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
Draft provisions for privileges and immunities	09 Jul 2015
Administrative guidelines on the internal control framework and internal audit standards	27 Jun 2015
Initial investment framework: activity-specific sub-criteria and indicative assessment factors	26 Mar 2015
Policy on ethics and conflicts of interest for the Board of the Green Climate Fund	26 Mar 2015
Legal and formal arrangements with Accredited Entities	26 Mar 2015
Financial terms and conditions of grants and concessional loans	26 Mar 2015
Initial no-objection procedure	17 Oct 2014
Initial logic model for REDD+ results based payments	17 Oct 2014
Policies for contribution to the Green Climate Fund for the Initial Resource Mobilization	17 Oct 2014
Corporate procurement guidelines for goods and services	17 Oct 2014
Corporate procurement guidelines on the use of consultants	17 Oct 2014
Guidelines for the operationalization of the fit-for- purpose accreditation approach	17 Oct 2014
Policy on fees for accreditation of the Fund	17 Oct 2014
Initial general guidelines for country programmes	17 Oct 2014
Mitigation and adaptation performance measurement frameworks	17 Oct 2014
Performance measurement framework for REDD+ results based payments	17 Oct 2014
Interim environmental and social safeguards of the Fund (Performance standards of the International Finance Corporation)	21 May 2014
Initial investment framework	21 May 2014
Initial fiduciary principles and standards of the Fund	21 May 2014
Initial guiding framework for the Fund’s accreditation process	21 May 2014

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