First Consultative Sector Working Group (SWG) Meeting Fiji National Designated Authority (NDA)

Objectives

1. Review the consultative group Terms of Reference (TOR);
2. Co-develop the Letter of Support (LOS) and No Objection Letter (NOL) procedures to appraise and approve Green Climate Fund (GCF) concept notes (CN) and funding proposals (FP) respectively.

Key Activities:

First part Validation of SWG TOR.

Second Part, Fiji’s Letter of Support and No Objection Letter draft procedures discussion. Presentation by Groups and suggestion for next meeting.

Results:

• SWG members to be involved from the start during the ideation stage with project proponents through a consultative process before they get to the NOL cycle.
• NDA to create a mechanism of awareness for other government ministries
• There needs to be open communication between SWG and National Designated Authority (NDA)
• Balance for projects should be 50% mitigation and 50% adaptation

Next Steps: The SWG consultative meetings will be conducted minimum quarterly and the open meetings will be conducted twice in a year.

Participants: 29

Documents

• Terms of Reference
• Final Report
• Agenda