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Green Climate Fund and Somalia: Accelerated USD 100 million investment partnership
... Fund’s (GCF) Executive Director, Mafalda Duarte headed the first-ever GCF delegation to Somalia, announcing an accelerated programme of ... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and serves the 2015 Paris Agreement, supporting the ...
Article > Press release Somalia 
Mayan youth promoting nature-based solutions for sustainable agriculture in Guatemalan highlands
A group of 30 young people in San Juan Comalapa, Guatemala, leverages sustainable ... cycle changes, increases in invasive species, and unprecedented effects on agricultural land. These changes are ... of Natural Resources and the Environment in Guatemala (FCG) and Rafael Landívar University. It is being ...
Article > Story Guatemala 
On the frontlines of climate change: Financing the largest community-based adaptation project in Vanuatu
‘We women depend on fishing along the coastline to provide fish for our families but most of our catch now are much smaller than the ones we caught here the past years,’ says ... working with Save the Children Australia, with a USD 26.2 million grant from the Green Climate Fund (GCF), will ...
Article > Story Vanuatu 
Pathways to dairy net zero: Promoting low carbon and climate resilient livestock in East Africa
... in partnership with the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the Food and Agriculture Organization ... Uganda. GCF’s grant contribution of USD 1.1 million complements the co-financing from the partners, with the ... in response to the Global Methane Pledge, launched at COP26 by the US and the EU, and building on the participating ...
Article > Press release 
Five newly approved climate projects ready for delivery on the ground
... meeting , which took place on 4-7 March in Kigali, Rwanda. Eleven projects were approved at the first Board meeting of ... were signed for five projects between GCF and its Accredited Entity partners at a signing ceremony on 6 March, ... Climate Change Centre (CCCCC) . Otherwise known as Funded Activity Agreements (FAAs), the project agreements ...
Article > News update 
Cooperation for climate action
... GCF is committed to ensuring that our activities complement those of other funds, and that together we have a coherent approach to supporting the climate ambitions of developing countries. This commitment is set out in our ... is available here . On 3 November 2021 - Finance Day at COP26, GCF adopted a joint statement with the Adaptation Fund, ...
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Gender action plan for SAP003: Enhancing climate resilience of the water sector in Bahrain
This document outlines the gender action plan for project SAP003: ... plans seek to operationalise the constraints and opportunities for women and men identified during the gender ...
Document > Gender action plan Bahrain
Gender assessment for SAP003: Enhancing climate resilience of the water sector in Bahrain
This gender assessment for SAP003: Enhancing climate resilience of ... sector in Bahrain seeks to present the issues, gaps and problems that should be addressed by gender-responsive project interventions. Bahrain SAP003 Gender ...
Document > Gender assessment Bahrain
Adaptation Planning support for Zimbabwe through UNEP
... support project will have four expected outcomes: Stakeholders capacity to formulate and implement the NAP process in Zimbabwe enhanced. Background ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Zimbabwe
Empowering resilience: Harnessing climate-smart practices in the Kyrgyz Republic
... than six months. Summers are brief and parched, and smallholder farmers face a formidable challenge. Prolonged winters and short, dry summers stunt ... 658 support equipment at 13 agro-meteorological observation sites. These tools monitor critical agro-meteorological ...
Article > Story 
FP060 - Water Sector Resilience Nexus for Sustainability in Barbados (WSRN S-Barbados)
Creating sustainable, resilient water supply for Barbados by implementing ... implementing the renewable energy activities, will provide credit lines to implement water conservation actions, ...
Project > Public sector Barbados 
FP063 - Promoting private sector investments in energy efficiency in the industrial sector and in Paraguay
... their energy efficiency and shifting energy use to renewable hydropower. Paraguay has a high hydropower capacity, yet ... large amount of emissions from wood burning and associated deforestation. Hydropower is being increased as part of the ... and monitoring and verification systems. Concessional credit lines will be provided to local financial ...
Project > Public sector Paraguay 
FP025 - GCF-EBRD SEFF Co-financing Programme
... Financing Facility (GEFF), formerly known as the Sustainable Energy Financing Facilities (SEFF) Co-financing programme, aims to deliver climate finance to the private sector at scale ... sectors. GEFF is an on-lending programme that will provide credit lines to PFIs to create self-sustaining markets in ...
Project > Private sector Multiple countries 
FP049 - Building the climate resilience of food insecure smallholder farmers through integrated management of climate risk (R4)
Increasing the resilience of vulnerable households in Senegal to climate-related risks through ... assets in response to weather-related impacts, which hinders longer-term resilience. Risk-reduction activities ... use of surplus production as collateral for loans to unlock credit for investment. The project has an estimated lifespan ...
Project > Public sector Senegal 
FP233 - Community-based Agriculture Support Programme ‘plus’ (CASP+)
Tajikistan is highly vulnerable to climate change, facing rising temperatures and ... serious threats to agriculture and livestock. Predicted decreases in crop yields, particularly for rice, wheat, and ... initiatives, and facilitates access to green investment credit lines. FP233 Tajikistan 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 894 895 ...
Project > Public sector Tajikistan 
FP238 - Ecosystems-based Adaptation for resilient Watersheds and Communities in Malawi (EbAM)
Climate change is intensifying Malawi’s challenges in agricultural productivity and food security. ... Extreme weather events, soil erosion, and watershed degradation exacerbate droughts and floods, further ... trusts, leveraging private sector experience on carbon credits through local partnerships. FP238 Malawi 1 2 3 4 5 6 ...
