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
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 fiduciary principles and standards of the Fund	21 May 2014
Initial guiding framework for the Fund’s accreditation process	21 May 2014
Initial financial risk management framework	21 May 2014
Administrative policies of the Fund	21 Feb 2014
Arrangements between the Conference of Parties to the United Nations Convention on Climate Change and the Green Climate Fund	10 Oct 2013
Guiding principles and factors determining terms of financial instruments	10 Oct 2013
Initial result areas of the Fund	10 Oct 2013
Performance indicators of the initial result areas of the Fund	10 Oct 2013
Guidelines on the participation and conduct of advisers in Board meetings	28 Jun 2013
Guidelines relating to the observer participation, accreditation of observer organizations and participation of active observers	15 Mar 2013
Governing Instrument	11 Dec 2011

Governance