The C3D+ initiative is based on a global implementation strategy; the project will directly involve at least 6 research/training centres and partners (see below) to operate and carry out training in at least 30 developing countries, including LDCs and SIDS.

One of the specific objective of this action is to enhance a coherent programmatic approach of developing country project partners as the necessity of an integrated approach was first highlighted during a brainstorming workshop organised by the European Commission in Nairobi in 2006.

All training partners of C3D+ have extensive experience in identifying relevant stakeholders and already have well established networks of stakeholders that they regularly engage with. It is estimated that there will be 2,000 and 3,000 indirect or final beneficiaries over the course of 3 year project.

The training centres will benefit from the design and implementation of internal training capacity for core project partners using outputs of the tool component of the initiative: face to face external training (workshops) including courses taught at educational universities and centres (fellowships, summer courses) as well as first steps to establish open source, on-line training curriculum.

The core beneficiary project partners for capacity development are the following institutions:

* CCCCC (Caribbean Climate Change Community Centre), Belize
* CSAG (Climate System Analysis Group at UCT Cape Town),
* ENDA – TM (Dakar), Senegal
* ERC (Energy and Research Center at UCT Cape Town),
* SPREP (South Pacific Regional Environment Programme), Samoa and
* MIND, the Munasinghe Institute, in Colombo, (Sri Lanka)
* CIFOR-TroFCCA (Africa-Asia Regional), and
* IISD, International Institute for Sustainable Development (Geneva-Ottawa)
* SEI, the Stockholm Environment Institute (Oxford UK)