📋 Tender Overview
Project ID
220201
Thematic Priority
Safeguarding the Environment
LocationGlobal
Project ManagerAlois Posekufa MHLANGA
Donor
United Kingdom
Fund
Trust Funds
Gender Marker2A (Significant expected contribution to GE)
The Accelerate-to-Demonstrate (A2D) Facility aims to accelerate the commercialization of innovative clean energy technologies in developing countries. The A2D Facility will include support to innovators, research institutions and related organizations in the thematic areas of: critical minerals, clean hydrogen, smart energy and industrial decarbonization. The programme is funded through GBP 65 million from the UK Government’s Department for Energy Security & Net Zero (DESNZ), which includes the 1% UN coordination levy. It currently runs from 1st April 2023 to 31st March 2029. The programme’s main Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)-of-focus are SDGs 13 (climate action), 1 (no poverty) and 9 (industry, innovation and infrastructure), as well as contributing to a range of co-benefits, including, but not limited to, applying the principles of Leave No One Behind, a human rights-based approach, and gender equality and the empowerment of women that encapsulate the universal values on which the 2030 Agenda is based
