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GCF convenes its 42nd Board meeting in Papua New Guinea
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) will hold its 42nd Board meeting ... 1.3 billion in potential GCF funding. Proposed projects under consideration include GCF’s first-ever single-country projects in Oman, Mauritania, Saint Lucia, and Papua New Guinea. The Board will also ...
Article > News update 
Readiness: DAE window
... of the GCF accreditation process. The total financial envelope for DAE support includes the following: Amount ... over the four-year period¹ This financing modality is intended for addressing the readiness objectives as they ... of the GCF Integrated Results Management Framework (IRMF) under decision B.29/01 has been integrated into the overall ...
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Call for public input: REDD+ Results Based Payments
At the fourteenth meeting, through decision B.14/03, the Board of the ... the Warsaw Framework for REDD+ and other REDD+ decisions under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). While the UNFCCC guidance including the Warsaw ...
Document > Call for input
Call for Board inputs: REDD+ Results Based Payments
At the fourteenth meeting, through decision B.14/03, the Board of the ... the Warsaw Framework for REDD+ and other REDD+ decisions under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). While the UNFCCC guidance including the Warsaw ...
Document > Call for input
GCF/B.13/20 - Status of staffing of the Secretariat – a progress report
The Board is faced with capacity challenges within the Secretariat, with regard to a number of interrelated issues. At its twelfth meeting, the Board ... the recruitment pipeline and the selection process is well under way. It is envisaged that the number of staff will ...
Board document > Action item
GCF/B.05/18 - Resource Mobilization
... mobilization for the Fund, set out in Annex II of document GCF/B.01-13/07, which states: March to September 2013. The Interim Secretariat will prepare a resource mobilization ... 2013. In doing so, the Interim Secretariat will operate under the guidance of the Co-Chairs and take into ...
Board document > Action item
Strategic Frameworks support for Lao PDR through FAO
The Lao People's Democratic Republic has identified the forestry sector as a key contributor to its ... Agriculture as a necessary policy direction, is currently under consultation. Among the core barriers hindering ... other land use sector as well as the climate change focal point, including on monitoring and reporting of related ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Lao People's Democratic Republic (the) FAO
Entity Support for Antigua and Barbuda through PwC
... Caribbean States (OECS) is an Economic Union established under the Treaty of Basseterre. The OECS is now a ten-member grouping comprising the full Member States of ... of Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, St Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia and St Vincent and the Grenadines, with the ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Antigua and Barbuda
Entity support, strategic frameworks and private sector mobilization support for Antigua and Barbuda through the Department of Environment
Antigua and Barbuda is currently implementing its initial Readiness support request for ... Programme, and No-Objection procedure. These activities are underway and will be completed in March 2017. Antigua and ... also support the further development and submission of an Enhanced Direct Access (EDA) funding proposal, to include ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Antigua and Barbuda DOE_ATG
NDA Strengthening and Country Programming support for Viet Nam through the Ministry of Planning and Investment
In 2013, Viet Nam was officially chosen as one of the ten pilot countries to receive support from ... comparison with the direct access requirements of international climate funds, including the GCF. From March ... the FSF assessment highlighted a number of gaps that fall under the GCF’s Standardized Package for NDA Strengthening ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Viet Nam
NDA Strengthening and Country Programming support for Saint Kitts and Nevis through FAO
The Government of the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis is committed to ... national goals and to access climate finance will require inter alia, strengthened institutional capacity and ... mechanisms. The proposed readiness grant will address these underlying challenges through capacity building of the NDA ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Saint Kitts and Nevis FAO
NDA Strengthening and Country Programming support for Angola through AfDB
... with the Delivery Partner (DP), the African Development Bank (AfDB), seeks this GCF Readiness Support as ... response to climate change challenges outlined under Section 2 of this proposal. The primary purpose of ... the activities identified in this proposal. The NDA intends to invest the requested Readiness resources into ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Angola AfDB
Malekula Water Supply Project: Increase Resilience of Vulnerable and Marginalized Communities of Malekula Island through Integrated Water Resource Management and Ecosystem-based Interventions
... increasingly saline because of sea level rise and more frequent droughts. This is having a significant impact on the ... and sustainable water supply for ni-Vanuatu communities under future climate conditions, specifically by protecting ... ecological infrastructure. Investments will be made into adaptation interventions that lead to sustainable water ...
Document > Concept note Vanuatu UNEP
GCF Support to Climate Resilient Recovery
Following the announcement of GCF Support to Climate Resilient Recovery, the ... climate-resilient recovery strategies and incorporate them into NDCs and stimulus packages and to design paradigm ... to the option(s) chosen by countries will be counted under the annual readiness cap ($1 million per country per ...
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GCF/B.28/04 - Addressing gaps in the current portfolio for measurement
This document presents an assessment of the portfolio monitoring and ... “slight” risk categories. Additionally, this exercise has enabled the Secretariat to identify and extract lessons ... which can inform further approaches to funded activities under the first replenishment period of the GCF. GCF/B.28/04 ...
Board document > Action item
Building resilient and healthy Cook islands communities
An initial funding proposal (FP) “Building Resilient and Healthy Cook Islands Communities” has previously ... and procedures, and strengthening the proposal overall under SAP guidelines. Considering the changes requested and ... required documents, by addressing all review comments and points. Additionally, the PPF support will enable MFEM to ...
Document > Approved project preparation funding application Cook Islands MFEM_COK
Executive Director
Bio Mafalda Duarte is the Executive Director of the Green Climate Fund (GCF), the largest multilateral climate ... investments across more than 130 countries. Since her appointment in 2023, she has been leading ambitious reforms ... energy storage, and nature-based solutions. Under her leadership, CIF became a major funder of platforms ...
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Great Green Wall gets USD 82.8 million boost from GCF and IFAD
A project agreement has been signed in the margins of the COP26 meeting in ... and IFAD have today signed the agreement for the “ Africa Integrated Climate Risk Management Programme: Building the ... in the Sahel region where their lives and livelihoods are under enormous threat. With financial support, ...
Article > Press release IFAD 
National Adaptation Planning for Improved Food Security in Grenada
Grenada’s increasing vulnerability and exposure to climate ... Climate hazards includes increased frequency of extreme and intense weather events (hurricanes, storms, floods, drought, ... risks’ the listed objectives of the priority Actions under POA 4-Food security are as follows: Objective 1: ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Grenada FAO
Post-approval environmental and social safeguards (ESS) report for FP100: REDD-PLUS results-based payments for results achieved by Brazil in the Amazon biome in 2014 and 2015
This document presents relevant environmental and social safeguards ... in 2014 and 2015. Project and programme funding proposals that have environmental or social impacts are required to ... by Brazil in the Amazon Biome in 2014 and 2015 as required under Board decision B.22/07 , paragraph (b), Annex III. In ...
Document > Environmental and Social Safeguards report Brazil UNDP
Capacity Building and Knowledge Management on Climate Change for Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) in Ghana towards the implementation of the Nationally Determined Contributions
For the past 15 years, the government of Ghana has received support from the Global ... related capacity-building projects had been implemented under the GEF country allocation. Further to these supports, ... and institutional capacity to respond effectively and integrate climate change adaptation and mitigation into ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Ghana CSE
GCF/B.33/Inf.07 - Current GCF approach to financing for forests and alternative approaches
This document presents the current GCF approach to financing for forests, including alternative approaches, as mandated under decision GCF/B.32/10, Annex I, paragraph (e). In the ... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), forest finance breaks down into two categories: ...
Board document > Information
33rd meeting of GCF Board to take place in person in Republic of Korea on 17-20 July
... for approval, the four-day meeting will consider arrangements for the second replenishment of GCF’s programming ... the Secretariat and independent units, and by the Board Co-Chairs and Board committees; and updates on the status of GCF ... and portfolio performance. The four funding proposals under consideration include projects in Benin and Gambia, as ...
Article > News update 
Strengthening institutional capacity to access climate financing in Palau
The objective of this Readiness project is to strengthen the capacity of the National Designated Authority, Office of Climate Change, and Office of Project Management to plan, coordinate, ... The direct beneficiaries of the proposal include the NDA under the President’s office, the Office of Climate Change ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Palau
GCF/B.34/Inf.17 - Review and update of the Green Climate Fund Strategic Plan – zero draft
This document responds to Board decision B.32/04, which requested the Secretariat, under the guidance of the Co-Chairs, to present the review ... (B.34). In line with decision B.32/04, the zero draft takes into account emerging recommendations from the second ...
Board document > Information
“URU+CLIMA” Enhancing capacities, information and tools in Uruguay’s public and private sector to increase private investment in climate change
Since beginning its strategic engagement with the GCF, Uruguay has undertaken a path of continuously increasing national ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Uruguay CND
Improving Brazilian’s capacity to support the development of a national sustainable solid waste Management program in the coastal zone
Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions form the waste sector are mainly ... emissions 65,954 GgCO2e from the waste sector. More than 80% (2,655 of 3,256 sites) of the dumps that should have ... small municipalities (i.e., municipalities with population under 50,000 inhabitants) must continue to deal with the ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Brazil IICA
10th anniversary of GCF in Korea
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) was established under the Cancun ... countries serving the Financial Mechanism of the UNFCCC and the Paris Agreement. Through a competitive process, ...
Event > Events organised / involving GCF 
Previous Readiness Result Management Framework
The Readiness Result Management Framework (RRMF) is the primary tool to guide Readiness results-based interventions, and through which GCF tracks and measures the ... on the application of GCF’s RRMF as well as to assist in undertaking their respective roles and responsibilities. ...
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Strengthening capacities and enhancing climate data and services in Bhutan to scale-up climate financing from multiple sources
The proposed readiness project aims to remove obstacles and enhance access to climate finance by strengthening the ... Climate Change (DoECC) as a national focal point to the UNFCCC, National Centre for Hydrology and Meteorology (NCHM), ... the capacity building and knowledge sharing activities under this proposed readiness project, private sector ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Bhutan RSPN