The objective of this project was to strengthen Indonesia’s National Designated Authority (NDA) for the Green Climate Fund (GCF), the Ministry of Finance’s Fiscal Policy Agency. Technical assistance and capacity building provided by the project improved the NDA’s climate finance readiness and allowed it to better access and utilize the GCF readiness funds. The project supported and complemented the activities funded by GCF’s readiness funds for the NDA.

The project:

• Provided recommendations for NDA institutional set up, interim policies and procedures, as well as to provide recommendations to bring the NDA function in line with GCF guidelines and best practices
• Provided technical support and assistance to the NDA for accessing the GCF readiness funds
• Built capacity of NDA staff on processes and requirements for accessing and implementing GCF readiness funds
• Shared communication lessons in accessing GCF readiness funds for informing climate finance/GCF dialogue at national and global levels

The outputs of the project included:

• Inception report
• GCF readiness request and readiness proposal
• Interim gap analysis with regard to policies, procedures and technical capacity in the Ministry of Finance to fulfil their role as the NDA
• Recommendations for NDA institutional set up
• Training course for NDA core staff
• Recommendations to bring NDA policies and procedures in line with GCF requirements
• Learning paper on NDA strengthening and GCF readiness

CDKN Funding: £91,530

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