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Unidad Para el Cambio Rural
The Unidad Para el Cambio Rural (Unit for Rural Change, UCAR) is a national entity located in Argentina, specifically a government agency within a ministry, which is ... taking into account programmes related to increasing adaptive capacities, the portfolio of UCAR is worth over US$ ...
Organisation > Accredited Entity (AE), Direct (National) Argentina
GCF strengthens partnership with FMO to combat climate change
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has today signed an agreement with Nederlandse ... private sector engagement to provide climate solutions." Linda Broekhuizen, Chief Investment Officer of FMO, stated, ... Master Agreements (AMAs) is a prerequisite for all GCF Accredited Entities, such as FMO, to implement GCF ...
Article > Press release 
GCF helps Bhutan progress climate plans
... (GCF) delegation began a visit to the Kingdom of Bhutan today to explore how GCF can help the country’s ambitious ... a minimum of 60 percent of its land under forest cover for all time, in accordance with Bhutan’s Constitution, is central to both the ...
Article > Press release Bhutan 
Malaysia partners with Carbon Trust to utilize GCF readiness resources
... Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, a GCF Nationally Designated Authority. GCF’s Readiness and Preparatory ... countries’ capacities to access climate finance. Dato’ Sr Dr Azimuddin Bahari, deputy Secretary General at ... will form the backbone of global efforts to mitigate the damaging impacts of climate change.” Malaysia Bonn ...
Article > Press release Malaysia 
Bilateral agreement solidifies partnership between Tonga and GCF
... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Parties recommended to enter into bilateral ... the effective performance of its activities. “I invite all countries currently developing or finalizing privileges ... both developing and developed countries,” he said. To date, 12 countries have granted Privileges and Immunities ...
Article > Press release Tonga 
GCF/B.10/Inf.10 - Brief Guideline on the Application of the Case-by-case Provisions in the Financial Terms and Conditions of the Fund’s Instruments
... These guiding principles and factors constitute the foundation of the terms and conditions of the Fund’s ... decided that use of grants with repayment contingency shall be limited to the private sector and that their terms and conditions shall be determined on a case-by-case basis. The Board further ...
Board document > Information
Adaptation Planning support for Bhutan through UNDP
... with the definition of a national NAP road-map and an update of the 2012 NAPA. This NAP project aims to build on Bhutan’s Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) by accelerating the NDC vision to scale up adaptation in the medium- to long-term and by focusing on ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Bhutan
Entity Support for Kenya through NEMA
... GCF thresholds. Thereafter a training will be delivered to all NEMA staff, and targeted stakeholders and potential ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Kenya
Building capacity to advance National Adaptation Plan Process in Mauritania
... barriers prevent the GoM from integrating climate change adaptation into existing strategies and governance ... iii) limited availability of climate change knowledge and data; iv) the absence of a centralised database for the systematic storage of all climate change data; v) a lack of a funding strategy ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Mauritania
NDA Strengthening and Country Programming support for Indonesia through GGGI
... readiness proposal includes interlinked activities aimed at all five key readiness outcomes. Country Capacity ... while Indonesia is already in an advanced state with one DAE, additional direct access is needed. Few institutions ... matchmaking for climate investments. Indonesia NDA Strengthening and Country Programming support for ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Indonesia
NDA Strengthening and Country Programming support for Dominican Republic through Fundación Reservas del País
As a tropical island, the DR is especially vulnerable to the effects of climate change; extreme ... and Natural Resources with a structure and legal mandate to tackle climate change, going from being a ... Designated Authority to the GCF. In particular, the NDA will require support to strengthen its capacity to ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Dominican Republic (the)
NDA Strengthening and Country Programming support for Chad through CSE
... livelihoods of its people. Although the country ratified all the key climate-related conventions, it has not ... support to strengthen his capacity (and those of the NDA, once nominated) so that the FP/NDA may effectively discharge the GCF-related roles and ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Chad
NDA Strengthening and Country Programming support for Bhutan through Gross National Happiness Commission
... Happiness Commission (GNHC) has been designated as the NDA for the GCF given its mandate to manage and channel all developmental grants in the country. However, there is ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Bhutan
NDA Strengthening and country programming support for Thailand through GIZ
... of the no-objection procedure and disseminating key updates and operational procedures of the fund to all the interested parties. Additionally the Focal point ... about the Fund’s accreditation process, fiduciary standards, ESS and gender policy and action plan as well as ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Thailand
Entity Support for Peru through Profonanpe
... its capacities to better manage future projects during all project stages, either as an implementing or executing ... manual of operations and procedures needs to be updated, improved and available to its users. Technical tools ... be further improved through regular planning meetings that allow the institutions to align goals and activities. Peru ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Peru
Strategic Frameworks and entity support for Chile through CAF
... portfolio of prioritized projects through prefeasibility studies, financial structuring, national social and environmental safeguards guides. Specifically, 3 proposals are presented: Support for the design of ... Safeguard Policies existing in the country that enable any/all institutions, irrespective of their nature or type of ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Chile
Adaptation planning support for Albania through UNDP
... the country’s climate change vulnerabilities. Specifically, this funding request willsupport Albania to develop a ... plan for CCA through: The strengthening of a national mandate, strategy and steering mechanism that focuses on ... are institutionalized for the long-term sustainability of adaptation planning beyond the life of the project – see ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Albania
Strategic frameworks and entity support for Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia through OECS Commission
... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Paris Agreement (PA) are at various stages in ... their GCF respective readiness processes. Antigua and Barbuda, Grenada and Dominica have already secured GCF funding ... and civil society sectors of three Eastern Caribbean small island developing states”. Nevertheless, the Member ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Multiple countries
Toward Risk-Aware and Climate-resilienT communities (TRACT) - Strengthening climate services and impact-based multi-hazard early warning in Maldives
The small size, low elevation and heavy dependence on natural ... storm surges, strong winds and tornadoes have all been identified as climate-related hazards to the ... end-to-end climate services. Improvement of climate data collection, management and forecasting remains a ...
