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Stage 1 Accreditation support of Direct Access Entities for on-lending and/or blending fiduciary functions
Lao PDR has revised its NDC and put forth more ambitious targets to be achieved by 2030. They include setting the course for ... in accreditation and scaling up climate change programmes/best practices. This Readiness grant aims to support the ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Lao People's Democratic Republic (the)
CARICOM Development Fund
... focused on providing financial and technical assistance to Member States of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), the ... the CDF actively seeks to promote knowledge-sharing and best practices among other regional DAEs, facilitating ... its strategic financial and technical interventions. Together with GCF, CDF plans to expand its credit risk ...
Organisation > Accredited Entity (AE), Direct (Regional) Barbados
Capacity building and accreditation support of Direct Access Entity to private banks for on-lending and/or blending fiduciary functions
The goal of this Readiness proposal is to strengthen Cambodia's access to climate finance by ... standards and requirements of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) for on-lending instruments and blending fiduciary functions, ... knowledge products containing lessons learned and best practices extracted from other countries, benefiting ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Cambodia
GCF Regional Dialogue with Middle East and North Africa
The event aims to bring together National Designated Authorities (NDAs), Accredited ... to facilitate peer-to-peer learning, share experiences and best practices, and identify and develop climate change ...
Event > Structured dialogue Morocco 
Development Bank of Rwanda (B.R.D) Plc
... is the national development bank of Rwanda, mandated to work with the private sector, households and financial ... BRD focuses on priority sectors such as agriculture, affordable housing, education, energy, and infrastructure - ... mobilizing climate finance, technical expertise, and global best practices. In close collaboration with the National ...
Organisation > Accredited Entity (AE), Direct (National) Rwanda
GCF Regional Dialogue with Africa
The GCF Regional Dialogue with Africa aims to bring together National Designated Authorities, ... to facilitate peer-to-peer learning, share experiences and best practices, and celebrate impactful successes. It will ...
Event > Structured dialogue 
Preparing bankable mitigation and adaptation funding proposals for the GCF: private sector experiences
This webinar aims to share lessons learned from Accredited Entities (AEs) that ... successfully taken private sector projects to the GCF Board for approval. There will be a panel session among AEs and ... Sector Facility, who will share their experiences on how to best prepare and structure projects to articulate ...
Event > Webinar 
International Union for Conservation of Nature
... organisations (NGOs), scientists and experts to find practical solutions to environment conservation and ... implementing field projects on the ground and bringing together various stakeholders to develop and improve policies, laws and best practices. Currently, IUCN has a project portfolio ...
Organisation > Accredited Entity (AE), International Switzerland
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 ... and ecosystem-based adaptation approaches (EbA) needs to be scaled up to adequately prepare for the worsening ... will be able to lead climate action locally by employing best EbA practices and locally relevant knowledge. GCF's ...
Project > Public sector Multiple countries 
Locally Led Climate Action
Overview Locally Led Climate Action (LLCA) is central to how the Green Climate Fund (GCF) delivers on its mandate ... civil society, and the private sector – who are best positioned to design and implement climate responses ... approach to LLCA builds on globally endorsed Principles for Locally Led Adaptation and GCF’s operational ...
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GCF expands private sector reach with IFC agreement
... an agreement with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) that will enable IFC to pool its resources with those of more than 40 governments ... - both in reducing emissions and in finding innovative ways to make countries and communities more resilient to its ...
Article > Press release 
NDA Strengthening and Country Programming (Phase 3)
This Readiness Project seeks to continue the momentum of Tonga’s NDA Strengthening & ... Phase 2 of the readiness project); and document and share best practices related to climate actions. The goal of ... which are also aligned to achieving Tonga’s resilient targets – via the following outputs: Increased technical ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Tonga
Climate Resilient Enduring Earth for Bolivia and Namibia (CREE-BN)
... World Wildlife Fund, Inc. (WWF US) and partners seek to develop a GCF Funding Proposal based on the Concept Note ... endorsed by the GCF as of 20 October 2025, to create a transformational, flagship climate-biodiversity nexus program, ... rigorous analyses, reflects ownership by stakeholders, and best serves the priorities of the three participating ...
Document > Approved project preparation funding application Bolivia (Plurinational State of) Namibia
GCF replenishment wins strong endorsement at COP24
... Green Climate Fund’s current replenishment drive received top-level support from developing and developed nations ... future held on Wednesday in the margins of COP24 now underway in the Polish city of Katowice. Svenja Schulze, ... of Climate Analytics, said huge changes are necessary to get the world back on track to a safe course, highlighted by ...
Article > Press release 
No objection letter template
Note: Transitionary measures until 30 June 2025 The decision to modify the no-objection procedure ( B.41/02 ) came into ... and we strongly encourage the use of the updated template for all NOLs issued after this date. However, considering ... be added or removed from the template. Please note that the latest NOL template is designed to accommodate a wider range ...
