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The Green Climate Fund issues a range of publications for our direct and indirect stakeholders on a diversity of issues – for the general public to industry experts. Stay in tune with our mission and activities around the planet with the issues that speak to you.
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GCF.10 Impact Report: Overview
A decade of global climate action: Building resilience, transforming lives
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GCF’s Locally Led Climate Action framework and guidance
This document elaborates guidance on advancing good locally led practices through GCF modalities. Part 1 introduces GCF’s parameters and approach to devolution in the GCF business model and elaborates approaches for context-specific models. Part 2 provides step-by-step guidance for developing and structuring funding proposals in alignment with the parameters. A set of annexes cover Readiness, local, traditional and Indigenous knowledge, a related checklist and relevant examples from GCF portfolio.
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Country platforms for climate finance
This brochure describes GCF’s approach to country platforms, including an overview of the concept, the potential impact and the end-to-end support GCF can provide.
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Climate investment planning and mobilization framework
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) and the NDC Partnership proudly launched the Climate Investment Planning and Mobilization Framework (Framework) to support countries in achieving national climate action. It aims to provide a common reference point fo
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Annual Progress Report 2024
This report describes the progress made by GCF to accelerate climate action for and by developing countries.
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GCF handbook: Decisions, policies and frameworks (updated March 2022)
March 2022
The purpose of the “GCF Handbook” is to make it easier for users to more easily navigate the GCF’s decisions and policies. To facilitate this, each primary Board decision and related policy framework has been given a descriptive title, and placed within one of ten issue oriented chapters. There, the decisions and related frameworks have been further divided by sub-issue with the most recent action on any topic listed first. The decisions and related frameworks that are particularly policy rich...
Enhancing Direct Access Guidelines
November 2021
The Green Climate Fund (GCF), Enhancing Direct Access (EDA) pilot intends to boost access by sub-national, national and regional, public, and private entities to GCF climate finance. EDA promotes country ownership of projects and programmes and devolves decision-making to local actors. This publication provides non-prescriptive guidance about how to structure an EDA Pilot intervention. It is primarily intended to support GCF Direct Access Entities (DAEs), National Designated Authorities and...
SAP Compendium
September 2021
A key element that drives the simplification of the preparation of a SAP proposal is the clarity, at the onset, of what are the activities that can be eligible for the GCF simplified approval. This is one of the main elements that this Compendium offers to all those involved in originating a SAP intervention. If you work in a GCF Accredited Entity, or if you are a GCF National Designated Authority or Focal Point, or a consultant involved in preparing a GCF SAP project, thisCompendium is ...
Country programme guidance
January 2021
Green Climate Fund (GCF) Country Programmes are the cornerstone of each country’s pipeline development with GCF. It is the first stage of the updated GCF project and programme cycle, and forms the basis for prioritising the further development of funding proposals for projects and programmes submitted by Accredited Entities on behalf of countries for funding. Countries are encouraged to develop a GCF Country Programme to drive their project and programme pipelines with GCF, and countries may...
Project Preparation Facility Guidelines
October 2020
GCF's Project Preparation Facility (PPF) provides financial support to Accredited Entities (AE) in preparing funding proposals for submission to the Green Climate Fund (GCF). The PPF supports AEs in preparing full Funding Proposals for consideration by the Board, based on a Concept Note that has been cleared for project preparation support vis-àvis GCF investment criteria. This publication provides practical guidelines to help AEs in preparing and submitting PPF requests to the GCF secretariat.
GCF Programming Manual: An introduction to the Green Climate Fund project cycle and project development tools for full-size projects
July 2020
This document is no longer available The GCF Programming Manual, the Appraisal Guidance along with some of its annexes have been removed from circulation. Updated guidance on Concept Notes and Funding Proposals is currently under development and will be provided when complete.
Mainstreaming gender in Green Climate Fund projects
August 2017
This manual addresses GCF’s potential to mainstream gender into climate finance, building on its mandate to support a paradigm shift to low-emission and climate-resilient development. Developed with UN Women, this toolkit guides GCF partners on how to include women, girls, men, and boys from socially excluded and vulnerable communities in all aspects of climate finance. Gender mainstreaming is central to GCF’s objectives and guiding principles, including through engaging women and men of all...