HIGHLANDS REGIONAL WORKSHOP – GREEN CLIMATE FUND

WORKSHOP REPORT
21-23 May 2019
Awareness & Consultations on Green Climate Fund
& the Role of the National Designated Authority on
Climate Finance in Papua New Guinea.
Highlander Hotel, Mount Hagen
Western Highlands Province

Prior to the first Regional Workshop on the GCF in Mount Hagen, the CCDA with GGGI support took steps to raise stakeholder and public awareness by conducting a series of communications activities through print media, social media, national and provincial radio stations including a live broadcast segment on Radio Western Highlands.

The opening of the Regional Workshop was led by the Provincial Administrator of the Western Highlands
Province, demonstrating local government buy-in for the objectives of the consultation. The opening session also included opening remarks by the CCDA Managing Director, as well as a short promotional video highlighting PNG climate resilient green growth potential.

The Regional Workshop presentation focused on introducing the CCDA as the NDA to the GCF, and the
coordinating services, it is mandated to deliver to the provinces through Provincial Climate Change Committees (PCCC) or other existing established mechanisms in a province. Presentations also focused on introducing the GCF, its financing windows and investment criteria and how to develop and implement GCF projects.

The Regional Workshop also included several group exercises engaging participants and designed to identify provincial priorities and projects and using those priorities to formulate a GCF Project development concept.

The Regional Workshop ended with a closing remark from the CCDA Managing Director and participants
requesting that CCDA set-up a regional office in the Highlands. The participants also acknowledged the
Managing Director’s commitment to the workshop by being available for the whole duration of the workshop