In moving Kiribati’s climate priorities forward, the goal of this Readiness proposal is therefore to improve the country’s capacity to access climate finance and to successfully engage with the Green Climate Fund through the project pipeline.  To achieve this, the Readiness will focus on the following objectives:

1. Build and strengthen human, technical and institutional capacity within the NDA Office and across government, private sector and civil society organisations to undertake climate mandates.
2. Strengthen and ensure effectiveness of the internal coordination and communication mechanisms across ministries and stakeholder groups to reduce duplication, improve climate planning and programming and successfully move projects through the pipeline.
3. Develop and implement climate finance-related strategies and plans including no objection procedures, and the Country Programme.
4. Support the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development (MFED) to strengthen its policies and procedures, including their implementation, for the GCF FMCA re-accreditation, ensuring a strong and viable national delivery partner.