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Sustainability guidance note: Designing and ensuring meaningful stakeholder engagement on GCF-financed projects
... by the GCF, and to both private and public sector accredited entities. The GCF is committed to enhancing the social and environmental outcomes of its activities while avoiding and mitigating any adverse risks and/or impacts ... can develop interactive and constructive processes to ensure that people are well informed, their ideas are ...
Document > Guides
Vatican and R20 Austrian World Summit: Finance is key to tackling climate crisis
... against climate change, finance must be used to invest in clean energy in order to transition to a green economy and ... have adopted, for the sake of humanity today and in the future. This is a basic commitment," said Pope Francis, ... of finance in the implementation of the Helsinki Principles. "It is my prayerful hope that, as stewards of the ...
Article > Press release Austria 
At a turning point: Catalysing climate finance in the era of COVID-19
... fund supporting developing countries respond to the challenge of climate change, GCF has a vital role to play in implementing the Paris Agreement and SDGs. ... CEOs and Heads of GCF project partners from WWF – US, IDFC, Acumen, and Palli Karma-Sahayak Foundation (PKSF). The ...
Event > Events organised / involving GCF 
Melanesia - Coastal and Marine Ecosystem Resilience Programme (M-CMERP)
... change adaptation initiatives that often focus on single issue, hard infrastructure adaptation responses, towards ... and adaptive capacity of Melanesian Pacific Island people to climate change by protecting, restoring and managing ... decision making, including long term (30-50 year) climate future climate impact and resilience scenarios and sharing ...
Document > Concept note Multiple countries IUCN
Making Nigeria’s Cross River State Investment Ready for REDD+
... strides towards REDD+ readiness and is unique in its clear sub-national approach to REDD+. The State has developed ... forest reference emission level (FREL) to the UNFCCC, (3) and established a sub-national approach to ... components: firstly, activities will focus on supporting future access to REDD+ results-based payments from both ...
Document > Concept note Nigeria UNDP
Building Resilience to High-Impact Hydro meteorological Events through the Strengthening of Multi-Hazard Early Warning Systems in Bhutan
Bhutan has a fragile mountainous landscape situated in a regional climatic region characterized by diverse influences that leave the country exposed to high weather variability and ... windstorms. Between 1994 and 2011, approximately 87,369 people were adversely affected by such events, resulting in 304 ...
Document > Concept note Bhutan WWF
Rwanda Integrated Landscape Climate Resilient Management Program (Upper Nyabarongo Catchment and Muvumba catchment -Nyagatare District)
... 1 The upper Nyabarongo catchment experiences regular cycles of floods as a result of short and intense rainfall ... temperatures and longer dry spells will likely diminish surface flows, leading to water shortages and reduce ... distribution by utilities. Climate change may increase the future degree of exposure and sensitivity of these ...
Document > Concept note Rwanda AfDB
Scaling-Up Resilience in Africa’s Great Green Wall (SURAGGWA)
... on earth in the 20th century, and data from 1900 shows clear long-term climate change with a tendency towards higher ... ecosystems to continue to provide their many services, ensuring sustainable livelihoods, and avoiding mounting terrorist and ...
Document > Concept note Multiple countries FAO
GCF Readiness Proposal for St. Kitts and Nevis for Institutional Capacity and Coordination and Country Programming
... to the European Union Sugar Protocol and the resultant closure of the sugar industry on St. Kitts, the Government of ... socio-economic transformation of the economy. Since its implementation in 2006, a number of priority actions outlined ... to be distressingly impacted. The Consultancy of Charles and Associates in 2015, assessed the climate finance ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Saint Kitts and Nevis CDB
State of Palestine Country Programme
... this planet. In an effort to respond to climate change challenges, the international community created the Green ... to climate finance. Like all countries, the State of Palestine will be hit hard by climate change. Indeed, signs of ...
Document > Country programme State of Palestine
Strengthen climate resilience in Mozambique: Sustainable access to solar drinking water in the rural provinces of Gaza, Inhambane and Maputo
... between Enabel and its Mozambique partner and on the lessons learnt from the implementation of the Belgian-funded ... the project jointly combines adaptation and mitigation measures. 4. Above the technical component of the project, ...
Document > Concept note Mozambique Enabel
Project preparation for enhancing resilience of rural communities by improving water security in Vanuatu
... in ENSO oscillation, increased air temperature and sea level rise, will result in additional impacts on water ... contamination. Rural communities are particularly vulnerable to such impacts. With GCF support, this project will ... creating an enabling environment at provincial and national level to better address climate risks associated with water ...
Document > Approved project preparation funding application Vanuatu SPC
Pacific countries to bolster project pipeline with GCF
... sessions that highlighted the tools and resources available for direct access entities (DAEs) to help them develop ... Snyman, Pacific Community (SPC) Climate Finance Adviser. Lessons from successful initiatives and challenges in the ...
Article > Press release 
Enhancing climate change resilience of health systems in seven CARICOM States
... and territories. The plan addresses the common challenges posed by climate change on health and provide a ... aims to fulfill the vision of the Action Plan to “ensure that the region is fully engaged in global climate ... committees; Generate baseline data (e.g. country profiles on health and climate change and a multi-country health ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Multiple countries WHO
Improving the capacity of the Ministry of Agriculture of Suriname to build resilience to climate change in the agriculture sector
Suriname is particularly vulnerable to the impacts of ... dry seasons, and high winds. The agriculture sector in Suriname currently experiences several challenges to efficiently addressing climate change risk and ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Suriname FAO
Preparation of the “Public-Social-Private Partnerships for Ecologically-Sound Agriculture and Resilient Livelihood in Northern Tonle Sap Basin (PEARL)” Project
... Designated Authority (NDA) has appointed FAO as the Accredited Entity (AE) to support the development and implementation of the “Public-Social-Private Partnerships for ... 2, 3, 4, and 5. As the AE for the PEARL project, FAO will ensure the necessary due diligence, including full and ...
