Good practices for Green Climate Fund readiness programme applications

The Green Climate Fund (GCF) offers developing countries a one-time grant of up to USD 3 million through its Readiness Programme to support country-driven adaptation activities and catalyze larger investments. To improve the quality of proposals, the GCF Secretariat identifies ten key criteria: clarifying focus (national, sectoral, or local), using country-specific impacts and vulnerabilities rather than templates, building private sector ownership, designing an adaptation investment vision, articulating a 'Theory of Change', avoiding duplication of existing assessments, integrating gender and social dimensions, engaging stakeholders including civil society and sub-national governments, aligning with other funds like the GEF and Adaptation Fund, and utilizing a phased approach for multiple proposals over time.

• The Green Climate Fund (GCF) Readiness Programme provides developing countries with a one-time grant of up to USD 3 million to support adaptation planning and catalyze further domestic and international investment.
• The GCF Secretariat emphasizes that the Fund can only increase disbursements if it receives high-quality proposals; as of the document's date, only 12 of 47 received proposals had been endorsed or approved.
• Successful proposals should avoid using international templates and instead focus on the unique climate impacts and vulnerabilities specific to the applying country.
• Applicants are encouraged to integrate social dimensions and gender-based inequalities to ensure a gender-responsive adaptation planning process.
• To maximize efficiency, proposals should avoid duplicating existing assessments and should align with other international public financing sources such as the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and the Adaptation Fund.

APA

noauthor (2018). Good practices for Green Climate Fund readiness programme applications. NAP Global Network. https://napglobalnetwork.org/2018/01/10-good-practices-green-climate-fund-readiness-programme-applications/

Chicago

noauthor. Good practices for Green Climate Fund readiness programme applications. NAP Global Network, 2018. https://napglobalnetwork.org/2018/01/10-good-practices-green-climate-fund-readiness-programme-applications/.

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BibTeX

@techreport{noauthor2018good, author = {noauthor}, title = {{Good practices for Green Climate Fund readiness programme applications}}, institution = {NAP Global Network}, year = {2018}, month = jan, url = {https://napglobalnetwork.org/2018/01/10-good-practices-green-climate-fund-readiness-programme-applications/}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }