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Climate Investment Funds (CIFs)
UK - Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
The $8 billion Climate Investment Funds (CIF) accelerates climate action by empowering transformations in clean technology, energy access, climate resilience, and sustainable forests in developing and middle income countries. The CIF’s large-scale, low-cost, long-term financing lowers the risk and cost of climate financing. It tests new business models, builds track records in unproven markets, and boosts investor confidence to unlock additional sources of finance.
Global Energy Transfer Feed-in Tariff (GETFiT)
UK - Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
The Global Energy Transfer for Feed-in Tariff (GET FiT) Programme was established in 2013 with the main objective of assisting Uganda to pursue a climate resilient low-carbon development path by facilitating private sector investments in renewable electricity generation projects. The support provided was expected to improve access to electricity and promote growth and economic development in Uganda and contribute to climate change mitigation.
Climate Public Private Partnership Programme (CP3)
UK - Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
The Climate Public Private Partnership Programme (CP3) aims to increase low carbon investment in renewable energy, water, energy efficiency and forestry in developing countries. By showing that Low Carbon and Climate Resilient investments can deliver competitive financial returns as well as climate and development impact, CP3 seeks to catalyse new sources of climate finance from institutional investors such as pension funds and sovereign wealth funds.
Renewable Energy Performance Platform (REPP)
UK - Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
The REPP programme provides support to private sector developers of small scale renewable energy projects in sub-Saharan Africa. REPP supports solar, hydro, biomass, biogas, geothermal, and wind projects up to 25MW installed capacity (up to 50MW for wind). REPP provides technical assistance direct to project developers, provides pre-construction and bridging loans, post-construction financing, and equity financing.
UK Climate Investments (UKCI)
UK - Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
UK Climate Investments (UKCI) invests in renewable energy and energy efficiency projects across sub-Saharan Africa and India to demonstrate that low carbon development is possible, replicable at scale, commercially viable and capable of lowering carbon emissions and supporting economic growth. The fund (£200m of UK International Climate Finance) provides late-stage minority equity investments on a commercial basis to get projects off the ground that would not otherwise reach financial close
Clean Energy Innovation Facility (CEIF)
UK - Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
ODA grant funding that supports clean energy research, development & demonstration (RD&D) to help improve the performance of innovative technologies, and to accelerate the clean energy transition to avoid the most severe impacts of climate change in developing countries
FCDO Prosperity Fund: Overseas Development Assistance (ODA)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
FCDO Prosperity Fund: Overseas Development Assistance (ODA)
China Prosperity Fund programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Through the Prosperity Fund the UK works with China to address big global challenges, and promote sustainable economic growth while creating business opportunities. In line with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, the Prosperity Fund enables the UK to work with China in addressing the biggest global challenges, such as climate change. The Prosperity Fund is also used to promote the conditions for sustainable and inclusive economic growth, while creating opportunities for international business, including UK companies. The China Prosperity Fund programme covers 4 areas: China’s business environment The programme will support progress towards a stronger rule of law including clearer judicial processes, dispute resolution and protection of intellectual property. This ultimately aims to lead to an improved, fairer business environment in which UK firms can operate. Financial services The programme will promote financial sector reform, employing policy and private sector expertise to: better regulate the Chinese financial sector build a more gender and socially inclusive economy enable UK and international businesses to enter the growing Chinese pensions and insurance markets Energy and low carbon The programme will match China’s specific areas for reform and change with UK energy and low carbon strengths, reducing global emissions by accelerating China’s energy transition. Infrastructure in third countries The programme will support and raise environmental and social standards in growth-enhancing Chinese-led infrastructure projects in developing countries in Africa and Asia, through promoting UK and international best practice in design, engineering, financial, professional and legal services.
Indonesia Regulatory Reform and Renewable Energy programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
The Indonesia Regulatory Reform programme will strengthen the regulatory environment, to overcome obstacles including: - a complicated regulatory environment, which can deter investors - difficulty securing finance for energy infrastructure projects The Renewable Energyprogramme will deliver poverty reduction, economic development and gender equality by developing the renewable energy sector to best support poor communities, with a focus on eastern Indonesia, which has the poorest provinces of Indonesia. The programme will create commercial opportunities for international business, including British business, in the renewable energy sector.
Mexico Prosperity Fund programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
The Mexico Prosperity Fund Programme supports sustainable development and promotes economic reform and business innovation.
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.
Cities and Infrastructure for Growth (CIG)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The UK will provide up to £165m over 5 years in two phases of £82.5m. The programme will provide technical support on city and regional interventions in 3 focus countries, Myanmar, Uganda and Zambia resulting in increased inclusive economic growth and job creation. The interventions will help city economies to become more productive, deliver access to reliable, affordable, renewable power for businesses and households, and strengthen investment into infrastructure services, including from the UK.
Accelerating Investment and Infrastructure in Nepal
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To accelerate private investment and economic growth in Nepal by providing technical expertise to help Nepalese institutions develop major infrastructure; improve the business climate for domestic and foreign investors; improve the implementation of economic policy and test new approaches for local economic development. This will result in at least £600 million of private investment into growth-boosting sectors and a reduction by at least 10% in time or cost for at least five regulatory processes perceived as burdensome by the private sector.
Supporting Structural Reform in the Indian Power Sector
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
In line with the UK government’s aid policy and new development partnership with India, the ‘Supporting Structural Reform in the Indian Power Sector’ programme will improve the efficiency, reliability and sustainability of electricity supply in India through technical expertise, not through traditional grant support. It will provide world class expertise to support the market reforms and scale up of renewable energy supply that the Indian power sector needs to support growth and create jobs. It will work at the Central level and in upto three States which may include DFID focus states such as Odisha, Andhra Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh.
Climate Public Private Partnership Programme (CP3)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
CP3 aims to demonstrate that climate friendly investments in developing countries, including in renewable energy, water, energy efficiency and forestry are not only ethically right but also commercially viable. It aims to attract new forms of finance such as pension funds and sovereign wealth funds into these areas by creating two commercial private equity funds of funds which will invest in subfunds and projects in developing countries, creating track records of investment performance which should in turn encourage further investments and accelerate the growth of investment in climate.
British Support for Infrastructure Projects (BSIP) (formerly Developing Markets Infrastructure Programme (DMIP)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
British Support for Infrastructure Projects will support predominately low and lower middle-income developing country governments procure and finance development-focused infrastructure.
Mobilising Institutional Capital Through Listed Product Structures
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
FCDO seeks to support the development of new products that have the ambition to list on major and local exchanges, and by doing so, engage new sources of investment and new investors, to help bridge the SDG financing gap, estimated by the UN to total $2.5 trillion p.a. ODA flows alone will not meet the needs of developing countries, and new sources of private investment will be essential if the SDGs are to be met by 2030. The programme will work with UK-based financial service providers and providers across FCDO priority countries and more widely, working to help mobilise more capital to reach the hardest places, and where the needs are greatest.
India: Infrastructure Loan Fund - Small loans to bridge the infrastructure gap for the poor
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The Programme is expected to directly result in access to new/import infrastructure services such as electricity, sewage and transport to an estimated 280,000 people.To improve access to better quality transport, clean energy and basic urban services for households and businesses, by providing loans to private sector-led infrastructure projects. This will benefit an estimated 280,000 people with improved infrastructure services.
PIDG2 - Second phase of DFID's Support to the Private Infrastructure Development Group .
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The aim of PIDG is to mobilise private investment in infrastructure, in order to increase service provision for the poor, boost economic growth, trade and jobs to alleviate poverty in the world’s poorest countries.
UK Caribbean Infrastructure Fund
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
As announced by the UK government in September 2015, the UK Caribbean Infrastructure Fund will create critical economic infrastructure including: bridges; renewable energy; ports; water; and sea defences that will increase productivity and resilience to natural disasters and climate change. This fund aims to improve economic development in 8 ODA eligible and 1 ODA eligible Overseas Territory by helping to boost growth and creating jobs across the region.
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