The 17.8 million euro Green Overseas “GO” Programme, funded by the European Union (EU) and implemented by Expertise France (EF), aims to contribute to the sustainable, resilient, and inclusive development of the EU overseas countries and territories and United Kingdom (UK) overseas territories, which together will be referred to as beneficiary countries and territories in the present document. The map in figure 1 below shows the location of the beneficiary countries and territories.

The two specific objectives of the GO Programme are: (1) to further develop the beneficiary countries and territories' energy transition​; and (2) to increase the beneficiary countries and territories’ resilience to climate change, including through gender equality. To meet these two objectives, the following two outcomes need to be achieved:

-          Beneficiary countries and territories’ public policies on energy transition and resilience to climate change are strengthened.

-          Beneficiary countries and territories’ best practices on energy transition and resilience to climate change are promoted.

In 2021, the GO Team successfully conducted extensive consultations, including bilateral exchanges with near all beneficiary countries and territories, and multilateral thematic workshops on energy and resilience conducted in November 2021 - January 2022. The minutes of the bilateral consultations are provided in annex A, while the final report and minutes of the thematic workshops are provided in annex B. Following the consultation phase, two main implementation modalities have been selected to reach the objectives and achieve the outcomes of the GO Programme:

-          The “GO facility”. Each beneficiary country or territory is invited to submit requests for specific activities at the national/territorial level within a pre-determined maximum financial range;

-          The “GO Communities”. One Community consists of several series of activities at the regional and interregional level involving all or groups of beneficiary countries and territories.

Both modalities may contain similar types of activities: technical assistance, studies, trainings, webinars, workshops, field visits, pilot projects (for the Facility) and demonstration activities (for the Communities). While the GO Facility modality is purely demand-driven, the activities under each GO Community are developed and offered by the Programme, based on beneficiary countries and territories’ priorities and needs identified through the consultations. To the extent possible, the GO Programme will ensure interactions, complementarities and synergies between the two modalities. For instance, best practices and lessons-learnt from the GO Facility activities can be shared via activities such as workshops in the GO Communities, and vice versa.