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Boji Drug Store: financed by the European Union through the Community Development Trust Fund (Photo: John Nyangena)
Funding local adaptation in Kenya: nationally vs. locally managed funds
… Mechanisms such as the Green Climate Fund (GCF) were set up to enable climate vulnerable countries … UKaid. It supports 'public good type' investments promoting climate resilience and good governance of natural resources. The fund management … Climate change …
Insight, 04 December 2016
Diagram showing the traditional channels for delivering aid (Image: IIED)
Money where it matters: local finance to implement the Sustainable Development Goals and Paris Agreement
… working to highlight the importance of decentralising development and climate finance – to make sure that funding gets to those that need it … influence over how it is used.  Why act now? The Green Climate Fund (GCF) was established by 194 governments to limit greenhouse gas … still focus on large-scale investments rather than local community projects. Fulfilling the Paris Agreement on climate change, the …
Article, 25 January 2017
Man talking while two others take notes
IIED research and evidence in academia
… in the context of increasing challenges of global inequality, climate change and biodiversity loss. Publishing research in such … fund agreed at COP27, drawing parallels to the Green Climate Fund (GCF), and highlights how the GCF's design only partially achieved its … Indigenous Peoples, highlighting the role of their food systems in resilience to climate change, nutrition, sustainability and resilience …
Article, 23 September 2020
Wind farm outside Adigrat, northern Ethiopia.
Scaling up renewable technologies: incremental or transformational change?
… towards a low-carbon economy could occur by improving the investment climate for private investors. Drawing from Ethiopia and Nepal’s … growth, or by reaching out to the rural poor. The Green Climate Fund (GCF) , aims to financially support developing countries as they move … funds , with a particular focus on the Pilot Programme for Climate Resilience (PPCR) in Nepal and Bangladesh, and the Scaling-up Renewable …
Insight, 08 July 2013
The Deccan Development society works with poor women in Andhra Pradesh, India. It facilitates a network of women seedkeepers who conserve and exchange seeds (Photo: Deccan Development Society)
IIED's best of 2016: blogs
… na mwenye mwana" (You have to be part of the dance). The Green Climate Fund: will the vulnerable be overlooked in a rush to spend? … cimate funding, which showed that large scale infrastructure projects tended to be prioritised over smaller, decentralised, … should prioritse initiatives to reach the most vulnerable .  The GCF board must take bigger risks, supporting entities that can channel …
Article, 28 December 2016