Country Stories

The Partnership is pleased to highlight a selection of successful country approaches driving climate action and enhancing ambition over the past four years. These country stories are intended to inspire, inform, and serve as a practical guide to other country partners committed to delivering on NDCs.

Highlighting countries’ sucessful actions and important achivements

Each country story captures the diversity, expertise, and unique climate actions that have been undertaken over the past three years.

Effective, coordinated, and impactful NDC planning and implementation benefits the collective report

Many countries’ whole-of-society and whole-of-government approaches explore ways of building a better future for all, while engaging diverse partners to provide an overview of critical issues and to effectively coordinate efforts, leading to enhanced country implementation strategies.

An overview of accomplishments in the SIDS

We also take a deep dive into the work of some of our Small Islands Development States (SIDS) members, highlighting the accomplishments of these countries whose very existence is sometimes jeopardized by climate change because of sea-level rise.

AECID	The Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation
AFD	French Development Agency
AFOLU	Agriculture, forestry and land use
BAU	Business as Usual
BEIS	U.K. Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy
BMU	German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety
BRT	Bus Rapid Transport
CA	Climate Analytics
CAEP	Climate Action Enhancement Package
CAN	Climate Action Network
CAP	Amman Climate Action Plan
CBA	Cost Benefit Analysis
CBIT	Capacity Building Initiative for Transparency
CCF	Zimbabwe’s Climate Finance Facility
CCCSP	Cambodia Climate Change Strategic Plan
CDKN	Climate and Development Knowledge Network
CIF	Climate Investment Funds
CIFF	Children’s Investment Fund Foundation
COMESA	Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa
COVID- 19	Coronavirus Disease 2019
CRGE	Ethiopia’s Climate-Resilient Green Economy strategy
CTCN	Climate Technology Centre and Network
DIDA	Republic of the Marshall Islands’ Department of International Development Assistance
DRR	Disaster Risk Reduction
EFCC	Ethiopia’s Environment, Forest, and Climate Change Commission
EIB	European Investment Bank
EMLI	Environmental Management for Livelihood Improvement Bwaise Facility
ERP	Economic Recovery Plan
EU	European Union
FAO	Food and Agriculture Organisation
FCPF	Forest Carbon Partnership Facility
FOLU	Forest and Land-Use
GAM	Greater Amman Municipality
GCCA	Global Climate Change Alliance
GCF	Green Climate Fund
GDP	Gross Domestic Product
GEF	Global Environment Facility
GGDS	Uganda’s Green Growth Development Strategy
GGGI	Global Green Growth Institute
GHG	Greenhouse gas emissions
GIZ	Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit
HFC	Hydrochlorofluorocarbons
HP2	Helsinki Principle 2
HP6	Helsinki Principle 6
ICTU	Information to facilitate Clarity, Transparency, and Understanding
IDBZ	The Infrastructure Development Bank of Zimbabwe
IFAD	International Fund for Agricultural Development
IISD	International Institute for Sustainable Development
ILO	International Labour Organisation
IMF	International Monetary Fund
IPCC	Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
IPPU	Industrial Processes and Product Use
IRENA	International Renewable Energy Agency
IsDB	Islamic Development Bank
IUCN	International Union for Conservation of Nature
JNAP 2	Tonga’s Joint National Action Plan 2 on Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management
LDN	Land Degradation Neutrality
LEDS	Low Emission Development Strategy
LEDS GP	Low Emission Development Strategy Global Partnership
LPG	Liquified Petroleum Gas
LTS	Long-term strategies
LTS4CN	Cambodia's Long-Term Strategy for Carbon Neutrality
LULUCF	Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry

MEPYD	Dominican Republic’s Ministry of Economics, Planning and Development
MIE	Albania’s Ministry of Infrastructure and Energy
MINAM	Peru’s Ministry of Environment
MINECOFIN	Rwanda’s Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning
MoE	Rwanda’s Ministry of Environment
MoF	Ministry of Finance
MoWA	Cambodia’s Ministry of Women’s Affairs
MRV	Measurement, Reporting and Verification
MSIP	São Tomé and Príncipe’s Multi Sector Investment Plan for Resilience
MTE	Albania’s Ministry of Tourism and Environment
NACAC	Nitric Acid Climate Action Group
NAMA	Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions
NAP	National Adaptation Plan
NAP-GN	National Adaptation Plan Global Network
NbS	Nature-based Solutions
NDC	Nationally Determined Contributions
NDCFI	The Caribbean NDC Finance Initiative
NDC-RD-2020	Dominican Republic’s NDC
NDP	National Development Plans
NTFP	Non-Timber Forest Products
OECS	Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States
PAF	Partnership in Action Fund
PDC	Ethiopia’s Planning and Development Commission
PEFA	Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability
PFAN	The Private Financing Advisory Network
PforR	World Bank’s Program for Results
PFM	Public Financial Management
PIM	Public Investment Management system
PIN	Project Information Note
PP	Partnership Plan
PRAZ	Procurement Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe
PUTC	Grenada’s Public Utility Regulatory Commission
QS	Qualification Standards
RCCC	Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre
REDD+	Reduction Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation
RRA	Albania’s Renewables Readiness Assessment
S4H	Zimbabwe’s Solar for Health Programme
SCLP	Short-lived climate pollutants
SeyCCAT	The Seychelles Conservation and Climate Adaptation Trust
SIDA	The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency
SIDS	Small Islands Developing States
SMEs	Small and Medium Enterprises
SPREP	Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme
SPS	Skills Proficiency Schedule
STP	São Tomé and Príncipe
TA	Technical Assistance
TAF	Technical Assistance Fund
TNC	The Nature Conservancy
TBTTP	Ten Billion Tree Tsunami Program
UNCDF	United Nations Capital Development Fund
UNDP	United Nations Development Programme
UNEP	United Nations Environment Programme
UNFCCC	United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
UNICEF	United Nations Children's Fund
UNIDO	United Nations Industrial Development Organization
UNOPS	The United Nations Office for Project Services
USAID	U.S. Agency for International Development
WACA	World Bank’s West Africa Coastal Areas Management Program
WRI	World Resources Institute
YEP	Youth Engagement Plan
YTF	Youth Task Force
ZIMRA	Zimbabwe Revenue Authority

Country Stories

Highlighting countries’ sucessful actions and important achivements

Effective, coordinated, and impactful NDC planning and implementation benefits the collective report

An overview of accomplishments in the SIDS

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Zimbabwe

Small Island Developing States (SIDS)

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