Climate Investment Funds - Accelerating Coal Transition Investment Program (CIF-ACT)

About this project

This project aims to accelerate the transition from coal-powered to clean energy while ensuring a holistic, integrated, socially-inclusive and gender-equal just transition in recipient countries: India, Indonesia, Philippines and South Africa for the first phase of the project. There could be more recipient countries in following phases. The Climate Investment Funds - Accelerating Coal Transition (CIF – ACT) investment program is building support at the local level to reconsider the development of new coal plants and accelerate the retirement of existing coal assets. It will foster new economic activities fueled by new clean energy sources for those impacted by the transition. The program works with public sector utilities and private sector operators to define pathways to advance transitions while ensuring the pursuit of a just transition approach in supporting a change away from coal in recipient countries. Project activities include: (1) supporting the closure and decommissioning of coal mines and coal power plants; (2) supporting power plant repurposing toward renewable energy and energy storage; (3) providing funding support for labour retrenchment packages and reskilling/retraining packages, including a gender action plan; and (4) developing a transition strategy as part of implementing investment projects through close consultation with key stakeholders across different ministries and agencies within a recipient country. This project aims to benefit the communities in…

Published by

Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada (DFATD) · Government

Countries

Indonesia, India, Philippines, South Africa, Dominican Republic, North Macedonia

Sectors

Energy policy and administrative managementEnergy generation, renewable sources - multiple technologies

Focus

Gender equality · Also contributesEnvironment · Main focusGood governance · Also contributesClimate mitigation · Main focus

Published by Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada (DFATD) to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), last updated 2 Nov 2026 and imported automatically. IATI identifier: CA-3-P010807001.

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