The MRV for Climate Action Programme set out to close a critical gap between climate ambition and climate delivery. Across The Gambia, Ghana, Liberia, and Togo, the programme supported national institutions to move from commitments on paper to sustained, scalable implementation.
The central lesson is clear: the disconnect between climate ambition and climate action is not only a financing or technology problem. It is also a governance and delivery problem. Countries need the institutional relationships, data systems, human capital, legal frameworks, and confidence to act on their own terms.
Systems, Not Projects
The disconnect between climate ambition and climate action is not primarily a financing or a technology problem. It is, at its root, a largely undiagnosed governance and delivery challenge. Countries have produced credible NDC, secured international funding and made meaningful commitments, yet emission intensities continue to climb and the severity of impacts worsens year over year.
Closing that governance and delivery gap is what the MRV for Climate Action programme set out to support across The Gambia, Ghana, Liberia and Togo between 2022 and 2026. To learn more go to the Theory of Change .
Rather than delivering outputs, equipment or new technologies into countries, the approach worked to enable the complementary institutional inputs that no amount of project funding can substitute: inter-ministerial coordination, subnational connectivity, and decision relevant MRV. The goal was to nurture the collaboration
and Agency necessary for domestic institutions to act, adapt under pressure and scale what works.