Document > Template
R2RP Readiness
... direct hit from a hurricane since 1955, a $5 Billion (USD), tourism-dependent economy could be devastated by a single ... addition to increased risk from extreme weather events, the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ... R2RP is the Government’s sustainable development model for the next decade and represents the country programme for ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Barbados
ED remarks at plenary session, The COP29 landscape on finance and means of Implementation and ambition
Thank you very much for you and your team for inviting us here, Excellencies, friends. It's a pleasure to be here with you as well and once again talking about ... that are necessary. I think the conversation is to get the right alliances and the right coalitions and the ...
Article > Speech
Social protection: Investing in reform and resilience
... ecosystems, soils and biodiversity, they share a story of climate vulnerability. But more importantly, they ... and labour market interventions, protect people before, during, and after climate shocks. Social protection is ... is a smart climate action investment. More than just getting investment out the door, if we’re focused on ...
Article > Insights 
Driving rapid climate action: 10 new projects ready for delivery
... backed by the Green Climate Fund (GCF) are on track for implementation, with two projects setting record times ... for rapid delivery. Steps were accelerated by the Fund to get projects out-the-door as quickly as possible upon their ...
Article > News update 
Mobilising Funds at Scale
Overview The Green Climate Fund offered USD 500 million to unlock private sector finance in developing countries. Bold investment ... in from all comers of the globe, to crowd in capital for low-emission and climate-resilient projects. Mobilising ...
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Policies: Country ownership
... sets out that the GCF will pursue and provide access to funding through a country-driven approach and that its ... the principles and processes through which GCF will seek to operationalize a country-driven approach. They elaborate ... coordination, in addition to setting out overall guidelines for country ownership intended to guide the GCF, developing ...
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Strengthening the resilience of ecosystems and populations in four regional hubs in northern Mauritania
... where the desertification process is more severe and stopping it more strategic. In particular, from north ... that basis, substantive investment are made in a systemic way on the ground to increase resilience, including land ... project also seeks to strengthen the enabling environment for mainstreaming climate change in key national policies, ...
Document > Approved project preparation funding application Mauritania
GCF/B.32/06 - Review of the initial private sector facility modalities and the private sector strategy
... consultations. This document presents the GCF private sector strategy, which has been developed in line with the ... portfolio and global experience, the document proposes a way forward to strengthen the engagement of GCF with the ... private sector and meet the objectives and programming targets in its updated Strategic Plan. A private sector ...
Board document > Action item
GCF/B.13/20 - Status of staffing of the Secretariat – a progress report
... capacity challenges within the Secretariat, with regard to a number of interrelated issues. At its twelfth meeting, ... pipeline and the selection process is well under way. It is envisaged that the number of staff will increase ... on rigorous performance assessment. In addition, the Budget Committee recommends considering other measures to ...
Board document > Action item
NDA Strengthening and Country Programming support for Liberia through UNDP
... is a Least Developed Country that is severely vulnerable to climate change impacts (extreme weather events, increased ... government tried to respond to these challenges but its efforts were hampered by 14 years of civil war, and the 2014 ... 1) as well as developing a country programme in a coherent way through a multi-stakeholder process that builds on ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Liberia
Entity Support support for Seychelles through the Indian Ocean Commission
... of IOC requested that the Secretariat seeks accreditation to the GCF (decision 21b) and reiterate the request in ... delivery of climate finance should not be a substitute for national mechanisms and in particular, country’s ... is increasingly viewed as a complementary and effective way to leverage additional resources for member countries. ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Seychelles
GCF Global Programming Conference 2019
... their climate ambitions. As part of its contribution to the achievement of the Paris Agreement, ahead of 2020 ... countries will be called to raise their climate ambition targets or Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), GCF ... move them towards low-emission and climate resilient pathways in line with the objectives of the United Nations ...
Event > Events organised / involving GCF Republic of Korea (the) 
Entity support for Peru through Profonanpe (Phase 3)
Peru is working to access the different financing modalities available by ... and (ii) wishes to boost Profonanpe’s capacity for funds management, given the new strategies that the ... the other hand, Profonanpe is rethinking and planning new ways of approaching climate change mitigation and adaptation ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Peru
Webinar on Accessing GCF Funds for Adaptation Planning, 3 June 2021
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) established the National Adaptation Plan (NAP) process as a way to facilitate adaptation planning in least developed ...
Event > Webinar 
GCF/B.29/05 - Review of Secretariat capabilities to deliver the updated Strategic Plan for 2020 – 2023
... presents a review of the Secretariat’s capabilities to deliver increased programming and implementation over ... operational bottlenecks and examine the most effective ways to address these to speed up access, and (ii) undertake ... and 350 in 2023, which with a 90% fill rate, implies budgeting for an average of 270 staff for 2022 and 315 staff ...
Board document > Action item