CFPs: Mentoring Service on Formulation of Climate Change Basic Project Ideas

As a part of Pacific Climate Change Centre (PCCC)’s Technical Implementation Support under the Pacific Climate Investment Hub, PCCC offers a Mentoring Service to support participants from the training program and interested parties in the Pacific who seek to develop climate projects. This initiative aims to enable participants to develop climate change project concept notes using logical frameworks that address their country’s key challenges while aligning with climate-resilient and low-carbon development pathways, including the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and National Adaptation Plans (NAPs).

This mentorship programme is to facilitate and enhance the formulation of Climate Change Projects through Public and Private Collaboration targeting the Pacific. The mentorship programme will be delivered by the PCCC, with support from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).

The selected proposals will receive hands-on technical support from the PCCC and the JICA project team. This support will assist in enhancing project proposals and navigating access to international climate finance sources, including climate funds and donor agencies.

Aims

• This initiative aims to enhance the joint engagement of private and public to develop climate change project concept that addresses key challenges while aligning with climate-resilient and low carbon development pathways.

Themes

• A proposed project must address climate change adaptation and/or mitigation on either of the following themes:
  • Energy;
  • Agriculture and Fishery;
  • Tourism;
  • Water; and
  • Urban resilience

Scope of the Mentoring Service

• Targeted organizations
  • The Mentoring Service is available to applicants from government agencies and/or private sector and SOE in the Pacific preferably those that have completed any of the training or capacity-building programs delivered by the PCCC and are actively involved in formulating projects in the designated thematic areas in collaboration between public and private sector.
  • A maximum of three national projects will be selected as awardees.
  • Awardees of the Mentoring Service are expected to apply the knowledge, experience, and insights gained from their participation in the PCCC training or capacity-building programs to develop a project concept or proposal.
• Outline of Mentoring Services
  • Mentoring Service structure
    • The PCCC–JICA Mentoring Service is a structured support program designed to assist Pacific-based public and private sector entities in formulating climate change projects through collaborative partnerships. The service includes online sessions, one-on-one mentoring, and peer-to-peer learning, which are all facilitated by experienced technical experts from PCCC and JICA. These experts provide tailored guidance on project development, including problem analysis, climate rationale, and access to climate finance. The mentoring process emphasizes practical collaboration between public and private stakeholders, aiming to enhance project quality, efficiency and increase the likelihood of securing international funding.
  • Mentoring Team
    • The Mentoring Team comprises experienced technical experts from PCCC and JICA with experiences in climate change mitigation and adaptation, climate finance, project formulation, project management and monitoring. Experts from the selected themes (see section 5 below) can be engaged accordingly, where available.
  • Scope of Mentoring Service
    • The Mentoring Team will provide technical advice to awardees through on-site consultation meetings in the project country and online discussions based on the requests from the awardees.
    • Technical advice will be focused on the following points related to the project formulation:
      • Develop or enhance problem tree and objectives tree for the proposed project concept;
      • Identify/clarify the core problem;
      • Identify/clarify the climate rationale, expected project outcomes or outputs;
      • Identify existing gaps such as data, information, finance, technology, and capacities, and source available supports/funds to fill the existing gaps;
      • Identify further steps necessary for project formulation; and
      • Enhance the draft project concept note or project proposal through review/guidance of related preparatory activities (if necessary) to strengthened access to financial window.
      • Promote the responsibility sharing between the awarded private and public partners to ensure proposed project concept is strengthened and practical.
  • Responsibility of Awardees
    • The Awardees will be responsible for the following activities (non-exhaustive list):
      • Liaise with the respective national climate change focal point or focal point for climate finance to provide support to the project idea.
      • Ensure project is aligned to national policies and priorities as reflected in the priority list of the fund/ donor agency etc.
      • Lead the preparation and improvement of project documents with the support of Mentoring Team
      • Coordinate, consult and communicate with communities, private sector, government ministries and key national or regional stakeholders affected to the project development
      • The awardees shall bear the costs associated with the above consultation process.
      • Take necessary steps toward submission of project documents/proposals to the relevant national agency or international climate fund or donors with the support and guidance by the Mentoring Team if applicable.
      • Development of initial proposal is for capacity building purposes and further development of the proposal is discussed with the national focal points with the technical support from PCCC.

Eligibility Criteria

• Ensure the project addresses climate change issues
• Ensure that the idea of the project is aligned with the national climate change polices, NDCs and/ or NAPs
• A proposed project must promote close and measurable collaboration between the public and private sector. The application must illustrate in a concrete manner how the collaboration is ensured in the project planning, financing, implementation, operation and maintenance of technologies or services, etc. Private sector actors can include state-owned enterprises, private companies and associations, the Chamber of Commerce, cooperatives, financial institutions, universities, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), or community-based organizations (CBOs).
• Tangibility of private collaboration will be highly evaluated in project selection. Note that involving the above-mentioned private sectors in public consultation or workshop alone is not considered as tangible collaboration.

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