EUROCLIMA Thematic Studies Series can request the support of the PPF with the backing of their DNA and must have a concept note or information about the project that follows the required format. 234 l. Safeguards applied The GCF has eight interim environmental and social safeguards called “performance standards”, 235 which include: assessing and managing environmental and social risks and their impact, employment and working conditions, resource efficiency and pollution prevention, community health, safety and security, land acquisition and involuntary resettlement, biodiversity conservation and sustainable management of living natural resources, indigenous peoples and cultural heritage.
outcomes and impacts. It also seeks to build equally women and men’s resilience to and ability to address climate change and to ensure that they will equally contribute to and benefit from GCF activities, while mitigating against assessed potential programme/ project risks. In this effort, the GCF has established a gender action plan 2015-2017 to provide a timebound framework within which to operationalize the gender policy, providing both the Fund and its public and private sector implementation partners with the tools and processes required to achieve gender sensitivity in all areas within the Fund’s mandate, while providing the Board with the necessary information to monitor compliance. n. Deadlines
m. Gender perspective The GCF ’s gender policy gives the Fund a clear mandate to integrate a gender-sensitive approach in its processes and operations. The Fund recognizes the importance of gender considerations in view of the different impacts of climate change on women and men and their access to climate finance, with the understanding that women as well as men contribute to combating climate change and that existing inequalities are likely to be exacerbated by climate change. The GCF Gender Policy seeks to ensure that by adopting a gender approach, the Fund will achieve greater, more effective, sustainable and equitable 236
234 GCF, Project Preparation, http://www.greenclimate. fund/gcf101/funding-projects/project-preparation; GCF, Project Preparation Facility Guidelines, https:// www.greenclimate.fund/documents/20182/104167/ Project_Preparation_Facility_Guidelines.pdf/ f8b62701-a9ca-4b1e-9e23-e67f1b88abd4; GCF, Operational guidelines for the Project Preparation Facility, 2016, https://www.greenclimate.fund/ documents/20182/226888/GCF_B.13_14_-_ O p e r a t i o n a l _ g u i d e l i n e s _ fo r _ t h e _ P r o j e c t _ Preparation_Facility.pdf/5d6bfb4f-a688-45bc-89f5655519bec625.
The Fund receives proposals for review throughout the year. Once a proposal has been endorsed, it will be scheduled for review at the next GCF Board meeting; those meetings are held three times a year. o. Forms The GCF has designed a concept note format for the project proposal or programme idea, which is available on the Fund’s website. 237
Additional comments The GCF aims to have a 50% equitable financial allocation for mitigation and 50% for adaptation and allocates at least half of its adaptation resources to countries that are particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. These countries include least developed countries (LDCs), small island states (SIDS) and developing African states.
235 GCF, Annex III: Interim environmental and social safeguards of the Fund, https://www.greenclimate. fund/documents/20182/319135/1.7_-_ Environmental_and_Social_Safeguards.pdf/ e4419923-4c2d-450c-a714-0d4ad3cc77e6 236 GCF, Annex XIII: Gender policy for the Green Climate Fund, https://www.greenclimate.fund/ documents/20182/319135/1.8__Gender_Policy_ and_Action_Plan.pdf/f47842bd-b044-4500-b7ef099bcf9a6bbe
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237 GCF, Proposal Approval Process, 2016, http://www. greenclimate.fund/funding/proposal-approval