Compete Caribbean+ is looking for innovative and transformative projects aimed at enhancing government and regulatory capabilities to foster climate-smart, gender-responsive business practices and promote inclusive growth in the Caribbean region.
Proposed projects should focus on strengthening public regulatory and policy frameworks and institutional capacities to enable climate-smart and inclusive private sector growth.
Selected projects will receive technical assistance and grant funding for implementation.
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What Are We Looking For?
- Solve Real Challenges: Projects should address critical bottlenecks in governance, regulation, or institutional capacity that hinder private-sector climate action, gender equity, and economic growth.
- Incorporate Innovation: Solutions should be creative, forward-thinking, and capable of driving transformative change in the private sector.
- Promote Inclusivity: Initiatives must integrate gender-responsive approaches and foster participation from vulnerable and marginalized communities.
- Support Climate Resilience: Projects should include strategies to enhance climate adaptation, mitigation, and sustainability practices.
- Promote Competitiveness: Projects should incentivize and empower the private sector to engage in climate action and/or adopt sustainable business practices that increases its competitiveness.
This Call for Projects aims to support initiatives that strengthen public governance to support climate action and competitiveness by the private sector and benefit government and quasi-government agencies that support private sector development.
Who Can Apply?
Eligible applicants include: (i) national governmental institutions and line ministries; (ii) national quasi-government Agencies and Business Support Organizations (BSOs); and (iii) national and regional organizations and business entities in partnership with member Governments.
- All proposed projects must be led by a public sector entity (government or quasi-government agency, as in eligible applicants above).
- For regional projects, the lead entity may be Regional Agencies acting in collaboration with and on behalf of project beneficiary countries.
- Project concepts can include partnerships with the private sector, NGOs, academic institutions and other non-government institutions.