Applications for the next cohort of official Observers to the Climate Investment Funds are being accepted now!
Applications for the next group of official Observers to the Climate Investment Funds (CIF) for the 2025-2027 term are being accepted now.
Visit https://www.resolve.ngo/cif-observer-selection to learn more about the role and access the application. Applications for civil society, indigenous people's and private sector observer candidates are due January 3, 2025.
The CIF enables climate-smart planning and climate action through large-scale, low-cost, and long-term financial solutions to support low and middle-income countries in achieving their climate objectives. CIF also finances local and indigenous communities to carry out climate resilience projects in their communities worldwide. The CIF launched the official Observer Program in 2010 to engage non-state actors and promote institutional transparency and accountability.
Observers represent civil society organizations (CSOs), indigenous people's organizations (IPOs), and private sector entities (PSEs) from around the world. In their role, Observers participate in CIF decision-making meetings at the global level, help formulate climate strategies at the national level, and monitor climate projects at the local level. In order to carry out these roles, observers actively communicate and liaise with their local, national, regional, and/or global constituencies to ensure that their actions and decisions as observers are guided by their constituencies' views and interests.
RESOLVE helped to design the CSO Observer selection process and has facilitated it since 2011. This has allowed the self-selection process to be carried out in an independent manner. This year, RESOLVE is managing a process to select the next cohort of CSO, IPO, and PSE Observers for the CIFs. The selection process will involve a global call for applications in early December 2024. RESOLVE will review and shortlist candidates based on eligibility and selection criteria. A Joint Observer Selection Committee, comprised of CSO, IPO, and PSE leaders in the climate finance space, will review the shortlisted applications and make selection recommendations. Additional information about the process and application will be posted on our website soon.
Please reach out to RESOLVE with questions.
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Maya Breitburg-Smith | RESOLVE
November 19, 2024
At RESOLVE, we’re here to tackle the toughest global challenges. The ones nobody else wants to touch. Where people are in conflict and planet problems are stuck. We’re here to unstick them. It’s not easy. It takes grit and ingenuity. And finding and working with the right partners. But we’re not called RESOLVE for nothing.
