Climate Finance Accelerator (CFA) 2

Services to be delivered include but are not limited to: PROGRAMME MANAGEMENT > Develop and maintain a robust delivery plan, including accurate budgeting, risk management, stakeholder and country engagement strategies, and communications plan. > Procure and work with in-country delivery partners, and technical experts as required. > Create and disseminate knowledge products. > Manage the CFA website. > Act as an entrepreneurial and innovative partner, actively identifying and suggesting opportunities to the Authority for how to enhance programme impact. > Develop and deliver an exit strategy. COUNTRY DELIVERY > Conduct country scoping, capacity assessments and in-country market engagement. > Design tailored technical assistance offers for selected countries, including delivering project identification, selection, capacity building, and follow-up support. > Deliver in-country workshops involving projects, climate financiers, policymakers, and other relevant stakeholders. > Conduct bespoke capacity building for financiers and policymakers, where required. > Support curation of investible pipelines to support engagement with investors. > Deliver an alumni network for projects that have received capacity building through the programme. > Support completion of the CFA process in ‘legacy CFA’ countries. > Support the process of sustainably embedding the CFA and its activities in-country. > Work alongside other UK and other donor programmes in-country to promote better alignment of objectives. STAKEHOLDER MANAGEMENT > Foster relationships between projects, financiers, and policymakers in target countries. > Work alongside a varied group of stakeholders to discuss partnerships and synergies, including philanthropies, other donor governments, IFI’s and others. > Develop and maintain a database of international and in-country climate financiers. > Support development of regional hubs. > Work closely with DESNZ programme team and HMG in-country staff. > Promote the programme and its work in external events as appropriate. > Deliver an annual London conference bringing key stakeholders from across countries to facilitate knowledge sharing at a global level and to showcase the best investment opportunities to City of London climate financiers. For further information about the existing CFA programme please go to https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/climate-finance-accelerator/climate-finance-accelerator and https://devtracker.fcdo.gov.uk/projects/GB-GOV-13-ICF-0036-CFA/summary Additional information: The Authority anticipates initial market engagement in October 2023, ahead of launching a procurement in early 2024. Further notices will be issued with details for how to participate in market engagement and with further details on procurement timelines as this information becomes available.