Deadline: 31-Jul-23
The British and German Embassies in the Philippines are inviting project proposals to the Mitigation Action Facility (formerly the Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Action Fund) to provide technical assistance and climate finance for ambitious emission reduction projects which support the decarbonisation of key sectors of the economy.
The grant-based funding provided by the Mitigation Action Facility is used for a combination of technical assistance measures and financial cooperation. The aim of the latter is to develop and offer market-based, sustainable and scalable financial mechanisms unlocking investments in technologies and practices that lead to a reduction of GHG emissions.
Technical assistance, in turn, is expected to catalyse investments as well as strengthen capacities and trigger behavioural change, resulting in sector-wide shifts to improve livelihoods and create other co-benefits such as socio-economic, ecological, and institutional development, including gender-responsiveness and social inclusion.
Vision & Mission
- The Vision of the Mitigation Action Facility is to:
- Accelerate decarbonisation to keep temperature rises to below 1.5 degrees Celsius by financing measures that shift priority sectors in a country towards a sustainable, carbon-neutral pathway.
- The Mission is to:
- Finance innovative projects that remove specific barriers preventing sectoral decarbonisation and have strong potential for up-scaling and replication.
- Deliver finance to support technical assistance (e.g. policy advice, trainings, awareness raising, technology transfer) that enables capacity and policy development.
- Unlock investment opportunities by providing tailor-made climate finance to fund projects with the potential to:
- Strengthen country capacities to deliver carbon-neutral activities and closely align these activities with the country’s NDC, LTS and other relevant climate and development plans.
- Pilot financing models to overcome market barriers to carbon-neutral development.
- Deploy innovative technologies and approaches, which require donor financing to support national development plans.
- Boost participation of the private sector to deliver ambitious climate action.
Key Features
- The key features of the Call for Projects 2023 can be summarised as follows:
- Continuity
- Continued focus on the implementation of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), as well as emphasis on long-term strategies (LTS), the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) processes and global cooperation (NDC Partnership).
- Provision of a grant-based funding for projects that combine technical assistance and financial cooperation targeting market-based, sustainable and scalable financial mechanisms.
- Piloting modality for novel technologies.
- Public and private actors invited to submit Project Concepts.
- New features
- Three priority sectors – energy, transport, industry – and support to cross-sectoral projects linked to one of the priority sectors.
- Ambitious enhanced Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) as an assessment criterion.
- A simplified application process featuring a competition of Project Concepts, preceding the submission of Project Outlines.
- For the presentation of Project Concepts, a standardised web-based questionnaire is used inviting Applicants to provide details on the envisioned intervention.
- An upper limit of up to 25 Project Concepts selected to proceed into the Project Outline Phase in which further, more detailed, elaboration of the project needs to take place.
- Continuity
Funding Information
- Overall funding volume of the call of up to EUR 100 million as well as an upper funding volume of EUR 25 million per project.
Outcomes and Outputs
- The Mitigation Action Facility demonstrates that climate finance can effectively catalyse transformational change in partner countries – including implementation of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) – reduce greenhouse gas emissions and enhance carbon-neutral development.
- Outputs
- Output 1: The Mitigation Action Facility is effective and efficient in catalysing transformational mitigation action to implement NDCs and LTS.
- Output 2: Additional public and private finance supported to drive carbon-neutral development.
- Output 3: The Mitigation Action Facility disseminates lessons from transformational mitigation action, contributing to an effective learning environment.
- Output 4: National and local stakeholders have enhanced their capacities and policy environment to implement transformational mitigation actions.
- Output 5: Implemented projects produce sustainable and transformative co-benefits.
Eligibility Criteria
- Project Concepts need to meet eligibility criteria which serve to ensure that the submitted concepts fulfill the formal requirements of the competitive bidding for the Mitigation Action Facility support. The following criteria apply:
- Timely submission;
- Completeness of information;
- Information provided in English;
- ODA-eligibility of the country according to the OECD DAC-list throughout the entire foreseen project implementation period;
- Qualification of the Mitigation Action Facility funding as ODA finance;
- Funding volume requested from the Mitigation Action Facility for implementation is in the range of EUR 5-25 million excluding DPP funding;
- Envisaged implementation duration of 3 – 5 ½ years.
For more information, visit British Embassy in Manila.