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Institutional innovations and their challenges in the green climate fund: Country ownership, civil society participation and private sector engagement
- Title
- Institutional innovations and their challenges in the green climate fund: Country ownership, civil society participation and private sector engagement
- Authors
- Kalinowski T.
- Ewha Authors
- Thomas Kalinowski
- SCOPUS Author ID
- Thomas Kalinowski
- Issue Date
- 2020
- Journal Title
- Sustainability (Switzerland)
- ISSN
- 2071-1050
- Citation
- Sustainability (Switzerland) vol. 12, no. 21, pp. 1 - 13
- Keywords
- Civil society participation; Climate finance; Development cooperation; Green Climate Fund; International organizations; Multi-stakeholder governance; Public–private partnership
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Indexed
- SCIE; SSCI; SCOPUS
- Document Type
- Article
- Abstract
- This article investigates the institutional innovations within the Green Climate Fund (GCF), a new international organization that finances climate mitigation and adaptation in developing countries. In particular, donor–recipient parity in decision making, civil society participation and private sector involvement are explored. The aim of this study is to lay the institutional groundwork for a larger study that will be analyzing the effect of these institutional innovations on the design and result of the fund’s projects. An exploratory qualitative case study approach is used that includes the review of the secondary literature, official sources from the GCF, participant observation and semi-structured interviews. This article concludes that the GCF indeed implemented important institutional innovations that are unique for a major international organization. At the same time, this article reveals that these innovations have created some important challenges for the functioning of the fund. For example, donor–recipient parity, in combination with consensus orientation, initially led to gridlock. It is also difficult for the GCF to balance the goal of transparency and civil society participation with the need for secrecy of private contracts and a speedy process demanded by the private sector. © 2020 by the author. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
- DOI
- 10.3390/su12218827
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- 국제대학원 > 국제학과 > Journal papers
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