Deepening our work with CIFF is a strategic proposition for us. CIFF has been a pivotal partnership in nurturing our degree of association with the aforementioned SDGs since 2019. CIFF Indiaâs climate investments are tapping into opportunities to shape Indiaâs ambitions and activities around clean energy and climate change mitigation, by facilitating reform, transitions, and innovations that can help achieve low-carbon cities. In this collaboration, our goal is to ensure the measurability of progress across sectors of climate, geographic scales, and time and to be able to determine how successful the interventions are in reducing climate vulnerability and in keeping development on course. CMS strongly invested in enhancing M&E capacity and systems at the grantee level. And improving their ability to ensure progress on climate change toward national development goals
The objective of this study is to increase access to agri-finance by building digital agricultural lending platforms with financial institutions (FIs) and agribusinesses and to increase adoption of CSA technologies in the relevant agri-sub-sectors and value chains, contributing to the larger vision of WBGâs Climate Action Plan 2021â2025. This study is expected to also feed into the climate finance strategy of the IFC, which aims to mainstream climate in the agriculture sector and in small and medium enterprises (SMEs). An interesting exploration of agri-finance, this study attempts to bridge the gap in financing for farmers and the other players in the value chain through private-sector lending while keeping profitability, technology, gender, climate responsiveness and inclusion in mind. This landscape study will also develop products for the value chain sector, looking at it from both the demand (farmers/value chain-implementing partners) and supply (financial institutions) sides.
On the solar electrification project (2022-2023) to evaluate the impact of decentralised electricity of last mile public health facilities like Sub-centres (SC), Health & Wellness centres (H&WC) and Public health centres (PHC) in the states of Karnataka and Meghalaya. Currently, the baseline for the study has been completed. The primary scope of the study is to assess the extent to which the DRE program has impacted the performance of public health facilities and examine factors contributing to the sustainability and institutionalisation of the program.
As CEEW steps into its new decade, a deeper impact assessment from donors and funding partners is warranted to inform CEEWâs 20-year vision and strategic plan. This will not be a traditional impact assessment, but this provided a detailed look at where the organisation is today, and the trajectories ahead of it, to arrive at the following deliverables tailored for CEEW, mapping CEEWâs research, advisory and outreach, analysing perceptions around CEEWâs growth being organic, planned or strategic; areas, CEEWâs approach towards data and strategic outreach, its commitment to transparency and its position in the public mindset and analysing how donors perceive CEEWâs governance as well as the risks that CEEW must be resilient against, whether emanating from internal processes, external environment or strategic directions. Benchmarking CEEW against domestic and international competition was critical to consolidate the discussions and analysis and seek to provide insight into actions to strengthen the institution so that CEEW can take over the short- to medium-term towards its journey to Vision 2030.
A global philanthropic initiative whose mission is to use philanthropic grants to catalyse reduction in air pollution, and thereby improve peopleâs health and simultaneously mitigate climate change. CMS in collaboration with Agulhas focused on driving policy-level changes in the air quality space through the levers of data, demand, delivery and field-building. The study evaluated the progress of CAF grantees delivering the approved strategy, supporting the acceleration of NCAP implementation in India, contributing towards catalysing government and business action for clean air, creating a demand for clean air action from vulnerable groups and the general public and strengthening the air quality field in India. In extension, the relevance, effectiveness and replication potential of the approaches adopted was reviewed, and the study recommendations at a strategic level and operational level along with a new TOC for the CAF India portfolio is provided to the CAF management.
Is a $10Mn blended finance facility, that aims to create an environmentally and financially sustainable, scalable, and replicable model of bamboo production, value addition and sale via collectives of 7,500 farmers and 3,600 women artisans in rural Maharashtra and Karnataka who will who will collectively own and manage the end-to-end value chain of bamboo products (from the purchase of saplings for the cultivation of bamboo to sales of final value-added products). The project has been catalysed by USAID, Industree and Kois and is expected to launch in 2022. The project will establish farmer-producer organisations & artisan-owned enterprises to manage bamboo farming & artisanal production, deliver skills training & capacity-building programs enabling sustainable land management, efficient production & modern design, and raise capital via an innovative finance mechanism to equip farmers & artisans with seed, acceleration & working capital required.
