Six New GCCA Initiatives are Approved, with Nine More in Final Stages of Approval

Last year, the European Commission committed €36.6 million (most of which originating from fast start funding provided by the EU, Ireland and Cyprus) for financing six new GCCA interventions in Burkina Faso, the Central African Republic, Lesotho, Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste, as well as the Eastern Caribbean region. Now, under the 2013 action programme of the Thematic Programme for the Environment and the Sustainable Management of Natural Resources, including Energy (ENTRP), an additional nine programmes are in discussion.

These are interventions in Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Myanmar, Haiti, Malawi, Mauritania, Sao Tome e Principe and further funding to Tanzania, one of the GCCA’s original partner countries.

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‘With the recent and pending approval of these 15 new GCCA supported interventions, the GCCA portfolio has increased from 4 pilot projects in 2008, to supporting more than 45 national and regional programmes across the world, within an envelope of over €285 million,’ said Sophie De Coninck, Programme Officer with the GCCA at EuropeAid from her office in Brussels. “Once a project is underway, the GCCA Global Support Facility stands by to provide technical support and training to facilitate implementation. Please don’t hesitate to contact us,” she added.

Earlier this year, Technical Expert to the GCCA, Peter Brinn was part of the identification mission to Myanmar, where he witnessed the climate change challenges particular to that country.  He suggests appropriate measures to address these in programme design in the video below:

For more details on GCCA funded projects, please visit www.gcca.eu and www.gcca.eu/fr