GGGI - Forest Finance and Investment Incubator (FFII) - Development of Financial Investment Plans (FIPs) in Vietnam - 2022

Description of Project:

The FFII project is an agreement between the Global Green Growth Institute and the Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs and the Office of Global Change of the U.S. Department of State and Conservation International (CI). The overall goal of the FFII project is to identify, develop and facilitate new investment opportunities: in the three sectors: long-rotation timber plantations, coffee/nuts agroforestry, alternate wetting and drying rice via developing an Action Plan and a Financial Investment Plan. The Plans should make clear the barriers and analyse the opportunities for investment and identify a pipeline of investments. They should align with country national or sub-national climate and land use action plans that: 1) support U.S. and developing country climate goals and outcomes; 2) result in downstream project pipelines that make use of in-country resources; and 3) garner funding commitments for necessary project plans to achieve climate goals related to sustainable landscapes.

Description of actual services provided by your staff within the assignment:

MKE implemented the following tasks:

●        Arrange a kick-off meeting with relevant parties to discuss and agree upon the scope of work, approach, methodology, timelines, deliverables 

●        Develop final method and research tools for the assessment including selection of the ten investment projects (PIF component) and the three most promising opportunities for each sub-sector (RAR component)

●        Conduct desk-based secondary research including case study review, policy alignment description, industry & market analysis, analysis of financing flows, description of an investment road map for each sector

●        Produce the agreed deliverables: the Action Plan (with components of the general business enabling environment report, the sector-specific report, the PIFs report), the RARs report and the final report

●        Capture lessons learnt, and provide forward-looking recommendations to ensure that the project can effectively capture optimal opportunities for investments.