Measures to support environmental and climate protection and adaptation to climate change (FONERWA)

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The project is embedded in the German program to support decentralization and good governance. The FC measure promotes the implementation of environmental and climate protection or climate adaptation measures at the local level, via the Rwandan environmental and climate fund FONERWA. The fund selects relevant individual projects on the basis of project applications from the districts, but after its strategic reorientation, it is also intended to increasingly mobilize, manage and coordinate funds to finance climate-relevant programs of national and strategic interest. The first approach to this is to support the Green City Pilot (GCP) in the Gasabo / Kigali district as a model project for environmentally friendly and climate-friendly urban development. The overarching goal of the project is to increase resilience to the effects of climate change and to ensure the sustainable socio-economic development of Rwanda. The target group of the project is the entire population in the 30 districts of Rwanda (11.7 million people) who are affected by the consequences of climate change and dependent on the sustainable use of natural resources. The FC contribution amounts to up to EUR 7.0 million. In line with the concept of the previous funding phase, up to EUR 2.0 million will be used for investments in local infrastructure projects in all 30 districts, according to the FONERWA application principle (classic approach). Up to EUR 4.5 million will be used to prepare planning documents for the Green City Kigali pilot that are ready for tender. EUR 0.5 million will go into a consulting contract co-financed with SIDA and FCDO for institutional advice to FONERWA.