The par­tic­i­pa­tion of stake­hold­ers from civ­il soci­ety in defin­ing more ambi­tious NDCs is nec­es­sary to improve strate­gies and to imple­ment them in a trans­par­ent and par­tic­i­pa­to­ry way. How­ev­er, these stake­hold­ers usu­al­ly lack the resources to influ­ence the imple­men­ta­tion and improve­ment of NDCs. The project strength­ens the stake­hold­ers’ capac­i­ty to artic­u­late and intro­duce their cli­mate pol­i­cy demands in the NDC imple­men­ta­tion process. In the part­ner coun­tries, the project sup­ports select­ed organ­i­sa­tions and groups to par­tic­i­pate in cli­mate mit­i­ga­tion plans, the draft­ing of cli­mate-rel­e­vant laws for NDC imple­men­ta­tion, and the dis­cus­sion on ambi­tious cli­mate pol­i­cy. The project also wants to lay the foun­da­tions for the reg­u­lar and sys­tem­at­ic engage­ment of civ­il soci­ety in cli­mate pol­i­cy issues in the part­ner coun­tries and to insti­tu­tion­alise the dia­logue between deci­sion-mak­ers and oth­er stake­hold­ers.