Stakeholder Engagement

The CIF relies on active collaboration and partnership among multiple stakeholders, including national governments, citizen groups, private sector entities, MDBs, UN agencies, and other development partners. Enabling broad input and transparent communication promotes trust, ownership, and more effective action on the ground. In CIF countries, non-government stakeholders from civil society, the private sector, and indigenous peoples and local communities are engaged through information sharing, consultations, and partnerships.

This mandate has revealed the value these stakeholders can add to CIF investment planning and implementation. These same stakeholder groups participate in CIF governance as Official Observers to the Trust Fund Committees and Sub-Committees. The arrangement is unique to the CIF and demonstrates the vital role stakeholders play in broadening perspectives, supporting transparency, and ensuring efficient use of resources.

Stakeholders

Civil Society

The civil society sector is quite broad and includes numerous constituencies such as: non-governmental organizations (NGOs), local community organizations (LCs), labor unions, youth groups, research/think tanks, and foundations. Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) work in a variety of environmental and climate change areas, and carry out numerous single or overlapping activities such as: policy advocacy, service provision, research/training, and communications. In addition, the CIF aims to increase the participation of under-represented constituencies within civil society such as women, youth, peoples with disability, and others in the Stakeholder Observer Program.

Private Sector

The private sector is composed of a wide array of private-sector focused networks and organizations such as: business associations, chambers of commerce, think tanks, and consultancy firms. Private Sector Entities (PSEs) provides the bulk of the investment into climate technologies and the expertise on how investments are made. It is well positioned to bring business reality to the development of viable project models that have the attributes to channel CIF investments and can provide expertise on financial tools that can make these investments more attractive.

Indigenous People

This sector is composed of indigenous people’s organizations which represent regional networks and local indigenous people’s organizations from thousands of ethnicities and tribal groups located throughout the world. The CIF recognizes the deep connection between indigenous peoples and the natural environment in the context of climate change, as well as the sanctity of indigenous cultural practices. Indigenous Peoples Organizations (IPOs) also have a practical knowledge of the environmental sensitivities of the areas where they live, built over centuries of subsistence on the land and observation of climate patterns. They are particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change and environmental degradation, and have a vested interest in adaptation projects.

Stakeholder Observer Program

The principal way CIF engages civil society and private sector constituencies is through its Stakeholder Observer Program which has been in existence since 2010. Observers are drawn from civil society organizations (CSOs), private sector entities (PSEs), and indigenous peoples’ organizations (IPOSs). Over 40 representatives from these constituencies serve as Official Observers in the Trust Fund Committees and Sub-Committees which decide which climate policies are enacted and projects funded, participate in the formulation of national climate strategies, and monitor the implementation of local IFC-financed climate projects. They also network with and inform the constituencies they represent at the regional and national levels.

Stakeholder Advisory Network (SAN)

In 2016, Official Observers of the CIF and other climate finance stakeholders established the Stakeholder Advisory Network on Climate Finance (SAN). It is a cooperative platform that brings together climate finance actors across major climate funds to promote governance that is inclusive, transparent, and accountable at all levels of decision-making. Through collaboration, research, capacity building, and networking, the SAN aims to strengthen partnerships of non-government stakeholders with climate finance entities to ensure the voices often ignored in development finance are heard.

Members/Observers

Civil Society

ActionAID

Sophie Rigg

Bank Information Center (BIC)

Ladd Connell

Centre for environmental initiatives “Ecoaction”

Natalia Gozak

Centro Brasil no Clima

Guilherme Sykris

Centro Humboldt

Alejandro Alemán

Climate Action Network Southeast Asia (CANSEA)

Nithiyananthan Nesadurai

Derecho, Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (DAR)

Claudia Zuniga-Carrillo

Federation of Community Forestry Users, Nepal (FECOFUN)

Dil Raj Khanal

Federation of Environmental and Ecological Diversity for Agricultural Revampment and Human Rights (FEEDAR & HR)

