1. BACKGROUND AND RATIONALE

Addressing climate change is a shared national endeavour that extends well beyond the mandate of any single ministry. Decisions taken in water management, agriculture, energy, health, infrastructure, local governance and development planning all contribute to strengthening a country's resilience and advancing climate-compatible development. For Libya, translating this shared responsibility into concrete investment relies on strong national institutions, effective coordination across government, and the active engagement of every sector with a stake in the outcome.

The Green Climate Fund (GCF) offers countries a valuable opportunity to finance transformative mitigation and adaptation investments aligned with their national priorities. Making full use of this opportunity calls for a country-driven system capable of identifying priorities, coordinating stakeholders, developing a credible investment pipeline, and connecting climate objectives with sectoral policies, programmes and investment planning.

Libya has been steadily building this system since 2018, when the country received its first phase of GCF Readiness support. That phase established Libya's National Designated Authority (NDA) - the national body responsible for the country's engagement with the GCF - and equipped it with essential tools, including a non-objection mechanism, a communication strategy, and an early assessment of gender considerations in climate finance. Readiness Libya II has built on these achievements: under the title 'Enhancing Institutional, Human and Technical Capacity of Libya System for Climate Finance', it has worked to further strengthen Libya's institutional and human capacities for climate finance, deepen stakeholder engagement, advance a pipeline of investment-ready projects, and lay the groundwork for Libyan entities to access GCF resources directly for the first time.

As Readiness Libya II reaches successful completion, this closing event offers a valuable opportunity to celebrate its achievements while looking ahead. It will bring together senior decision-makers from across government for a constructive dialogue on the future of climate finance in Libya, reinforcing the alignment of sectoral policies with national climate priorities and inviting every ministry to play an active role in mobilizing climate finance, including through the GCF, in the years to come.

2. READINESS LIBYA II project:

Over the course of its implementation, Readiness Libya II has helped build a stronger and more coherent national architecture for climate finance in Libya. Its results are best understood not as a series of separate outputs, but as a single continuous progression, in which each achievement helped make the next one possible.

The project began by reinforcing the institutions at the heart of Libya's engagement with the GCF strengthening the capacities of the NDA, establishing a functioning coordination mechanism among relevant stakeholders, and building the human and technical capacity needed to sustain this work over time.

This institutional foundation, in turn, made it possible to develop the strategic frameworks Libya had not previously had in place: a national climate change strategy setting out the country's priorities for adaptation and mitigation, complemented by a framework for monitoring and evaluating progress, and building on both the GCF Country Programme, which translates these priorities into an organized pipeline of potential investments.

With this framework in place, the project supported the development of concrete project concepts ready to be advanced toward GCF funding identified through the Country Programme, alongside efforts to engage the private sector and explore public-private partnership opportunities.

In parallel, Readiness Libya II worked to prepare selected national entities for direct access to the GCF, identifying and shortlisting candidates and beginning to build their capacity to meet the Fund's accreditation requirements an important step toward Libya's ability to manage climate finance increasingly through its own institutions.

Taken together, these achievements represent more than the completion of a project: they form the foundation on which Libya can continue to mobilize climate finance and advance its climate and development priorities in the years ahead.

3. THE GCF COUNTRY PROGRAMME

Among these achievements, Libya's GCF Country Programme merits particular attention, given the central role it is expected to play going forward as a country-led platform for organizing climate investment priorities and structuring engagement with the GCF. The Country Programme provides the strategic link between national climate and development priorities and a coherent pipeline of potential climate investments.

The workshop will accordingly give the Country Programme a prominent place not simply as a Readiness achievement, but as a practical framework through which ministries can identify, prioritize and progressively develop sectoral climate investments in coordination with the NDA and relevant partners.

The interministerial dialogue will help participating ministries see how their respective sectoral mandates and investment priorities can contribute to, and be reflected in, the national climate investment pipeline. It will also offer an opportunity to discuss how the Country Programme can remain a living, coordinated and nationally owned platform well beyond the closure of Readiness Libya II.

4. WORKSHOP PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVES

Building on this trajectory, the workshop brings Libya's senior climate finance decision-makers together around two complementary aims: to mark, with due recognition, the successful completion of Readiness Libya II, and to open a high-level platform through which ministries can deepen their understanding of climate finance and the GCF, strengthen ownership of the Country Programme, and advance the integration of climate priorities into sectoral policies and investment planning.

More specifically, the workshop will aim to:

• Present and capitalize on the main achievements, results, lessons learned and institutional gains of Readiness Libya II;
• Strengthen high-level decision-makers' understanding of the GCF, Libya's national climate-finance architecture and the opportunities offered by the Fund;
• Present the national climate strategic framework and give particular prominence to the GCF Country Programme as the country-led framework for structuring and prioritizing Libya's climate investment pipeline;
• Promote interministerial understanding of how sectoral policies, programmes and investments can be informed by national climate priorities and translated into potential climate-finance opportunities;
• Present the emerging climate-investment pipeline and the progress achieved toward GCF accreditation for potential national entities;
• Discuss the institutional arrangements and coordination needed to sustain the Country Programme, pipeline development and NDA functions beyond the Readiness project;
• Formalize continued institutional cooperation between the Ministry of Environment and OSS through the signing of an MoU; and
• Agree on priority follow-up actions to sustain and build upon Readiness Libya II achievements.

By the end of the workshop, the following results are expected:

• High-level decision-makers have deepened their understanding of the GCF, Libya's climate-finance architecture and the opportunities available for advancing national and sectoral climate priorities;
• The main achievements and lessons learned from Readiness Libya II have been formally presented, discussed and celebrated;
• The GCF Country Programme is affirmed as a central, country-led framework for organizing, prioritizing and updating Libya's climate investment pipeline;
• Participating ministries have a clearer understanding of how their sectoral priorities can be aligned with national climate objectives and reflected in future climate-investment programming;
• The emerging project pipeline and accreditation pathway are recognized as practical mechanisms for mobilizing climate finance;
• Priority institutional and interministerial coordination needs beyond project closure are identified;
• A set of priority follow-up actions for sustaining the project's institutional and strategic results is agreed; and
• The Ministry of Environment and OSS formalize a framework for continued cooperation through the MoU, subject to its final agreed provisions.

5. PARTICIPANTS

The workshop is conceived as a high-level interministerial and multi-stakeholder event, bringing together senior decision-makers and technical representatives whose mandates bear directly on climate policy, development planning and climate investment together with the National Designated Authority, OSS, and other relevant national and international partners.