81298631 - Technical Expert Support for the Implementation of the Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) on Climate Change in Rwanda

Rwanda has submitted its intended Nationally Determined Contribution (iNDC) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The iNDC became the country"s first NDC with the entry into force of the Paris Agreement in 2016 and Rwanda was in 2020 the first Least Developed Country (LDC) to submit an updated NDC, with ambition raised in the adaptation and mitigation targets to outline its commitment to a climate-resilient and low carbon economy development pathway. Moreover, the climate action commitments are guided by Rwanda"s Green Growth and Climate Resilience Strategy (GGCRS), the National Strategy for Transformation (NST-1) and Vision 2050 - a country"s long-term strategic goal that defines its aspirations for the future and sets a target to become an upper middle-income country by 2035 and a high income one by 2050. Rwanda aligns its national climate and development targets with relevant global and regional agendas such as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the African Union"s Agenda 2063, the East African Community"s Vision 2050. Consequently, the Rwandan and German governments have entered into a Rwandan-German Climate and Development Partnership in 2022. Being embedded in the new Partnership, the project "Capacity Development for the Implementation of Rwanda's Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs)" is implemented as a technical assistance intervention by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH in Rwanda with funding from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). The project"s goal is to enhance the institutional and financial framework conditions of relevant state and non-state actors in Rwanda for the coordination, implementation and monitoring of the NDC. The project"s political partner is the Ministry of Environment of Rwanda (MoE), and other actors include line ministries and their technical agencies, the Rwanda Green Fund (FONERWA), the Development Bank of Rw