GCF Readiness project for Uzbekistan

The proposal seeks funding for a 24-month project to enhance Uzbekistan's institutional capacity to manage climate finance. Key objectives include revising the coordination mechanism following the transfer of the NDA role to the Ministry of Investments and Foreign Trade, developing a comprehensive Country Programme, and supporting the accreditation of at least one national entity as a Direct Access Entity (DAE). The project also aims to establish a monitoring and evaluation system for climate finance flows and develop at least two new project concept notes for GCF submission.

• The Government of Uzbekistan transferred the role of National Designated Authority (NDA) from Uzhydromet to the Ministry of Investments and Foreign Trade (MIFT) in October 2019, necessitating a revision of the existing climate finance coordination mechanism.
• Uzbekistan faces significant climate vulnerabilities, including a warming trend where annual average temperatures have increased by 0.27° every 10 years since 1951, impacting irrigated agriculture and exacerbating desertification and the Aral Sea disaster.
• The country has a potential annual greenhouse gas emission reduction of 53.1 Mt. CO2-eq. through the modernization of energy production, transportation, and distribution facilities.
• The project aims to develop a formal Country Programme to identify strategic investment priorities and a paradigm shift for low-emission and climate-resilient development, moving away from the previous rolling basis for project selection.
• A primary goal is to facilitate the accreditation of at least one national organization as a Direct Access Entity (DAE) to reduce reliance on international Accredited Entities, which the document describes as cumbersome and limited in project quantity.
• The proposal identifies two specific candidates for accreditation: a State Fund and a private commercial bank, both of which require further technical assistance to meet GCF fiduciary, environmental, social, and gender standards.
• The project will establish a new Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) system to track GCF resources, as the current national framework managed by the Ministry of Finance does not specifically define or separate climate financing.
• The project intends to formulate at least two new concept notes for mitigation or adaptation projects to be submitted to the GCF, based on the newly developed Country Programme.

APA

Green Climate Fund (2019). GCF Readiness project for Uzbekistan. https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/readiness-proposals-uzbekistan-uzhydromet-nda-strengthening-country-programming_2.pdf

Chicago

Green Climate Fund. GCF Readiness project for Uzbekistan. 2019. https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/readiness-proposals-uzbekistan-uzhydromet-nda-strengthening-country-programming_2.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{greenclimatefund2019gcf, author = {{Green Climate Fund}}, title = {{GCF Readiness project for Uzbekistan}}, institution = {Green Climate Fund}, year = {2019}, month = nov, url = {https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/readiness-proposals-uzbekistan-uzhydromet-nda-strengthening-country-programming_2.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }