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Clean Energy Transition Programme (CETP)
UK - Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
The Clean Energy Transitions Programme (CETP) leverages the IEA’s unique energy expertise across all fuels and technologies to accelerate global clean-energy transitions, particularly in major emerging economies. The Programme includes collaborative analytical work, technical cooperation, training and capacity building and strategic dialogues.
Global Climate Partnership Fund (GCPF)
UK - Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
GCPF is a public-private partnership which seeks to mobilise investment flows in energy efficiency and renewable energy projects in developing and emerging markets, with the aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. GCPF primarily does this by providing debt finance via local financial institutions, extending credit lines so they can offer loans for small-scale low carbon projects. GCPF also supports local finance institutions through technical assistance and capacity building.
Transformative Carbon Asset Fund (TCAF)
UK - Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
The Transformative Carbon Asset Facility will target sector or policy wide programmes where the implementing country is planning to take climate mitigation action. This could be via regulations, fiscal policies, feed-in-tariff or incentives. As long as these plans are in line with the TCAF programme selection criteria, in collaboration with the implementing entity (normally a Government ministry) TCAF will design a methodology that pays for the verified emissions reductions of the programme above its intended ambition, giving targeted support to unlock the barriers to allow the increased ambition to be realised.
Energy Sector Management Assistance Programme (ESMAP)
UK - Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
The World Bank Energy Sector Management Assistance Programme (ESMAP) is a multi-donor trust fund that provides technical assistance to help shape global energy policies and leverage significant development financing. It primarily targets six Asian countries (China, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Pakistan and Vietnam) where the most new, unabated coal-fired power generation is due to begin operation (from 2018 to 2020). ESMAP is influential in advising countries on the clean energy transition, with significant demand for its technical assistance.
Partnership for Market Implementation (PMI)
UK - Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
To support the implementation of carbon pricing instruments in developing countries as a means to deliver cost-effective greenhouse gas mitigation.
Mainstreaming Gender Equality and Social Inclusion for a Just Energy Transition in Ethiopia, Malawi, Mozambique, and Tanzania (JustGESI)
DEPARTMENT FOR SCIENCE, INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY
The Global Commission on People-Centred Clean Energy Transitions recommends incorporating Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) in any efforts to advance the energy transition.[1] The Independent Expert Group on Just Transition and Development in Africa advocates for a transition based on social justice and feminist values.[2] The UN Gender and Energy Compact (under the auspices of the SDG7) identifies five outcomes for women to lead, participate in and benefit from a just, sustainable, and inclusive energy transition: increasing women’s access and control over energy resources; incorporating GESI in transition pathways, strategies and regulations; supporting women-owned and led businesses; facilitating women's career advancement in the energy transition; and enhancing the knowledge base to understand processes of exclusion.[3] However, empirical evidence shows a persistent gender and inclusion gap in the energy transition. This gap manifests in the lack of participation of women and gender non-conforming people in the sustainable energy labour force. There is limited knowledge of how gender relations and intersecting forms of social discrimination (such as racism or ableism) reproduce energy injustices in the energy transition. During the last decades, many energy projects have incorporated GESI concerns, for example, collecting gender-disaggregated data or holding single-sex learning sessions. However, such approaches fail to challenge the root causes of discrimination and social inequality. Many projects focus on differences between men and women without questioning the homogeneous, universal categories used to characterise diverse groups and complex experiences of power relations and exclusion. Over-simplifying the relationships between gender relations, discrimination, and access to energy resources leads to decontextualised, inappropriate actions (such as when cookstove improvement programmes make inaccurate assumptions about cooking practices and fuel choices). Such generalisations portray women as passive victims or virtuous stewards in ways that increase their responsibility for delivering collective action without the corresponding rewards (such as when biogas-cooking programmes seek to ‘empower’ women but inadvertently result in additional domestic labour). A GESI-transformative approach to the energy transition requires challenging these types of decisions and practices, which tend to reproduce energy injustices, whatever their intentions. JustGESI will deliver substantive action to advance GESI objectives within the energy transition in Africa, focusing on: How to advance GESI objectives within concrete projects and policy interventions. Identifying and promoting institutional and policy reforms that facilitate GESI objectives. Identifying and delivering forms of capacity building that advance transformative strategies to GESI. This interdisciplinary, international partnership will deliver practical, policy and capacity-building responses through a collaborative programme of work across four countries, Ethiopia, Malawi, Mozambique, and Tanzania, where our well-established research network has obtained evidence of inclusivity gaps in the energy transition and are already initiating pilot actions to tackle these. The project will address the Ayrton challenge of ‘smart delivery,’ delivering ‘inclusive energy & leave no one behind’ interventions by putting questions of equality, diversity and inclusion at the heart of the transition to sustainable energy. Simultaneously, the project will address the challenges of ‘super-efficient demand’ and ‘modern cooking services’ by focusing on the delivery of sustainable fuels for cooking. At COP28, world leaders committed to clean cooking for all Africans. However, despite pioneering examples of gender-responsive electric cooking programmes, there is not yet a credible international GESI strategy for clean cooking. [1] https://www.iea.org/programmes/people-centred-clean-energy-transitions [2] https://justtransitionafrica.org/ [3] https://genderenergycompact.org/
Yemen Economic Stabilisation Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
he Yemen Economic Stabilisation (YES) Programme strengthens the Government of Yemen’s (GoY) capability to deliver essential, inclusive services by addressing core drivers of economic instability through targeted, politically informed technical assistance. Through a politically oriented and conflict sensitive approach, YES supports reforms in public financial management, monetary stability, electricity sector, and the financial sector, while creating conditions for private-sector investment and job creation. By stabilising essential GoY economic governance, the programme over time enhances the government’s credibility and legitimacy, maintaining a pathway to a political process, and reduces humanitarian needs. Beneficiaries include Yemeni citizens (particularly in GoY-controlled areas) and vulnerable households, as well as core economic institutions such as the Central Bank, Ministry of Finance, and energy authorities.
Urban Resilience Programme in South Africa
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The Urban Resilience Programme will fund technical assistance (TA) for inclusive, sustainable and climate-resilient economic development in South African cities. The programme will support South Africa’s ambitions for green recovery, sustainable growth and institution building. The programme will build on the learning and achievements of Future Cities, which successfully delivered strategies for urban governance, spatial planning and economic development in Durban/eThekwini, Johannesburg and Cape Town
TEA - Transforming Energy Access
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
TEA is the flagship FCDO research and innovation platform supporting early-stage testing and scale-up of innovative technologies and business models that accelerate access to affordable, clean, and modern energy in developing countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and the Indo-Pacific, enabling sustainable and inclusive growth. TEA seeks to improve clean energy access for 25 million people, create 170,000 green jobs, and leverage £1.3 billion of additional investment into clean energy technology research, innovation and scale-up. It contributes to International Climate Finance (ICF) objectives and it is the main FCDO platform for delivery of the £1 billion UK Ayrton Fund for clean energy innovation between 2021 and 2026. TEA is delivered by four lead FCDO partners - Carbon Trust, Innovate UK, Shell Foundation, and ESMAP – and a network to date of more than 750 downstream partners delivering research and innovation activities in more than 60 countries.
UKSIP - The UK Sustainable Infrastructure Programme Latin America
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To accelerate the implementation of the Nationally Determined Contributions of key countries by catalysing and mobilising strategic private sector investments in sustainable infrastructure in Latin America. It supports partner countries to achieve their emission reduction commitments by mobilising private investment into low-carbon infrastructure. Public and private sector Technical Assistance, and blended finance investments. It works with four partner countries: Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru.
Just Energy Transition Partnership Support, South Africa
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
This programme aims to support the accelerated decarbonisation of South Africa's electricity system to achieve the most ambitious target possible within South Africa's Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC). It will also support a just transition that protects vulnerable workers and communities, especially coal miners, women and youth, affected by the move away from coal.
Bangladesh Climate and Environment Programme (BCEP)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To help deliver a more climate resilient, less carbon intensive and cleaner Bangladesh. The programme will help tackle adaptation, energy, environmental management and climate governance challenges at national and local level, in communities across Bangladesh.
