Results & Impact

Results and impact lie at the core of CIF's mission. As the climate crisis grows more dire and the need for evidence on how to effectively address it becomes more essential, CIF’s commitment to rigorous, inclusive monitoring and reporting (M&R) helps ensure that every dollar of our climate finance contributes to transformational climate and development objectives.

CIF's Impact Statement

Accelerated transformational change and climate financing that enable progress toward net-zero emissions and adaptive, climate-resilient development pathways, in a just and socially inclusive manner

Since each CIF program aims to tackle different dimensions of the climate crisis, CIF’s M&R approach relies on program-specific M&R systems. These systems employ a limited number of core indicators to illustrate annual progress against the programs’ total expected results, for example, “tons of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduced or avoided” (Clean Technology, Sustainable Forests, and Energy Access) and “the number of people supported to cope with the effects of climate change” (Climate Resilience). A range of other tools and approaches complement CIF’s monitoring of core indicators, such as supporting participatory M&R workshops and investment plan close-outs, conducting results deep dive studies, tracking and modeling development co-benefits, harvesting data from project-specific indicators and qualitative assessments, undertaking implementation case studies, leading enhanced real-time monitoring activities, and producing other analytics.

CIF recipient countries, multilateral development banks (MDBs), and other stakeholders all have a role to play in collecting data, reporting, assessing, and evaluating the achievements of CIF’s programs and projects. Local stakeholders, for example, are engaged to review and validate results as the programs progress and when country investment plans are completed. CIF also supports recipient countries and other stakeholders with M&R capacity-building opportunities to enable a sustainable, country-led approach to managing the results achieved through climate finance and related learning.