Project Description

To enable St. Kitts and Nevis to achieve its desired national goals and to access climate finance, there is need to identify the institutional gaps and needs and strengthen institutional capacity and effective coordination mechanisms. The main barrier
hindering St. Kitts and Nevis ability to implement the policies and climate actions identified in its NDC include:

1. limited institutional capacity;
2. the absence of an effective mechanism to meaningfully support the mainstreaming of climate change programmes;
3. the absence of an institutional apparatus to access the GCF and other dedicated climate change financing mechanisms;
4. inexperience with developing or implementing large-scale climate projects; and,
5. the inadequate level of climate change awareness and ownership at the national level.

This Readiness will address these barriers directly by responding to the absence of a national institutional apparatus to access climate finance from the GCF and other dedicated climate change financing mechanisms. This Readiness will build the capacity of potential DAE applicants and identify gaps to be filled, and needs to be met, to increase likelihood of accreditation to the GCF. The Readiness is also important for realizing a policy, an Operation Plan and Capacity Building Plan to support the establishment of a National Meteorological Service. Further, this readiness will enable the NDA to apply a Programmatic Approach to Readiness financing, support the development of one concept note and share lessons learnt among DAEs.