B.44/17: Roadmap to the updated Strategic Plan for the GCF 2028–2031: Co-Chairs’ proposal

The Board, having considered document GCF/B.44/18 titled “Co-Chairs’ Roadmap for the updated Strategic Plan for the GCF 2028–2031”:

1. Recalls decision B.36/13, by which the Board adopted the updated Strategic Plan for the GCF 2024–2027;
2. Decides to conduct an open, inclusive, transparent consultation process engaging Board members and alternate Board members, national designated authorities, accredited entities, active observers, observer organizations and Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement, members of GCF panels and groups including the Indigenous Peoples Advisory Group, and other stakeholders to inform the review and update of the Strategic Plan;
3. Requests the Secretariat to facilitate the open, inclusive, transparent consultation process through, inter alia:
   1. Calls for submissions;
   2. Engagement with national designated authorities and accredited entities on programming needs and opportunities; and
   3. Producing summaries of inputs and publishing inputs on the GCF website;
4. Takes note of the Co-Chairs’ Roadmap, which sets out a process to facilitate the adoption of the updated Strategic Plan for the GCF 2028–2031 no later than the second Board meeting in 2027; and
5. Requests the Co-Chairs to prepare a draft decision for consideration by the Board at its forty-fifth meeting in order to launch the replenishment process and decides that the process will be conducted in an open, transparent, and inclusive manner.