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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
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 ... distribution by utilities. Climate change may increase the future degree of exposure and sensitivity of these ...
Document > Concept note Rwanda
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 ... paradigm shift in six countries which are extremely vulnerable to climate change (Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Niger, ...
Document > Concept note Multiple countries
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. ... to be distressingly impacted. The Consultancy of Charles and Associates in 2015, assessed the climate finance ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Saint Kitts and Nevis
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 project ...
Document > Concept note Mozambique
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
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 ... and to protect persons, especially persons in vulnerable positions and situations and survivors of SEAH in GCF ... of the GCF, to address the requirements placed on accredited entities to integrate the obligations set out in ...
Document > Call for input
Implementing the new Green Climate Fund Urban Strategy in Africa
... ‘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 ... of projects on urban resilience; setting-up investment vehicles for blended finance; designing national and local urban ...
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 ...
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 ... is to develop a Public & Private Project Pipeline and settle an enabling climate action environment. These three ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Chile
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 ... on-the-ground adaptation interventions in priority vulnerable communities. The concept note has been developed together ... travel restrictions). The Pacific Community (SPC), as the accredited entity for the proposed project, will support the ...
Document > Approved project preparation funding application Micronesia (Federated States of)
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 ... committees; Generate baseline data (e.g. country profiles on health and climate change and a multi-country health ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Multiple countries
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
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 ... Agriculture and Resilient Livelihood in Northern Tonle Sap Basin (PEARL)” project. To date, FAO has provided ...
Document > Approved project preparation funding application Cambodia
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
Building climate resilience into Trinidad and Tobago’s Healthcare System
... 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 ... the United Nation Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) on National Determined Contributions (NDC) and other ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Trinidad and Tobago
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 ... options provide a sufficiently detailed basis for future climate finance. Our approach is underpinned by a ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Tuvalu
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
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
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 support the electric utilities in these countries to successfully ...
Document > Approved project preparation funding application Multiple countries
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
GCF Readiness and Preparatory Support in Cuba
... 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, including: Poor knowledge of the Green Climate Fund functioning, and, in ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Cuba
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) ... and climate-resilient development pathways. Nevertheless, the CPDAE is still at an early stage and there are ... implementation and evaluation, as well as for reaccreditation/accreditation upgrade process; Difficulties ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Multiple countries
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 ... with tuna-dependent economies that are highly vulnerable to climate-driven redistribution of tuna. This PPF grant ... and effective implementation. Conservation International (Accredited Entity and Executing Entity) will lead the ...
Document > Approved project preparation funding application Multiple countries
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
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 resilience of populations by ensuring effective implementation of these components. This PPF, valued at USD ...
Document > Approved project preparation funding application Multiple countries
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
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 country experiences ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
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 