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...

The CIF-FIP funded ELCIR+ project sought to establish a sustainable human-forest symbiosis in Ghana, with measures to increase household earnings while shifting rural income generation away from dependencies on unsustainable forest-extraction, and buttressing procedures for regenerative timber harvesting, equitable timber benefit sharing, and yield...