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Retaliation Brochure
What is retaliation and how can you report it if you are affected? The GCF provides protection through the IRM and the Independent Integrity Unit (IIU). Both units have produced a joint brochure where you can find...
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IRM: Opening doors to Accountability and Redress
Filing a complaint with the IRM is easy. Need more details? Please see the IRM's complaints brochure in 14 languages.
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Grievance mechanisms are key to a project or programme’s ability to deliver sustainable outcomes. Almost every project or programme, and particularly those that are resource intensive, will have an...
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IRM activity report to B.25
This report provides an update on the progress made with regard to the activities of the Independent Redress Mechanism (IRM). The reporting period is from 1 October 2019 to 31 January 2020. The document summarizes the...
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IRM activity report to B.24
This report provides an update on the progress made with regard to the activities of the Independent Redress Mechanism (IRM). The reporting period is from 1 June 2019 to 9 October 2019. The document summarizes the...
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IRM activity report to B.23
This report provides an update on the progress made with regard to the activities of the Independent Redress Mechanism (IRM). The reporting period is from 1 January 2019 to 31 May 2019. The document summarizes the...
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IRM activity report to B.22
This report provides an update on the progress made with regard to the activities of the Independent Redress Mechanism (IRM). The reporting period is from 1 September 2018 to 31 December 2018. The document summarizes...
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IRM activity report to B.21
This report provides an update on the progress made with regard to the activities of the Independent Redress Mechanism (IRM). The reporting period is from 1 June 2018 to 31 August 2018. The document summarizes the...
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IRM activity report to B.20
This report provides an update on the progress made with regard to the activities of the Independent Redress Mechanism (IRM). The reporting period is from Tuesday, 6 February 2018 to Thursday, 31 May 2018. The document...
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IRM activity report to B.19
This report provides an update on the progress made with regard to the activities of the Independent Redress Mechanism (IRM). The reporting period is from 3 October 2017 to 5 February 2018. The document summarizes the...
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IRM activity report to B.18
This report provides an update on the progress made with regard to the activities of the Independent Redress Mechanism (IRM). The reporting period is from 1 January to 15 September 2017. The document summarizes the...
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Work plan and budget for 2020
This document presents the 2020 work plan and budget of the Independent Redress Mechanism (IRM) of the GCF. The IRM is one of the three accountability mechanisms of the GCF and is mandated by its Governing Instrument....
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Work plan and budget for 2019
This document presents the 2019 work plan and budget of the Independent Redress Mechanism (IRM) of the GCF. The IRM is one of the three accountability mechanisms of the GCF and is mandated by its Governing Instrument....
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Work plan and budget for 2018
This document presents the 2018 work plan and budget of the Independent Redress Mechanism (IRM) of the GCF. The IRM is one of the three accountability mechanisms of the GCF and is mandated by its Governing Instrument....
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Work plan and budget for 2017
This document presents the 2017 Work Plan and Budget of the Independent Redress Mechanism Unit (IRMU) of the GCF. The Unit is one of the three accountability mechanisms of the GCF and is mandated by its Governing...
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Retaliation: The Bogeyman of Grievance Redress
The issue of retaliation has been a significant focus of work within the IRM recently. Since our last article in February, when we opened the call for comments on our Supporting Operating Procedures (SOPs) on...
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Remedy: – setting a wrong, right
If you are harmed by a development project, what would you do? For example, if you were moved from the land that you had occupied since birth, the land that your parents, and their parents had occupied too, to make way...
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IRM activity report to B.26
This report provides an update on the progress made with regard to the activities of the Independent Redress Mechanism (IRM). The reporting period is from 1 February 2020 to 30 June 2020. The document summarizes the...
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IRM activity report to B.27
This report provides an update on the progress made with regard to the activities of the Independent Redress Mechanism (IRM). The reporting period is from 1 July 2020 to 30 September 2020 with budget utilization until...
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Boosting Accessibility in the Pacific Islands
If you had a problem but did not know where to go or whom to contact for a solution, how frustrated would you be? For example, if you lost electricity at night, you would probably want to call the utility company to...
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Sexual Harassment: Lessons from Two World Bank Projects
The Independent Redress Mechanism (IRM) recently submitted its first Advisory Report, together with the Green Climate Fund (GCF) Secretariat’s management response to the GCF Board. Drawing lessons from two World Bank...
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Carlos gets a prestigious certificate and joins a community of practice!
Carlos was struggling to handle a complaint he had received as the complaint handling officer of a private national financial organization that had been funded for a project by an international financial institution....
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Stepping in the Right Direction – the IRM’s Gender Journey
Bo is a female community member at a project site funded by an international financial institution. She normally spends most of her day doing household chores and taking care of her five children. Her husband does not...
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Strengthening Grievance Redress Mechanisms – Launch of the IRM’s Online Training Modules
Three times a year, the Board of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) approves the accreditation of several entities. These are organizations which partner with the GCF to implement projects and programmes. As of August 2020,...
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The IRM takes part in outreach workshops for Civil Society in Brazil
A recurrent challenge in outreach events conducted by independent accountability mechanisms (IAMs) is the uneven level of prior information participants have about IAMs. While some participants are very familiar with...
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Work plan and budget for 2021
This document presents the 2021 work plan and budget of the Independent Redress Mechanism (IRM) of the GCF. The IRM is one of the three accountability mechanisms of the GCF and is mandated by its Governing Instrument....
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Secretariat Management Response to IRM Advisory Report
This document presents the Secretariat management response to the Advisory Report of the Independent Redress Mechanism (IRM): Prevention of Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Harassment (SEAH) in GCF projects or programmes...
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Call for Public Comments: Draft Gender Strategy Note of the IRM
The Independent Redress Mechanism (IRM) of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) has developed a draft gender strategy note, which outlines the IRM’s commitments to a more gender-responsive approach in all its processes and...
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IRM Advisory Report on the Prevention of Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Harassment in GCF projects or programmes
This Advisory Report on the prevention of Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Harassment in GCF projects and programmes (P&PrSEAH) draws useful lessons for the GCF from two complaints that were submitted to the World...
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