The World Food Programme (WFP) headquartered in Italy, is an international entity whose mandate is to fight hunger worldwide by supporting national, local and regional food security and nutrition plans and programmes. It has built strong relationships with international organizations, non-governmental organizations, civil society and the private sector to enable people, communities and countries to meet their own food needs. With respect to climate change, WFP plays a role both in helping governments and communities prepare and respond to shocks, as well as in reducing vulnerability and building lasting resilience. Approximately 40 per cent of WFP’s operations include activities designed to reduce disaster risk, build resilience and help people adapt to climate change. In the last decade alone, 47 per cent of its operations included response to climate-related disasters amounting to a total cost of US$ 23 billion. WFP sought accreditation to the GCF in order to contribute to furthering the objectives of the GCF by delivering further climate action in its projects/programmes, promoting results-based management and gender-sensitive programming, and strengthening national and subnational institutional systems to implement programmes.
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Accreditation timeline
Accreditation term 1
06 Dec 2019 - 05 Dec 2024
Accreditation date
09 Mar 2016
AMA execution date
23 Nov 2018
AMA effectiveness
06 Dec 2019
Term end date
05 Dec 2024
Entity details
Size
Micro
Small
Medium
Large
Environmental and social risk category
Category C
Category B
Category A
Intermediation 3
Intermediation 2
Intermediation 1
Fiduciary standards
Basic
Project management
Grant award
On-lending/blending:
Loan
Equity
Guarantee
Blending
Projects
SAP028
Adaptation
Côte d'Ivoire
Women-Adapt: Enhancing the climate change adaptive capacity of smallholder farmer communities in the Poro Region, focusing on vulnerable women and youth
SAP011
Adaptation
Mozambique
Climate-resilient food security for women and men smallholders in Mozambique through integrated risk management
SAP007
Adaptation
Zimbabwe
Integrated Climate Risk Management for Food Security and Livelihoods in Zimbabwe focusing on Masvingo and Rushinga Districts
SAP002
Adaptation
Kyrgyzstan
Climate services and diversification of climate sensitive livelihoods to empower food insecure and vulnerable communities in the Kyrgyz Republic.
FP067
Adaptation
Tajikistan
Building climate resilience of vulnerable and food insecure communities through capacity strengthening and livelihood diversification in mountainous regions of Tajikistan
FP049
Adaptation
Senegal
Building the climate resilience of food insecure smallholder farmers through integrated management of climate risk (R4)
Green Climate Fund and its partners launch the Alliance for Hydromet Development
10 Dec 2019 / Twelve international organisations providing assistance to developing countries came together at COP25 today to launch the Alliance for Hydromet Development. As a founding member, the Green Climate Fund (GCF) joined the Alliance to unite efforts to close the capacity gap on early warnings and climate information by 2030.
