Policies and strategies

As part of its mandate, the GCF Board approves specific operational policies and guidelines, including for programming, project cycle, administration, and financial management. In addition, the Board reviews and approves relevant frameworks, guidelines and standards related to GCF's operations, including environmental and social safeguards, and accreditation process, among others.

Governing Instrument

The Governing Instrument for the Green Climate Fund was approved by the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) at its seventeenth session on 11 December 2011 in Durban, South Africa.

List of policies and strategies

Title	Date
Updated Strategic Plan for the Green Climate Fund 2020-2023	13 Nov 2020
Policy for contributions to the Green Climate Fund for the first replenishment	14 Nov 2019
Policy on co-financing	14 Nov 2019
Gender policy	14 Nov 2019
Gender action plan	14 Nov 2019
Policy on prohibited practices	08 Jul 2019
Policy on ethics and conflicts of interest for active observers of the Green Climate Fund	08 Jul 2019
Procedures for adopting decisions in the event that all efforts at reaching consensus have been exhausted	08 Jul 2019
Compliance risk policy (Component VIII)	08 Jul 2019
Policy on the prevention and protection from sexual exploitation, sexual abuse, and sexual harassment	08 Jul 2019
Standards for the implementation of the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism policy	08 Jul 2019
Investment criteria indicators	28 Feb 2019
Policy on restructuring and cancellation	28 Feb 2019
Procedures and guidelines of the Independent Redress Mechanism	28 Feb 2019
Policy on the protection of whistleblowers and witnesses	21 Dec 2018
Arrangements for the first formal replenishment of GCF	20 Oct 2018
Environmental and social policy	01 Mar 2018
Indigenous Peoples policy	01 Mar 2018
General principles and indicative list of eligible costs covered under GCF fees and project management costs	01 Mar 2018
Funding risk policy (Component VII)	01 Mar 2018

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