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GCF/B.36/02/Add.05 - Consideration of funding proposals – Addendum V Funding proposal package for FP210
... proposal summary titled “KawiSafi II” submitted by Acumen Fund. Inc.; b) No-objection letters issued by the ... proposal titled titled “KawiSafi II” submitted by Acumen Fund. Inc. is being circulated on a limited ...
Board document > Action item
GCF/B.36/02/Add.06 - Consideration of funding proposals – Addendum VI Funding proposal package for FP211
... proposal summary titled “Hardest-to-Reach” submitted by Acumen Fund. Inc.; b) No-objection letters issued by the ... proposal titled titled “Hardest-to-Reach” submitted by Acumen Fund. Inc. is being circulated on a limited ...
Board document > Action item
GCF/B.39/02/Add.17 - Consideration of funding proposals – Addendum XVII Funding proposal package for FP242
... Policy of the Fund, the funding proposal titled “Acumen Climate Action Pakistan Fund” submitted by Acumen Fund, Inc is being circulated on a limited ...
Board document > Action item
Board to consider committing USD 788 million in project proposals and recruiting new ED at B.14 meeting
... Fund made an initial disbursement of USD 5 million to the Acumen Fund, one of the 33 entities that have been ...
Article > Press release 
Workshop: GCF supporting direct access entities
... Participating organizations in the training include: Acumen Fund, Inc. (Acumen; nominated by the Republic of Kenya) Caribbean ...
Article > Press release 
KawiSafi Ventures Fund
This document presents funding proposal "FP005: KawiSafi Ventures Fund," as approved by the Board of the Green Climate Fund at B.11.
Document > Approved funding proposal Kenya Rwanda
Gender is central to GCF, states Executive Director at women and climate finance event
... terms to women-led Mongolian MSMEs, an African project with Acumen that trains women as solar technicians , and a ...
Article > Press release France 
KawiSafi II
This document presents funding proposal "FP210: KawiSafi II," as approved by the Board of the Green Climate Fund at B.36.
Document > Approved funding proposal Multiple countries
GCF Private Investment for Climate Conference 2023
... of the Treasury Jacqueline Novogratz, Founder & CEO, Acumen Moderator: Sophie Mbugua, Environmental Journalist ... Consulting Group Tamer El-Raghy, Managing Director, Acumen Resilient Agriculture Fund (ARAF) Samir Ibrahim, ... Africa Speakers: Jacqueline Novogratz, Founder & CEO, Acumen Ron Pfende, Chief Financial Officer, d.light Design ...
Event > Events organised / involving GCF 
GCF’s first private sector conference boosts business role in climate finance
... of the world. Sachindra Rudra, chief investment officer of Acumen, said it is necessary to be innovative in showing ... GCF’s support was a key factor in the current ability of Acumen, an investment fund, to show that financing ... by good returns. GCF is investing in a project run by Acumen that is designed to improve the resilience of ...
Article > Press release 
GCF Private Investment for Climate Conference 2021
... Gabonese Republic Jacqueline Novogratz, Founder and CEO, Acumen Joan M. Larrea, CEO, Convergence Selwin Hart, Special ... with GCF: an interview with Jacqueline Novogratz, Acumen CEO Speakers: Jacqueline Novogratz, Founder and CEO, Acumen Moderator: Joanne Brinkman, Deputy General Counsel, ...
Event > Events organised / involving GCF 
Green Climate Fund approves first 8 investments
... 40 million) KawiSafi Ventures Fund in Eastern Africa, with Acumen (GCF funding: USD 25 million) Energy Efficiency Green ... Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau, KfW (International) Acumen Fund, Inc., Acumen (Regional) Inter-American Development Bank, IDB ...
Article > Press release Zambia 
GCF boosts COVID-19 low-carbon energy relief with anchor investment
... Novogratz, the founder and CEO of impact investor Acumen, a GCF Accredited Entity . “The launch of the EARF ... emissions. Find out more about EARF here and by reading Acumen’s news release . FP148 GCF boosts COVID-19 ...
