📋 Tender Overview
The CBIT-GSP is global project, funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF), executed by UNEP and implemented by the UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre, and presents the continuation and merging of two prior global progammes, namely the CBIT Global Coordination Platform and the Global Support Programme.
The Paris Agreement established the Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF), which introduces more comprehensive and stringent transparency requirements, which present a significant challenge for most developing countries. Targeted towards all developing countries, this five-year project supports countries in getting ready for the ETF and complying with the new reporting requirements from 2024 onwards, namely the delivery of Biennial Transparency Reports (BTR).
Transparency Networks
The project works through different support modalities, which cover global/multi-regional, regional and national support activities. The main support to countries is provided through its ten Transparency Networks, organised by region and language, and covering all developing countries around the globe. The CBIT-GSP Networks are the following:
Anglophone Africa
Anglophone Caribbean
Asia
Central Asia and the Caucasus
Eurasia
Francophone Network (implemented with UNDP)
Lusophone Cluster (implemented with UNDP)
Middle East and North Africa
Pacific
Spanish-speaking Latin America and the Caribbean
Two of the ten Transparency Networks – the Francophone Network and the Lusophone Cluster – are implemented in close collaboration with the UNDP Climate Promise Initiative. The main objective of the Transparency Networks is to be close to countries’ needs and, most importantly, facilitate peer-learning, south-south exchanges, and the sharing of good practices among network countries.
The approach taken in all Transparency Networks includes several steps: 1. securing nominations of thematic focal points from countries, 2. conducting comprehensive needs assessments with countries and 3. based on the assessment results developing a tailored annual network workplan, covering both regional and national support activities. The network workplans are living documents and are updated on a regular basis, based on countries’ needs and priorities.
The support provided through the Transparency Networks comprises various activities including:
Direct in-country support, e.g. for IPCC software trainings, BTR roadmap development and defining NDC indicators.
Regional in-person trainings, e.g., for NDC tracking and GHG inventory.
Virtual workshops and technical webinars, e.g. on tracking support needed and received.
Experience-sharing webinars, e.g. for institutional arrangements and data management systems.
More information on the above activities can be found in the various tabs here.
Overall, the support provided by the CBIT-GSP is demand- and needs-driven and flexible to accommodate for support requests by countries, that can be received at any time.
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