This Readiness proposal will contribute to climate financial resource mobilization by Samoa to address immediate and future climate change risks and challenges to people’s livelihoods. To achieve this goal, this proposal aims to strengthen technical capacity of relevant stakeholders, generate evidence and data, put in place necessary policies and institutional arrangements that will facilitate the co-design, with communities, truly transformative climate solutions to effectively cope with soaring climate change challenges. These co-designed innovative solutions will be developed during state-of-the-art visioning workshops and will support Samoa’s climate finance planning and form the basis for the development of a Concept Note, which will also involve a pre-feasibility study and a mitigation potential assessmentiv) Direct and indirect beneficiaries.