Niger

Map of Niger

Country Initiatives Details

Support to enhance measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) with countries in the Pacific Alliance and West Africa

  • Canada’s Total Climate Finance Contribution: $3,289,155 CAD
    • 2020 to 2021: $1,817,393 CAD
    • 2019 to 2020: $1,176,296 CAD
    • 2018 to 2019: $295,466 CAD

Targeted Countries: Benin Burkina Faso Cabo Verde Chile Colombia Côte d'Ivoire Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Liberia Mali Mauritania Mexico Niger Nigeria Peru Senegal Sierra Leone Togo

Funding Period: 2018 to 2019, 2019 to 2020, 2020 to 2021

Financial Instrument: Grant

Type of Support: Mitigation

Delivery Partner(s):

Description

Canada supports countries in the Pacific Alliance (Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru) and Western Africa (Benin, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Cote d’Ivoire, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo) to define regional priorities to address greenhouse gas (GHG) and short-lived climate pollutant (SLCP) emissions and to pursue opportunities to strengthen their capacity to measure, report, and verify (MRV) emissions. This project will facilitate South-South MRV collaboration and knowledge sharing within and between the Pacific Alliance and West Africa as a mean of exchanging best practices and supporting the replication of best practices generated from Canada’s climate finance sectoral projects in each region. Through capacity-building and regional collaboration efforts, this project will support countries to achieve their respective Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC).

Results/Expected Outcomes

This project supports efforts by the Pacific Alliance and Western African countries to:
• Increase awareness and familiarization of climate targets, policies and the status of climate MRV systems in each nation in order to strengthen MRV capacity and support NDC implementation.
• Support approaches to strengthen institutional arrangement, climate governance structures and improve the effectiveness of national climate MRV systems within each nation.
• Support harmonization of climate MRV within the region, including mitigation activities, emission inventories and climate finance.

The project provides support to the Pacific Alliance's Technical Sub-Group on MRV and Climate Change (SGT-MRVCC) to implement the Presidential Mandate to cooperate on MRV in a manner that helps mobilize climate finance, enhance ambition of climate actions and support NDC implementation with the Pacific Alliance.

To support the countries to achieve these objectives, the project will engage in capacity building, provide technical expertise, and facilitate inter- and intra-regional collaboration and dialogues.

Canadian Climate Adaptation Facility: National Adaptation Programs of Action Priority Interventions to Build Resilience and Adaptive Capacity of the Agriculture Sector to Climate Change in Niger

  • Canada’s Total Climate Finance Contribution: $2,640,000 CAD
    • 2012 to 2013: $2,640,000 CAD

Targeted Countries: Niger

Funding Period: 2012 to 2013

Delivery Partner(s):

Description

The $16.5 million Canadian Climate Adaptation Facility at the United Nations Development Program provided support to implement national adaptation programs of action priority interventions to build resilience and adaptive capacity of the agriculture sector to climate change in Niger.

Results/Expected Outcomes

Canada's support contributes to strengthening resilience of food production systems and/or food insecure communities to climate stress, including dissemination of seeds of tried and tested drought-resilient crop varieties. Activities are expected to start in 2014.