€160 million
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.
The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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.
The DFCD is managed by a pioneering consortium of Climate Fund Managers (CFM), World Wide Fund for Nature Netherlands (WWF-NL) and SNV Netherlands Development Organisation, led by the Dutch Entrepreneurial Development Bank, FMO.
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.
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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 implementation
World Wide Fund for Nature Netherlands (WWF-NL); SNV Netherlands Development Organisation; Dutch development bank (FMO); Climate Fund Manager Access national readiness and preparatory support.
Access 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 conducted.
World Wide Fund for Nature Netherlands (WWF-NL); SNV Netherlands Development Organisation Involve the private sector.
Involve 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.