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GCF/B.27/12 - Independent Evaluation of the Green Climate Fund’s Country Ownership Approach
This report presents the findings and recommendations of the Independent Evaluation of the Green Climate Fund’s Country Ownership Approach as well as the Secretariat management response. The Independent Evaluation Unit...
Board document > Action item
GCF/B.27/13 - Independent Evaluation of the Green Climate Fund’s Environmental and Social Safeguards (ESS) and the Environmental and Social Management System (ESMS)
This report presents the findings and recommendations of the Independent Evaluation of the Green Climate Fund’s Environmental and Social Safeguards (ESS) and the Environmental and Social Management System (ESMS). The...
Board document > Action item
GCF/B.27/13/Add.01 - Management response to the Independent Evaluation of the GCF’s Environmental and Social Safeguards (ESS) and the Environmental and Social Management System (ESMS)
This document presents the Secretariat management response to the Independent Evaluation of the Green Climate Fund’s Environmental and Social Safeguards (ESS) and the Environmental and Social Management System (ESMS)...
Board document > Action item
Contribution Agreement with Slovak Republic (GCF-1)
Contributions to GCF are facilitated through Contribution Agreements or Arrangements signed by contributors, GCF, and the Trustee, which is the existing mechanism for receiving contributions to the Trust Fund.
This...
Document > Contribution arrangement / agreement Slovakia
Accreditation Master Agreement between GCF and UNIDO
This agreement, signed between the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, sets out the terms and conditions for the use of GCF resources. It formalises UNIDO’s...
Document > Accreditation Master Agreement
Revised initial financial risk management framework
Sets out the financial risk policies, risk monitoring and reporting, and risk governance components, as updated by the Risk Management Committee.
Document > Policies, strategies, and guidelines
Accreditation Master Agreement between GCF and SIDBI
This agreement, signed between the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI), sets out the terms and conditions for the use of GCF resources. It formalises SIDBI's...
Document > Accreditation Master Agreement
GCF/B.31/08 - Guidance from the twenty-sixth session of the Conference of the Parties
This document presents the actions to be undertaken by the Board in 2022 in response to guidance received from the Parties during the twenty-sixth session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework...
Board document > Action item
Resilient Recovery Rapid Readiness Support in Afghanistan
This readiness support aims to support NEPA/NDA in developing a strategic framework and enhancing its coordination capacity to ensure that COVID-19 response and recovery plans and programmes will contribute to or even...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Afghanistan
Contribution Agreement with Portugal (GCF-2)
Contributions to GCF are facilitated through Contribution Agreements or Arrangements signed by contributors, GCF, and the Trustee, which is the existing mechanism for receiving contributions to the Trust Fund.
This...
Document > Contribution arrangement / agreement Portugal
Accreditation Master Agreement between GCF and CIFI
This agreement, signed between the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and Corporación Interamericana para el Financiamiento de Infraestructura, S.A, sets out the terms and conditions for the use of GCF resources. It formalises...
Document > Accreditation Master Agreement
Accreditation Master Agreement between GCF and Meridiam
This agreement, signed between the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and Meridiam SAS (Meridiam), sets out the terms and conditions for the use of GCF resources. It formalises Meridiam’s accountability in carrying out GCF-...
Document > Accreditation Master Agreement
UNDP head welcomes flow of GCF funds to the Maldives
Achim Steiner, United Nations Development Programme Administrator, said the Maldives will benefit from the current transfer of GCF funds to an adaptation project run by the UNDP.
While surrounded by water, many people...
Article > Press release Maldives 
GCF concludes final meeting for 2016, approves USD 315 million in funding
The first Green Climate Fund (GCF) Board meeting to be held in the Pacific, and the final for 2016, closed today having approved eight new funding proposals and accredited seven new partner entities.
The fifteenth...
Article > Press release 
GCF scaling-up clean energy access through solar based mini-grids in Mali
Mali is a landlocked country in the Sahel belt of West Africa where 80% of the population in the rural areas do not have access to electricity, while those with access are getting most of the electricity from diesel...
