This project will assist Antigua and Barbuda, Egypt, and Uganda in applying climate-smart planning best practices to their capital investment’s preparation processes. In particular, the project will equip government officials with methodologies, tools, and training to enhance adaptation and mitigation measures in their planning cycle. For each capital investment project that will benefit from this technical assistance program, alternative designs and technologies will be proposed for consideration.

Focusing on 3 cities - English Harbour Town in Antigua and Barbuda, Savannakhet in Lao PDR and Chokwe in Mozambique- this project will increase the target cities' capacity to attract Development Financial Institutions (DFI) Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) finance by identifying and linking to DFI CCA finance (grants and concessional loans) feasible and most impactful CCA projects while laying down foundations for an increased and rated credit and; And in the long term, this project will increase the cities creditworthiness and unlock its access to innovative private financing mechanisms for