen wird als Qualitätsinfrastruktur (QI) bezeichnet. Für die Umsetzung der Marktintegration mit dem Ziel eines gemeinsamen Marktes (2015) und die internationale Einbindung sind die Kapazitäten und Kompetenzen der QI auf regionaler und nationaler Ebene für die Vertiefung der regionalen wirtschaftlichen Integration bei gleichzeitiger Gewährleistung des Verbraucherschutzes noch immer nicht ausreichend (Kernproblem). Strengthening Quality Infrastructure for Trade Enhancement and Consumer Protection Stärkung der Qualitätsinfrastruktur zur Ausweitung des Handels und Verbraucherschutzes in
der SADC
Pakistan Community Partnership Project Increasing Household Income, Savings and Food Security for 1600 Scheduled Caste Thari Women and Their Families in Pakistan
Driving transparency and green transition in China’s financial market. 7.	Project objectives: 
a.	Increase capacity of listed companies in disclosure, built and aligned with TCFD recommendations and the upcoming ISSB standards.
b.	Enhance financial institutions' capability in climate-related information disclosure, especially in calculating and reporting Scope 3 investment emissions. Support the Chinese government in formulating mandatory environmental information disclosure regulations.
8.	Project activities: 
a.	Providing technical support to national policymakers (3times, September, December, and March).
b.	Training session for Chinese listed companies covering TCFD, ISSB and biodiversity disclosure (before January 2023).
c.	Launch event for phase two of UK-China environmental information disclosure working group and workshop, and general leadership of the group (January 2023).
d.	Report on the best international disclosure practices (by February 2023).
e.	Meetings with financial institutions in Beijing, Shanghai and the Greater Bay Area to introduce PCAF methodology and CDP datasets (October, December and March).
Enhanced TCFD-aligned transparency for an economically and environmentally resilient financial system in Brazil This project aims to catalyze systemic and transformational change with key Brazilian listed companies as well as banks, investors and insurers, and build knowledge and leverage of policy and regulatory authorities, leading to reduced GHG emissions and reduced pressure on deforestation on main biomes of Brazil. 
The outputs are a blend of deliverables that support the increase in awareness levels among target groups through a suite of research papers and publications. This approach intends to reach as broad a group of possible among target groups and create momentum around the opportunities and business case for the adoption of new ways of working, new policies and approaches. In parallel, targeted work is undertaken with a subset of the target groups, through online and face to face encounters (webinars, workshops, roundtables). This is aimed at improving knowledge among the target groups. 
Thus, in 2021 (and beyond) project is expected to contribute to 
Outcome 1: Corporates and financial institutions (FIs) in Brazil motivated and capacitated to integrate climate and deforestation-related risks and opportunities in governance and financial decision and undertake disclosure aligned to the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) thereby informing and facilitating the shift of capital towards a greener recovery. 
Outcome 2: Enhanced capacity of corporate and FI actors to measure and report climate and deforestation risks aligned with global TCFD recommendations and become leaders on environmental transparency and action contributing to a sustainable recovery. 
Outcome 3: Enhanced understanding of key banking, regulatory and policy players at national and sub national levels of climate and deforestation risks, and the impact and opportunities of TCFD-aligned disclosure
Advancing the UK - China’s Green Finance agenda through disclosure and demand-led capacity building for both financial firms and listed companies Project purpose: Increased TCFD aligned disclosure amongst financial institutions (FIs) and listed companies at national level and accelerated engagement in Shanghai, Beijing and Guangdong, leads to greater transparency of the green finance market in China. Context and Need for the Project: The project contributes to the ICF China goal to support and incentivise China’s transition to a more environmentally sustainable growth model through green finance1, in alignment with the Paris Agreement goals as well as SDG targets 8.4 and 12.62. CDP has identified that the Chinese market needs coordinated pro-ESG investment signals from three stakeholder groups: 1. Regulators who will not impose audacious regulatory requirements without evidence that companies (and FIs) can deliver on ambitious environmental goals. 2. Investors (and FIs3) who cannot rigorously assess the levels of risk within their portfolios and are not incentivised to shift capital towards green investments in the absence of strong evidence of companies’ carbon footprint and environmental impact 3. Finally, and closing the loop, companies that will not change their business model nor adopt low carbon business objectives without evidence that ESG investments may lower the cost of capital. Fundamentally, it has become clear that disclosure by companies is a vital prerequisite to embedding management of climate risk – and risk disclosure - within FIs. The UK is uniquely positioned as a funder due to its unique eco-system of FIs, repositories of world class green finance knowledge and its leading role in financial and non-financial disclosure globally.
Raising Ambition and Accelerating Action to Protect and Restore Forests Raising Ambition and Accelerating Action to Protect and Restore Forests (RAAPRF) is an ambitious five-year project. Interventions with aim to transform financial markets, leveraging the power of finance to Financial Institutions and Regulators stimulate deforestation free commodity production. Work with will drive the transition of a Purchasing Companies and Suppliers critical group of companies to eliminate deforestation from supply chains we will use data and insights to tailor evidence-based; policy recommendations to incorporate and drive private sector action on REDD+ and other forest sector policies, in line with achieving increased NDC ambition on forests with Policy Maker.
Improving Climate Transparency in China's Capital Markets and Financial System CDP is a charity that runs the global disclosure system for investors, companies, cities, states and regions to manage their environmental impacts. With the co-announcement with IFRS Foundation during COP27, CDP questionnaire will incorporate ISSB climate-related standard by 2024, and it is estimated that over 18,700 companies’ disclosure practices will be aligned with the new global standard then. CDP 
entered China market since 2012, and has a great engagement base with listed companies and financial institutions. Though TCFD recommendation is endorsed by the central bank, China is moving slowly in introducing mandatory disclosure standards and requirement in climate and wider sustainability area. However, UK has been taking a leading role in developing and adopting the best sustainability disclosure standards in the past a few years. There is a lot of experience the UK could share with counterparties in China, which would not only improve the bilateral communication and relationship between the two countries, but also further improve the market transparency in China and bring about business benefit to UK private sectors.
Closing the gap on sustainable finance and enabling green recovery through capacity building in CDP’s TCFD-aligned disclosures and the GRI standards Southeast Asia is highly vulnerable to the effects of climate change and yet has witnessed one of the highest increases in carbon dioxide emissions. In the post-COVID-19 economic recovery, it will be critical for Indonesia and Thailand to maintain their resolve on meeting their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) under the Paris Agreement and continue an economic shift to low carbon model. Pertinently, as climate change is affecting people’s livelihood such as access to food, clean water and basic needs, this economic recovery also presents us with the opportunity to align environmental initiatives with social inclusion of vulnerable and historically marginalised groups such as women, LGBT community, people with disability, ethnic minorities and indigenous people.
Active participation from finance and real economy sectors is needed to match policy intervention and address current ambition gaps in meeting NDC commitments and embedding long term sustainability. A resilient, low carbon economic growth will also require increased transparency and high-quality disclosure under globally recognized sustainability reporting frameworks to unlock the potential and catalyse the shift in investment practices to green and sustainable finance. 
To improve participation from non-policy actors, Consortium Partners will deliver a capacity building programme in partnership with strategic local stakeholders such as BAPPENAS, ICSA and Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) for corporates and financial institutions in Indonesia and Thailand to: 
•	address knowledge gaps in the financial implications and risk management of climate change;
•	establish environmental, social and governance (ESG) best practices for social inclusion and human rights; and
•	encourage the adoption of green and sustainable finance.
Consortium partners are pioneers of climate and sustainability corporate disclosures and will build on their deep experience and strong relations with key stakeholders in Indonesia and Thailand notably: BAPPENAS, ICSA and SET to bridge current gaps that exist between local sustainable finance policies and SDG roadmaps, adoption of TCFD and corporate ESG frameworks, and accelerate the use of generated disclosure data within finance to catalyse low carbon and sustainable economic growth. 
Outcomes: 
i. Establishing an ecosystem that brings together policy, corporate ambition, and sustainable finance to enable cross-fertilization of ideas and networks that promote green recovery and meet NDC goals. 
ii. Financing needs identified by corporates disclosures through CDP’s TCFD-aligned platform and GRI Standards lead to demand-led growth for green and sustainable finance.
Assessing available corporate disclosure data for determining nature-related risks and opportunities The subgrantee will develop a research report which highlights relevant data currently being captured by global disclosure systems (e.g., CDP) for the assessment, measurement and disclosure of nature-related risks and opportunities in palm oil and where possible other forest risk commodity supply chains. The report must capture information relevant to Palm Oil supply chains as it will help feed into technical guidance being developed as part of a Global Canopy led TNFD-Aligned Palm Oil Pilot. This will be part of a series of supporting research pieces for the TNFD-Aligned Palm Oil Pilot which all aim to provide useful insights for the wider formal TFND development process. Activities

Kick-off meeting to agree definition and para meters of the research
Selection of questions and data points from 2021 CDP forest questionnaire and undertake some mapping to TCFD
Categorize relevant risks, opportunities, and impacts into groups
Analysis the drop-down responses and open text fields to each question as well as number of companies reporting
Perform a regional and primary industry analysis of risk and response
Report on question structure (open field matrix, matrix, dropdown options) of the relevant questions to make a clear how the data is gathered
Prep and write up two x company case studies (two days per case study)
First draft report preparation including method and questionnaires explanation, number and %s and what the data is showing
High and overview/gap/limitations analysis of nature related risks, opportunities, and impacts across CDP's three themes (climate, water, and forest), expanded to TNFD recommendations
Monthly meetings phase one
Final report preparation, integrating gap analysis
Presentation of final report to Global Canopy
Final report preparation integrating feedback from Global Canopy
Grant and financial management and reporting