Strengthening national capacity for implementing the enhanced transparency framework in Belize.

Global Environment Facility Projects

Project Approved

This CBIT project objective is to strengthen the national transparency system in Belize to meet the requirements of the ETF under the Paris Agreement. Through the development of a “Transparency Management System”, it aims to produce high-quality climate information that Belize will use to improve and streamline its climate data management cycle, including planning, data collection, data processing and analysis, information publishing and sharing, data preservation and data reuse. Such climate information will be used for international reporting and serve as an essential input for national decision-making. The Transparency Management System will be strengthened through the establishment of institutional arrangements (expertise, data flows, tools and engagement) focused on delivering high quality outputs for the ETF, as well as in supporting the integration of climate mitigation and adaptation related information into national and sub-national and planning processes and decision making.

The project is organized in four Components, each designed to address the three barriers identified above:
•	Component 1 focuses on enhancing and shaping the Transparency Management System, building on existing strengths and identifying and filling gaps and weaknesses. This will include looking at the government of Belize’s legal frameworks, data flows, expertise and expert capacities, and any necessary systems and tools. This Component will also seek to establish strong and sustainable stakeholder engagement across ministries, sub-national government, private sector and communities and social groups. 
•	Component 2 will enhance the modules of the integrated climate data for complying with the ETF and its MPGs: GHG emissions, adaptation risks and vulnerabilities, NDC tracking, and support needed and received. It will achieve this through outputs that strengthen data flows, databases, tools, templates, and institutional and human capacity for each module. 
•	Component 3 will support national policy- and decision-makers to utilize climate data and projections more effectively into their regulatory and planning processes. It will achieve this by using the tools and capacity developed in Components 1 and 2 and further strengthening the data flows, databases, tools, templates, and institutional and human capacity through practical delivery of new results for assessing the effectiveness of different sectoral policy scenarios for achieving national climate goals. 
•	Component 4 is focused on the monitoring and evaluation of the project itself. This is geared towards timely and close monitoring of the project progress and expenditure and focused on it meeting the specified outcomes and project results (see Annex C).