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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
Building capacity towards sustainable human capital development in North Macedonia
... request aims to contribute to a shift towards sustainable human capital development in North Macedonia. This change ... These sectors are dealing with the socially vulnerable and marginalized groups but are often over- looked in ... key stakeholders have pointed out the importance to comple- ment the ongoing readiness efforts by targeting human ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal North Macedonia GIZ
Infrastructure Climate Resilient Fund (ICRF)
Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) has the great ambition to integrate the consideration of ... barriers and risks, facilitating the financing and implementation of infrastructure projects, and improving the ... – Integrating climate risks assessments in AFC project design, Climate informed socio-economic analysis, including ...
Document > Approved project preparation funding application Multiple countries AFC
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 ... nominated for accreditation before the CGF by the National Designated Authority (NDA) of Ecuador. For more than 40 ...
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 ... of climate change. Over the course of the past few decades SVG like most of the countries in the Caribbean, has ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Saint Vincent and the Grenadines CCCCC
XV World Forestry Congress
The World Forestry Congress (WFC) is the world’s largest forest-related event held every ... It serves as a forum for the exchange of experiences, lessons, views, and information on all aspects of forests ... research, finance, industry, and livelihoods. The XV WFC, which takes place for the first time in the Republic of ...
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 insecurity, ... the country, and overall development. Recognizing these challenges, the Government led the development of Burkina Faso ...
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 ... areas: Identification of 2 potential DAE, nomination for accreditation, and accreditation gap assessment of the 2 ... office, Burundi Federal Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CFCIB), and the Ministries of Environment and Finance, NGOs ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Burundi CSE
Technical Guidance for Updating Technology Needs Assessment (TNA) and development of a Technology action plan for the implementation of NDC’ Côte d’Ivoire
... for prioritized technologies to address climate change challenges in the most critical sectors of the economy. This Readiness Proposal, should it be implemented, will allow to: a) setting up a national innovation ... academia), the absence of functional national direct accredited entity, the insufficient and low coordination of ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Côte d'Ivoire UNEP-CTCN
Capacity strengthening of UCLG Africa applying for Direct Access modality and pipeline development to implement NDCs at territorial level in Morocco
... readiness proposal seeks to address the following gaps, challenges and weaknesses which have been identified in the past ... a Direct Access Entity (DAE) to the Green Climate Fund (GFC) which is able to fill this gap and support African ... (United Cities and Local Governments of Africa) to meet accreditation standards, and thus the need to develop the ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Morocco UCLG Africa
Strengthening Rwanda's capacity to access GCF Funds through the assessment of readiness needs, updating country programme, capacitating national stakeholders and renewal of DAE accreditation
This proposal aims to strengthen the National Designated Authority (NDA) coordination mechanism through the implementation of the Non objection procedure and the update of ... programme. It will again support the renewal of the accreditation of the Ministry of Environment to sustain its ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Rwanda
Green Climate Fund Readiness Support for Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone is a least developed country (LDC) which is already ... of climate change impacts including frequent flooding that destroy lives and livelihoods of its already poor, changes ... signing of the United Nations Climate Change Convention (UNFCCC), its Kyoto protocol, the development of national ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Sierra Leone UNEP
Building institutional capacity for a renewable energy and energy efficiency investment programme for Sao Tome and Principe
... Resources and Environment (MOPIRNA)3 and the National Designated Authority (NDA) at the Ministry of Planning, ... Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) to implement a GCF Readiness proposal.4 The provided support will ... the capacities of the Government and private sector to implement an enabling policy and regulatory framework, which ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Sao Tome and Principe UNIDO
Enhance capacities of Cabo Verde in addressing the effects of climate change in key sectors of the Blue Economy
... Island Developing State, Cabo Verde is particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. The country’s key ... Economy (Cadre Stratégique Unifié pour l’Economie Bleue, CaSUEB, 2019) with the leadership of the Ministry of Maritime Economy, are ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Cabo Verde FAO