Document > Concept note Maldives
GCF/B.28/04 - Addressing gaps in the current portfolio for measurement
... management framework: Independent Evaluation Unit recommendations to improve the Initial Results Management Framework ... in the initial resource mobilization period. Recommendations are informed by the independent review conducted by ... the Secretariat proposes to make best efforts to remediate all “moderate”, “elevated” and “high” risk gaps ...
Board document > Action item
Developing a GHG and SLCP monitoring network for enhanced compliance & enforcement of emission standards and improved climate change reporting
... and legal instruments to curtails the emissions. This challenge will be more pronounced in the future as the economy ... air pollutants of interest. This network will help gather data on emission status to support regulations enforcement, ... improve on the Country's reporting obligations to the UNFCCC. To effectively achieve this, the project adopts a ...
Document > Concept note Kenya
Multi-Year Strategic Readiness for Antigua and Barbuda: Supporting Antigua and Barbuda’s NDCs implementation towards a transformation to Climate Resilient and Low-Emission Development Pathway by 2030
Antigua and Barbuda’s 2021 National Determined Contribution (‘NDC’) ... targets outlines the Government of Antigua and Barbuda’s (‘GOAB’) envisioned climate targets to accomplish ... economy. The country’s Readiness Needs are consequentially linked to accomplishing its 2021 NDC targets. Moreover, ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Antigua and Barbuda
Accelerating Climate Change Adaptation Investment Planning to Enhance Resilience in Indonesia
... and forest fires. According to the Indonesian Disaster Data and Information Database (DIBI), the top four most dominant disasters in ... increases in duration of heatwaves, dry spells, and rainfall during the wet season – all by 2050. In addition, ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Indonesia
Strengthening policies and structures to access climate finance in the Republic of Nicaragua
... water deficit, and loss of crops, forests and homes. All these phenomena respond to the signal of climate change, ... and climate change, which implies significant losses and damage to human and economic lives annually. For this ... Nicaragua adopted its National Policy on Mitigation and Adaptation to Climate Change. With this policy the country ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Nicaragua
StrengtheningBangladesh’s NDA Secretariat, Enhancing Pipeline Implementationand Private Sector Engagement in Effective Climate Action
... Government of Bangladesh’s (GoB) climate change agenda. In June 2014, the GCF Secretariat invited GoB to select a National Designated Authority (NDA), and the Economic Relations Division (ERD)of the Ministry of Finance was formally endorsed on 24 November 2014 as the NDA and an Advisory ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Bangladesh
Strengthening the NDA and climate change frameworks for mobilizing climate financing in Benin
... aims mainly at the following objectives: Making the NDA and the NDA Council operational in the processes of engaging with the ... The country programme development process is initiated with all stakeholders' participation, and a formal ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Benin
Capacity Building and Knowledge Management on Climate Change for Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) in Ghana towards the implementation of the Nationally Determined Contributions
... support from the Global Environment Facility (GEF), The Adaptation Fund, and other multilateral and bilateral ... projects had been implemented under the GEF country allocation. Further to these supports, the country has ... to respond effectively and integrate climate change adaptation and mitigation into relevant existing and future ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Ghana
GCF/B.33/Inf.07 - Current GCF approach to financing for forests and alternative approaches
... for forests, including alternative approaches, as mandated under decision GCF/B.32/10, Annex I, paragraph (e). In ... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), forest finance breaks down into two categories: ... forest finance and analyses (i) GCF financial support for all three phases of REDD+ (readiness, implementation and ...
Board document > Information
GCF webinar on the Readiness Results Management Framework (RRMF)
... time the newly adopted RRMF which is planned to be used in all new GCF Readiness Proposals and for reporting against ... a forward-looking system to monitor and track in a standardized manner the results of GCF readiness grants, and the ... against readiness outputs. By the end of the webinar, NDAs and DPs will be able to better understand the RRMF ...
Event > Webinar 
GCF Digital Proposal Submission system goes live
... both Simplified Approval Process projects (SAP) and the Standard Proposal Approval Projects (PAP) from Accredited ... Entities (AEs) and National Designated Authorities (NDAs). By eliminating manual processes and streamlining the ... as 15 minutes with the DPS. The DPS is now accessible for all AEs and NDAs through the GCP Apps Portal. It is also ...
Article > News update 