Article > Story Mali 
Partner agreements after Board meeting sign of faster GCF financing
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has signed agreements with is partners to implement four new climate initiatives only days after they were approved by the GCF Board.
The projects to strengthen climate action in Liberia,...
Article > Press release 
GCF publishes the priorities of the Updated Strategic Plan of the GCF, updated independent TAP modality, and B.30 tentative timeline
At its twenty-seventh meeting, the GCF Board adopted the Updated Strategic Plan (USP) for the first replenishment period 2020-2023 (GCF-1) and set new portfolio targets under the Fund’s investment framework. During...
Article > Press release 
The Green Climate Fund’s Group of Friends convene to discuss climate action urgency and show support for GCF’s second replenishment
GCF leadership met with ambassadors and representatives of its partner countries in the Republic of Korea as part of the 4th meeting of the ‘Group of Friends of GCF’. Representatives of 36 countries engaged in...
Article > News update 
The GCF Workshop for Latin America and Caribbean Direct Access Entities: enhancing partnerships for climate action through greater access to innovative, inclusive climate financing
The GCF Workshop for Latin American and Caribbean Direct Access Entities (DAEs) brought together Direct Access Entities (DAEs) from the region in Montevideo, Uruguay from 27 – 28 July 2023 with the aim of enhancing DAE...
Article > News update 
Re-Gain: Green Climate Fund and AGRA partner to transform Africa's food systems
Despite the challenges posed by the climate crisis, Africa holds tremendous potential to become the world's breadbasket. The opportunities and challenges facing Africa's food systems are immense. The continent possesses...
Article > News update 
From scarcity to sustainability: Maldives’ ambitious water security project
The Maldives, known as a luxury holiday destination with crystal blue water, is an idyllic island state in the Asia Pacific region. However, the Small Island Developing State (SIDS) is one of the most vulnerable nations...
Article > Story Maldives 
Climate change hurting the poor, Mali President says in call for action
Republic of Mali President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta called for a united approach to tackle the inequalities of climate change at GCF's Structured Dialogue with Africa, which concludes today.
"We are all determined...
Article > Press release Mali 
How grass seeds are changing lives in Kenya
“TWENDE: Towards Ending Drought Emergencies” is a GCF-backed project that tackles drought and extreme weather events in Kenya. Katarzyna Lesiuk from GCF’s Africa Regional team conducted a project visit, during which she...
Article > Insights Kenya 
Green Climate Fund invests USD 1 billion for developing country climate action, launches first replenishment
The 21st meeting of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) Board ended today in Bahrain, approving over one billion dollars of new projects and programmes to support climate action in developing countries, and formally launching...
Article > Press release Bahrain 
Bridging the climate-health gap
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), two billion people across the globe lack safe drinking water, 600 million suffer from foodborne illnesses annually, children under five bear 30% of foodborne fatalities...
Article > Insights 
Getting ready for Katowice
GCF will be attending COP24 in Katowice, Poland from 2-14 December. We look forward to welcoming you to the GCF pavilion, located in Zone E of the venue. At the pavilion we will be hosting a series of events, panel...
Article > News update 
GCF Board convenes for thirteenth meeting
Green Climate Fund Board Members, Alternate Members and observers have gathered for their thirteenth meeting, which runs from 28-30 June at GCF Headquarters in Songdo, Republic of Korea.
GCF Co-Chairs Zaheer Fakir (...
Article > Press release 
GCF/B.22/Inf.02 - Report on the activities of the Independent Redress Mechanism
This report provides an update on the progress made with regard to the activities of the Independent Redress Mechanism (IRM). The reporting period is from 1 September 2018 to 31 December 2018. The document summarizes...
Board document > Information
GCF/B.21/31/Rev.01 - Programmatic policy approach
This document provides guidance on the programmatic approach of the Green Climate Fund to funding proposals, including the definition and principles of a programme, the requirements for preparing a programmatic funding...
Board document > Action item
GCF/B.21/08 - Accreditation framework review
In line with decisions B.18/04, paragraphs (a) and (b), and B.19/13, this document presents the full review of the accreditation framework and proposes a project-specific assessment approach as a complementary modality...
Board document > Action item