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Overview

The main goal of the TRANSFORMA-INNOVA program is to engage stakeholders in relevant sectors to transform their agricultural and blue production systems into sustainable, biodiverse, low-carbon, and climate-resilient value chains, thereby contributing to Costa Rica's Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and its National Decarbonization Plan.

The project is implemented through a consortium and led by GIZ. Consortium members are: Conservation International, CATIE, FUNBAM, UNDP and CRUSA. The project has 5 key components: 

  1. Governance: Assure policy coherence and strengthen efficient governance of low-carbon and resilient pathways in the selected agricultural and marine-coastal systems.
  2. Agricultural production: Foster implementation of low-carbon, biodiversity-conserving and resilient agricultural production practices in the coffee, livestock and Musaceae sectors, in close coordination with the respective public and private sector actors.
  3. Marine-coastal sector: Improve livelihoods of coastal communities, based on sustainable management and conservation of marine and coastal resources.
  4. Climate finance: Make climate finance available for the activities and project concepts developed within the framework of the project.
  5. Capacity building: Raise awareness and increase knowledge for low-carbon and resilient pathways.

This project provides publicly available information. Please visit the project website or contact us to find out how you can benefit from this support.

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Key information

Start date

October 2021

End date

September 2026

Target group(s)

Companies; Smallholders and cooperatives; Business associations; Local Communities

Sector(s)

Agriculture, fishing, forestry

Type of initiative

Country level

Countries of intervention

Costa Rica

Type(s) of support

Tools for risk assessment & reporting; Capacity building & training; Impact investment & financing; Support to regulatory environment

Type(s) of contributor

EU Member State; EU Institution

Contributor(s)

German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWE); International Climate Initiative (IKI); European Union (EU)

Implementing organisation(s)

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH; Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE); Conservación Internacional Costa Rica; NGO CRUSA; Fundación Banco Ambiental (FUNBAM); United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)