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Workshop: GCF supporting direct access entities
... Fund’s environmental and social safeguards (ESS) and gender policy at GCF headquarters in Songdo. The training is ... will review best practices on how to identify, categorize, mitigate, and monitor environmental and ... (CSE; Senegal) Corporación Andina de Fomento (CAF; Venezuela) Environmental Investment Fund of Namibia (EIF; Namibia) ...
Article > Press release Acumen 
Performance indicators of the initial result areas of the Fund
Adopted by decision B.05/03 (f). Sets out indicators to show the ...
Document > Policies, strategies, and guidelines
CAF and the GCF to finance green projects in Chile, Ecuador, Panama and Peru
Article > Article about GCF
Article > Article about GCF
Green Climate Fund Board approves USD 325.2 million and policies for accelerated climate action
... The newly approved projects are listed below and more details are available on the GCF website . The Board adopted an updated ... 32nd GCF Board meeting approved the following projects: USD 26.2 million for Vanuatu Community-based Climate Resilience ...
Article > Press release 
GCF/B.21/10/Add.35 - Consideration of funding proposals - Addendum XXXV Funding proposal package for SAP003
This addendum contains the following seven parts: A funding ... in Bahrain”; No-objection letter issued by the national designated authority(ies) or focal point(s); Environmental ... Secretariat’s assessment of the funding proposal; Independent Technical Advisory Panel’s assessment of the ...
Board document > Action item
Accreditation Master Agreement between GCF and Fondo Accion
... signed between the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and Fondo Para La Accion Ambiental Y La Ninez (Fondo Accion), sets out the terms and conditions ...
Document > Accreditation Master Agreement FondoAccion
Guidelines for enhanced country ownership and country drivenness
Adopted by decision B.17/21 . Sets out guidelines for enhanced country ownership and country ... the Fund's operating modalities, and evaluation. Board Guidelines for enhanced country ownership and country drivenness ...
Document > Policies, strategies, and guidelines
Strengthening the NDA and climate change frameworks for mobilizing climate financing in Benin
... technical and operational capacities and structure its collaboration with the Fund. The proposal aims mainly at the ... in the processes of engaging with the GCF It provides Benin with a country programme that lays out its climate ... a project concept note from one of the priorities identified in the country programme. To attain these ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Benin IFDD
Green Climate Finance Facility for fostering Climate-smart agriculture in Senegal
... LBA to offer innovative financial products including a dedicated Line of Credit (LoC) Facility focussing on climate-smart agricultural practices, and the development of financial products such as credit bundled ... market analysis Feasibility study of the Digital lending Platform Identify Operational Arrangements for a Line of ...
Document > Approved project preparation funding application Senegal LBA
Improving Brazilian’s capacity to support the development of a national sustainable solid waste Management program in the coastal zone
... form the waste sector are mainly due to the anaerobic decomposition process occurring at the final disposal of solid waste in managed or unmanaged landfills, as well as during the treatment of wastewater. In ... been closed in 2014 remain in operation. In 2020, new deadlines were established for closing dumps, extending them ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Brazil IICA
GCF at COP27
... the sheer volume of events and activities that took place over the two weeks is striking. GCF took part in 359 ... and damage, hailed as historic after being long sought by developing nations. However, there were other takeaways ... United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), GCF takes guidance from the Conference of Parties ...
Article > News update 
Updated monitoring and accountability framework for accredited entities
Adopted by decision B.42/13 , subject to transitional arrangements . Defines the requirements related to the role of accredited entities (AE) in advancing ...
Document > Policies, strategies, and guidelines
Strategic Frameworks and entity support for Chile through CAF
... national social and environmental safeguards guides. Specifically, 3 proposals are presented: Support for the design of financial structuring for prioritized proposals: One of the main barriers during the formulation of local projects is the design of financial ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Chile CAF
Agreement heralds closer GCF-China ties
... Green Climate Fund has achieved a major milestone in its relationship with China by signing its first Accreditation ... FECO “push forward carbon emission control and low carbon development in key areas to make greater contributions to ... environmental quality.” GCF General Counsel Rutger de Witt Wijnen said the Fund is delighted to have accredited ...
Article > Press release China FECO 
Enhancing resilience of communities, smallholders and ecosystems to climate change impacts through adapting and scaling up land/resources used systems in the Marajo archipelago in Brazil
The project entitled, “Enhancing resilience of smallholders and ecosystems to climate change impacts through adapting and scaling up land/resources used systems in the Marajo Archipelago in ... Brazil” seeks to increase adaptive capacities of smallholders to make the current food production system more ...
Document > Approved project preparation funding application Brazil FundacionAvina
FP126 - Increased climate resilience of rural households and communities through the rehabilitation of production landscapes in selected localities of the Republic of Cuba (IRES)
... to the Vulnerability and Climate Change Adaptation Index in the Latin America and Caribbean region, Cuba is classified as a ... affected by climate change/agricultural drought in Cuba. FP126 Cuba 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 188 547 811 Increased climate ...
Project > Public sector Cuba FAO 
CAF becomes first multi-lateral development bank to sign agreement with GCF
The Development Bank of Latin America (CAF) today became the first multilateral development bank to sign an Accreditation Master Agreement ...
Article > Press release CAF 
Green Climate Fund and the International Development Finance Club signs a Statement of Partnership to join forces in fighting climate change
The International Development Finance Club (IDFC), the international network of leading national and ... signed the statement establishing a framework for collaboration to strengthen climate action and the promotion of ...
Article > Press release 
Observers
Overview The active engagement of diverse stakeholders is in the DNA of the Green Climate Fund. The GCF Board ... civil society organisations (CSOs), one each from developed and developing countries, and two from accredited private sector ...
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GCF invests USD 270 million to catalyse African climate investment with AFD
Earlier this week, the Green Climate Fund and the French Development Agency (AFD) signed the agreement which will ... The programme, targeting 17 countries in Africa and Latin America and the Caribbean, seeks to strengthen local ... To overcome these barriers, the programme will provide loans and technical assistance to local partner financial ...
Article > Press release AFD 
Strengthening the NDA’s climate change governance structure to increase the level of ambition of the climate change agenda and enhance access to climate finance
... maintains a minor greenhouse emission profile, Togo is considered among the most vulnerable to climatic consequences. ... in its technical competencies, institutional capacities, lack of expertise and coordination systems on climate change ... amounts of annual climate finance flow estimated at USD 26 million on average between 2013-2018. The situation has ...
Document > Approved readiness proposal Togo CSE
GCF Private Investment for Climate Conference 2020
... explored how to generate the private sector investments needed to create bold solutions to deal with the twin ... and Beyond, and the 2021 UN Climate Change Conference (COP 26). Investors at the third GCF Private Investment for Climate Conference flagged the COVID-19 pandemic as a wake-up call for efforts ...
Event > Events organised / involving GCF 
Financing low emissions, resilient development pathways
His Excellency, President of Senegal, Macky SalI; Her Excellency, Ms. Amina ... Christina Figueres, Founder of Global Optimism and former UNFCCC Executive Secretary; Dear Participants and colleagues. ... fight against climate change. In preparation for the COP 26, countries will be raising the ambition of their NDCs to ...
Article > Speech
GCF results-based payments: Stepping stone to unlock private finance at scale
... already existed in climate change negotiations for over a decade. First floated in 2005, the concept – whereby ... the lion’s share of carbon market growth. At COP26 in Glasgow, the UNFCCC further developed key elements of Article 6 of the ...
Article > Insights 
Updated project and programme cycle
Adopted by decision B.17/09 . Sets out the updated project and ...
Document > Policies, strategies, and guidelines
Mitigation and adaptation performance measurement frameworks
Adopted by decision B.08/07 ; applicable to all projects up to ...
Document > Policies, strategies, and guidelines
Gender action plan
Adopted by decision B.24/12 . The purpose of the gender action plan is to provide a time-bound framework within which to ...
Document > Policies, strategies, and guidelines
SAP Compendium
... simplification of the preparation of a SAP proposal is the clarity, at the onset, of what are the activities that can ... in a GCF Accredited Entity, or if you are a GCF National Designated Authority or Focal Point, or a consultant ... in preparing a GCF SAP project, this Compendium is designed to support your work. Its accessibility is enhanced ...
Document > Publication, Guides
GCF upgrades climate support for vulnerable Pacific nations
The Green Climate Fund is improving its understanding of Pacific island needs to fortify their frontline place in the climate ... in 1947 as the South Pacific Commission, as many of its 26 members are Pacific SIDS. The vulnerability of SIDS to ...
Article > Press release SPC 