More attention, support, and knowledge are needed for speeding up the renovation of multiapartment buildings. This can be reached by involvement of the housing managers that are responsible for building management and administration. However, housing managers often lack the knowledge and skills to initiate and implement such projects. To eliminate these shortcomings in Germany, EUKI has already financed the KLIMAVERWALTER project, within the framework of which, an innovative training scheme was developed and introduced for the managers of residential buildings so that they could acquire the necessary competence. The CLI-MA project foresees a new approach to knowledge transfer from Germany by adapting it to a Latvian situation. To identify the required competence and establish a study program, a research of six chapters has been performed. The research describes the available housing in Latvia (Chapter 1), analyses principles and activities of administering the multi-apartment residential buildings (Chapter 2), as well as identifies and describes the parties involved in housing policy making (Chapter 3). Special attention is paid to the issues of energy efficiency of the buildings —a Latvian potential of diminishing the climate change is described, energy consumption in relation to energy efficiency requirements is analysed, and medium-term and long-term objectives of building renovation in Latvia, as well as the obstacles thereof are assessed (Chapter 4). To specify the competences of the housing managers to successfully implement the renovation of residential buildings, a survey for the project’s stakeholders has been elaborated. The survey results are analysed in detail in Chapter 5 of the research. The research includes development of methods to determine the competences of the housing managers as for the renovation of residential buildings with an aim of reducing the climate change. By using these methods, the required measures, tasks, and a set of skills, attitudes, resources, and knowledge are defined in Chapter 6 of the research.