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Viet Nam Urban Green Growth Action, Phase II Viet Nam’s economic growth in recent decades has been accompanied by significant rural to urban migration, which has led to increased social and environmental challenges.  Over the past decade, 700 square kilometers of land has been converted into urban areas and inhabited by 7.5 million new city residents.  While Viet Nam’s cities represent potential engine for strong economic growth, the largest urban centers operate with poor urban design and lack adequate infrastructure.  Cities also lack sufficient levels of green growth investment, due in part to insufficient climate change and green growth mainstreaming in policy and planning processes, and climate-relevant project orientation. To address these challenges, Viet Nam had adopted the Viet Nam Green Growth Strategy (VGGS), which includes priorities to deploy technologies to adapt to climate change and reduce GHG emissions through green growth actions in infrastructure, employment, and natural capital.  Many of the VGGS mitigation goals as reflected in the NDC will require increased low carbon infrastructure investment in the wastewater, energy and transport sectors. Support cities in Viet Nam to decrease poverty, increase green jobs, improve air quality, reduce GHG emissions and increase resilience to climate change through low-carbon planning and investments in urban infrastructure.
RE-ACT: Renewable Energy - Accelerated Transition in Indonesia As discussed with the New Zealand's Embassy in Jakarta, they are interested to explore collaboration with GGGI by funding us to do a renewable energy project. GGGI submitted 4 project ideas for funding consideration to NZ MFAT and they responded that they are interested for collaboration with GGGI that focuses more on addressing policy and regulatory framework barriers in Indonesia. Biomass-to-energy and hybrid solar PV solutions can then be part of the larger objective of policy works. As discussed with the New Zealand's Embassy in Jakarta, they are interested to explore collaboration with GGGI by funding us to do a renewable energy project. GGGI submitted 4 project ideas for funding consideration to NZ MFAT and they responded that they are interested for collaboration with GGGI that focuses more on addressing policy and regulatory framework barriers in Indonesia. Biomass-to-energy and hybrid solar PV solutions can then be part of the larger objective of policy works.
Ethiopia Climate Resilient Forest and Landscape Rehabilitation Programme KOICA Office in Ethiopia and GGGI Ethiopia have been collaborating on a project for capacity building to address climate change in Ethiopia focusing on forestry, MRV and Article 6 of the Paris Agreement since 2018. As a final outcome of the project, policy recommendation should be proposed to the GoE by the end of 2020. A pilot project will be proposed as the second phase of the current project; it will be focused on implementing activities in AFOLU sector with the intended outcome of generating ITMOs, as well as creating the institutional arrangements to allow for transferring them internationally. Based on the successful implementation of the pilot project, a full-scale REDD+ project could be carried out in Ethiopia as the final phase. CRWP will contribute to the execution of the CRGE by supporting implementation of the NRS and NFSDP focusing on the policy, organizational, technical and financial aspects that will allow for successful forest restoration to be implemented under a landscapes approach on 13,000 ha of degraded lands in selected watersheds, with the intention of contributing to a long-term impact of securing the provision of ecosystem services to improve climate resilience and sustain green growth at the national level by 2050.
Strengthening the NDA and Key National Stakeholders in Angola on GCF Mechanisms AFDB has transferred its Delivery Partners role to GGGI on the Angola Readiness Proposal titled: Strengthening the NDA and Key National Stakeholders in Angola on GCF Mechanisms.

Both the NDA and the GGGI are in alignment with this transfer as  the proposal has been approved.

For the GCF to make the final transfer to GGGI, they have requested a switch from AFDB to GGGI in the approved proposal document.

The 5 key areas that the Readiness Proposal focuses on are:

1) strengthening of the NDA institutional capacity;

2) developing a strategic framework for engagement with the GCF, including the preparation of GCF Country Programme Strategy (CPS), building a pipeline of eligible projects, and signing of Privileges and Immunities Agreement

3) creation of multi-stakeholder engagement capacity

4) development of an effective mechanism for identifying, selecting, and supporting aspiring national institutions for accreditation as direct access entities, and

5) engagement with the private sector with the view explore possibilities for access GCF private sector facility for green financing initiatives.
WW + SW Treatment Capacity Building Project for City Env Improvement in Lao PDR Activities of the project are i.) Development of Green Cities Vision and Action Plan for Vientiane and Pakse ii.) Development of implementation strategy for solid waste management in Vientiane iii.) Deployment of waste-to-resource initiatives and facilities in Vientiane iv.) Development of implementation strategy for wastewater management in Pakse v.) Deployment of wastewater management facilities (DEWATS and FSM) in Pakse vi.) Improvement of National Urban Sanitation Strategy The project objective to support the Government of Lao PDR to operationalize the national priorities on urban development and further guide implementation of the new urban planning through complementary activities that together aim to address both immediate needs to improve access to and quality of urban solid waste and wastewater services as well as build capacity within leading government institutions to guide sustainable urban development into the future.
Climate Smart Agriculture for Kiribati The project will support Kiribati to achieve its national development targets and international commitment by helping to develop a climate resilient, income generating agriculture sector that is backstopped by green technology solutions and which is accessible and inclusive to all i-Kiribati, through:
• Development of awareness raising and training materials to increase agricultural productivity in English and i-Kiribati for target groups.

