Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) have called on the Green Climate Fund (GCF) to have a stronger focus on communities at the frontline of the climate crisis, ensuring that finance is reaching the local level and is financing locally-led projects.
The African civil society representatives who met on Saturday, February 25, 2023, in Niamey, Niger, on the side-lines of the 9th Africa Regional Forum on Sustainable Development (ARFSD-IX), also want gender considerations integrated to make sure women access and benefit equally from GCF funded outcomes.
The CSOs urged the GCF to support the Principles for Locally Led Adaptation (LLA) and incorporate them in their evaluation of funding proposals while accelerating the establishment of new funding windows that facilitate more local access to finance, including for CSOs.
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The CSOs met under the GCF-CSOs Readiness Project Africa to reflect on country-level results from the monitoring and evaluation processes undertaken under the project over the last two years.
The activists urged the GCF to set up a funding window for direct access for communities and CSOs at the beginning of the new strategic period and to ring-fence at least 30% of its resources for this cause in order to increase the relevance of the organization and the effectiveness of its climate response measures.
Story was adapted from Enviro News
