Module 3 Resources

Welcome to the Module

This module focuses on key aspects of designing a GCF project, in relation to developing a funding proposal. It covers the project lifecycle framework and the logical framework (logframe), including how to populate the logframe and select indicators. It also explains how to identify and manage project risks using the logframe. It addresses the critical cross-cutting components of your environmental and social management plan (ESMP), namely the environmental and social safeguards (ESS), gender mainstreaming and indigenous peoples policies. Lastly, it focuses on stakeholder and community engagement and the development of your stakeholder engagement plan.

By the end of this module you will be able to:

• LO1: Create a “project storyline” and complete a logframe, including selecting indicators of progress

• LO2: Identify risks to your project and design a risk management plan

• LO3: Develop a monitoring and evaluation (M&E) framework

• LO4: Identify and outline environmental and social safeguards (ESS) and gender mainstreaming plans, and explain how they relate to your climate-finance project

• LO5: Identify entry points for stakeholder and community engagement and develop a stakeholder engagement plan.

3.2: Managing Project Risks

Even if your project storyline follows a clear intervention logic, with strong cause-and-effect linkages, there are always external factors that may prevent a project from being successful. These are known as risks, or project risks. This section deals with managing your risks by identifying, classifying and categorising the risks.

This video will introduce you to risk and why risk management is so important. It also explains the different types of risks and provides guidance on how to mitigate them.

3.3: Gender Plans, Environmental and Social Safeguards (ESS) and Indigenous Peoples’ Issues, and How They Relate to a Climate Finance Project

This section covers environmental and social safeguards (ESS), gender plans, indigenous peoples and how they relate to a climate finance project. The quest for inclusive sustainable development necessitates that projects explicitly address the rights and needs of vulnerable groups such as women, children and indigenous peoples.

We will help you align your project with the GCF ESS performance standards and risks. In particular, we will take you through the methods of integrating gender into your project, conducting a gender assessment and then incorporating gender into your project. This video will explain why these GCF policies are so important and elaborate on how to develop an ESS and gender assessment plan.

3.4: Stakeholder and Community Engagement

This section works through the stakeholder and community engagement aspect of the proposal. Stakeholder engagement should underpin all activities funded by GCF and your proposal development process. It is especially important for you to establish meaningful consultation and engagement processes that are inclusive of vulnerable and marginalised groups and individuals (including indigenous communities, women, young and the elderly) who are affected - or potentially affected - by your project. The funding proposal should enable reviewers to understand how the relevant stakeholders have engaged in the project/programme design, and how consultations will be carried out during the implementation phase.

This section takes you through the key steps in developing a stakeholder engagement plan, as well as the best practice for engaging with stakeholders. By means of a case study, you will engage with the relevant templates, completing the stakeholder analysis and engagement plan.

This video will discuss how to establish good stakeholder consultation practices and ensure that thorough stakeholder engagement is carried out throughout the project.

This video discusses how all the elements discussed in this module tie together