B.08/10: Country ownership: Best-practice options for country coordination and multi-stakeholder engagement
The Board, having considered document GCF/B.06/07 Country Ownership:
- Decides that the Board will only consider funding proposals that are submitted with a formal letter of "no-objection", in accordance with the procedure approved in this decision;
- Approves the initial no‐objection procedure for funding proposals contained in Annex XII;
- Endorses the initial best‐practice guidelines for the establishment of national designated authorities and focal points as contained in Annex XIII, noting their relevance for the implementation of the programme of work on readiness and preparatory support;
- Endorses the initial best‐practice options for country coordination and multi‐stakeholder engagement, set out in Annex XIV noting that the specific guidance on multi‐stakeholder engagement in the context of the development of funding proposals will be included in the Fund’s environmental and social safeguards;
- Urges developing countries, as well as entities in a position to provide readiness and preparatory support, to take into account the best‐practice guidelines for the establishment of national designated authorities and focal points and the best‐practice options for country coordination and multi‐stakeholder engagement endorsed in this decision;
- Reiterates its invitation to developing countries to nominate and register with the Fund, through the Secretariat, their respective national designated authority or focal point as soon as possible and no later than March 2015; and
- Requests the Secretariat to:
- Communicate the no‐objection procedure to developing countries and to make it available on the Fund’s website;
- Publish on the Fund’s website the list and contact details of registered national designated authorities and focal points and present to the Board an update on their nomination and registration at its next meeting; and
- Communicate and publish the recommended best‐practice guidelines for the establishment of national designated authorities and focal points, as well as the best‐practice options for country coordination and multi‐stakeholder engagement, for their use in accordance with this decision.