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.
KEY RESULTS
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39.6 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions (tCO2 eq.) reduced or avoided annually
(Based on 85 of 171 Clean Technology and Energy Access projects)
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55.4 million people supported to cope with the effects of climate change
49.7% men vs. 50.3% women
(Based on 59 of 59 Climate Resilience projects)
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3.1 million people with enhanced livelihood co-benefits
56% men vs. 44% women
(Based on 37 of 47 Sustainable Forest projects)
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23.3 gigawatts (GW) of installed renewable energy capacity
(Based on 69 of 121 Clean Technology and Energy Access projects)
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$33 billion in achieved co-financing
(Based on 142 of 169 Clean Technology and Energy Access projects)
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36.7 million hectares (ha) of land under sustainable management practices
(Based on 38 of 47 Sustainable Forest and Climate Resilience projects)
CIF has delivered pioneering concessional finance since 2008 to over 80 developing countries through investments in resilience, nature, and energy programs.
As these investments close, we are committed to capturing results and insights, taking stock of the lessons learned, ensuring the long-term benefits of our efforts, and guiding future investments. For this, we have designed a highly collaborative process: the Investment Plan Close-Out. This approach carries forward CIF’s programmatic approach - coordinating multiple stakeholders to design and implement strategically-linked investments with shared objectives - from start to finish.
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RECENT RESULTS REPORTS
CIF's annual results are published in June of each year. Program results highlights can be found under: Clean Technology, Energy Access, Climate Resilience, Sustainable Forests.
More detailed annual program results are available in each program’s operational and results report:
M&R TOOLS AND INSTRUMENTS
THEORY
The CIF Theory of Change (2022) provides a high-level blueprint for how CIF’s programs and other components work in concert to drive an overarching mission: accelerating 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.
DESIGN
Each CIF program is governed by a single integrated results framework that describes the key results the program intends to achieve and the indicators to measure these results, along with integrated evaluation, learning, and gender considerations at every level of program results. CIF’s unique approach combines essential monitoring and accountability functions with a holistic, multi-level, and multi-dimensional approach, including a complex systems orientation and emergent learning opportunities.
ACTION
CIF’s program-specific M&R systems are put into action through a series of M&R toolkits. These toolkits translate the formally approved Integrated Results Frameworks for each program into a practical guide and include, among other features, precise indicator definitions, methodologies, measurement guidance, and reporting protocols.
POLICY
CIF’s overall objectives, principles, arrangements, and minimum requirements for integrated monitoring, evaluation, and learning are stipulated through CIF's Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Policy.
COUNTRY ENGAGEMENT
CIF conducts country-level training workshops on M&R across programs on a rolling basis and investment plan close-outs for countries when all projects have been implemented. Comprehensive online M&R training modules are also available for FIP and PPCR in three languages (English, French, and Spanish).
RESULTS & IMPACT KEY DOCUMENTS
RESULTS ANALYTICS
As CIF programs advance in their implementation, the potential for on-the-ground evidence of what works, how much, and for whom in climate finance continues to grow. CIF supports strategic enhancements of results analysis and learning at portfolio, program, and project levels to complement the main results data directly tracked through the programmatic M&R systems. Recent results analytics include:
- In-depth reviews of the drivers and implications of CIF performance in the Results Deep Dive Series
- Assessing and modeling the development impacts of climate finance
- Climate Delivery Initiative (CDI) and other implementation case studies and learning fora
- Real-time monitoring of energy storage and coal transition
- Geographic, thematic, and sectoral analyses
- Demand-driven research and analytics to address data and evidence gaps in CIF’s programming cycle
- Alignment of CIF’s results with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and other international frameworks
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