The Training Programme on Accelerating Renewable Energy Deployment in Small Island Developing States (SIDS), was conducted in Suva, Fiji on 13-15 December 2017. The workshop was convened as a direct follow-up to the Training Programme to Support Renewable Energy Deployment through Developing Project Proposals to Access Climate Finance held in Tokyo and Kobe, Japan from 23-27 October 2017, as well as under the continued cooperation between the Ministry of the Environment of Japan, the Secretariat of the Pacific Community, U.S. Department of State, and the International Renewable Energy Agency.

With a rich mix of new participants (from Nauru, Marshall Islands, Fiji, Tonga, Niue and Papua New Guinea) and those continuing from the training programme held in Japan in October (from Fiji, Palau, Samoa and Maldives), the project ideas presented by the different working groups exhibited varying levels of elaboration, but many showed good prospects of submission to the Green Climate Fund.