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Building Climate Resilient and Adaptive Ecosystems in Rural Eswatini
Eswatini is facing more frequent droughts4 and about 20% of its rural population is experiencing acute food insecurity. The agriculture sector, including livestock and crop production is the most vulnerable to the...
Document > Concept note Eswatini FAO
Solomon Islands Knowledge-Action-Sustainability for Resilient Villages (SOLSKAS) Project
The Solomon Islands is facing increasing climate change impacts, making it the 4th most vulnerable country in the world. Impacts are felt most acutely in rural areas comprising 80% of the population. Without assistance...
Document > Concept note Solomon Islands SCA
Enhancing the Resilience of Small Farmers against Climate Change impacts in Cauvery Delta Zone of Tamil Nadu
The Cauvery Delta Zone is a victim of the vagaries of several climate change impacts in the recent past. The project attempts to address specific problems faced by the small farmers through development, dissemination...
Document > Concept note India NABARD
Support to Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) investments in Africa
The project development objective is to strengthen the capacity and accelerate the efforts of African countries on resource mobilization for projects to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, and to...
Document > Concept note Multiple countries AfDB
Reduced Emissions through Climate Smart Agroforestry (RECAF) (or Achieving emission reductions in the Central Highland and South Central Coast region of Viet Nam to support National REDD+ Action Programme goals)
Land use change continues to be a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions in Viet Nam, with the major drivers of forest-land conversion being logging (both legal and illegal), infrastructure development, and...
Document > Concept note Viet Nam IFAD
LOCAL GOVERNMENTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE-III (LGCC3)
food security. Climate trends including greater unpredictability rainy season, increased floods and droughts and higher temperatures are stressing farming systems. Local Governments are responsible to support adaptation...
Document > Concept note Cambodia NCDD
Nature-based Solutions for transforming smallholder farming systems that are vulnerable to the impacts of climate change in South Africa
South African smallholder farmers rely on rainfall, made more erratic by climate change, and lack access to climate-risk informed agricultural advisory services to enhance their adaptive capacity. The impacts of...
Document > Concept note South Africa SANBI
Ensuring Climate Resilience and Energy Substitution for WASH Systems in Drought-Prone Districts of Karamoja Subregion, Uganda
Karamoja region experiences high year-to-year variability in climate cycle, including unpredictable rainfall patterns, which undermines the already limited resources and development through recurring droughts, flash...
Document > Concept note Uganda DBSA
Women-Adapt: Enhancing women smallholder farmers´adaptive capacity and scaling up climate-resilient food production systems in Côte d’Ivoire
Smallholder farmers (of which 70% women) in the Poro Region strive to achieve or maintain food and water security due to their exposure to climate hazards (droughts and rainfall variability). The project will adopt a...
Document > Concept note Côte d'Ivoire WFP
Direct financing for communities and businesses to respond to climate change in the Cook Islands
The Cook Islands are expected to incur, on average, about USD 5 million per year (2% of GDP) in direct losses due to tropical cyclone activity – of which 90% are to the building sector. This project aims to strengthen...
Document > Concept note Cook Islands MFEM_COK
Dominica - Climate Elucidation for Adaptive Resilience in the Water Sector (D-ClEAR-Water)
There is evidence that climate change will result in increasing variability and extremes4 and this will impact the availability of water in Dominica, particularly in the dry season. Less water will be available to...
Document > Concept note Dominica CCCCC
Low emissions cattle ranching landscape: a sustainable and climate responsive alternative for rural development in Colombia
Rural development is urgent in a post-conflict scenario in Colombia. GHG emissions from AFOLU sector account for 55% of the total (with deforestation as the main driver) and recent climate extreme events generated...
Document > Concept note Colombia FondoAccion
Scaling up regional action to reduce deforestation and increase resilience to climate change under the framework of the Leticia Pact for the Amazon (Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru)
The destruction of the forests of the Amazon basin imperils global climate stability and the climate-resilience of vulnerable indigenous and local communities. The proposed Program will accelerate the regional shift to...
Document > Concept note Multiple countries CI
A Review of GCF Adaptation Planning Guidance
In 2019, the Green Climate Fund (GCF) engaged the World Resources Institute (WRI) to conduct a review of the adaptation planning window of GCF’s Readiness Programme and suggest ways to strengthen its guidance and...
Document > Operational document
Gender action plan for FP162: The Africa Integrated Climate Risk Management Programme: Building the resilience of smallholder farmers to climate change impacts in 7 Sahelian Countries of the Great Green Wall (GGW)
This document outlines the gender action plan for FP162: The Africa Integrated Climate Risk Management Programme: Building the resilience of smallholder farmers to climate change impacts in 7 Sahelian Countries of the...
