NAMA: International Climate Initiative (IKI)

Title: International Climate Initiative (IKI)
SupportDescription: The International Climate Initiative (IKI) supports climate protection projects in developing, newly industrialising and transitioning countries (‘partner countries’) and complements the German Government's existing international, multilateral and bilateral cooperation. The projects are geared to the needs of the partner countries and are intended to support them in the following areas: 1. Mitigating greenhouse gas emissions 2. Adapting to the impacts of climate change 3. Conserving natural carbon sinks with a focus on reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) 4. Conserving biological diversity. Generally, support can be granted for technology cooperation, policy advice, capacity building and training, and for the elaboration of studies and strategies and the actual implementation of climate change mitigation actions. IKI projects in the category I "Mitigation" are focused primarily on the development of Low Emission Development Strategies (LEDS) and Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs), as well as systems for monitoring, reporting and verifying greenhouse gas emissions and mitigation actions (MRV). With regard to NAMAs, IKI projects can support partner countries in developing NAMAs, gaining access to funding for implementation, and implementing ambitious components of NAMAs. In addition, the IKI works to mobilise private capital for climate protection measures. In accordance with a Bundestag resolution, the IKI receives EUR 120 million from the BMU budget every year. The Energy and Climate Fund (EKF), which is replenished through the auctioning of emission allowances in the EU ETS, contributes additional funds to the IKI.
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EntityName: Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety
EntityName1: Resources are channelled through implementing organisations only (also see section F.1).
EntityAddress1: BMU’s Programme Executing Organisation: Programme Office of the International Climate Initiative, Potsdamer Platz 10, 10785 Berlin, Germany||
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EntityContactPerson1: Programme Office of the International Climate Initiative||
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EntityPhone1: +49 (0)30 338 424-218||
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EntityEmail1: Programmbuero@programmbuero-klima.de||
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TypeOfOrganization: Bilateral organisation
UsedCurrency: EUR
SupportAvailableFor: Preparation of NAMAs
RegionalScopeIS: Africa; Asia Pacific; Eastern Europe; Latin America and the Caribbean; LDCs; SIDS; Middle East and North Africa
CommentsRegions: Since the preparation and implementation of NAMAs is only one part of IKI aktivities, IKI can allocate only a share of its overall budget towards NAMA support. Funded projects in general must meet the criteria for recognition as Official Development Assistance (ODA). For projects in the area of mitigation, the focus should be on countries with high potential for greenhouse gas emission reduction, especially newly industrialising countries and middle-income countries; policy advice projects are preferred in the particularly advanced newly industrialising countries.
UNParty: All
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TypeOfRequiredFinancialSupportIS: Grant; Loan (Private)
CommentsOnFinancialSupport: Strengthening the financing of international climate change mitigation is a central theme for the IKI. Financial support from the IKI is mainly delivered in the form of grants and concessional loans, which serve to mobilise additional funding, including in particular private investment, and the promotion of sustainable business models for climate change mitigation.
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CommentsOnTechnicalSupport: The IKI is generally open towards projects in the field of technology cooperation but does not focus on any particular type of environmental technology. However, the IKI does not provide support to “stand-alone” technology support projects; instead, technology support components need to follow an integrative concept for the acceleration of transformation al processes (i.e. be combined with the transfer of know-how, capacity building or policy advice). That way, IKI projects can contribute to further developing existing technological and institutional solutions and to broadening the application of innovative technologies, which advance climate change mitigation and serve to accelerate transformational processes.
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TypeOfRequiredCapacityBuildingSupportIS: Individual level; Institutional level; Systemic level
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SectorIS: Energy supply; Residential and Commercial buildings; Agriculture; Waste management; Transport and its Infrastructure; Industry; Forestry
TypeOfActionIS: National/ Sectoral goal; Strategy; National/Sectoral policy or program; Project: Investment in machinery; Project: Investment in infrastructure
SupportProvisioningDescription: The Selection Process The selection process consists of two steps: Step 1 BMU issues an annual call for proposals along with the corresponding support information. Those interested can submit project outlines in German or English within a set deadline (usually beginning of the calendar year). These must be prepared using the project outline template available on the IKI website. BMU evaluates all project outlines in this format that are complete and were submitted to the IKI Programme Office in time. Applicants will be informed in writing of the evaluation result. Step 2 In the second step, applicants whose projects were selected will be requested in writing to submit a formal funding application and will receive the necessary templates and instructions. BMU evaluates the project applications received and then makes the final funding decision. Who can submit project proposals? The IKI is open to a broad range of participants from Germany and abroad. It supports projects carried out in partner countries by implementing organisations, government organisations, NGOs, business enterprises, universities and research institutes, and by international and multinational organisations and institutes, e.g. development banks and United Nations bodies and programmes. Projects can be implemented jointly by more than one organisation/institution. In the case of joint projects, cooperation must be regulated in a cooperation agreement with all implementing actors, and a project leader should be appointed. The grant recipient is expected to have project-related expertise and experience of the target region. Grant recipients must demonstrate relevant expertise and, as a rule, prove that for at least three years they have continuously implemented international cooperation projects jointly with partners in the region, or that they have been successfully involved in project-related activities for at least three years. Implementing actors must be able to undertake qualified planning and economical implementation of projects, to monitor projects and render account for them, if necessary in collaboration with the partners or subcontractors directly involved in the implementation. The main criteria, against which project proposals will be considered, are: 1. Designing an international climate finance architecture: The IKI supports mechanisms for mobilising additional funding, private investments in particular, as well as sustainable business models for climate change mitigation and biodiversity conservation. 2. Innovation and the multiplier effect: IKI projects should follow technologically, environmentally, methodologically or institutionally ambitious and replicable approaches that are transferrable and that achieve results beyond individual projects. 3. Transparency and coherence: The IKI supports its partner countries in making measurable, reportable and verifiable (MRV) contributions to climate change mitigation thus strengthening transparency and governance structures in international climate financing. 4. Sustainability of projects: Projects must be based on the strategies and policies of the respective partner countries and take account of existing programmes and structures. The governments of the partner countries must express an explicit interest in the project. The projects must be implemented in cooperation with national, local or regional partners. This must be substantiated with appropriate documentation.
SupportProvisioningLink: http://www.international-climate-initiative.com/en/
SupportInformationProvided: http://www.international-climate-initiative.com/en/nc/projects/projects/
UNSupportParty: Germany
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Item Status: Published
Publishing date: 8/2/2013
NAMAId: S-55
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Approval Status: Approved

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