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Annual portfolio performance report 2017
The first GCF Annual Portfolio Performance Report (PPR) covers the period up to end of 2017. At the time of publishing this report, GCF had 40 projects under implementation, totalling over USD 1.6 billion of GCF...
Document > Operational document
Environmental and social safeguards (ESS) report for FP090: Tonga Renewable Energy Project under the Pacific Islands Renewable Energy Investment Program
This document presents relevant environmental and social safeguards (ESS) information about FP090: Tonga Renewable Energy Project under the Pacific Islands Renewable Energy Investment Program. Project and programme...
Document > Environmental and Social Safeguards report Tonga ADB
Gender action plan for FP024: Enpower to Adapt: Creating Climate-Change Resilient Livelihoods through Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) in Namibia
This document outlines the gender action plan for project FP024: Enpower to Adapt: Creating Climate-Change Resilient Livelihoods through Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) in Namibia. Gender action...
Document > Gender action plan Namibia EIF
Environmental and social safeguards (ESS) report for FP012: Africa Hydromet Program – Strengthening Climate Resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa: Mali Country Project
This document presents relevant environmental and social safeguards (ESS) information about FP012: Africa Hydromet Program – Strengthening Climate Resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa: Mali Country Project. Project and...
Document > Environmental and Social Safeguards report Mali WorldBank
Environmental and social safeguards (ESS) report for FP025: GCF-EBRD SEFF Co-financing Programme
This document presents relevant environmental and social safeguards (ESS) information about FP025: GCF-EBRD SEFF Co-financing Programme. Project and programme funding proposals that have environmental or social impacts...
Document > Environmental and Social Safeguards report Multiple countries EBRD
Strategic Frameworks support for Ghana through UNEP and CTCN
The technical assistance aims to strengthen Ghana’s capability to have early warnings for droughts based on existing knowledge and capacity in the country. There is a system currently identified for Ghana but it needs...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Ghana UNEP
GCF/B.23/08 - Dates and venues of upcoming meetings of the Board
This document has been prepared to assist the Board in:
Confirming the dates and duration for the twenty-fourth meeting of the Board;
Deciding the dates for meetings of the Board in 2020; and
Deciding on the venues...
Board document > Action item
GCF/B.23/02/Add.06 - Consideration of funding proposals - Addendum VI Funding proposal package for FP112
This addendum contains the following seven parts:
A funding proposal titled “Addressing Climate Vulnerability in the Water Sector (ACWA) in the Marshall Islands”;
No-objection letter issued by the national...
Board document > Action item
Policies: Business model & allocation
Business model & allocation
Business model policies and decisions establish the basic operating parameters of GCF’s business model and the key principles that guide the Fund’s operations in line with the Governing...
Basic page > Policy map
Invitation for the Thirty-sixth Round of Application for Accreditation as an Observer Organization to the Green Climate Fund
In line with the Governing Instrument for the Green Climate Fund (the GCF) and the Rules of Procedures of the Board, the Co-Chairs, in consultation with the Board, invite accredited observer organizations to the forty-...
Document > Notification
SAP026 - Extended Community Climate Change Project-Drought (ECCCP-Drought)
Bangladesh is experiencing an increasing frequency and intensity of drought in its flat and low-lying northwestern region (NWR), an important agricultural hub in the country. More than 60% of the population in the...
Project > Public sector Bangladesh PKSF 
SAP027 - Solomon Islands Knowledge-Action-Sustainability for Resilient Villages (SOLKAS) Project
Rise in sea level and temperature, extreme rainfall, flooding, and droughts threaten the Solomon Islands’ population who reside on low-lying islands and atolls. The local population remains highly reliant on dwindling...
Project > Public sector Solomon Islands SCA 
GCF Board approves projects worth USD 250M and prepares for leadership transition
The thirteenth meeting of the Board (B.13) of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) has approved its first funding proposals for 2016 totalling USD 256.6 million in GCF funding.
“The close of B.13 marks the half-way point for...
Article > Press release 
National Adaptation Planning support for Antigua and Barbuda through Ministry of Health and Environment
The goal of this grant is to contribute to the global goal on adaptation in the Paris Agreement – to enhance adaptive capacity, strengthen resilience and reduce vulnerability to climate change (Article 7.1.). The...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Antigua and Barbuda DOE_ATG
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 
GCF and partners catalyse USD 600 million to boost adaptation finance
The Green Climate Fund (GCF), along with its partners MUFG Bank Ltd. (MUFG) and FinDev Canada, have achieved a major milestone in scaling private investment for adaptation with the USD 600 million first closure of the...
