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No. of projects

Total GCF financing

No. of Readiness activities

Readiness support approved

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Projects

FP205

Adaptation

Multiple countries

Infrastructure Climate Resilient Fund (ICRF)

FP190

Cross-cutting

Multiple countries

Climate Investor Two

FP163

Mitigation

Multiple countries

Sustainable Renewables Risk Mitigation Initiative (SRMI) Facility

SAP006

Adaptation

Namibia

Building resilience of communities living in landscapes threatened under climate change through an ecosystems-based adaptation approach

FP098

Cross-cutting

Multiple countries

DBSA Climate Finance Facility

FP095

Cross-cutting

Multiple countries

Transforming Financial Systems for Climate

SAP001

Adaptation

Namibia

Improving rangeland and ecosystem management practices of smallholder farmers under conditions of climate change in Sesfontein, Fransfontein, and Warmquelle areas of the Republic of Namibia

FP027

Mitigation

Multiple countries

Universal Green Energy Access Programme (UGEAP)

FP024

Adaptation

Namibia

Enpower to Adapt: Creating Climate-Change Resilient Livelihoods through Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) in Namibia

FP023

Adaptation

Namibia

Climate Resilient Agriculture in three of the Vulnerable Extreme northern crop growing regions (CRAVE)

National Designated Authority

Ministry of Environment and Tourism

Mr. Timoteus Mufeti Primary
Environmental Commissioner

Phone +264612842701
timoteus.mufeti@meft.gov.na

Mr Petrus Muteyauli Primary
Deputy Director, Multilateral Environmental Agreements, Department of Environmental Affairs
Ministry of Environment and Tourism, Private Bag 13306, Windhoek, Namibia, Windhoek, Namibia

Phone +264 61 284 2701
Phone +264 61 240 339
petrus.muteyauli@meft.gov.na
pmuteyauli@yahoo.co.uk

Ms. Josefina Kakololo Primary
Chief Conservation Scientist

Phone +264612842568
josefina.kakololo@meft.gov.na
jondasha@gmail.com

GCF Team

Sun Cho
Regional Officer
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News + Stories

From seed to shelf

19 Nov 2024 / In the heat of the day, on a hundred-hectare farm in Namibia, a group of people are huddled together. They are observing a crop of large cabbages, arranged in neat rows. Nearby a mosquito net hangs from a tree, creating a protected area for seedlings to grow. The farmers here are gathering skills and knowledge on how to grow climate-resilient crops. They will take this knowledge back to their small-scale farms and communities, where they will plant the seeds of a sustainable future for generations to come.

GCF-EIF agreement opens way for start of Namibian nature-based climate solution

26 Aug 2019 / The Green Climate Fund has come a step closer to helping Namibia’s Environmental Investment Fund (EIF) utilise the resilience of ecosystems to help communities withstand climate change. GCF and EIF have signed a Funded Activity Agreement (FAA) which opens the way for the implementation of a project in Namibia which builds the resilience of communities living in landscapes threatened by climate change by using an ecosystems-based adaptation approach.

GCF and DBSA partnership to boost climate investments in the Southern Africa region

22 Aug 2019 / The Green Climate Fund (GCF) and the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) signed an agreement today which will kick-off the programme to break market barriers and accelerate investments into climate projects.

GCF funding agreement with Namibia first under new simplified approach

06 Dec 2018 / A recently signed implementation agreement opens up GCF finances to boost the climate resilience of Namibian farmers in GCF’s first project approved under its Simplified Approval Process (SAP).

Namibia commences climate projects as GCF brings country ownership to the fore

04 Sep 2017 / The two GCF-supported projects help bolster rural people’s resilience.

GCF funds transfer will help Namibia’s rural poor weather change

29 Jun 2017 / GCF is transferring funds to two projects in Namibia to enhance farmers’ resilience to extreme weather in the latest sign of the Fund’s implementation of climate finance.

GCF signs off on project to improve climate-resilient agriculture in Namibia

15 Dec 2016 / GCF resources will now start flowing to help poor farmers in northern Namibia tackle climate change following the signing today of a Funded Activity Agreement (FAA).

Namibian Environmental Investment Fund is first Direct Access Entity to sign GCF readiness grant agreement

16 Nov 2016 / EIF today signed a grant agreement with the GCF, making it the first direct access entity to be supported by the Fund’s readiness programme.

Documents

Title	Type	Date
Infrastructure Climate Resilient Fund (ICRF) AFC FP205	Approved funding proposal	11 Apr 2023
Climate Investor Two FMO FP190	Approved funding proposal	09 Aug 2022
Sustainable Renewables Risk Mitigation Initiative (SRMI) Facility WorldBank FP163	Approved funding proposal	06 Apr 2021
Building resilience of communities living in landscapes threatened under climate change through an Ecosystems-based Adaptation approach EIF SAP006	Approved funding proposal	11 Apr 2019
Transforming financial systems for climate AFD FP095	Approved funding proposal	28 Nov 2018
Improving rangeland and ecosystem management practices of smallholder farmers under conditions of climate change in Sesfontein, Fransfontein, and Warmquelle areas of the Republic of Namibia EIF SAP001	Approved funding proposal	28 Mar 2018
Climate Resilient Agriculture in three of the Vulnerable Extreme northern crop-growing regions (CRAVE) EIF FP023	Approved funding proposal	22 Mar 2017
Empower to Adapt: Creating climate change resilient livelihoods through community-based natural resource management in Namibia EIF FP024	Approved funding proposal	22 Mar 2017
Universal green energy access programme DeutscheBank FP027	Approved funding proposal	22 Mar 2017