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A Climate Resilient Leyte through Integrated River Basin Governance in Flood Risk Management
The Province of Leyte is highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate variability and change, ... studies will be undertaken: Feasibility Assessments and Detailed Project Design (to include Baseline Study & ...
Document > Approved project preparation funding application Philippines (the)
Call for Public Inputs: Annex III | Water Security Sectoral Guide
The GCF Secretariat is pleased to invite all interested organizations ... 3: Practical guidelines for designing climate-resilient sanitation projects. We welcome inputs on the draft ...
Document > Call for input
SIDS Prime Ministers supercharge GCF regional dialogue with the Caribbean
... Minister Terrance Drew and Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley kicked off the 2025 GCF Regional Dialogue with the ... by Saint Kitts and Nevis, the four-day dialogue brought together over 200 stakeholders, comprising governments, National Designated Authorities, Accredited Entities, and other partners from the Caribbean ...
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Strengthening the water sector for enhanced planning, programming and implementation of climate finance in the Republic of Maldives
... and fiscal constraints hinder the Government from meeting its water and sanitation targets. There is a strong need to build technical knowledge, develop innovative and simple solutions, exchange ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Maldives
mproving Technical Capacity and Enabling Conditions to Mobilize Public Climate Finance for Nature-based Solutions Projects, Accelerating the Implementation of Chile's Climate Change Framework Law
Chile has developed a robust legal framework to address the climate crisis through the ... central, regional, and local levels—to create a variety of essential instruments, including national adaptation ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Chile
National Adaptation Plan on Water Resources (NAP WR) in Paraguay
... management in Paraguay faces significant risks and challenges derived from climate change, which are further ... of water-related disasters. To address these challenges, the water sector faces five priority barriers ... Indigenous Peoples, the private sector, and civil society; iv) Lack of consolidation and availability of key, ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Paraguay
Strengthening Climate Information Services and Impact-Based Early Warning Systems in Uruguay
... The project seeks to reduce the impact of extreme hydrometeorological events by enhancing climate information ... Warning Systems (EWS), with a particular focus on vulnerable populations affected by hydrological impacts and the ... technical and consultative design process. As the Accredited Entity, CND assumes responsibility for implementing ...
Document > Approved project preparation funding application Uruguay
Strengthen the Belize National Protected Area System (BNPAS) to provide Resilience, and Reduce Vulnerability of Community against Climate Change
... of climate change, especially in high-risk areas. Coupled with improving the livelihoods of the most vulnerable populations, improved management of PAs can be sustained ... Institutions or the private sectors, when there is harmony between people and the environment. Belize is ranked 9th in ...
Document > Approved project preparation funding application Belize
Climate Resilient Enduring Earth for Botswana and Guatemala (CREE-BG)
... flagship climate-biodiversity nexus program, entitled Climate Resilient Enduring Earth (CREE) led by TNC and WWF, by applying a Project Finance for ... serve as ecological anchors and critical adaptation assets, are increasingly under pressure due to inadequate ...
Document > Approved project preparation funding application Botswana Guatemala
Recognising women’s leadership in climate action and gender equality
In Fianarantsoa, Madagascar, women are leading efforts in their communities to restore degraded ... and combat climate change. Ernestine Razafindravola, leader of the Soa Te Hivoatra Women’s Association, ... Evaluation Unit. Written by Jin Hee Dieu Madagascar FP026 Recognising women’s leadership in climate action and ...
Article > Story Madagascar 
Cirkula: the innovative app tackling food waste in Peru
Peru is celebrated worldwide for its rich gastronomy, yet it faces significant issues with food waste. Across Latin ... environmental impact of food waste is enormous.” Michelle Gomberoff, Co-Founder and CEO of Cirkula Cirkula, an ...
Article > Story Peru 
Internship programme
Internship programme Important We are pleased to announce the launch of the GCF’s new recruitment platform with Oracle, designed to enhance the candidate experience and ... academic, and cultural backgrounds. This program is meticulously crafted for talented and driven individuals ...
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Disasters spur climate action coherence in Caribbean
... to regional efforts enhancing climate resilience. Recent meetings with GCF partners in Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, ... Caribbean held in Belize in June. This regional proposal, led by Grenada and Antigua and Barbuda, is tapping GCF ... spoke to a broad range of Caribbean partners, including Accredited Entities , National Designated Authorities and ...
Article > Press release Multiple countries 
GCF Regional Programming Dialogue with Asia and the Pacific: enhancing regional access to climate finance
... (DAEs) and several representatives of International Accredited Entities (IAE) along with GCF staff to discuss ways to accelerate access to climate finance in a region hit hard by the ... and further updates, please visit the official GCF website or contact the GCF Regional Desk for Asia Pacific. ...
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The global water crisis: A call to action for climate and water initiatives
... with the impacts of climate change becoming more visible every day. Urgent and courageous steps are needed to ... complex water challenges and realise SDG 6: clean water and sanitation. The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has a crucial role ... sector investment.” To translate momentum into concrete action, research, role allocations, and treating water ...
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Mobilising financing for agricultural technologies: seeding a climate resilient and food-secure future
Over the last 100 years, agriculture has scaled up like never before to feed the world’s growing ... receives only 5 per cent of all climate finance – with less than USD 500 million of private investment. As the ... a plant-by-plant level day after day. This granular level detection allows different insights to be obtained such as ...
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Innovating agriculture through the power of nature and tech
... decades. But this Latin American nation of rich and fertile land faces growing environmental and climate change ... we are producing food today, soil will become increasingly less fertile. Food will become progressively less ... to rise. We believe this could lead to widening gaps in society.” Mili Romano, Co-Founder and CEO of Vexxel There is a ...
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Turning down the heat
... I was tense,” said Lucky Begum, whose daughter is enrolled at a state-run school in Dhaka. “The heat is too much, ... already got heat rashes from sweating. I hope she does not get sick.” It’s the second year in a row that the ... in particular, face increased risk of gender-based violence, child marriage, and teenage pregnancy. This is the ...
Article > Story Bangladesh 
Niue launches community of practice to accelerate climate action in the Pacific
... (NDAs) and regional and national organisations accredited by GCF. Complementing existing structures, this unprecedented community ... launched its Strategic Framework and Country Programme (SFCP), Readiness Needs Assessment, and Standard Operating ...
Article > News update Niue 
Ecuador’s bold bet on mangroves: A climate solution rooted in community and capital
... of the Pacific, where land blurs into water and roots tangle beneath the tide, Ecuador’s mangrove forests stand as some of the planet’s most efficient carbon sinks. But over the past two ... shorelines from erosion, and support the livelihoods of thousands of coastal families. Yet in Ecuador, more than a third ...
Article > Story Ecuador 
GCF signs six new project agreements after 36th Board meeting
... and its partners on the margins of GCF’s 36th Board meeting (10-13 July 2023) , a record number for the Fund. Out ... increasing speed in moving projects from approval to implementation on the ground. The projects will increase ... and awareness about the impacts of climate change. SAP026: Extended Community Climate Change Project-Drought ...
Article > News update 
Country commitments and ambitions
... ownership and a country-driven approach are core principles of GCF. One of our operational priorities is to ... Paris Agreement shows that countries are ready to work together in response. But the targets, priorities, and ... to be determined by each country. GCF has built this principle of country ownership into all its activities to ensure ...
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EBRD and Green Climate Fund join forces to support major renewable energy project in Egypt
... up to make a major contribution to a USD$ 1 billion renewable energy project in Egypt. The funding supports the ... follows the signing of a Funded Activity Agreement (FAA) between GCF and EBRD today. FAAs mark the last phase of legal ... arrangements to implement projects between GCF and its Accredited Entities, such as the EBRD. GCF currently has 54 ...
Article > Press release Egypt 
GCF's first REDD+ results-based payment boosts financial incentive to protect forests
... point in helping turn REDD+ from a topic of years of UNFCCC negotiations into payments for achievement of past ... like Brazil to halt deforestation can, and should, be acknowledged," said Mr Chang. Brazil will reinvest the USD 96.5 ... GCF for REDD+ activities that come under its Nationally Determined Contribution ( NDC ) as a signatory to the Paris ...
Article > Press release Brazil 
Structured Dialogue with Eastern Europe and Central Asia connects climate ambition to climate finance
“Without financing, ideas, however noble they may be, will remain on paper." These were impactful ... highlighted this vulnerability in his address to the meeting, stating: “Tajikistan is one of the most vulnerable ... The Dialogue was successful in clarifying the process for accreditation, as well as highlighting the different options ...
Article > Press release Tajikistan 
Nauru President praises GCF move to streamlined approval
... Pacific Island states. “This will solve a lot of our problems,” said President Waqa, the incoming chair of the ... of Pacific Island representatives, led by President Waqa, met with GCF staff to learn more about climate finance ... Nationally Determined Contributions . The delegation visited GCF as part of its participation in the Korea Pacific ...
Article > Press release Nauru 
Focus on adaptation planning at COP 23, surge in requests for GCF support
Uncertainty should not be a pretext for putting off preventative action, a leading UN figure in adaptation said during a seminar ... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). “We are dealing with uncertainty all the time in ...
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GCF launches Simplified Approvals Process for faster, simpler approval of small-scale projects
... and simplifies applications for certain small-scale projects of up to USD 10 million in GCF funding, and is ... he said at ‘ Direct Access Day ’ held at the 23rd UNFCCC Conference of the Parties in Bonn where the ... the SAP will be targeted at Direct Access Entities. Both Accredited Entities (AEs), and National Designated Authorities ...
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GCF talks renewable energy with Alliance of Small Island States
The Green Climate Fund participated in the recent high-level meeting of 17 ministers of Energy and Environment that the ... meeting focused on advancing the Initiative for Renewable Island Energy (IRIE), which was announced at the 22nd ...
Article > Press release Multiple countries 
GCF Regional workshop to help advance climate action in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
... and the different funding and support mechanisms available. Sessions are covering a range of topics instrumental to ... Designated Authorities (NDAs), the processes related to accreditation and the submission of funding proposals , as ... to learn about the role of the private sector, civil society and other stakeholders in supporting their climate ...
Article > Press release Georgia 