The goal of the project is to support a market transformation towards energy efficiency investments in buildings by: enhancing the awareness and capacity of local architects and engineers to better adopt energy efficiency measures into the design of new buildings and retrofit of the existing ones; enhancing the awareness and capacity of municipalities to plan and implement sustainable energy efficiency investments in public buildings; supporting and promoting the renovation of private residential buildings, incorporating energy efficient technologies, including related UNDP funded activities;increasing the demand for energy efficiency investments in the private service sector buildings with an initial focus on hotels; and building the capacity of the local energy service providers to effectively market their services and to meet the requirements of the targeted financiers to finance EE projects.