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CIFOR-ICRAF, together with UNOPS, is developing a proposal for GCF for a program to strengthen access to climate finance and integration of climate change into the local development planning in Benin.

Currently communities and ecosystems in Benin lack resilience to changing conditions due to climate change. To address this CIFOR-ICRAF proposes:
1. to develop a climate information system (dynamic digital platform for climate information and data capitalization, the research results and data, the policy frameworks) to be capitalized from the local to the national level.
2. to identify the level of integration of climate change into the local planning, to assess needs for integrating NDC into the communal development plan (CDP) and the guide developed for future generations of CDP in Benin.
3. To evaluate the low-emission and climate-resilient development strategy (LECRDS) (2016-2025) to assess the progress made toward adequate gender sensitive decision-making in the sectoral themes targeted by the strategy.
4. to Identify, prioritize and assess low-carbon emission technologies, to analyze and deploy the feasibility transfer, and address the provision of adequate finance building on country Technologies Needs Assessment and Technologies Action Plan (TNA/TAP) to boost private sector investment.

This project includes the preparatory work needed to draft the GCF proposal.