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Postcard from Katowice: Tuesday, December 4
... on Agriculture. This stream of work started on Monday and GCF's role was recognised in supporting resilient ... . On climate finance, two announcements of relevance to GCF to date: the multilateral development banks (including several GCF partners) announced a commitment to align their ...
Article > Press release 
DCP Webinar - Consultations on the second phase of the Enhancing Direct Access (EDA) Pilot
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) Enhancing Direct Access (EDA) pilot aims to ... adaptation actions, especially at the local level. The GCF EDA was launched as a pilot in June 2016, and it is ... usage, the GCF Secretariat intends to collect feedback, input, and ...
Event > Webinar 
ED address at the International Conference on Climate Resilient Pakistan
... the People of Pakistan in these difficult times. To date GCF has committed USD 136 million, together with a total ... resilient transportation, and renewable energy systems. GCF has also a pipeline of almost USD 1 billion in Pakistan ... to join existing and planned GCF-supported multi-country programmes such as the ADB multi-country programme for ...
Article > Speech
Strengthening capacities for NDC implementation in Peru improving knowledge management strategy and reporting
... Areas (Profonanpe) plays a crucial role as it is the only GCF Direct Access Entity (DAE) in Peru. Despite ... its GHG and climate resilience portfolio in accordance with GCF methodology. Moreover, Profonanpe recognized that ... assessing the impact of its interventions by incorporating GCF’s Learning-Oriented Real-Time Impact Assessment ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Peru
Scaling the Communal Reserve Co- management Model to Reduce Emissions and Build Resilience of Indigenous People in the Peruvian Amazon
... (CI) and the Peruvian government seek to develop a GCF Funding Proposal (FP) based on the project Concept Note to create a paradigm shifting GCF project (“the Project”) that will scale the communal ... Project’s beneficiaries. Funding is being sought from the GCF to gather baseline data and information to: ensure the ...
Document > Approved project preparation funding application Peru
Scaling up climate financing in Nepal
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) and Nepal Investment Mega Bank (NIMB) signed a grant ... private capital for climate action in Nepal. It is GCF’s first-ever Readiness and Preparatory Support grant ... in support of Nepal’s national climate priorities. The programme will focus on: Strengthening fiduciary, ...
Article > News update Nepal 
Vatican and R20 Austrian World Summit: Finance is key to tackling climate crisis
... and an effective functioning of the Green Climate Fund (GCF)." "GCF's mandate is to increase access to finance for ... countries to scale up their climate ambitions," said GCF Executive Director Yannick Glemarec at the R20 AWS ...
Article > Press release Austria 
Project preparation for enhancing resilience of rural communities by improving water security in Vanuatu
... are particularly vulnerable to such impacts. With GCF support, this project will achieve a paradigm shift ... has initially been submitted as a concept note to the GCF in May 2019 and was approved by the GCF Climate Investment Committee on 3 September 2020. The ...
Document > Approved project preparation funding application Vanuatu
Local Governments and Climate Change-III (LGCC3)
... Authority (NDA) to lead their engagement with the GCF and thus act as the country’s GCF focal point. The National Committee for Sub-National ... transferred to local governments under the RGC's National Programme for Sub-National Democratic Development (NP-SNDD), ...
Document > Approved project preparation funding application Cambodia
Strengthening Kyrgyzstan's capacity to manage the climate finance process and prepare quality projects
... their climate finance capacity. The Green Climate Fund (GCF1) Country Programme (CP) has not been finalized yet. It should be ... updated country commitments on climate change, and updated GCF requirements. According to the national priorities the ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Kyrgyzstan
MSMEs’ Climate Sound Technologies for Production Efficiency and Business Value in Kenya (MSMEs CST- Kenya)
... developed the MSMEs’ Climate Sound Technologies in Kenya programme. This programme aspires to enable MSMEs, ... cannot overcome without the concessional funding from the GCF. These barriers encompass challenges of funding MSMEs ... policymaking for MSMEs which will be addressed by the GCF grant via creating enabling environment through tools ...
Document > Approved project preparation funding application Kenya
REDD+ results-based payments pilot
REDD+ results-based payments pilot Beginning October 2017, GCF has started to pilot REDD+ results-based payments, ... eligible to apply for phase 3 funding through this pilot programme. This request for proposals runs from the end of 2017 until the last GCF Board meeting in 2022. Open for 5 years (2017-2022) ...
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Webinar on the 2025 Semi Annual Financial Report (SAFR) Template
... for Accredited Entities (AEs). The session explained how GCF will streamline financial reporting by consolidating ... Performance Report (APR) cycle. This webinar formed part of GCF’s ongoing efforts to enhance reporting efficiency, ... data requirements; How the semi-annual reporting supports GCF’s financial management, external audit, and Expected ...
Event > Webinar 
Enhancing Direct Access
... USD 200 million have been approved for this pilot programme. The objective of this pilot is to enhance country ... and programmes through a dedicated access window for GCF’s Direct Access Entities (DAEs). The EDA pilot is ... programmatic approach. The EDA pilot differs from other GCF access windows because individual sub-projects neither ...
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Record-breaking Green Climate Fund Board meeting approves USD 1.225 billion for new projects, reforms accreditation model and invites bids to host regional presence
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) Board this week approved a record volume of climate ... in response to the global demands for climate finance. GCF now has a portfolio of 314 projects amounting to USD 18 ... early warning in Maldives with United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) SAP051 : Increasing resilience to the ...