Tcharbuahbokengo Nfinn

Fundación Agreste

Marisa Young

Fundación Centro Guatemalteco de Producción más Limpia

Luiz Mariano Muñoz Paredes

Global Warming Mitigation Project

Jacquelyn Francis

Green Concern for Development (GREENCODE)

Edem Edem

Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities (ICSC)

Angelo Kairos Dela Cruz

International Voluntary Organisation for Women, Education and Development (IVOWED)

Benjamin Appiah-Kubi

Jeunes Volontaire pour l'Environnement (JVE)

Djibril Niang

Neighbour Organization Nepal (NEO-Nepal)

Padam B. Hamal

Pan African Climate Justice Alliance

Augustine Njamnshi

WOMENVAI

Lylian Coelho Ferreira

Indigenous People

Center for Indigenous Peoples Research, Education and Development (CIPRED)

Pasang Dolma

Coordinadora de las Organizaciones Indígenas de la Cuenca Amazónica (COICA)

Juan Carlos Jintiach

El Centro para la Autonomía y Desarrollo de los Pueblos Indígenas (CADPI)

Dennis Mairena

Indigenous Centre for Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development (ICEESD) & MOSOP

Saro Legborsi Pyagbara

Indigenous Peoples’ International Centre for Policy Research and Education (Tebtebba)

Grace Balawag

Lelewal Foundation

Bouba Njobdi Amadou

Pacific Network on Globalization (PANG)

Maureen Penjueli

Pastoralist Information Development Organization (PIDO)

Martha Ntoipo

Red de Especialistas Indigenas en Finanzas del Clima (REIFC- LAC) and the NMAB (Northern Maya Association of Belize)

Yahaira Vega

Tin Hinan

Aicha Diallo Hadia

Private Sector

Alliance for Rural Electrification (ARE)

David Lecoque

BDI, Federation of German Industries

Tara Nietz

Climate Markets and Investment Association (CMIA)

Alexandra Tracy

European Chamber of Commerce Vietnam (EUROCHAM) - Green Growth Sector Committee

Gavin Smith

Gold Standard

Felicity Spors

International Chamber of Commerce (ICC - Argentina)

Nelson Illescas

International Chamber of Commerce (ICC – Mexico)

Daniel Basurto Gonzalez

South Africa National Energy Association (SANEA)

Penelope Herbst

Uganda National Chamber of Commerce & Industry (UNCCI)

Olive Zaitun Kigongo

World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) HQ

Raúl Alfaro-Pelico

Youth

Young people are at the forefront of the climate crisis. The level of climate action taken today will have a direct impact on the rest of their lives. How they access food, clean air, clean water, healthy oceans, and productive livelihoods can make them one of the most vulnerable groups to climate change. But it also makes them one of the most effective leaders in climate action bringing their passion, innovation, and advocacy to a global movement.

Youth can play a key role in mobilizing climate finance and encouraging their governments to enhance their commitments. For this reason, the Climate Investment Funds is actively engaging and supporting youth groups and young climate leaders through capacity building and by prioritizing the needs of young people in decisions about investments and infrastructure. This is set out in CIF’s draft strategy, the Youth Engagement Strategy Consultation Note, which sets out the 4 broad pillars of the CIF’s youth engagement:

Youth climate innovation and entrepreneurship;
Youth in climate governance;
Communications, knowledge, and outreach with youth; and
Supporting youth networking and cross-collaboration.

The CIF’s work with youth climate leaders and entrepreneurs has emphasized the potential and tangible change young people can bring to their communities. Programs such as the Youth Adapt Challenge, a partnership with the Global Center on Adaptation (GCA), and African Development Bank (AfDB), has demonstrated how climate finance can help young African entrepreneurs scale up solutions to local climate-related problems. The CIF’s youth engagement also ensures young voices and views are recognized in global fora and, on a more practical level, that they are able to broaden and acquire skills through the CIF Internship Program.