Project > Public sector Malawi 
FP149 - Green Climate Financing Facility for Local Financial Institutions in Latin-America
The energy and land use sectors are responsible for the majority of greenhouse gas emissions in many ... along with sustainable land use practices have been identified as effective investments for climate change ... will provide LFIs with access to a green finance credit line. It will also implement four grant-funded ...
Project > Private sector Multiple countries 
FP202 - Upscaling Ecosystem Based Climate Resilience of Vulnerable Rural Communities in the Valles Macro-region of the Plurinational State of Bolivia (RECEM-Valles)
The Los Valles Macro-region in the landlocked, South American state of ... frost intensity and hail events have put pressure on the delicate water systems in the valley. Climate change ... sustainably and providing them with access to credit allowing them to invest in modernized on-farm ...
Project > Public sector Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 
FP213 - The Blue Green Bank (BGB)
Barbados is faced with critical challenges from climate change. Increasing temperatures, a ... damaged infrastructure, an endangered water-supply, and the destruction of unique coastal ecosystems. These threaten the ... to support the existing financial ecosystem of banks, credit unions, and insurance companies that facilitate the ...
Project > Private sector Barbados 
Ambition and coordination key to climate finance reform
... climate action, supporting the world’s most vulnerable communities. Such a system would improve the quantity, type, and delivery of finance to scale up the positive impacts on ... achievable. For more information, visit the GCF COP29 microsite: https://cop.greenclimate.fund/ Ambition and ...
Article > News update 
Support for National Low Emission and Climate Resilient Development in Myanmar
The COVID-19 pandemic is creating a crisis in Myanmar’s rural and urban ... the new planting season as well as progress on construction sites and factories around the country. A recent survey conducted by UN-Habitat in Yangon highlights that at least one person per household among urban-poor households ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Myanmar
Zambia shows leadership potential in milestone visit to GCF HQ
... deal with climate change as part of the largest official delegation to visit GCF’s headquarters in Korea on 9 ... of three Zambian organisations as potential GCF Accredited Entities; recent progress on six projects that ... to an unexpected drop in water levels at Kariba Dam, the site of one of the world’s largest hydroelectric dams on ...
Article > Press release Zambia 
Green Climate Fund Board commits an additional USD 407.8 million to combat climate crisis
... Fund (GCF) is now financing climate action in over 100 developing countries after the final Board meeting of 2019 ... includes new transformative initiatives in China, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Mozambique, Nepal, the ... The three-day Board meeting also approved seven new Accredited Entities, which propose and implement climate ...
Article > Press release 
GCF publishes timelines for B.34 and B.35
... periods for B.34 and B.35 are presented below. Key milestones for B.34 Dates or indicative # of days Days from ... The report/s shall be disclosed (i) on the AE’s website, (ii) in locations convenient to affected peoples, and ... of the Integrated Results Management Framework (IRMF) by accredited entities. Note: Priorities of the Updated Strategic ...
Article > News update 
Project Preparation Funding for Securing Permanent Forests to Combat Climate Change and Enhance Sustainable National and Local Economies in Cameroon
... the elaboration of the full proposal of the project titled “Securing Permanent Forests to Combat Climate Change ... notably data on climate change analysis in the target sites of the Project and at the national level. One of the ... at 702,684 USD, with 555,684 USD requested from GCF. As Accredited Agency, IUCN is responsible and accountable for the ...
Document > Approved project preparation funding application Cameroon
Reducing GHG emissions from deforestation and forest degradation and enhancing rural livelihoods in the Headwaters of the Zambezi river (Zambia’s North-Western province), in support to NDC implementation and RBPs
Deforestation and forest degradation are major concerns in ... for REDD+, the submission of its Forest Reference Emission Level (FREL) and Safeguards Information System (SIS) to ... Land-Use assessment phase II https://prais.unccd.int/sites/default/files/2018-08/ILUA%20II_Final%20Re... [2] ...
Document > Concept note Zambia
Cook Islands launches its first GCF country programme
... adopted by the Cabinet on 5 March, was announced at a high-level donor round table on climate change, a first of its ... and Economic Management (MFEM) has been successfully accredited to GCF, and together with their country programme, ... The team also met high-level government officials and visited potential project sites in Rarotonga. "The Cook ...
Article > Press release Cook Islands 
GCF at COP29 summary
... the Fund to interact with countries, contributors, stakeholders and partners. And COP29 was no exception. Over the two ... (UNFCCC). One of COP29’s key outcomes was the New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG) on climate finance. The NCQG ... For more information, visit the GCF at COP29 microsite . Azerbaijan Baku GCF at COP29 summary ...
Article > News update Azerbaijan 
FP023 - Climate Resilient Agriculture in three of the Vulnerable Extreme northern crop growing regions (CRAVE)
... Zambezi regions. The project targeted 3,000 direct small-scale farmers (SSF) over 5,000 hectares, focusing on ... for food security and farmer resilience. Proper site selection requires extensive community consultation and ... from the Project Completion Report (PCR) submitted by Accredited Entities at the end of a project’s implementation ...
Project > Public sector Namibia 
GCF/B.21/10/Add.37 - Consideration of funding proposals – Addendum XXXVII Funding proposal package for SAP004
This addendum contains the following six parts: A funding proposal summary titled “Energy Efficient Consumption Loan Programme” ... assessments of funding proposal; Response from the accredited entity to the independent Technical Advisory Panel ...
Board document > Action item