Article > Press release 
COP 21 Side Event – The Green Climate Fund: ‘Looking Beyond Paris’
... shift towards low-emission, climate-resilient development? GCF presents this side event to discuss the future direction ... McDonald, the incoming Co-Chairs, and Héla Cheikhrouhou, GCF's Executive Director. The discussion will be moderated ... an exchange between the Fund and its stakeholders about how GCF can realize its ambition in 2016 and beyond. Paris COP ...
Article > Press release 
B.29 Board meeting this week: USD 500 million in climate finance under consideration
The twenty-ninth meeting of the GCF Board will take place from 28 June to 1 July. The ... to be accredited entities - the partners who undertake GCF projects. There are also a number of policy and ... integrated results management framework, and a review of GCF's Request for Proposals modality. Also on the agenda is ...
Article > Press release 
The global water crisis: A call to action for climate and water initiatives
... SDG 6: clean water and sanitation. The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has a crucial role in mobilising investments and ... ecosystems favourable for climate and water initiatives. GCF's vision: Merging climate finance and water security One ... the vision: The case of South Africa's water reuse programme South Africa's Water Reuse Programme is a ...
Article > Insights 
Green Climate Fund and Meridiam unveil ambition and opportunities for impactful climate investments
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) and Meridiam convened a joint Investor Forum in Paris ... in developing countries. The Paris Forum is the second in GCF’s Investor Forum series, which aims to engage ... is scheduled next month. It is a critical component of GCF’s “50by30” vision to mobilise private capital at ...
Article > Press release 
Green Climate Fund will be ready to meet the challenge of central role in new climate finance goal says Executive Director
... shared future depends on it,” stated Green Climate Fund (GCF) Executive Director Mafalda Duarte, following the ... prosperous economies of the future.” “Over a year ago, GCF embarked on unprecedented reforms to become an ... NCQG takes shape and climate finance targets trend upward, GCF will be ready to meet the challenge." Green Climate Fund ...
Article > News update 
Papua New Guinea Country Programme
This Country Programme was developed as a part of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) Readiness and Preparatory Support Programme. The ... will require genuine and committed partnerships with the GCF, national stakeholders, Accredited Entities, and ...
Document > Country programme Papua New Guinea
Simplified Approval Process
... or messages purporting to be from the Green Climate Fund (GCF) or any of its representatives that come with grant, ... offers and emails are not in any way associated with GCF, nor with any of its personnel. These messages are scams ... Process (SAP) is an application process for projects or programmes that are expected to possess significant climate ...
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Entity Support for Kenya through NEMA
The proposed readiness programme seeks to address identified gaps in the accreditation of NEMA by introducing support to GCF operations at NEMA, building requisite technical ... Environmental and Social management system that meets GCF thresholds. Thereafter a training will be delivered to ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Kenya
Entity Support for Antigua and Barbuda through PwC
... for selected independent OECS Member States and for full GCF accreditation as a Regional Implementing Entity. To be ... will require, inter alia, Fiduciary Standards that satisfy GCF criteria. The Commission does not currently possess such ... PWC that a framework agreement exists between PwC and the GCF. Antigua and Barbuda Entity Support for Antigua and ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Antigua and Barbuda
Building Resilience of Vulnerable Communities to Climate Variability in Rwanda’s Congo Nile Divide Through Forest and Landscape Restoration
... Conservation Society (WCS), has developed a small-size programme to increase resilience of livelihoods, reduce CO2 ... in the CND. The resulting programme was submitted to the GCF as a concept and was cleared in August, 2019, for ... now is seeking support to develop a full proposal to the GCF. While initial studies and consultations demonstrate the ...
Document > Approved project preparation funding application Rwanda
Collaborative R&DB Programme for Promoting the Innovation of Climate Technopreneurship
... Nations (ASEAN) bloc. The multi-country proposal is the GCF’s first- ever initiative under a theme of “Support ... thereby contributing to diversification of the GCF investment portfolio. Without any precedent for ... annexes with strategic inputs to financially structure the programme, and for (2) environmental, social, and gender ...
Document > Approved project preparation funding application Multiple countries
Post-approval environmental and social safeguards (ESS) report for FP100: REDD-PLUS results-based payments for results achieved by Brazil in the Amazon biome in 2014 and 2015
... by Brazil in the Amazon biome in 2014 and 2015. Project and programme funding proposals that have environmental or ... the relevant documentation related to ESS required by the GCF's Environmental and Social Policy and Information ... and (iii) Provide the Project Disclosure Package to the GCF Secretariat for further distribution to the Board and ...
Document > Environmental and Social Safeguards report Brazil
Previous Readiness Result Management Framework
... Readiness results-based interventions, and through which GCF tracks and measures the results of the Readiness Programme in a consistent and coherent manner. The purpose ... National Designated Authorities, Delivery Partners and the GCF Secretariat, with guidance on the application of GCF’s ...
Document > Publication, Guides
Onboarding Webinar on REDD+ results-based payments
At its 39th meeting in July 2024, the Green Climate Fund (GCF) Board approved 13 principles on mainstreaming REDD+ ... a REDD+ RBPs funding modality into the regular project and programme activity cycle of the Fund, and to undertake open, ... finalizing a draft policy document for a submission to the GCF Board for the 40th meeting of the GCF Board. In ...
Event > Webinar 
GHD Limited
... funding proposals aligned with the Green Climate Fund’s (GCF) strategic priorities. Their expertise covers all eight GCF result areas and the full range of Project Preparation ... country ownership, integrate climate science, and meet GCF investment criteria. Services include capacity ...
Organisation > PPF service firm