Document > Approved project preparation funding application Cambodia FAO
Addressing pre-accreditation gaps for the Environmental Management Authority of Trinidad & Tobago
... a national Direct Access Entity (DAE) the country will be able to exercise ownership of climate change funding and ... EMA has taken stock of its existing capacity to become accredited and the critical gaps that must be filled. ... Fiduciary standards (Project Management). Closing these accreditation gaps in a timely manner and in-keeping with the ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Trinidad and Tobago CCCCC
Building climate resilience into Trinidad and Tobago’s Healthcare System
... reductions; design of resilient health facilities that ensure health workforce and the public are safe from ... and communication at the national and sub national levels on the impacts of climate change on the healthcare ... the network/ systems that enable them to fulfill their roles, responsibilities and policy requirements are ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Trinidad and Tobago CCCCC
Development of Tuvalu’s National Adaptation Plan (NAP) to advance medium and long-term adaptation planning
Tuvalu is one of the world’s most vulnerable countries to climate change due to its topography, size, ... process (and NAP) that will form a sustainable platform for future adaptation investments. This request for funding will ... (e.g. a mid-term review of project progress) to ensure we account for the iterative nature of climate change ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Tuvalu SPREP
Strengthening Adaptation Planning in Uganda (SAP)
The problem that this project will address is the weak technical, ... Outcome 2: Strengthened capacity for NAP planning and for future NAP processes. Outcome 3: Finance for adaptation secured Outcome 4: Lessons learned from NAP process disseminated These outcomes ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Uganda UNEP
Green Guarantee Company (GGC)
... an innovative finance solution which is proposing to use blended finance and guarantees to mobilise greater climate ... countries (as No-Objection Letters are received in future) from global capital markets to help them meet their ... requirements to operate and in possession of the requisite institutional capacity. The need to develop a Logical ...
Document > Approved project preparation funding application Multiple countries MUFG_Bank
Scaling up the deployment of Integrated Utility Services (IUS) to support energy sector transformation in the Caribbean (Phase I)
... and Jamaica) by increasing uptake of distributed renewable energy (RE) technologies, energy efficiency (EE) measures and other distributed energy resources (DERs) among the electric utilities’ customers. To do so, the programme will ...
Document > Approved project preparation funding application Multiple countries CDB
Project Preparation for Community-Based Interventions for Reducing Vulnerability to Climate Change in Northern Pacific Small Island Vulnerable States (SIDS)
... in FSM, Palau and RMI rely on as a buffer against future climate change impacts as well as for protection from ... change adaptation purposes. Additionally, there is little sharing of knowledge among local communities, states and ... areas. This hinders the amount of regional cooperation and future scaling- up and replication of effective protected ...
Document > Approved project preparation funding application Multiple countries MCT
Strengthening the capacity of Direct Access Entities through the Community of Practice for Direct Access Entities (CPDAE) to access climate finance and implement adaptation and mitigation programs and projects
... submitted as part of an ongoing effort to further the complementarity and coherence between the Adaptation Fund (AF) ... to enhance country ownership of climate projects and ensure that developing countries remain in the driving seat of ... implementation and evaluation, as well as for reaccreditation/accreditation upgrade process; Difficulties ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Multiple countries GIZ
Adapting tuna-dependent Pacific Island communities and economies to climate change
... reef fish, thereby reducing the food insecurity of vulnerable populations; and 2) develop the reforms needed to ... will be used to: gather baseline data and information to ensure that the programme is feasible; engage stakeholders to ... and effective implementation. Conservation International (Accredited Entity and Executing Entity) will lead the ...
Document > Approved project preparation funding application Multiple countries CI
Enhancing the capacities of Banco de Desarrollo de Ecuador B.P. (BDE) to support its accreditation to the Green Climate Fund
Ecuador's financial sector can play an important role in mobilizing climate finance resources through financial ... finance. However, at present, there are no GCF-accredited Direct Access Entities (DAE) in Ecuador. This has ... Bank of Ecuador B.P. BDE has been nominated for accreditation before the CGF by the National Designated ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Ecuador IICA
Capacity Building to support Institutional Strengthening, Planning, and Programming to enable increased Climate Finance mobilization for Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines must implement measures to grapple with the myriad challenges of climate change that the ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Saint Vincent and the Grenadines CCCCC
XV World Forestry Congress
... It serves as a forum for the exchange of experiences, lessons, views, and information on all aspects of forests ... Congress – Building a Green, Healthy and Resilient Future with Forests – gives prominence to climate change ...
Event > Events organised / involving GCF 
Mainstream Adaptation into Subnational Planning, Strengthen Institutional Frameworks, and Develop Financing Strategy and Project Concept Notes for Burkina Faso’s NAP Implementation
... hamper the country’s development and contribute to problems such as desertification, land degradation, food ... the country, and overall development. Recognizing these challenges, the Government led the development of Burkina Faso ... more efficiently by implementing planning mechanisms and measures taking account of resilience and adaptation to climate ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Burkina Faso GGGI
Increasing Private Sector Involvement in the Transition towards a Low-Carbon and Climate Resilient Economy in Burundi
Burundi has completed a GCF readiness grant aimed at strengthening the NDA ... and subnational actors is necessary for Burundi to support future growth and development efforts. Taking into account ... areas: Identification of 2 potential DAE, nomination for accreditation, and accreditation gap assessment of the 2 ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Burundi CSE