Solar Water Heating Market Transformation and Strengthening Initiative, Phase 1

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Category: MCF

This project aims to accelerate the global commercialization and sustainable market transformation of solar water heating systems to reduce the use of electricity and fossil fuels for hot water in buildings and industry.

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Project Type: Full Size Project
the GEF Trust Fund
                  Submission Date:           26 January, 2008
              Re-submission Date:      18 April, 2008
                2nd Resubmission Date: 20 June, 2008
Expected Calendar
Milestones	Dates
Work Program (for FSP)	Sept. 2006
GEF Agency Approval	Aug 2008
Implementation Start	Sep 2008
Mid-term Review (if planned)	Feb 2010
Implementation Completion	Aug 2013

part i:  project Information                                               
GEFSEC Project ID: 2939				
gef agency Project ID: 
Countries: Global  (incl. Albania, Algeria, Chile, India, Lebanon, Mexico, SIDS)
Project Title: Solar Water Heating Market Transformation and Strengthening Initiative
GEF Agencies: UNDP, UNEP
Other Executing partner(s): METE (Albania), APRUE (Algeria),  CNE (Chile), MNRE (India), MEW (Lebanon), CONAE Mexico, Barbados RET Centre  (SIDS), TERI (South and South East Asia), CRED (East Asia), OME (MENA), ESTIF (CEITs), OLADE (Latin America)
GEF Focal Area: Climate Change 
GEF-4 Strategic program: SP1 Buildings Energy Efficiency (GEF-3 SP1 Market Transformation)
Project framework 
Project Objective: 
Project Components	Invest,TA, or STA**	Expected Outcomes	Expected Outputs 	GEF Financing*	
Co-financing*	
Total ($)



($)	%	($)	%
	1. Knowledge Management 	TA and STA	Effective initiation and co-ordination of the country specific support needs and improved access of national experts to state of the art information, technical backstopping, training and international experiences and lessons learnt. 	See the Logframe (Annex B) of the Project Document	3,450,000
(w/out mgmt)
	66	1,770,000
(w/out mgmt)	34	5,220,000
2. Country Programs:
Albania 
Algeria
Chile  
India 
Lebanon 
Mexico 
	TA  	The specific SWH market transformation targets of the first 6 participating countries reached by the end of the project, conducive to the overall, global market transformation goals of the project.  
Incremental 3 million m2 of  SWH capacity installed by the end of the project as a combined, direct outcome of  the country programs 	See the Logframe (Annex B) of the Project Document	7,565,000 
(w/out mgmt)
 8,250,000 
(w/ mgmt costs )
 
Alb. 1,000,000

Tags: Funding, Development, Climate Change, Buildings, Solar, Mitigation, Industry, Electricity, Policy, Investment, Fossil Fuels, Renewable Energy, Governance, Finance, Energy Efficiency

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