Green Climate Fund - Civil Society Readiness: Focus Africa
As of: January 2021
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) is the most important multilateral instrument for climate financing and focuses its support on the least developed countries, small island states, and African states. The project enhances existing capacities of African civil society to improve the quality of the GCF project proposals submitted, bringing in on-the-ground expertise and enabling the participatory monitoring of GCF projects. Project activities include, among other things, the organisation of webinars and workshops as well as the preparation of handouts. The project further promotes networking to strengthen the high-level involvement of civil society stakeholders in key African countries. Moreover, the expansion of civil society engagement is encouraged through an exchange of experience at the regional and global levels. The project thus helps embedding GCF-funded activities in a broader societal support for a transformation towards a low-emission and climate-resilient society.
State of implementation/results
- The first online-seminar on the follow-up of the 26th GCF Board Meeting was organized by JVE Cameroon on August 24, 2020 with inputs from partners from Morocco, Senegal and Côte d'Ivoire. About 170 people participated in the online seminar.
- The second webinar to follow up on the 27th GCF Board Meeting was organized on November 26, 2020 by JVE Cameroon, with inputs from partners from Morocco, Senegal, and Côte d'Ivoire. About 60 people participated in the online seminar.
- The online seminar in English was organized on August 3, 2020 in collaboration with PACJA. Speakers included the GCF Board member from Senegal and partners from Morocco, Senegal and Côte d'Ivoire. Over 300 people from Africa and other regions participated in the webinar.
- The online seminar in French, was organized on August 20, 2020, in collaboration with JVE Cameroon. Speakers included the GCF board member from Liberia and partners from Malawi, Ghana, and Senegal. Over 360 people participated in the online seminar.
-- Three partners from Morocco, Côte d'Ivoire, and Cameroon, conducted activities at the national level. These activities include meetings and online seminars with stakeholders to build a national CSO platform, national webinars on the GCF, and other nationally relevant activities, including participation in meetings to review project proposals for the GCF in their respective countries.
Project data
- Country:
- Cameroon, Egypt, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Morocco, Namibia, Senegal
- Implementing organisation:
- Germanwatch e.V.
- Political partner(s):
- Diverse climate change relevant institutions in the respective partner countries/Diverse klimarelevante Institutionen in den entsprechenden Partnerländern
- Implementing partner(s):
- CARE
- CARE
- CARE Deutschland-Luxemburg e.V. - Germany
- BMU grant:
- 2.896.663,15 €
- Duration:
- 05/2016 till 10/2022
- Website(s):