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Uzbekistan

<p>The project goal is to contribute to rural poverty alleviation in the country through increased climate services for agriculture, improving resilience, incomes and enhanced economic growth in rural farming communities and at the sector level. The Adaptation Fund funding will be used to achieve this goal through the following objectives:• Objective 1. Develop an agro-climatic monitoring, analysis, communication and information system for local level decision making in agriculture and food security • Objective 2. Develop institutional and technical capacity for long-term climate scenario analysis, adaptation framework planning and policy-making for agricultural productionsystems • Objective 3. Providing climate services to rural population to increase awareness on predicted adverse impacts of climate change in agriculture, and of appropriate responses</p>

The Sustainable and Inclusive Green Acceleration Programme (“SAIGA”; or “the Programme”) in Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Türkiye and Uzbekistan (hereafter the “focus countries”) is created to accelerate decarbonization and market transformation through adoption of climate mitigation technologies at scale by leveraging the financial sector to catalyse innovative private sector investments in line with the national NDC objectives. 

The Programme will support private sector businesses, predominantly micro, small and medium enterprises (“MSMEs”) and households, as end beneficiaries, and Financial Institutions (“FIs”) as intermediaries to focus on gender-responsive climate mitigation activities, including demand-side energy efficiency (in industry, commerce and buildings) and decentralized renewable energy investments (including battery storage). 
The objective of SAIGA is to help financial intermediaries and end beneficiaries in the target countries to overcome some of the major barriers hindering the quick uptake of mitigation practices and technologies to drive decarbonisation. 

These barriers include: i) technical barriers, such as low levels of awareness both among FIs and end beneficiaries of the availability and benefits of such technologies; low levels of awareness of climate risks they face; fragmentation of supply chains; ii) financial barriers, such as access to long-term affordable green finance both for FIs and end beneficiaries, especially underserved segments (MSMEs, households, women-led businesses, rural populations and businesses; etc); higher upfront costs of adopting some of these technologies compared to business as usual (“BAU”), and iii) the regulatory environment in the targeted countries is not yet sufficient to incentivise decarbonisation efforts by the financial sector. 

These barriers have been further exacerbated by the COVID pandemic, as well as recent geopolitical instability and conflicts across different regions that have led to a certain de-prioritisation of the climate agenda. 

The Programme is built around the mutually reinforcing components, as described below which facilitate the desired transformation and will be applied as most relevant for the different markets. Building on these three Components, the Programme brings solutions to some of the above-mentioned barriers to allow for an acceleration of decarbonisation efforts driven by the financial system. 

For more information about the barriers and programme components addressing them please refer to the section below and to the section Project Description.

Local CSOs and CBOs in landscapes-seascapes around the world access grant financing and technical assistance, including capacity development and knowledge sharing to maintain and enhance their socio-ecological resilience, well-being and socio-economic conditions for global environmental benefits.

Mobilising private sector climate finance is an urgent priority to enable vulnerable countries to move towards a climate-resilient future rapidly.

This programme aims to achieve a systemic transformation of the financial sector in 13 countries by providing concessional financing for climate change mitigation and adaptation projects for small and medium enterprises, housing associations, municipalities, public utilities, and others.

Building upon Green Economy Financing Facility (FP025), it aims to leverage existing networks in each of the participating countries to develop climate-compatible financial systems, so that five per cent of banking sector assets, amounting to USD 180 billion, will be channeled to Paris-aligned pathways by the tenth year of programme implementation.

The programme comprises a lending envelope of USD 620 million for banks, microfinancing institutions and leasing companies, and a grant-funded technical assistance facility of USD 49 million to assist financial institutions with developing green transition plans. To foster gender-inclusive development and greater economic inclusion, the programme intends to commit at least 20 per cent of the loans to women or women-led businesses and 30 per cent to end borrowers outside the countries’ main cities.

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