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Africa Knowledge Exchange: Four Days of Learning on 15 Years of Impact
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Africa Knowledge Exchange: Four Days of Learning on 15 Years of Impact

Apr 27, 2023
“This is an important meeting. They are going to take stock, look at what works,” said Niale Kaba, Minister of Planning and Development of Côte d'Ivoire, after the opening ceremony of the ‘Africa Knowledge Exchange: Lessons on 15 years of Impact’ event, held in Abidjan in March 2023. The Climate Investment Funds, the government of Côte ...
Pastureland and forest in the Dominican Republic
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Earth Day - Invest in Our Planet: Climate Finance in Action in the Dominican Republic

Apr 21, 2023
After a short and very choppy ride through the Bay of Samaná, my little speed boat entered the mouth of the Yuna River, one of the most important river systems in the Dominican Republic. The Yuna is at the center of the country’s ambitions to deploy Nature-based Solutions (NbS) to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and strengthen the resilience of ...
person running on bridge surrounded by trees
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World Health Day: Knowledge and finance to protect people from climate change health risks

Apr 07, 2023
The impact of climate risks on health is disproportionate and contingent on geodemographics, health conditions, and sociopolitical and economic factors. The message of this year’s World Health Day is health for all. Amid the single biggest health threat facing humanity (i.e., climate change) the theme is more urgent than ever. According to the Wo...
Evaluation of the Development Impacts from CIF’s Investments
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Evaluation of the Development Impacts from CIF’s Investments

Mar 23, 2023
Climate action and development are inextricably linked. Although development impacts (DIs) can be a core benefit of climate finance, these impacts are often not planned for or understood, and hence not tracked in implementation. Through the intentional planning and tracking of DIs, there may be opportunities to achieve greater impacts. To develop a...
Project Spotlight: Women Rise to the Challenge of Reforestation in Côte d’Ivoire
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Project Spotlight: Women Rise to the Challenge of Reforestation in Côte d’Ivoire

Mar 20, 2023
“Our forests are degraded. The area around Dimbokro is now almost savannah. There are pockets of forest but most of the land is degraded,” observed Delphine Ahoussi, President of Association of Women Producers and Sellers of Biomass, or “Malebi” (meaning charcoal in local language), while surveying the 4500 hectares of classified forest in ...
A young African woman is up on someone's shoulder in a demonstration and talking in a microphone
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Listen to Women Climate Leaders

Mar 07, 2023
“Women climate leadership is crucial. We see that women and girls are the ones who rise to the challenge most effectively when disaster strikes all over the world,” said Aicha Diallo Hadia, a civil society and indigenous observer from Burkina Faso’s Tin Hinan association during the latest committee meetings of the Climate Investment Funds (CI...
Clean Cookstoves in Honduras
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Project Spotlight: Promoting Sustainable Business Models for Clean Cookstoves Dissemination in Honduras

Feb 14, 2023
In Honduras, a large number of lower-income families still use traditional cookstoves that are built in-house and require wood for fuel. While these stoves have the dual benefit of providing heat and food for over 45% of Honduran households, they are incredibly inefficient and dangerous. The million plus homes that rely on this form of energy not o...
Revive and Restore – World Wetlands Day 2023
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Revive and Restore – World Wetlands Day 2023

Feb 01, 2023
As World Wetlands Day arrives to focus our attention on protecting the planet’s most threatened ecosystem, a new Climate Investment Funds’ enabled restoration project in Africa’s Zambezi River Basin may provide a model for future hope.Wetlands are critically important areas of water-saturated land areas. They include marshes, peatlands, swamp...
Jubail Mangrove Park in Abu Dhabi
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Engaging Partners In Abu Dhabi to Accelerate Climate Finance

Jan 23, 2023
As the world looks to a new year of climate action, all eyes turn to the United Arab Emirates, where the UNFCCC Climate Change Conference (COP28) will take place in December. One of the largest climate finance mechanisms in the world, the Climate Investments Funds was in the region to attend the Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week. CEO Mafalda Duarte’s...
A Indigenous woman in front of the river and forest
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A Voice for Civil Society and Indigenous Peoples

Jan 19, 2023
The Climate Investment Funds (CIF) created the Dedicated Grant Mechanism for Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (DGM) in 2010 and is the DGM’s main funding instrument to date. The DGM supports Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities in developing countries and empowers them as the most effective guardians of the world's forests and natural...
rural house with off-grid solar power
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SREP: Amplifying energy access lessons for future climate programs

Nov 30, 2022
The independent evaluation of the Scaling up Renewable Energy Program in Low Income Countries (SREP), released earlier this year, provides a rigorous, external assessment of the ambitious energy access program of the Climate Investment Funds (CIF). The findings and recommendations from this report, called "Evaluation of the Scaling up Renewable Ene...
Group image on CIF TCLP workshop
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Collaboratively building a partnership for transformational change

Nov 21, 2022
Incremental changes to how countries and communities address the climate crisis are no longer enough. The urgency and complexity of climate change and its impacts require much larger, more fundamental change. A transformational change. With this in mind, the Transformational Change Learning Partnership (TCLP) met in Washington DC from 4 to 6 Octobe...
CIF at COP27 Energy Day
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Catalyzing the clean energy transition

Nov 15, 2022
The Climate Investment Funds (CIF) brings to COP27 nearly 15 years of experience in supporting energy transition in developing countries. Three of CIF’s energy experts discuss the state of play in this transition, explore what CIF has learned over its years in operation, and reveal how climate finance is driving the transition to cleaner energy: ...
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Communities for climate action: CIF and civil society

Nov 14, 2022
As COP27 marks ACE (Action for Climate Empowerment) and Civil Society Day, showcasing the role and contribution of civil society in climate finance, CIF values contributions from civil society partners including Indigenous Peoples and local communities, private sector and business development organizations and youth, who inspire and guide its progr...
Global Collaboration, Transformative outcomes
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Global Collaboration, Transformative outcomes

Nov 09, 2022
It is widely acknowledged that a transformational change is required to keep global warming under 1.5 degrees Celsius and to address the impacts of climate change on vulnerable communities. Climate finance, and the action that it supports, must be designed to achieve fundamental systemic change in many sectors and every region of the world. How do ...
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