The “Bilateral Support for Climate Action Implementation and Climate Governance in the Gambia, Ghana, Liberia and Togo" programme will be active through March 2026 and will support each of the countries to:
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strengthen and mature multi-level climate governance and institutional arrangements;
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establish more efficient and effective climate MRV systems to;
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mobilize investments and accelerate priority mitigation actions to achieve the NDCs.
These outcomes will support partner countries’ commitments and capacity to plan, finance, and implement low carbon solutions to local development challenges.
How the Programme was designed
The MRV for Climate Action programme is built around a commitment to country-led actions, and it began with a period of extensive national consultation and collaborative planning.
Or, keep scrolling for a step-by-step guide of our process.
STEP 1
Each partner country hosts a domestic roundtable under the leadership of a National Designated Authority (NDA).
Participants include sectoral ministries, subnational officials, members of the National Climate Action Community of Practice (established under the previous programme, West Africa-MRV) and key stakeholders from the private sector, civil society, NGOs, universities, and more.
Each nation creates and validates an Evergreen Roadmap.
The roadmap outlines approaches to: accelerating climate actions; strengthening and enhancing multi-level climate governance; enabling South-South collaboration; developing a more effective and efficient national MRV system; and, mobilizing climate finance and investment.
STEP 2
The approaches to meeting each of these larger "mission objectives" are elaborated according to the specific needs and circumstances of each partner country, with a series of actionable sub-objectives and intended outcomes, key activities that would need to take place, outputs that would be produced, and critical inputs that would be required for their completion.
STEP 3
Potential project themes emerge, leading to the elaboration of a series of Transformative Pilots - projects with the potential to transform the domestic climate action landscape.
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A concept note is drafted, with input from the NDA to ensure support of national priorities and synergy with other climate action projects already underway.
3.2
A local technical expert is nominated to serve as Pilot Lead Coordinator in a joint process between NovaSphere
and the NDA.
3.3
Baseline research is performed to analyze existing climate legislation, policies and programs, identify strengths and gaps, and formulate recommendations
3.4
The pilots are dynamic by nature. NovaSphere continues to work together with stakeholders to steer and adjust the project, allocating resources on a rolling activity basis as the dynamic strategy matures.
What does a Transformative Pilot look like?
Pilot Projects vary according to national priorities, and the unique circumstances, strengths, gaps, and opportunities for each country and the regions within them.
But they typically fall into four categories.
GHG
INVENTORYING
MITIGATION
ACTIONS
IMPLEMENTATION
