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Dutch Fund for Climate and Development

The Dutch Fund for Climate and Development (DFCD) focuses on several high impact investment themes, including climate-resilient water systems, water management and freshwater ecosystems, forestry, climate-smart agriculture, and restoration of ecosystems to protect the environment. The fund is structured with three separate but operationally linked facilities, each with a specific role across the project lifecycle.

Investments made by the consortium parties will seek to improve the wellbeing, economic prospects and livelihoods of vulnerable groups – particularly women and children – and, enhance the health of critical ecosystems – from water basins to rivers, tropical rainforests, marshland and mangroves. The consortium’s activities will also help protect communities and cities from the increasing frequency of extreme weather events and benefit depleting biodiversity in areas that provide people with water, food, medicine and economic opportunity. The DFCD will seek to cooperate with diverse stakeholders, including the private sector, to deliver resources and mobilize funding for climate resiliency. The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs has made available €160 million to increase the resilience of communities and ecosystems most vulnerable to climate change.

Support provider

The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Purpose of support

Scoping and project preparation

Project and program implementation

Eligible countries and regions

A substantial allocation of the DFCD's investments will be reserved for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s Development Assistance Committee (OECD DAC) Least Developed Countries (LDCs) and other Netherlands development cooperation priority countries. A map of countries the DFCD currently operates in can be found here.

The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs has identified 22 focus countries for DFCD support: Burkina Faso, Algeria, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iraq, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Palestinian Territories, Senegal, Somalia, South Sudan, Chad, Tunisia, Uganda, and Yemen.

Eligibility criteria

The DFCD will focus on a set of high impact investment themes within four key Rio Marker 2 sectors all of which are critical to tackling climate change and achieving the SDGs:

Climate resilient water systems and freshwater ecosystems: drinking water & sanitation supplies, restoration & sustainable management of wetlands, headwaters & ﬂoodplains;
Forestry for the future: promoting aﬀorestation and reforestation;
Boost food security with climate smart agriculture: funding more sustainable, efficient and productive approaches from smallholder farmers to agri-business;
Protecting the environment, protecting people: restoration of ecosystems, such as wetlands and mangroves, which are nature’s best defenses against extreme ﬂoods, droughts and storm surges.

Financial instruments

Grants, Contingent grants, Equity, In-kind contributions

Decision-making information

The Dutch development bank Nederlandse Financierings-Maatschappij voor Ontwikkelingslanden N.V. (“FMO”) has partnered with Climate Fund Managers, World Wildlife Fund for Nature Netherlands and SNV Netherlands Development Organisation to manage the DFCD on behalf of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Monitoring and reporting procedures

The DFCD Consortium will measure and report on a set of impact for all activities financed with DFCD funding across the three Facilities. The indicators have been selected to reflect those identified in DGIS proposal documents, with additional definition stated where necessary to align with international best practice and strike an appropriate balance between relevance, robustness, and reproducibility.

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Understand the steps to accessUnderstand the steps to access The DFCD will be structured with three separate but operationally linked facilities, each with a specific sub-sector focus and role across the project lifecycle. The Origination Facility is positioned exclusively for project identification and (pre-) feasibility development activities with a cross DFCD thematic sub-sector focus. Once projects pass through this preparation window, they may enter one of two facilities: the Land Use Facility and the Water Facility. Along with a full range of financial instruments, each facility will also offer opportunities from FMO and Climate Fund Manager's external networks and will provide post-construction phase community development and Technical Assistance financing.

Find additional information on the DFCD's approach here.Access DFCD funding and resources for project implementationWorld Wide Fund for Nature Netherlands (WWF-NL); SNV Netherlands Development Organisation; Dutch development bank (FMO); Climate Fund Manager Access national readiness and preparatory supportAccess national readiness and preparatory support The Origination Facility is positioned exclusively for project identification and (pre-) feasibility development activities with a cross DFCD thematic sub-sector focus. This window will seek to leverage the landscape strategy for activity sourcing and develop opportunities into viable business cases for the two investment windows through technical assistance and grant funding.Project identification and pre-feasibility development activities conductedWorld Wide Fund for Nature Netherlands (WWF-NL); SNV Netherlands Development Organisation Involve the private sectorInvolve the private sector The consortium also offers a ‘landscape’ strategy for deal origination and execution. This strategy allows consortium parties to actively source and develop private sector investment opportunities for other consortium parties in-and-around, in the vicinity of, as well as downstream from, their own investment activities.Private sector involved in project development and implementationWorld Wide Fund for Nature Netherlands (WWF-NL); SNV Netherlands Development Organisation; Dutch development bank (FMO); Climate Fund Manager

Climate objective

Adaptation, Mitigation, Cross-cutting

Sectors and themes

Agriculture, Disaster risk reduction, Forestry and Land-Use, Gender, Industry and Infrastructure, Jobs, Nature-based Solutions and Ecosystem Services, Oceans and Coasts, Poverty, Rural Development, Waste Management, Water

Type of support provider

Bilateral

Type of recipient

Public entity at the national level, Public entity at the sub-national level, Public entity at the regional level

Fund size

EUR 160 million

Trustee or administrator

Nederlandse Financierings-Maatschappij voor Ontwikkelingslanden N.V.

Contact information

https://thedfcd.com/

info@thedfcd.com

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