Call for grants - Incorporate NDC measures with focus on Forestry and Energy

UNDP Albania

February 13, 2023
  1. Background

UNDP has supported Albania to submit its more ambitious and robust NDC with an Action Plan to support interventions to achieve the 20.9% target by 2030. In terms of Mitigation, the NDC relies on the comparison between a Business-as-Usual scenario and a mitigation scenario considering mitigation measures in the main emitting sectors of the economy: Energy, Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land-use, and Waste. Projections rely on macro-economic assumptions such as GDP and population forecast but also on historical trends, strategies and plans endorsed at the national level. Albania revised NDC was registered at UNFCCC on 12 October 2021. Albania is among those countries who pledged to end and reverse deforestation by 2030 (through the Glasgow Leaders Declaration on Forests and Land Use) and support clean energy as part of the countries’ efforts during United Nations COP26 summit in Glasgow to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius from pre-industrial levels.

 

  1. Purpose of the grant and duration

The purpose of this call for grants is to support interested CSOs (Civil Society Organizations) to contribute to incorporate NDC measures with focus on Forestry and Energy, advocating those measures that target improvements for women, youth, and other vulnerable people, aiming at:

  • providing technical assistance and guidance in (1) improving sustainable forest management and (2) efficient practices of consumption including fuelwood harvest, which consumption is considerable in the energy balance of the households and service sectors with regards to heating, cooking, and hot water provision. 
  • marketing and promotion identifying and targeting market strategies that can help accelerate recovery, addressing product diversification, and recommendations and guidelines
  • Promoting efforts to halt deforestation, prevent forest degradation and increase forest area through investment in forestry-related jobs as part of COVID-19 economic recovery stimulus packages, including afforestation, reforestation, conservation, watershed protection, agroforestry, and urban forestry jobs.
  • Advocating measures that target improvements for women, youth and other vulnerable groups are of high importance.

 

  1. Submission Process

Applications (grant proposals) in the mandatory form of the template attached (Annex A) must be submitted by CSOs to the UNDP Office in Tirana (registry.al@undp.org) no later than 9 Mars 2023, in English.