This document responds to the request of the Board in decision B.17/10 to develop guidance on the approach and scope for providing support to adaptation activities, and the request of the Board in decision B.31/13 to urgently clarify the GCF role in and vision for climate adaptation. Following discussions by the Board at B.32 and subsequent consultations, the decision text and annex II have been refocused and streamlined to elaborate GCF’s vision, strategic approach, and scope for supporting adaptation programming, including the Fund’s vision for enhancing adaptation in line with the UNFCCC, Paris Agreement and Global Goal on Adaptation, and how the GCF aims to deliver this through its range of modalities that support adaptation activities. This adaptation programming approach will evolve as part of strategic programming for the second replenishment of the GCF.