Deadline: 30-Apr-22
NAMA Facility is pleased to announce an open call for the 2nd round of Ambition Initiative to provide financial support to developing countries and emerging economies that show leadership on tackling climate change and want to implement transformational country-led NAMAs within the global mitigation architecture in the short- and mid-term.
The NAMA Facility Ambition Initiative and Ambition Initiative – Round Two feature several new characteristics that distinguish them from previous Calls, targeting an even higher level of ambition in mitigation projects to achieve transformation towards carbon-neutrality and to allow countries to build back greener as they recover from the Covid-19 pandemic.
Key Features
The NAMA Facility Ambition Initiative and Ambition Initiative – Round Two feature several new characteristics that distinguish them from previous Calls, targeting an even higher level of ambition in mitigation projects to achieve transformation towards carbon-neutrality and to allow countries to build back greener as they recover from the Covid-19 pandemic. The new characteristics of the two rounds of Ambition Initiative include the following:
- Focus on enhanced and ambitious first updated or second NDCs as an eligibility criterium
- Focus on NSPs targeting sectors explicitly included in the first updated or second NDCs
- Emphasis on the role of global cooperation in climate change mitigation, in particular on cooperation with the NDC Partnership (NDCP)
- The requirement to ensure contribution to existing national efforts for green recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic
- Strengthened emphasis on innovation in the context of raised NDC ambition and consideration of applications for NSPs that require a small sized pilot for novel technologies before moving into a larger scale project. This focus on novel technologies is optional for NSPs
- Increased upper funding volume of EUR 25 million per NSP
- Disbursement of additional budget for highly successful NSPs
- Possibility for commercial organisations to serve as Applicants/Applicant Support Partners (ASPs) and NAMA Support Organisations (NSOs)
Funding Information
- Funding volume in the range of EUR 5-25 million excluding DPP funding
- Envisaged implementation duration of 3 – 5 ½ years
- Envisaged DPP duration of either 10 or 15 months
Eligibility Criteria
The following criteria apply:
- Timely submission
- Completeness of documents (including endorsement letters* of ministries)
- Documents provided in English
- First updated or second NDCs of the country in which the NSP intends to intervene are presented to UNFCCC until the end of COP26 and meet the definition of ambitious NDCs as specified in GID
- ODA-eligibility of the country according to the OECD DAC-list throughout the entire NSP implementation period
- Qualification of the NAMA Facility funding as ODA finance
- NAMA Facility funding is not used for the generation of tradeable GHG emission allowances in the compliance market such as CERs or, if generated, allowances should be verifiably cancelled
- Additionality of the NSP
*Also e-mails from national ministries confirming the support to the NSP are accepted during the Outline submission. In this case, the actual endorsement letter should be presented at the latest during the in-depth assessment phase.
For more information, visit https://www.nama-facility.org/call-for-projects/ambition-initiative-round-two/application-documents/