What are Complementary Activities?

Support through the FFF is conditional on the alignment of complementary activities. This means that partner institutions, typically International Financial Institutions (IFIs), must allocate a portion of their funding to these activities to ensure co-financing and alignment with the objectives of the FFF. Complementary activities refer to additional actions that align with the primary support provided by the FFF and are essential for ensuring the broader and longer-term impact of FFF projects. There are two main types of complementary activities:

1. Geospatial Analytics Activities: These activities extend, complement, or replicate EO support provided under the ESA GDA programme.
2. Capacity Building or Skills Transfer Activities: These activities focus on transferring knowledge and skills related to the use of EO technologies to stakeholders in developing countries.

FFF Workflow

1. Initiation Phase: ESA GDA Team introduces the GDA FFF framework to the IFI team, expression of interest is completed and the implementing team is selected.

2. Terms of Reference Phase: The IFI team meets the FFF implementing team, and the ToR is drafted and finalised.

3. ESA Internal Steps Phase: ESA mobilises the budget.

4. Implementation Phase: Project activities are carried out, including meetings, reviews, delivery, and reporting.

5. Outreach & Evaluation: Communication, promotion, and feedback collection take place.

List of Engagements

Several IFI requests are currently in the implementation phase: – Soil Degradation and Debris Flow Detection in Kyrgyzstan. – Rural Electrification Assessment in Togo (Digital Energy Facility). – Climate Risk, Land Cover and Coastal Erosion Assessment in Cabo Verde. – Next Generation Drought Indices (NGDI). – Air, Soil and Water Pollution in Tuzla Canton, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Nine additional activities have been successfully completed, involving several IFIs, and International Development Assistance (IDA) institutions have been engaged to date: – World Bank Group (WBG) – Asian Development Bank (ADB) – European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) – Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW, Germany) – Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)

Consortium Members