• Introduction of agriculture and health awareness raising as part of school and extra-curricular activities.

• Support training on agriculture and business skills development for women and youth.

• Support SME’s on climate smart agriculture practices and green entrepreneurship training and mentoring.  

• Support training of SME’s on climate-smart agriculture technologies, its operations and maintenance. The overall objective of the project is to enhance adaptive capacity, strengthening resilience and reducing vulnerability to climate change of Kiribati island communities through a technology, education and capacity building and livelihoods development program for the agriculture sector.
China-Japan-Korea (CJK) Green Growth Collaboration Program The governments of China, Korea and Japan aim to establish a collaboration on green growth to accelerate progress based on the commitments made at Paris across the East Asian region. In this project GGGI is a facilitator for enhanced dialogues associated with the three countries and works closely with each of the three governments and designated focal institutes to develop a collaboration mechanism and identify joint activities. To adopt the policy and/or technologies to accelerate progress towards the climate change goals.
Conservation and Sustainable Management of Forested Landscapes in Southwestern Ethiopia Business Development budget is sought to support maximize opportunities for impacts on gender equality and women’s empowerment in the Conservation and Sustainable Management of Forested Landscapes in Southwestern Ethiopia project. A limited gender components integrated into the project proposal, however, there is a need to further elaboration on the project’s gender component through a gender analysis to inform the projects indicators and approaches, and to meet the high ambition of the project donor, Sweden, and their Feminist Foreign Policy. 

The requested fund of 4000 USD from the Business Development Budget is aims to: cover the cost of the field trip for two staff to join the mission for 15 days to collect the primary data on gender to support the gender analysis, formation of gender baseline data, gender indicators and the development of appropriate and effective Gender Action plan in the proposal. 

This project is designed to support new and existing participatory forest management groups and Community Based livelihood Organizations in Southwestern Ethiopia and improve management and conservation of forested landscapes, biodiversity, livelihoods. It aims to build governance and building resilience capacity of target communities. It will be implemented in a landscape that has multiple functions, using multiple approaches, including the UNESCO biosphere reserve and Participatory Forest Management (PFM) approaches in five adjacent zones and one special woreda located in Oromia and Southwest Ethiopia Peoples’ (SWEP) Regional States. The project will be implemented by the Global Green Growth Institute and two local partners, which have excellent track record and project experience in Jimma and Kafa zones. This project is developed for funding from the Swedish Government as part of its support for the sustainable forest management, biodiversity conservation and market in Ethiopia.
Private Engagement and Green Investment Mobilization GGGI will support MOCCAE to develop a Green Finance Framework, in close coordination with other relevant public/private entities mainly from the signatories of the Dubai Declaration on Sustainable Finance and the Abu Dhabi Sustainable Finance Declaration. The project will begin with extensive consultation with public/private entities in the sustainable/green finance sector (e.g. financial service authorities, regulators, project developers, commercial banks, relevant ministries, etc.) to identify gaps and challenges preventing the growth of sustainable/green finance sector and will develop a framework to define the green project and to guide the green project origination and development, as well as green investment evaluation and execution. Followed by the development of Green Finance Framework, GGGI will work with MOCCAE and other public/private partners in the development of the green investment project pipeline. The project’s overall objective is to strengthen the UAE’s enabling environment to promote sustainable/green finance mobilization and implementation, which will contribute to positive economic, social and environmental impacts, and promote a green economy.
Thailand - Accelerating Implementation of Thailand's Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) Under its Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) commitment, Thailand aims to reduce GHG emissions by 2025% from projected BAU levels by 2030. This forms part of the government’s vision for climate-resilient and low-carbon growth and is aligned to both the current 5-year National Economic and Social Development Plan and Thailand’s Climate Change Master Plan. To meet this commitment, there is an urgent need to systematically cascade the economy-wide NDC target into sectoral targets, so that sector-specific plans can be formulated and implemented. There is also the need to demonstrate actual NDC implementation on the ground. Support Thailand to develop and implement the plans and measures of the NDC Action Plan for the Industrial Sector.
Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Initiatives (REEEI) GGGI has been developing plans to work with the Least Developed
Countries Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Initiative
(LDC-REEEI) in advancing the interests and building the capacity
of the regional initiatives that utilizes local expertise rather than
international consultants and replicate what works.

