Beschreibung: Rwanda has submitted its intended Nationally Determined Contribution (iNDC) to the
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The iNDC became the
country"s first NDC with the entry into force of the Paris Agreement in 2016 and Rwanda
was in 2020 the first Least Developed Country (LDC) to submit an updated NDC, with
ambition raised in the adaptation and mitigation targets to outline its commitment
to a climate-resilient and low carbon economy development pathway. Moreover, the climate
action commitments are guided by Rwanda"s Green Growth and Climate Resilience Strategy
(GGCRS), the National Strategy for Transformation (NST-1) and Vision 2050 - a country"s
long-term strategic goal that defines its aspirations for the future and sets a target
to become an upper middle-income country by 2035 and a high income one by 2050. Rwanda
aligns its national climate and development targets with relevant global and regional
agendas such as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the African Union"s Agenda
2063, the East African Community"s Vision 2050. Consequently, the Rwandan and German
governments have entered into a Rwandan-German Climate and Development Partnership
in 2022. Being embedded in the new Partnership, the project "Capacity Development
for the Implementation of Rwanda's Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs)" is
implemented as a technical assistance intervention by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für
Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH in Rwanda with funding from the German Federal
Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). The project"s goal is to
enhance the institutional and financial framework conditions of relevant state and
non-state actors in Rwanda for the coordination, implementation and monitoring of
the NDC. The project"s political partner is the Ministry of Environment of Rwanda
(MoE), and other actors include line ministries and their technical agencies, the
Rwanda Green Fund (FONERWA), the Development Bank of Rwanda (BRD), the Rwanda Environment
Management Authority (REMA), the science and research community, the private sector
and civil society actors. The project provides policy and technical advice and capacity
development support to key state and non-state actors involved in the implementation
and monitoring of the country"s NDC, especially the MoE. This enhances their organizational
and process-related capacities and skills for the coordination of the NDC implementation.
The project further provides technical advice and training measures to selected public
institutions for NDC mainstreaming across relevant sectors. By deploying a capacity
development approach aligned with their needs, their technical and organizational
capacities to integrate the NDC into key selected policies, strategies and plans are
improved. This also helps strengthening their roles in monitoring the NDC implementation,
hence resulting in quality data gathering and availability (Monitoring, Reporting
and Verification, MRV). The project supports private enterprises (especially SMEs)
to develop financially viable business models to access finance for NDC implementation.
This is done through the provision of needs-based training measures, coaching and
technical advice to access funding opportunities from existing financing facilities
in Rwanda. In addition, enabling environments and regulatory frameworks are improved
for SMEs to facilitate their access to finance for NDC implementation. Furthermore,
the project establishes and fosters gender-responsive cooperation formats to promote
and improve evidence-based climate policy advice in cooperation with the science and
research community in Rwanda. By improving the capacities of the MoE and other key
state and non-state actors to implement and coordinate the NDC while considering evidence-based
climate science and research, the project helps to better inform evidence-based decisions.