Financial ambition:

• Leverage at least EUR (€) 16.4 million from the private sector for credits and micro credits for the production and purchase of ICS through corporations and private financial institutions and loans to manufacturers and distributors.
• Leverage of at least EUR (€) 1.3 million as in-kind contributions that will be provided across all proposed actions (experts, services, logistics, other expenses).

the project will benefit to 1.1 million people mostly indigenous women and children in rural areas and indigenous communities, living in poor and extremely poor conditions^[1]. They will be direct beneficiaries of capacity development activities and increased access to funding, while also receiving indirect economic and health benefits derived from the adoption of ICS.

The project is also expected to directly benefit to 5,000 additional people (public officers, extension agents and technical staff from partner organizations, and community support agents) as recipients of capacity development activities implemented as part of the TC.  Some 40 ICS manufacturers and distributors will also directly benefit from increased access to tailored funding under the FC and capacity development activities. 3,750 jobs will be created in the value-chain.

• At the legal level, the “Ley Marco para Regular la Reducción de la Vulnerabilidad, la Adaptación Obligatoria ante los efectos del Cambio. Climático y la Mitigación de Gases de Efecto Invernadero” (Framework Law to Regulate the Reduction of Vulnerability, Compulsory Adaptation to the Effects of Climate Change and the Mitigation of Greenhouse Gases) adopted in 2013 through Decree 7-2013[1], defines a set of instruments for mitigation and adaption to climate change, in particular Article 11 that mandates the formulation of a Plan de Acción Nacional de Cambio Climático- PANCC (National Climate Change Action Plan) which was adopted in 2016[2]; and Article 18 that mandates the formulation of a Plan Nacional de Energía (National Energy Plan) which was adopted in 2017 . Its Decree 9 also establishes the National Information System on Climate Change (SNICC) and underscores the need for all public and private companies to provide information on their emissions and about reduction activities. The SNICC includes three subsystems that are: Climate Science, Vulnerability and Adaptation as well as Emissions and removals of Greenhouse Gases. Within the latter appear the "mitiga[3]ion strategies" and within it the CDM and also the NAMAs and the NDCs.
• At the strategic level, the Política Nacional de Cambio Climático (National Climate Change Policy) approved in 2009[4] and Decree 7-2013 defines the areas of incidence as follows: I) strengthening national capacities, ii) reducing vulnerability, iii) risk management, iv) climate change adaptation and mitigation; iv) Inter-institutional coordination, especially through the National Council on Climate Change, v) Public awareness and participation, and vi) Financial resources, through the creation of the National Fund for Climate Change.
• Guatemala presented its National Action Plan of Climate Change during the Conference of Parties -COP-and ratified by the Paris Agreement in 2016. In its Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC), Guatemala commits to an unconditional 11.2% emissions cut in 2030, relative to business as usual projections, or a conditional 22.6% reduction. These targets imply that the estimated emissions of 53.85 million tons of CO2 equivalent (CO2e) for the year 2030, based on business as usual projections, will be reduced to 47.81 million tons of CO2e in 2030 under the unconditional scenario; and to 41.66 million tons of CO2e under the conditional scenario. One of the prioritized sectors to achieve the NDC is the efficient use of firewood.
• The Política Nacional de Desarrollo- Katún Nuestra Guatemala 2032 (National Development -Katún, Our Guatemala 2032) adopted in 2014[5] defines as a target that by 2032, CO2 emissions be stabilized at 2.5 tons per capita. In addition, it states that policies, plans and budgets will be oriented towards results management, sectoral policies will be territorialized and public investment will be monitored and recorded with transparency, including the National Policy of Change Climate Change and the National Plans of Action for the Adaptation and Mitigation of Climate Change.
• Currently, MARN, with the support of the United States Agency for International Development -USAID- is formulating the National Low Emission Development Strategy for the following sectors: change in land use and forestry, energy, industrial processes, transport and waste[6].