Planned outputs directly addressed and supported LDC member
countries on technical support, tracking delivery, enabling learning,
fostering multi-stakeholder engagement, and strategic partnerships.
The support promotes rapid transformational action to improve
policies and to mobilize finance, and will explore effective action in:
• Stimulating energy for productive sectors
• Strengthening energy planning, to inform target setting and NDCs;
• Tackling policy and regulatory barriers; and
• Strengthen capacity of LDCs and Learning Exchanges for
Regulators, Policy Makers, and Energy Planners. To provide technical know-how and content-based services to operational/country teams to support their transition to a sustainable energy future
and to implement their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) under the Paris Agreement and achieve their Sustainable Development Goal
(SDG) targets.
E-bus fleet acquisition plus carbon finance potential assessment for the city of monterrey, Mexico Technical assistance to Nuevo León state government (Metrorrey) to deploy 110 e-buses for public transport, benefitting t 150,000 riders (50% female, 50% male) and avoiding 150,000 tCO2e during project life cycle. A pre-feasibility assessment to structure carbon transactions of this e-bus operation is also delivered. This project delivers demand-led technical assistance to the Nuevo León state government (represented by Metrorrey) to acquire 110 electric buses (e-buses), benefitting at least 150,000 daily riders (50% female, 50% male) and avoiding the emission of 150,000 tCO2e during the project’s life cycle (15 years). This project also delivers a pre-feasibility assessment conducive to the structuring of a carbon transaction related with said acquisition.
Building Climate Compatible Development in the Caribbean Through Business and Investment Opps This project was developed by two consultants, Patricia Londono and Laura Rodriguez, who previously worked with Carolina in Columbia.  The project came out of an EDF project done in the Caribbean region last year, and focuses on  capacity building and development of business models, including provision of scholarships, mentorships, market studies, financing guarantees, seed funding, policy analysis and improvement, development of project pipelines. This project was developed by two consultants, Patricia Londono and Laura Rodriguez, who previously worked with Carolina in Columbia.  The project came out of an EDF project done in the Caribbean region last year, and focuses on  capacity building and development of business models, including provision of scholarships, mentorships, market studies, financing guarantees, seed funding, policy analysis and improvement, development of project pipelines.
Sustainable Industrial WW Sludge Management at the Ethiopian Industrial Parks Ethiopia’s new Prime Minister has announced his willingness to privatize government-owned assets and to liberalize the Ethiopian economy. This creates a momentum that is favorable for private initiatives such as industrial parks and export industries. And it could create a favorable enabling environment for PPP projects in the industrial parks. The Government of Ethiopia (GoE) launched the Climate Resilient Green Economy (CRGE) Strategy in 2011, followed by the Second Growth and Transformation Plan (GTP II, 2015/2016 – 2019/20), with the overall ambition of becoming a lower middle-income country by 2025. Whilst the economy has historically been dominated by the agricultural sector, the GTP II puts increasing importance on the development of the industrial sector in the country, particularly light manufacturing, and accordingly, the industrial sector’s contribution to GDP is expected to rise from the current 13% to about 20% by 2020.  
GGGI had been requested by the CEO of the Industrial Parks Development Corporation (IPDC) to assist in development of industrial wastewater sludge management strategy and viable business model for reuse. This project will focus on the four industrial parks that are currently operational (namely, Hawassa, Bole Lemi – in the outskirts of Addis Ababa, Kombolcha, and Mekelle). And there is a possibility of scaling it up to the other parks that will be commissioned soon.  
All four industrial parks are fitted with wastewater treatment plants to treat industrial wastewater and sewage generated from the industrial parks. Whilst the Hawassa Industrial Park is fitted with a Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD) system, with which most of wastewater can be treated and reused within the industrial park, thus increasing water efficiency, the other three parks are fitted with conventional treatment plants, which treat and discharge the wastewater to the surrounding environment. Especially, the Hawassa Industrial Park is considered as the country’s first eco-industrial park as its energy supply comes from hydroelectric power.  
However, whilst all of the four operational industrial parks are equipped with wastewater treatment plants, none of the industrial parks have a sustainable way of disposing of the sludge and salts and are being stored in haphazard manner in the parks’ premises . The objective of the project is:  
To identify the most viable and environmentally sustainable business model and strategy to manage industrial wastewater sludge at the industrial parks. This would involve conducting a market assessment on the reusability of the industrial wastewater sludge by other industries in Ethiopia. The outcome of the project is creating industrial parks that are with zero or limited sludge entering landfills
Green Infrastructure Planning and Delivery (GIPD) The Government of Rwanda through Economic Development and Poverty Reduction Strategy (EDPRS 2) is developing 6 Secondary Cities of Muhanga, Rubavu, Huye, Rusizi, Nyagatare, and Musanze as poles of economic growth and promote a more inclusive and green development approach. The 6 Secondary cities are experiencing different rates of urbanization. The National Strategy for Transformation (NST) 1 target is to increase the urban population from 17.3% (2013/2014) to 35% by 2024. The urbanization growth rates aided by the projected population increase from 10.5million in 2012 to 23.2million in 2050 and the associated transition towards a middle-income country by 2024 and a high-income country by 2050 are expected to increase the resource consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the built environment. The overall objective of the project is to provide technical advisory services for the Rwandan government and the private sector in the field of building and construction, and infrastructure to support the governments vision of achieving low-carbon and climate-resilient green economy by 2050. This project is aligned with IO1. Strengthened national, sub-national and local green growth planning, financing and institutional frameworks, IO2. Increased green growth investment flows which enable partner governments to implement green growth policies and IO3. Improved multi-directional knowledge sharing and learning to empower local and external agents necessary to drive green growth processes in partner governments.
Management Support  to Norway under the Guyana-Norway Climate and Forest Partnership The Government of Norway has requested support in management of the GRIF including the following potential activities: 

