Background

The Forum is a gathering of all CIF stakeholders to share lessons learned from the CIF design process and from early implementation of CIF-funded programs. CIF stakeholders are: country governments, civil society, indigenous peoples, multilateral partners, private sector, and other development partners.

The 2010 CIF Forum will be preceded by CIF meetings:

• March 15-17: PPCR and CTF Pilot Countries meetings
• March 15-17: CIF Trust Fund Committee meetings

Objectives

The objective of the 2010 Forum is to share lessons learned from the CIF design process and from early implementation of CIF-funded programs. In particular, early implementation lessons will be drawn from country-level activities of the Clean Technology Fund (CTF) and the Pilot Program on Climate Resilience (PPCR), the first targeted program under the Strategic Climate Fund (SCF) to advance to implementation stage. A consultative discussion paper of these lessons, Looking Ahead for Lessons in the Climate Investment Funds: Emerging Themes for Learning, is now available.

Expected outputs

The Forum will provide an open, transparent and constructive platform for dialogue on knowledge gained to date and will extract useful lessons learned which will inform further implementation of the CIF.

The results of the Forum will be made widely available, published in the form of proceedings and distributed through various media. Documents informing the Forum will be posted on the website.

Target participants

Participation is open to all stakeholders

• country governments
• civil society
• indigenous peoples
• multilateral partners
• private sector, and
• other development partners

Resource speaker

• Professor James Rodner, University of Toronto