The goal of this readiness request is to strengthen Côte d'Ivoire's capacity to mobilizing resources at scale for a long-term climate action agenda. The overall readiness objectives include i) building NDA team capacity to support planning, programming and implementation of GCF funded activities, ii) strengthening institutional coordination mechanism to engage with relevant stakeholders (e.g. CSOs..), iii) strengthening the framework for mobilizing resources for climate action at local level, and iv) raising awareness by bringing together relevant stakeholders, to increase the visibility and communication of good practice and also to enable local authorities to acquire tools for integrating climate change into local planning.