Eastern Caribbean regional climate finance training for OECS countries: “Designing bankable project proposals to scale up access to climate finance”

The European Union and the OECS Commission, under the framework of EUROCLIMA programme with GIZ as the implementing agency, organized a regional climate finance workshop focused on developing actionable and bankable project proposals for OECS Member States in St Lucia from March 3rd to 6th. The regional workshop provided overarching information on how countries can access (national, regional and) international funds from different public and private sources of climate finance, including but not limited to the UNFCCC financial mechanisms. It also provided up-to-date information on key financial institutions operating in the Caribbean region investing in climate finance as well as the different innovative financial instruments they deploy, including the European financial offer. Finally, the workshop contributed to increasing technical capacities of government representatives and the OECS Commission, for the design of bankable climate project proposals.