Document > Gender action plan Multiple countries IFAD FP162
Gender action plan for FP161: Building Regional Resilience through Strengthened Meteorological, Hydrological and Climate Services in the Indian Ocean Commission (IOC) Member Countries
This document outlines the gender action plan for FP161: Building Regional Resilience through Strengthened Meteorological, Hydrological and Climate Services in the Indian Ocean Commission (IOC) Member Countries. Gender...
Document > Gender action plan Multiple countries AFD FP161
Gender assessment for FP162: The Africa Integrated Climate Risk Management Programme: Building the resilience of smallholder farmers to climate change impacts in 7 Sahelian Countries of the Great Green Wall (GGW)
This gender assessment for FP162: The Africa Integrated Climate Risk Management Programme: Building the resilience of smallholder farmers to climate change impacts in 7 Sahelian Countries of the Great Green Wall (GGW)...
Document > Gender assessment Multiple countries IFAD FP162
Revised policy on the prevention and protection from Sexual Exploitation, Sexual Abuse, and Sexual Harassment
Adopted by decision B.BM-2021/08. This policy sets out the obligations for GCF Covered Individuals to prevent and respond to SEAH and to refrain from condoning, encouraging, participating in, or engaging in SEAH.
Document > Policies, strategies, and guidelines
Twenty-ninth meeting of the Board
The twenty-ninth meeting of the Board of the Green Climate Fund will be held from 12 PM to 4 PM (UTC) each day from Monday, 28 June to Thursday, 1 July 2021, in a virtual format.
The B.29 logistics note and the manual...
Document > Notification
Thematic brief: Forests and land use
Forests are crucial for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and enhancing climate change adaptation. Healthy forests are more resilient to climate impacts. However, forest cover loss continues rapidly, contributing...
Document > Thematic brief
Compilation of submissions: 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
On 19 April 2021, the Green Climate Fund (GCF) published a call for public inputs inviting organizations and all entities involved and interested in climate mitigation and adaptation and SEAH issues to provide inputs to...
Document > Call for input
GCF audited financial statements for the years ending December 31, 2020 and 2019
The audited financial statements for the years ending December 31, 2020, and 2019 include the income statement, statement of financial position, statement of changes in funds, statement of cash flows, and the notes to...
Document > Financial statement
Towards a comprehensive national adaptation planning process in Jamaica (Ja-NAP)
The Government of Jamaica (GoJ) has been advancing its climate change agenda over the past few decades. This includes the adoption of climate change as a pillar for success in Vision 2030 Jamaica – National Development...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Jamaica PIOJ
Thirtieth meeting of the Board
The thirtieth meeting of the Board of the Green Climate Fund (B.30) will be held from 12 PM to 4 PM (UTC) each day from Monday, 4 October to Thursday, 7 October 2021, in a virtual format.
The B.30 logistics note and...
Document > Notification
Environmental and social safeguards (ESS) report for FP173: The Amazon Bioeconomy Fund: Unlocking private capital by valuing bioeconomy products and services with climate mitigation and adaptation results in the Amazon
This document presents relevant environmental and social safeguards (ESS) information about FP173: The Amazon Bioeconomy Fund: Unlocking private capital by valuing bioeconomy products and services with climate...
Document > Environmental and Social Safeguards report Multiple countries IDB_Invest FP173
Environmental and social safeguards (ESS) report for FP174: Ecosystem-based Adaptation to increase climate resilience in the Central American Dry Corridor and the Arid Zones of the Dominican Republic
This document presents relevant environmental and social safeguards (ESS) information about FP174: Ecosystem-based Adaptation to increase climate resilience in the Central American Dry Corridor and the Arid Zones of the...
Document > Environmental and Social Safeguards report Multiple countries CABEI FP174
Environmental and social safeguards (ESS) report for FP181: CRAFT - Catalytic Capital for First Private Investment Fund for Adaptation Technologies in Developing Countries
This document presents relevant environmental and social safeguards (ESS) information about FP181: CRAFT - Catalytic Capital for First Private Investment Fund for Adaptation Technologies in Developing Countries. Project...
Document > Environmental and Social Safeguards report Multiple countries PCA FP181
SAP Compendium
A key element that drives the simplification of the preparation of a SAP proposal is the clarity, at the onset, of what are the activities that can be eligible for the GCF simplified approval. This is one of the main...
Document > Publication, Guides
2020 Annual Performance Report for FP011: Large-scale Ecosystem-based Adaptation in The Gambia: developing a climate-resilient, natural resource-based economy
This Annual Performance Report presents the overall implementation progress of the project including performance against GCF investment criteria, financial information, project logic framework targets indicators, and...
Document > Annual Performance Report Gambia UNEP FP011
2020 Annual Performance Report for FP001: Building the Resilience of Wetlands in the Province of Datem del Marañón, Peru
This Annual Performance Report presents the overall implementation progress of the project including performance against GCF investment criteria, financial information, project logic framework targets indicators, and...
Document > Annual Performance Report Peru Profonanpe FP001