Designing Green Public Investment Programmes and Conducting Trainings in Eastern Partnership Countries

The project is to help increase the capacity of government authorities of two partner countries from the EECCA region – more specifically, belonging to the European Union’s Eastern Partnership (EaP)5 – in the area of environmental investments and public finance management. The technical assistance provided by the OECD equiped the local experts with know-how and practical skills on designing a green public investment programme with the aim of obtaining adequate budget and international financing for its implementation. The programme was designed in line with international good practices and can serve as a model for preparing other low-carbon investment programmes. This project focused on two types of activities: 

1. Designing and costing green public investment programmes in line with international good practices (two countries, one programme per country).
2. Conducting trainings on medium-term environmental and climate-related investment planning for government authorities responsible for environmental management (two countries, one training per country).

Within the project, the role of the relevant ministry in MTEF development and implementation, and the significance of local and sub-national governments in implementing environmental and climate-related actions were discussed.

Type of Services provided:

• Definition of up to five potential project pipelines (in terms of types of projects within the focus area7) to be financed through the green public investment programme
• Brief market analysis to define the demand for public support under the specified programme vis-à-vis other sources of finance, including from domestic private and international sources,
• Market study of relevant technologies (materials, equipment, fuels) and the target environmental sector (potential beneficiaries), which will be supported through the programme,
• Justification of the level of necessary public support to leverage private investments into the target sector
• Calibrated Excel-model that will calculate the total necessary – public and private – investments to bring about (or substantially contribute to) achievement of country’s environmental and climate-related targets.
• Training materials and explanatory guide for the use of the programme costing methodology
• Training for public administration officials responsible for managing (green) public investment programmes / in charge of (green) public procurement.
• Short report on conducted training with a brief outline on further capacity development needs of local public authorities in English.

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