Development of Capacity Building (CB) Modules for the Renewable Energy Methodology

The Initiative for Climate Action Transparency (ICAT) aims to help countries assess the impacts of their climate policies and actions, and fulfil their transparency commitments. It does this by increasing the overall transparency capacities of countries, including the capacity to assess the contribution of climate policies and actions on greenhouse gas (GHG) levels and on countries’ development objectives, and providing appropriate methodological information and tools to support evidence-based policy-making. ICAT’s innovative approach is to integrate these two aspects.

ICAT focuses on countries that can highlight the benefits of increased transparency to demonstrate policy impact and evidence-based action. ICAT will generate evolving methodological guidance and extract best practises, to be publicly available to all actors, increasing the global knowledge base. ICAT’s work is country-driven, and efforts build on existing Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) systems and knowledge in countries and complement previous or on-going activities by other initiatives, where applicable.

ICAT has developed a number of guides and tools to support countries with their transparency efforts. These guides and tools are being applied in partner countries, including through support from ICAT. Among the guides are the ICAT Policy Assessment guides for assessing GHG, sustainable development, and transformational change impacts of policies and actions, as well as process guides on stakeholder participation and for technical review.

Recently, ICAT developed capacity building (CB) modules for the Introductory, Sustainable Development, Transformational Change, Stakeholder Participation, Agriculture and Forestry guides. The CB modules are designed to support trainings and workshops on the application of the ICAT Assessment Guides in partner countries (and non-partner countries where relevant) to allow national experts and other local stakeholders to gain knowledge and experience with the methodologies in the guides and, ultimately, enhance national capacity in the use of the guides to develop and/or analyse national policies.

The CB modules are supplements to the guides. They provide an overview of the methodologies, examples, and exercises to use in capacity building trainings and workshops on the guides. The availability of general CB modules also provides Implementing Partners with a starting resource for providing solid foundational training on assessment approaches, which can then readily be leveraged into the capacity building interventions that are further tailored to country-specific assessments.

The ICAT Secretariat is now seeking a Grantee to develop sector-specific CB modules for the existing Renewable Energy (RE) Assessment Guide.

Entities interested in submitting a proposal in response to this Call for Proposals are invited to submit the proposal to ICAT@unops.org no later than 12 August 2022, 23:59 CEST.