While the awareness of and commitment to green growth are rising worldwide, green growth is a broad concept, encompassing not only different economic sectors but also different levels of intervention. Furthermore, what green growth means in individual countries and how it can be translated into specific actions depend on a wide range of factors, such as a given economy’s stage of development, its endowment with natural assets, and its social characteristics. Therefore, there is a need to clarify what green growth means in a specific country’s context, identify priorities, and assess those priorities systematically.
For that purpose, GGGI developed the Green Growth Potential Assessment (GGPA). The GGPA is a diagnostic tool, consisting of a combination of data analysis and stakeholder consultation in order to identify and prioritise a country’s opportunities for green growth. During the past four years, GGPAs have been successfully concluded in nine countries: Cambodia, Colombia, Lao PDR, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Papua New Guinea, Peru, and Qatar. While the past four years have demonstrated the GGPA’s usefulness, experiences made during that period have also triggered a wide range of revisions to the initial assessment process.
This report provides a detailed overview of the assessment methodology in its current form and the extensive changes made to it since the first GGPA was conducted in 2015. These changes encompass all three stages of the assessment process: the preliminary assessment, consultation process, and final analysis.