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Grant Approval Date
End (estimated) Date
Project Cost 576 840
Sector Climate finance
Executing Agency
Current status Ongoing
Project SENEGAL - Removing Barriers to Climate Finance Access
Background

In Senegal, the decentralization policy, initiated since 1972, has known…

Objectives The project overall objective is to remove barriers hindering local governments to access climate finance, in particular to global funds.
Main Components/Outputs

The project has one major component (outcome) which is to equip pilot municipalities to address barriers to access climate finance through the establishment of innovative supporting mechanisms and in collaboration with relevant national partner’s needs, based on existing policies, strategies, and local planning instruments. This will be achieved through four major approaches including (i) Establishment of required institutional support; (ii) Piloting; (iii) Learning; and (iv) Scaling-up: Capturing, documentation, dissemination of lessons learnt from the formulation process and up-scaling to other local governments.

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Key Achievements or Progress

On successful completion of the project activities, the following results are expected :

  • A climate finance support unit to municipalities, is established under the Ministry of Governance, Development and Territorial Management in close collaboration with the Association of Local elected representatives (UAEL) and departments’ councils, for enhancing municipalities access to climate funding;
  • A help desk system providing climate finance information and online support, is developed, in support to the identification of relevant opportunities, and the development of local actors’ capacities;
  • Climate Finance Access of local governments to Global Funds is piloted and tested in 2 target zones (Fatick and Ferlo), in close collaboration with relevant national and multilateral entitiesLocal governments and decentralized technical services of the 2 target zones (Fatick, Ferlo) are supported in the formulation of proposals to Global funds, in close collaboration with relevant national and multilateral entities;
  • Lessons learnt from the formulation process are captured, documented and disseminated, and the scaling-up process to other local governments is initiated.
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