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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 ... of communities and individuals into project and subproject design and implementation is an essential component of ...
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 ... adaptation in the developing world. And it means a full replenishment and an effective functioning of the Green Climate ... increase access to finance for developing countries to scale up their climate ambitions," said GCF Executive Director ...
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 ... debt burdens. Working with our partners, GCF also provides innovations to catalyse and align private financial ... 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 ... provide resource, technical and capacity support to enable holistic, long- term, effective and efficient climate ...
Document > Concept note Multiple countries IUCN
Making Nigeria’s Cross River State Investment Ready for REDD+
... 50% of Nigeria’s forests has made significant 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 ...
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 ... floods (GLOFs), flash floods, riverine floods, landslides, landslide dam outburst floods, forest fires, droughts, ...
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 coupled with soil erosion on deforested lands. On the other ... Nyagatare district where the baseline storage project is implemented, warming temperatures and longer dry spells will ...
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 ... continue to provide their many services, ensuring sustainable livelihoods, and avoiding mounting terrorist and ... Sahelian countries on the GGW especially the Action Against Desertification (AAD) project implemented by FAO and funded ...
Document > Concept note Multiple countries FAO
GCF Readiness Proposal for St. Kitts and Nevis for Institutional Capacity and Coordination and Country Programming
... socio-economic transformation of the economy. Since its implementation in 2006, a number of priority actions outlined ... of the global financial and economic downturn, the implementation and completion of activities were delayed. Therefore, the GSKN in ...
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 the impact are already evident, well defined, and clearly observed. In an attempt to respond to the ...
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 project “Water Supply ...
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
Call for Public Inputs: Revisions to the Green Climate Fund’s Environmental and Social Policy (ESP) to reaffirm the Fund’s commitment to addressing Sexual Exploitation, Sexual Abuse, and Sexual Harassment (SEAH)
... needs of those developing countries particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change. In fulfilling ... of the GCF, to address the requirements placed on accredited entities to integrate the obligations set out in ... institutions and the business model of the GCF. This includes integrating SEAH provisions into the Environmental and ...
Document > Call for input
Implementing the new Green Climate Fund Urban Strategy in Africa
... aims at providing a set of ‘how to’ tools to National Designated Authorities and Accredited Entities to support the development of high quality ... climate innovation, mobilization of finance at scale and coalitions and knowledge to scale up success. In ...
Event > Events organised / involving GCF 
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 region that require GCF support were also ...
Article > Press release 
Enhancing climate action environment with an updated Country Programme, strengthening DAE to develop a pipeline of projects and effectively implement GCF funded activities
... Sector Project Pipeline. The primary purpose is to settle the structural basis for an enabling climate action ... the changes required to undertake climate action in Chile. The proposal through its project pipeline, coordination ... mechanisms between public entities, including National Designed Entity (NDA), and communicating the GCF to the ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Chile FYNSA
Project preparation for increasing resilience to the health risks of climate change in the Federated States of Micronesia
... Action Plan to transition from the current, highly vulnerable situation to a more climate-resilient and responsive ... travel restrictions). The Pacific Community (SPC), as the accredited entity for the proposed project, will support the ... outcomes by addressing gender issues of the project design and implementation; Environmental and Social Impact ...
Document > Approved project preparation funding application Micronesia (Federated States of) SPC
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 ... integrated action to protect health and promote sustainable development, under a changing climate. PAHO/WHO is seeking to support CARICOM Member States in implementing the Caribbean Action Plan, through this Readiness ...
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 climate change. The country’s small ... sector in Suriname currently experiences several challenges to efficiently addressing climate change risk and ... environment to support the planning, programming and implementation of GCF-funded activities. The project will also ...
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
Cambodia’s National Designated Authority (NDA) has appointed FAO as the Accredited Entity (AE) to support the development and implementation of the “Public-Social-Private Partnerships for ...
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
... healthcare workforce to deal with disaster risk reductions; design of resilient health facilities that ensure health ... and communication at the national and sub national levels on the impacts of climate change on the healthcare ... the United Nation Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) on National Determined Contributions (NDC) and other ...
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, geographical remoteness and access to resources. Despite these challenges, it has become a leading voice for enhanced climate ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Tuvalu SPREP
Strengthening Adaptation Planning in Uganda (SAP)
The problem that this project will address is the weak technical, ... financial capaci- ties at District and central government level to plan for adaptation. District level climate change ... clarity on adaptation targets for the country; iv) build widespread capacity among all Districts for the first time in ...
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 ... & Tobago and other developing countries (as No-Objection Letters are received in future) from global capital markets ... 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 ... the Phase I of this programme will: directly enable widespread investment in distributed RE, EE and other DERs ...
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)
... livelihoods. Although FSM, Palau and RMI have numerous designated protected areas throughout the three countries, ... change adaptation purposes. Additionally, there is little sharing of knowledge among local communities, states and countries managing ...
Document > Approved project preparation funding application Multiple countries MCT
GCF Readiness and Preparatory Support in Cuba
... Cuba appointed the Deputy Minister of CITMA as National Designated Authority to the Green Climate Fund. At the ... Guideline No.11 states: "To manage and use the available international financial resources, both from global and ... ". Despite these efforts, the work at national level still faces several barriers and limitations, ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Cuba UNDP
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) ... in-house capacities of the entities for projects design, development, 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
... GCF, to create a paradigm-shifting, regional GCF programme designed to: 1) increase the supply of tuna for domestic ... reef fish, thereby reducing the food insecurity of vulnerable populations; and 2) develop the reforms needed to ... and effective implementation. Conservation International (Accredited Entity and Executing Entity) will lead the ...
Document > Approved project preparation funding application Multiple countries CI