September 15, 2022

(CCCCC Press Release 2022/012)

Dr. Colin Young, Executive Director, CCCCC, and Ms. Carolina Fuentes, Director, Division of Country Programming GCF, in a ceremony, signed the Amended and Restated Framework Readiness and Preparatory Support Grant Agreement (FWA).

(Incheon, South Korea) On Wednesday, September 14, 2022, Dr. Colin Young, Executive Director of the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC), and Ms. Carolina Fuentes, Director, Division of Country Programming of the Green Climate Fund (GCF), in a ceremony, signed the Amended and Restated Framework Readiness and Preparatory Support Grant Agreement (FWA). The first Framework Agreement was signed between the CCCCC and the GCF on 5 June 2017.

The Framework Agreement enables the CCCCC to serve as a readiness and preparatory support delivery partner with the GCF to deliver grants to assist CARICOM Member States to strengthen their institutional capacities and improve governance mechanisms and planning frameworks to enable them to access greater climate finance to improve their climate resilience.

According to Dr. Young, “the Revised and Amended Framework Agreement brings significant efficiency and effectiveness to the management of our Readiness Portfolio that will allow the CCCCC, as a Regional Direct Access Entity, to continue to work with CARICOM Member States to program and deliver GCF readiness support.” Importantly, stated Dr. Young, “the Revised Framework now reflects the extensive experience gained by the CCCCC from implementing 17 Readiness Grants in 11 CARICOM Member States over the last five years.”

Dr. Young was joined by two Members of the Board of Governors, Dr. Kenrick Williams (Belize) and Mrs. Diann Black-Layne (Antigua), and Head of Program and Development Management Unit at the CCCCC, Mr. Keith Nichols.

The CCCCC takes this opportunity to acknowledge the willingness of the GCF to undertake this revision that ultimately resulted in a more “fit-for-purpose” FWA to govern the Readiness Support Program.

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The Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre is an inter-governmental Caribbean Community (CARICOM) institution that is mandated by the CARICOM Heads of Government to coordinate the Region’s response to climate change. We maintain the Caribbean’s most extensive repository of information and data on climate change specific to the region, which in part enables us to provide climate change-related policy advice and guidelines to CARICOM Member States.  In this role, the Centre is recognized by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the United Nations Environment Programme, and other international agencies as the focal point for climate change issues in the Caribbean. The Centre is also one of the few institutions recognized as a Centre of Excellence by United Nations Institute for Training and Research. CCCCC is empowering the Caribbean Community to act on climate change.