Enhancing Direct Access to Climate Finance in Fiji – Phase 2

The document outlines a 24-month Readiness support project to operationalize direct access to climate finance in Fiji. It focuses on training NDA staff, supporting the MoE's Stage 2 GCF accreditation, assisting the FDB in upgrading its accreditation to ESS Category B, and developing a bankable project pipeline. Key activities include establishing a private sector engagement strategy, conducting pre-feasibility studies for projects such as the Fiji Electric Bus initiative, and enhancing the NDA Portal for better stakeholder coordination. The project is implemented by the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI).

• Fiji faces extreme climate vulnerability with average annual asset losses from tropical cyclones and floods estimated at over FJD 500 million, which is more than 5% of its GDP.
• Despite having national strategies like the NDC Investment Plan and National Climate Finance Strategy (NCFS), Fiji struggles to secure climate finance due to a lack of bankable projects and trained technical staff.
• The project aims to support the Ministry of Economy (MoE) in submitting its Stage 2 application for GCF accreditation and developing four Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for gender, environmental and social safeguards (ESS), information disclosure (IDP), and grievance redressal (GRM).
• The NDA's capacity needs strengthening due to staff turnover and the need to fully operationalize the NDA Portal and Sectoral Working Groups (SWGs).
• A specific priority for pipeline development is the electrification of the Fiji bus fleet, for which the project will establish a dedicated Working Group/Task Force and conduct a pre-feasibility study.
• The proposal includes a strategy to increase private sector investment through four dialogue meetings and the development of two pre-feasibility studies focused on public-private partnership (PPP) business models.
• The project will develop two high-quality concept notes for the MoE (one for mitigation and one for adaptation) and one for the FDB to be submitted to the GCF.

APA

Green Climate Fund (2022). Enhancing Direct Access to Climate Finance in Fiji – Phase 2. https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/fiji-gggi.pdf

Chicago

Green Climate Fund. Enhancing Direct Access to Climate Finance in Fiji – Phase 2. 2022. https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/fiji-gggi.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{greenclimatefund2022enhancing, author = {{Green Climate Fund}}, title = {{Enhancing Direct Access to Climate Finance in Fiji – Phase 2}}, institution = {Green Climate Fund}, year = {2022}, month = jun, url = {https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/fiji-gggi.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }