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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
Strengthening resilience of ecosystems and communities to climate change effects in the North Rift Valley Region of Kenya
The North rift region counties are susceptible to climate change effects making communities and their livelihoods vulnerable to climate change effects. The region faces threats in food security, water stress and...
Document > Concept note Kenya
Climate-Resilient Aggregation, Storage, Warehousing Receipts, and Trading Facility for Dry Grains in Nakuru County, Kenya
In Kenya, smallholder farmers face several challenges among them, poor post harvest management of their produce. For grain farmers, losses during post harvest management is estimated to cause a loss of between 20 and 30...
Document > Concept note Kenya NEMA
Strengthen climate resilience in Mozambique: Sustainable access to solar drinking water in the rural provinces of Gaza, Inhambane and Maputo
1. Based on strong partnerships between Enabel and its Mozambique partner and on the lessons learnt from the implementation of the Belgian-funded project “Water Supply and Management to Contribute to Food Security in...
Document > Concept note Mozambique Enabel
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
Sustainable Urban Transport Project
The Sustainable Urban Transport project is envisioned to reduce the growth rate of the associated greenhouse gas (GHG) and air pollutant emissions from the transport sector while enhancing sustainable mobility through...
Document > Concept note Philippines (the) Landbank
Securing Strategic Water Source Areas in South Africa towards enhancing adaptation to climate change exacerbated water scarcity
South Africa is a water scarce country, the 30th driest in the world. The country is facing a water crisis resulting from the increasing severity of droughts and erratic rainfall events, driven by climatic variation,...
Document > Concept note South Africa SANBI
Strengthening the resilience of the communities in the Dead Sine Valley
Climate change has already led to ecosystem degradation in the Dead Sine Valley. Multiple droughts and the rising sea level have increased the salinization of land and water resources. Yields and farm incomes have...
Document > Concept note Senegal CSE
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
Reducing GHG emissions from deforestation and forest degradation and enhancing rural livelihoods in the Headwaters of the Zambezi river (Zambia’s North-Western province), in support to NDC implementation and RBPs
Deforestation and forest degradation are major concerns in Zambia. The deforestation rate is estimated between 79 000 - 150 000 ha per year (ILUA II, 2016[1]), placing Zambia among the countries with the highest...
Document > Concept note Zambia FAO
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
GCF signs partner agreements hours after Board approval
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) and its partners have signed implementation agreements for two new climate finance projects only hours after they were approved by the GCF Board.
The signing of the Funded Activity...
Article > Press release WorldBank 
Decisions made for information disclosure request IDP146
This document lists the decision made with regard to IDP146, received by the GCF Secretariat on 14 October 2020. The request contains multiple inquiries regarding fundingproposal FP028, FP046, FP077, and SAP004 with...
Document > Information disclosure decision
Training Workshop on the Methodology for establishing a baseline of greenhouse gas emissions and climate resilience for the portfolio of accredited entities (AEs)
Following the publication of the Methodology for establishing a baseline of greenhouse gas emissions and climate resilience for the portfolio of accredited entities (AEs) presented at the B.28, the Green Climate Fund (...
Event > Webinar 
Partner agreements after Board meeting sign of faster GCF financing
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has signed agreements with is partners to implement four new climate initiatives only days after they were approved by the GCF Board.
The projects to strengthen climate action in Liberia,...
Article > Press release 
Funding proposal pipeline update as of March 2021
As part of its transparency efforts, GCF regularly provides a summary of the status of its funding proposal pipeline. This document summarises the status of GCF's pipeline as of March 2021.
Document > Funding proposal pipeline update
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
The Climate Finance Opportunity in Developing Countries: How the Green Climate Fund Delivers Climate Action
There is a shrinking window of opportunity to address the climate crisis. Average global temperature is currently estimated to be 1.1°C above pre-industrial times. Based on existing trends, the world could cross the 1.5...
Event > Events organised / involving GCF 
Gender action plan for SAP023: River Restoration for Climate Change Adaptation (RIOS)
This document outlines the gender action plan for SAP023: River Restoration for Climate Change Adaptation (RIOS). Gender action plans seek to operationalise the constraints and opportunities for women and men identified...
Document > Gender action plan Mexico FMCN SAP023
Gender action plan for SAP022: Enhancing Multi-Hazard Early Warning System to increase resilience of Uzbekistan communities to climate change induced hazards
This document outlines the gender action plan for SAP022: Enhancing Multi-Hazard Early Warning System to increase resilience of Uzbekistan communities to climate change induced hazards. Gender action plans seek to...
Document > Gender action plan Uzbekistan UNDP SAP022
Gender action plan for SAP021: Community-based Landscape Management for Enhanced Climate Resilience and Reduction of Deforestation in Critical Watersheds
This document outlines the gender action plan for SAP021: Community-based Landscape Management for Enhanced Climate Resilience and Reduction of Deforestation in Critical Watersheds. Gender action plans seek to...
Document > Gender action plan Timor-Leste JICA SAP021