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Global Climate Change Alliance (GCCA+)

The Global Climate Change Alliance+ (GCCA+) is a flagship initiative from the European Union to help the worlds most vulnerable countries address climate change. The GCCA+ initiative contributes towards achieving the overall target of at least 20 % of the EU budget spent on climate action by 2020. With a focus on Least Developed Countries (LDCs) and Small Island Developing States (SIDS), the GCCA+ aims to help countries in their endeavors to adapt to and mitigate climate change by focusing on three priority areas:

Climate change mainstreaming and poverty reduction
Increasing resilience to climate-related stresses and shocks
Sector-based climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies

GCCA+ support to address the challenges of poverty and climate change is based on two mutually reinforcing pillars:

A platform for policy dialogue and knowledge exchange
A source of technical and financial support to implement climate-related country or regional programmes.

The GCCA+ initiative aims at funding multi-year programmes with an average contribution of EUR 5 million per project (as of end 2017) that support climate change adaptation and mitigation and thus the transition to climate-resilient, low-carbon societies.

Support provider

European Union

Purpose of support

Project and program implementation

Eligible countries and regions

The fund targets mainly Least Developed Countries (LDCs) and Small Island Developing States (SIDS) that are recipients of aid in line with the official OECD Development Assistance Committee List of Official Development Assistance Recipients and the United Nations list of SIDS.

Eligibility criteria

Expressions of interest for EU GCCA+ funding must meet certain eligibility criteria, which are taken into account during the EuropeAid screening of proposals submitted by EU Delegations, such as, among others:

The quality of the request made and endorsements by the relevant country authorities and/or the EU Delegation for a GCCA+ funded action;
The status of the dialogue on climate change between the country and the EU (e.g. quality of related actions, joint declarations);
Political factors such as strategic and/or enforced cooperation with certain countries;
The role the country plays in the UNFCCC negotiations and commitment to its processes, and efforts in the implementation of related commitments.

The next step is to allocate EU funding by prioritising needs, and establish a potential maximum allocation per country – giving priority to those countries most vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change – using the GCCA+ index and other criteria.

Financial instruments

Grants

Co-financing requirements (if applicable)

Co-financing is optional

Decision-making information

The EC Directorate General for International Cooperation and Development (DG DEVCO) Directorate C Thematic Unit will be responsible for the overall management of GCCA+ and will chair the Coordination Committee, which will also include representatives from related thematic (energy, food security, Intra-ACP), and relevant line DGs (ENV, CLIMA) and geographical units, as well as the European External Action Service (EEAS).

The Coordination Committee will meet regularly. As well as routine management and monitoring of GCCA+ programmes, the committee will look at ways of making the programme more effective, including increased Member State involvement in overall programming and monitoring. The Committee will also ensure coordination and coherence with Member States climate programmes and with EU funded national and regional cooperation programmes.

Monitoring and reporting procedures

The GCCA+ Results Framework aims at providing information needed to guide decision making and resources management, and to keep track of quantifiable results pursued through a GCCA+ project in partner countries and regions.

The GCCA+ Result Framework facilitates:

Measuring GCCA+ contribution to DEVCO actions, in relation to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of interest to the GCCA+ flagship initiative's mandate under the thematic programme on Global Public Goods and Challenges (GPGC), and to the EU commitment to use at least 20% of its budget for 2014-2020 on climate change-related action;
Providing an overview of GCCA+ achievements, quantitatively and qualitatively, at country level and across GCCA+ targeted countries;
Collecting and providing selected information on the overall performance of the EU GCCA+ flagship initiative.

This will be achieved by collecting data related to set indicators notably related to the European Union Result Framework and the SDGs, but also projects’ results, and to the other main outputs of the GCCA+ related to policy dialogue, experience sharing, knowledge management and communication.

In order to provide an overview of key GCCA+ achievements, the selected indicators need to be aligned to the GCCA+ priority areas and identified key sectors, and fit for meaningful aggregation
across projects. To this purpose, GCCA+ projects and EU Delegations staff will therefore be invited to:

Identify selected standard indicators, during project identification and formulation, to be included in the Action Document's logical framework. Of particular importance are the indicators dedicated to climate change at SDG level (SDG 13), potentially at national and sector level, EURF level 2 indicators, and GCCA+ outcome indicators for adaptation and mitigation.
During implementation, provide regular information on their activities and results, at least once per year under the coordination of the GCCA+ Support Facility and DEVCO C6.

The GCCA+ Result Framework is a living document which can be regularly reviewed, following updates of its own references such as the EURF or SDG indicator systems.

Information on how to...

Understand steps to access

Know who to partner with

Prepare and Expression of Interest

Develop strong projects

Climate objective

Adaptation, Mitigation, Cross-cutting

Sectors and themes

Oceans and Coasts, Disaster risk reduction, Gender, Jobs, Poverty

Type of support provider

Multilateral

Type of recipient

Public entity at the national level, Public entity at the regional level

Fund size

Multi-annual Financial Framework 2014–2020: EUR 350 million plus EUR 70 million from 11th European Development Fund Financial Framework for the Intra-ACP component (ACP is African, Caribbean, and Pacific Group of states)

Co-financing required

Yes

Trustee or administrator

European Commission - Directorate-General for Development and Cooperation - Europe Aid

Contact information

http://www.gcca.eu/

info@gcca.eu

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