Article > Press release 
The Climate Finance Opportunity in Developing Countries: How the Green Climate Fund Delivers Climate Action
... for Economic Integration (CABEI) Jacqueline Novogratz CEO, Acumen M. Sanjayan CEO of Conservation International ... for Economic Integration (CABEI) Jacqueline Novogratz, CEO, Acumen M. Sanjayan, CEO of Conservation International They ...
Event > Events organised / involving GCF 
GCF private sector conference explores how to break through finance barriers
... electricity grid – comprising 99.5 percent renewables. Acumen founder and CEO Jacqueline Novogratz also highlighted ... public finances, such as those provided by GCF, in Acumen’s ability to kickstart the growth of private off-grid solar companies in East Africa. Acumen began investing in African clean energy companies ...
Article > Press release 
ED address at the International Conference on Climate Resilient Pakistan
... work is progressing on an impact private equity fund (Acumen) targeting climate adaptation in the agriculture ...
Article > Speech
GCF hosts the annual Private Investment for Climate Conference 2023 in Nairobi, Kenya
... Development and Jacqueline Novogratz, Founder and CEO of Acumen. Led by industry experts, key themes across the ...
Article > Press release 
First GCF Structured Dialogue with Africa kicks off in Cape Town
... GCF made an initial disbursement of USD 5 million to the Acumen Fund, one of the 41 entities that have been ...
Article > Press release South Africa 
At a turning point: Catalysing climate finance in the era of COVID-19
... and Heads of GCF project partners from WWF – US, IDFC, Acumen, and Palli Karma-Sahayak Foundation (PKSF). The UN ...
Event > Events organised / involving GCF 
Gender assessment for FP148: Participation in Energy Access Relief Facility ("EARF")
This gender assessment for FP148: Participation in Energy Access Relief Facility ("EARF") seeks to present the issues, gaps and problems that should be addressed by gender-responsive project interventions.
Document > Gender assessment Multiple countries
Participation in Energy Access Relief Facility ("EARF")
This document presents funding proposal "Participation in Energy Access Relief Facility ("EARF")," as approved by the Board of the Green Climate Fund at B.27.
Document > Approved funding proposal Multiple countries
Hardest-to-Reach
This document presents funding proposal "FP211: Hardest-to-Reach," as approved by the Board of the Green Climate Fund at B.36.
Document > Approved funding proposal Multiple countries
Gender assessment for FP210: KawiSafi II
This gender assessment for FP210: KawiSafi II seeks to present the issues, gaps and problems that should be addressed by gender-responsive project interventions.
Document > Gender assessment Multiple countries
Gender assessment for FP211: Hardest-to-Reach
This gender assessment for FP211: Hardest-to-Reach seeks to present the issues, gaps and problems that should be addressed by gender-responsive project interventions.
Document > Gender assessment Multiple countries
Farmerline: Empowering smallholder farmers and governments to create climate-resilient agribusinesses
... change, with wide-ranging supply chain impacts. The Acumen Resilient Agriculture Fund (ARAF) — funded by the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and implemented by Acumen—is dedicated to improving climate resilience, ...
Article > Story Multiple countries 
Ambition and coordination key to climate finance reform
... effectively leveraged,” she added. Founder and CEO of Acumen, Jacqueline Novogratz, praised GCF’s reforms and ... investments. As a private sector partner, she heralded Acumen’s partnership with GCF, which is helping to address ...
Article > News update 
GCF Private Investment for Climate Conference 2022
... Power Global Jiwoo Choi, Chief of Strategic Initiatives, Acumen Moderator: Lilian Macharia, Director of Portfolio ... La Banque Agricole Tamer El-Raghy, Managing Director, Acumen Resilient Agriculture Fund (ARAF) Baskar Reddy, ...
Event > Events organised / involving GCF 
Decoding climate communication: stories to save the world
... Novogratz, Entrepreneur, Author, and Founder & CEO of Acumen; Natalia Alves Machado Netto, Global Business ... Novogratz, Entrepreneur, Author, and Founder & CEO of Acumen, expressed that climate action is possible if we can ...
Article > News update 
Address at Gobeshona Global Conference
... priority adaptation sectors. For example, GCF supports the Acumen Resilient Agriculture Fund (ARAF) - the first climate ...
Article > Speech