Increasing renewable energy and energy efficiency in the Eastern Caribbean
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To increase the use of renewable energy and energy efficiency measures and to improve energy security in the Eastern Caribbean
MENTARI, UK-Indonesia Low Carbon Energy Partnership
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
MENTARI (formerly Indonesia Renewable Energy) programme aims to support inclusive economic growth and poverty reduction through accelerating and expanding low carbon energy in Indonesia while mainstreaming Gender and Inclusion in its delivery Policy, to reform national & regional renewable energy policies, regulations, guidelines, and financial instruments that bring about a more conducive business environment in low carbon energy sector Brokerage, to increase investment in low carbon energy projects by bridging the gap between financiers and project developers through brokerage, technical assistance and small amounts of catalytic Viability Gap Funding Demonstration Project, to demonstrate viable & replicable off-grid low carbon energy systems that will bring socio-economic benefits including for women and marginalised groups Collaboration, Capacity Building & Networking, supports collaboration, networking, and capacity building of relevant stakeholders in low carbon energy sector
MENTARI 2, UK-Indonesia Low Carbon Energy Partnership
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
MENTARI 2 (Menuju Transisi Energi Rendah Karbon di Indonesia / Towards Indonesia’s Low Carbon Energy Transition) builds on the success and lessons learned from the first MENTARI programme to support Indonesia’s energy transition, while factoring in inclusive economic growth and poverty reduction in the approach. Its specific objectives include: 1. Improving Indonesian policies and regulations to increase investment into the low carbon energy sector 2. Increasing rural electrification to promote economic development, particularly for disadvantaged groups 3. Supporting Indonesian institutions identify and finance low carbon energy projects 4. Building energy transition expertise within Indonesian institutions (e.g. NGOs, academia, and government). Gender and inclusivity will be mainstreamed throughout delivery. And the programme will opportunistically work with other donors and multilateral efforts to avoid duplication or maximise impact.
Asia Pacific Regional Governance Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The Asia Pacific Governance Programme will support the foundations on which FCDO can deliver the UK objectives in the Indo-Pacific by establishing partnerships for ‘progressive governance’ that enable broader UK priorities in the region. Support will be based on a combination of a) strategic programming b) deep context analysis and learning, and c) increased capacity to deliver advice and support to governance actors in the region. The programme will build on a base of successful projects and will test a long-term approach for strategic engagement on governance in the region.
Climate Investment Fund for Pakistan (CIFPAK)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
CIFPAK will mobilise private climate finance to support Pakistan’s green growth and climate resilience ambitions. Currently the 8th most climate vulnerable country in the world, the World Bank estimates that Pakistan will require US$348 billion of investment to become climate resilient and make the transition to a low-carbon economy by 2030. CIFPAK aims to crowd in private climate finance using a blended finance approach (public/private, concessional/non-concessional), supported by targeted technical assistance. It will have a specific focus on mobilising private investment for climate adaptation. The programme will support delivery of Pakistan’s National Adaptation Plan and also aims to deepen Pakistan’s capital markets. Programme’s approved budget is £108m (£70m fiscal CDEL and £38m RDEL) over seven years (April 2024 – March 2031).
ARCAN - Africa Regional Climate and Nature Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The impact will be increased resilience of Africa economies and communities to the impacts of a changing climate, sustainable and environmentally sound economic development and low carbon green energy generation and access.
BRILHO - Energy Africa Mozambique
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To increase domestic and business energy access through private sector innovation and investment, and government support, through supply of dispersed off-grid energy solutions and improved cook stoves.
Ukraine Resilience and Energy Security Programme (URES)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The Ukraine Resilience and Energy Security Programme (URES) aim is to strengthen access to the European power grid; support more efficient use of energy; and decrease reliance on hydrocarbons. This will promote Ukraine's welfare and economic development, as energy security has been presented by the Government of Ukraine as a top priority in the lead-up to and aftermath of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. £62m will be provided to end 2025 to support energy security for Ukraine and ensure that UK expertise and innovation continues to be made available for reconstruction efforts. The programme will deliver: generators (fossil fuel & solar) to increase resilience of key facilities; equipment and parts to repair the transmission system following Russian attacks; investment in green energy companies; grants for the development of green innovations; technical assistance and monitoring; plus contingency.
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