Independent Evaluation of the Green Climate Fund's Simplified Approval Process

Prowse, Martin, Perry, Stephen, Mokgano, Elangtlhoko and D'Errico, Marco (2025) Independent Evaluation of the Green Climate Fund's Simplified Approval Process. UNSPECIFIED.

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Abstract

The Green Climate Fund's Simplified Approval Process (SAP) was conceived as a transformative mechanism to address a fundamental challenge in climate finance. It aimed to provide faster, more accessible funding pathways for smaller-scale, lower-risk climate interventions, and take into account the needs of countries that are particularly vulnerable to climate change effects, including the least developed countries (LDCs), small island developing States (SIDS) and African States. The evaluation applied a mixed-methods design aligned with the GCF evaluation criteria, in particular relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, coherence, and impact. It triangulated quantitative portfolio analysis with benchmarking, key informant interviews, an accredited entity (AE) survey and a set of comparative case studies. The portfolio analysis covered all 49 SAP approvals through the forty-first meeting of the Board (B.41) (totalling USD 659 million) and size-matched project comparators of the standard project approval process. The evaluation was delivered to the Board of the Green Climate Fund in September 2025.

Item Type:	Book
Uncontrolled Keywords:	sdg 13 - climate action ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/climate_action
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Global Development (formerly School of International Development)
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	19 Dec 2025 09:16
Last Modified:	19 Dec 2025 09:21
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/101467
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