The Readiness programme is intended to provide technical and management support to the NDA in view of building the operational and strategic mechanisms and capacity, necessary for the NDA to fulfil its role and responsibilities in relation to the Fund. The programme will also focus, through national stakeholder engagement, on developing a country programme that will highlight the key priority areas and pipeline of projects that may be further developed for investment by the GCF. In addition, work will be undertaken to identify potential entities for implementation of such priority areas and to conduct initial gap analysis in terms of their suitability for accreditation to the Fund.