Fiji, Sept. 4 -- The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has expressed support for the Pacific Resilience Facility (PRF), with GCF Executive Director Mafalda Duarte confirming that the Fund is already supporting the establishment of the Pacific-led financing mechanism through its readiness programme.
In an interview with PACNEWS on the sidelines of the Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting in Palau this week, Duarte and Hemant Mandal, GCF Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific, described the PRF as a complementary, Pacific-led facility that could help strengthen efforts to deliver climate finance and resilience support to communities.
Duarte said the GCF was supporting the establishment of the PRF through its readiness funding programme.
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