The activities organized by the initiatives include workshops, webinars and reports. The initiative is funded with voluntary contributions of its member countries. All the activities undertaken by the initiative are public to ensure the maximum impact, making every region/country a beneficiary. The initiative has been operating since 2019. 

Grants by the IDC are limited and available mainly for socio economic outcome. 

Equity Risk Grants are provided to fund project development. 

The IDC offers Concessional debts. All debt offering by the IDC are designed to assist with the businesses financial viability, e.g. by offering payment holidays. 

Grant funding is manly used for technical and financial feasibility, environmental and social studies. 

Contingent recovery grants are granted to test technologies and projects. If they are successful, it turns into a concessional loan and they are repayable, and if not, they remain a non-reimbursable grant. 

The Inter-American Development Bank uses its ordinary capital as well as other bilateral lending implemented by the IADB to provide concessional loans to jump start hydrogen markets. 

Contracts are awarded through a competition-based double auctioning system on supply and demand side. In order to help overcome existing investment barriers, an intermediary, Hydrogen Intermediary Company GmbH (HINTCO), concludes long-term purchase contracts on the supply side and short-term sales contracts on the demand side. The difference between supply prices (production and transport) and demand prices is compensated for by grants from a public or philanthropic donor within the framework of a mechanism based on the Contracts for Difference (CfD) approach. 

The Green Hydrogen Organisation offers a wide range of assistance. The core focus is on awareness raising and information dissemination. Most instruments are a combination of several types of technical assistance and include for example 

A Checklist for Financial Instruments has been established and analysis on Financing Options for large-scale hydrogen projects are conducted and disseminated.  

GIZ continuously publishes reports, e.g. on ‘green ammonia business models’, ‘systematic analysis on green hydrogen’, or ‘PtX routes and demands’. 

 GIZ developed several tools to be used along the hydrogen value chain, including 

The German Foreign Office is assisting German companies with their activities in the host country and aims to generally enhance mutual trade.  

Follow-up links 
Tasks of the German Missions Abroad - Federal Foreign Office (auswaertiges-amt.de) 

• ​​Projects of up to EUR 25 million can be funded through the MAF. Applications are made through a competitive call for project process. Projects must include an element of technical assistance also. Co-financing is possible (Grant in upstream and midstream) 
• ​Funding through Industrial Decarbonisation Innovation Fund of the Clean Energy Innovation Facility, which is delivered through ESMAP’s Industrial Decarbonisation Window. Support has been for feasibility studies for green hydrogen production and use in industrial contexts.

The MEDGEM project is a Regional Technical Assistance project operating in the EUs Southern Neighbourhood. The objective is to create and operate a Mediterranean Green Electrons & Molecules (MED-GEM) Network in the Southern Neighborhood region by convening dialogue and collaborative activities between key energy stakeholders in order to facilitate and promote the growth of the GEM industry at regional level. 
Budget: 2.9 Mio EUR | project duration: 2023-2025  

General larger focus on projects that have a focus on local consumption, not as much for projects that only have the goal of export outcomes like ammonia.  

The AfDB tailors most technical assistance to the specific project. See following examples.