Article > News update MUFG_Bank 
Observers
Overview
The active engagement of diverse stakeholders is in the DNA of the Green Climate Fund. The GCF Board is mandated to grant Accredited Observers access to its meetings. To this end, four observers are able to...
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Interim environmental and social safeguards of the Fund (Performance standards of the International Finance Corporation)
Adopted by decision B.07/02 (c). Adopts the interim environmental and social safeguards to identify, measure, and mitigate environmental and social risks based on IFC standards; will remain in effect until the Fund...
Document > Policies, strategies, and guidelines
GCF/B.23/02/Add.08 - Consideration of funding proposals – Addendum VIII Funding proposal package for FP114
This addendum contains the following six parts:
A funding proposal summary titled “Program on Affirmative Finance Action for Women in Africa (AFAWA): Financing Climate Resilient Agricultural Practices in Ghana”...
Board document > Action item
Policies: Operations of the Board
Operations of the Board
The Governing Instrument sets out that the Fund will be governed and supervised by a Board that will have full responsibility for funding decisions. It also sets out the full range of roles and...
Basic page > Policy map
Policies: Resource mobilisation
Resource mobilisation
The Governing Instrument sets out that the Fund will receive financial inputs from developed country Parties to the Convention, and may also receive financial inputs from a variety of other...
Basic page > Policy map
GCF-2
GCF's second replenishment
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) – a critical element of the historic Paris Agreement – is the world’s largest climate fund mandated to support low emission, climate-resilient development pathways...
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SAP028 - Women-Adapt: Enhancing the climate change adaptive capacity of smallholder farmer communities in the Poro Region, focusing on vulnerable women and youth
Côte d’Ivoire, a coastal country in the Gulf of Guinea, is expected to be hit by rising temperatures, longer dry-spells and more intense and irregular precipitation patterns in the near-term future. In the Poro region,...
Project > Public sector Côte d'Ivoire WFP 
SAP029 - Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) for Reducing Community Vulnerability to Climate Change in Northern Pacific Small Island Developing States (SIDS)
Coastal and marine environments play a key role for the communities that live in the Micronesian archipelago. The communities rely heavily on the rich biodiversity of the ecosystems that are found along the coasts for...
Project > Public sector Multiple countries MCT 
FP206 - Resilient Homestead and Livelihood support to the vulnerable coastal people of Bangladesh (RHL)
The vulnerability of the coastal people in Bangladesh can be defined in three ways: climate-sensitive livelihoods; vulnerable settlements in low-lying areas; and scarcity of safe drinking water. Many coastal residents...
Project > Public sector Bangladesh PKSF 
FP207 - Recharge Pakistan: Building Pakistan’s resilience to climate change through Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) and Green Infrastructure for integrated flood risk management
According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Pakistan’s average temperature variations will be approximately 1°C higher than the global average changes by 2100. As a result, and combined with other...
Project > Public sector Pakistan WWF 
FP208 - Enhanced climate resilience in the Trois-Rivières region of Haiti through Integrated Flood Management
Haiti is highly vulnerable to climate hazards due to its exposed location in the Caribbean Ocean. The country is severely impacted by flooding due to extreme weather events such as tropical storms and hurricanes. These...
Project > Public sector Haiti UNDP 
FP209 - Climate Change Resilience through South Africa’s Water Reuse Programme (“WRP”)
South Africa is ranked as one of most vulnerable countries to climate change and, in particular, to water-related vulnerability. Accordingly, the government's National Adaptation Plan stresses the need for enhanced...
Project > Public sector South Africa DBSA 
FP210 - KawiSafi II
The African continent collectively contributes only about 3% of the yearly global human-induced greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. However, the region is projected to experience more severe impacts from human-induced...
Project > Private sector Multiple countries Acumen 
FP211 - Hardest-to-Reach
560 million people in the sub-Saharan region live without electricity and will continue to do so in the foreseeable future without adequate intervention. Investment barriers such as risky and nascent market, hard-to-...
Project > Private sector Multiple countries Acumen 