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NDC Pipeline Accelerator

The NDC Pipeline Accelerator assists LAC’s national and sub-national entities, both public and private, to plan and design investments in infrastructure, agriculture, and land-use management that are aligned with their NDCs and other national climate and sustainable development objectives.

The fund specifically focuses on: (i) supporting member countries to prepare the necessary investments to meet their climate and sustainable development objectives; (ii) mobilizing and providing resources to cover additional costs associated with planning, identifying, preparing, and managing sustainable projects; and (iii) accelerating these sustainable projects through their project cycle.

This fund is part of IDB's NDC Invest Platform, a one-stop shop of the IDB Group to help countries access resources needed to translate national climate commitments into investment plans and bankable projects. NDC Invest is a platform that includes the entire universe of financial and non-financial instruments of the IDB Group, and it is comprised of four elements: NDC Programmer, NDC Pipeline Accelerator, NDC Market Booster and NDC Finance Mobilizer. Together, the components aim to enable progress toward both the NDC and IDB lending objectives, as well as toward achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Support provider

Nordic Development Fund, Netherlands, Sweden

Purpose of support

Creating enabling environments and building institutional capacity

Scoping and project preparation

Eligible countries and regions

Eligible activities may include:

Strengthening institutional capacity of relevant authorities;
Piloting approaches, tools, and standards for project assessment and upstream planning;
Facilitating safeguards, due diligence procedures and legal review of tender documents;
Supporting identification and feasibility design for climate resilient upgrades and retrofits;
Upgrading PPP frameworks, tendering and concession documents;
Supporting detailed engineering designs and sustainability integration plans;
Dissemination of lessons learned and development of standardized approaches.

Eligibility criteria

IDB country member
Alignment with the country’s NDC or other national climate change plan/priorities
Climate change-related intervention (mitigation, adaptation, or both)
Potential for scale-up
Potential to mobilize capital
Innovative components and transformational impact

Financial instruments

Grants, Contingent grants, Insurance, Guarantees

Decision-making information

The IDB ORP Department is responsible for the management and reporting of the Fund. Based on the Operational Guidelines for Technical Cooperation Products (OP-619-1) through the Eligibility and Strategic Committee (ESC) for Sustainability as the governance structure for the Fund.

Monitoring and reporting procedures

The ACCELERATOR will report to donors on indicators on an annual basis as part of the Trust Fund governance framework. The full impact of the ACCELERATOR can only be assessed based on results realized at downstream stages of NDC Invest. Reporting, therefore, will capture activities directly financed by the ACCELERATOR Trust Fund and results at NDC Invest level. The following summarizes key indicators for the Fund:

Activities: a report on specific fund outputs.
Mitigation: an assessment or projection at project level
Adaptation/Resilience: an assessment or projection at project level
Financial Mobilization: downstream investment flows will be tracked according to the Joint MDBs Methodology for Climate Finance Tracking
Alignment to IDB Corporate Results Framework 2010-2020: Formal employment of women (% of total new employment), number of farmers with improved access to agricultural services, number of projects supported that contribute to social inclusion and equality

Information on how to...

Access projects funding by meeting NDC Invest eligibility criteria. Once criteria is met, projects need to fill out a template to evaluate viability and eligibility based on the Fund requirements. After confirmation from the evaluation team (CCS Division), the project can be sent to the IDB Single Window to request funds and request eligibility by the ESC Sustainability Committee.

Climate objective

Adaptation, Mitigation, Cross-cutting

Sectors and themes

Agriculture, Forestry and Land-Use, Industry and Infrastructure

Type of support provider

Multilateral

Type of recipient

Public entity at the national level, Public entity at the sub-national level, Private sector

Co-financing required

Yes

Trustee or administrator

Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)

Contact information

https://www.ndf.fi/project/ndc-pipeline-accelerator-ndf-c98

ORP Office: Miguel Aldaz, miguelaldaz@iadb.org; Technical Unit CCS: Margarita Cabrera, mcabrera@iadb.org and Gianleo Frisari, giovannif@iadb.org

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