Deadline: 30-May-25
The Initiative for Climate Action Transparency (ICAT) is seeking proposals from interested organizations to provide technical support to its partner countries.
The aim is to enable developing countries to be better positioned to strengthen and effectively implement their nationally determined contributions (NDCs) by providing expert advice and support, i.e. technical support, training and capacity building, for their climate transparency efforts based on country priorities and needs.
The grant covers support to countries for building modelling frameworks and tools to design strong NDCs and climate strategies, collecting data for such analysis, and refining inventories, focusing on relevant sectors.
Objectives
- To enable countries to be better positioned to both strengthen and effectively implement their NDCs by providing international expert advice and support, i.e. technical support, training and capacity building, to developing countries for their transparency efforts related to climate actions and policies based on country priorities and needs.
- The specific objectives of the grant are to support countries in:
- Building modelling frameworks and tools to design strong NDCs and related strategies, collecting data for such analysis, and refining inventories focusing on policy-relevant sectors.
- Applying the ICAT toolbox to analyze policy impacts, covering both greenhouse gas and sustainable development impacts, to put in place credible just transition monitoring processes, and/or climate finance transparency frameworks.
Funding Information
- Estimated Budget for the technical support: Up to USD 110,000 for each country module.
Duration
- Project duration: The implementing partner is expected to start activities in July 2025 for a period of up to 30 months, ending in December 2027 (with possibility of extension based on availability of funding). Individual country work plans are expected to be 12-18 months, but projects may be launched on a staggered basis under one grant agreement.
Target Beneficiaries
- Various stakeholders at national and sub-national level in the ICAT partner countries. These are mainly ministries/agencies responsible for reporting to UNFCCC.
Eligibility Criteria
- The following categories of applicants are eligible to apply under this Call for Proposals:
- Non-governmental organizations (NGOs)
- Foundations
- Civil society organizations (CSO)
- Grass-roots organizations
- Institutions or federations
- Academic and research institutions
- For-profit entities
- Non-UN intergovernmental organization
- UN system organization
For more information, visit ICAT.