At its twenty-first meeting, the Board of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) approved the 2019 Work Plan of the Independent Integrity Unit (IIU) (Decision B.21/12) which included the development of a policy on sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment within the overall integrity policy framework of the GCF. This draft policy is intended to be submitted to the Board for decision at its twenty-second meeting in February 2019.

The terms of reference of the (IIU) require that the IIU collaborates and consults in recommending improvements to GCF’s integrity policies and procedures (Decision B.06/09(b)). Given the internal and external applications anticipated of the sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment policy, the IIU aims to follow a consultative process and seek also public input to inform the policy’s scope and content as outlined in Section IV below. Any individual or organization may send a submission.