Give advice to the GRIF Steering Committee on the development of project pipeline/project proposals for GRIF, in support of the implementation of the GSDS. Assist the GoN, implementing partners and other partners in finalizing project concept notes and project proposals, including assisting parties in the case of disagreements.  

Organize annual meeting of the GRIF Steering Committee (GoG and GoN). Prepare an agenda for the meeting, and take minutes. Call for extraordinary meeting(s) if needed. Prepare an annual report, including information on the status of all GRIF-projects.  

Organize an annual meeting of the Multi-Stakeholder Steering Committee/Steering Committee Observers, to be chaired by the GRIF Steering Committee. The meeting is open to all all implementing partners and to civil society organizations, in accordance with the GRIF Operational Manual 1.0. Follow up of discussions/recommendations on project implementation to the GRIF Steering Committee.   

Communication. Maintain the GRIF website and answer questions directed to the GRIF Secretariat. Assist GoG and GoN with providing information on the results of GRIF-projects/activity. The project proposed by GGGI is necessary to ensure that high quality proposals are being developed and approved to access GRIF funds, that GRIF is on a successful path towards project disbursement and delivery, that projects are adequately monitored and reporting results effectively, and that the relevant governance bodies are functioning in a robust manner. Without the project, there is a risk that GRIF will end without the ability to produce or report on significant results, thus undermine opportunities to scale up and replicate the GRIF mechanism or its projects in line with the LCDS.
Support for the transition from the Emission Standard Euro 4/IV to Euro 6/VI in Morocco GGGI aims to assist METLE and the National Center for Testing and Homologation (CNEH) to implement the Euro 6/VI standard by January 1, 2022. GGGI’s support will be composed of 2 stages.

 

Stage 1 – Assessment of the expected benefits and costs associated with the transition to Euro 6/VI

 

To provide a sound rationale for the transition to the Euro 6/VI emission standard, this stage will assess the expected benefits from the transition. The potential reduction in air pollutants will be estimated. Other potential benefits from the economic, environmental, and social perspectives will also be examined. The cost will include required investments to bring the sector up to the EUR6/VI standards, in terms of fuel and fuel storage, vehicle production, etc. This stage will also assess if the transition would cause any significant costs to society.   

 

Stage 2 – Development of an implementation plan for Euro 6/VI

Given the decision made by the Government of Morocco to transition to the Euro 6 / VI standard in 2022, and with the aim of working to ensure that this transition takes place under optimal conditions, a practical implementation and communication plan for this Euro 6/VI standard will be developed in close consultation with METLE and CNEH. In doing so, examples of other countries which leapfrogged from Euro 4/IV to Euro 6/VI will be referenced to gain insights and learn best practices. In addition, the process of introducing Euro 4/IV in Morocco will be critically reviewed so that difficulties similar to those faced by the government could be avoided when Euro 6/VI is rolled out. Stakeholders including vehicle manufactures, auto dealers, and consumer advocates will be consulted to reflect their views in the implementation plan to the extent possible. Aware of the elevated air pollution, its related socio-economic problems, and its causes, Morocco applied the Euro 4/IV emission standard for imported vehicles starting in 2011 and for locally produced vehicles starting in 2015. Although better than the previous emission standards, the Euro 4/IV emission standard does not achieve the expected emission reductions under real-world driving conditions, particularly in urban areas settings with low-speed and low-load. Taking this context into account and to accelerate the reduction of air pollutants from transport, the Government of Morocco aims to leapfrog from the Euro 4/IV to the Euro 6/VI emission standard by 2022.