DFCD

The Dutch Fund for Climate and Development

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The Dutch Fund for Climate and Development enables private sector to invests in projects aimed at climate adaptation and mitigation in developing countries. 

The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs has made available € 160 million to increase the resilience of communities and ecosystems most vulnerable to climate change. The DFCD is managed by a pioneering consortium of Climate Fund Managers (CFM), Worldwide Fund for Nature Netherlands (WWF-NL) and SNV, led by the Dutch Entrepreneurial Development Bank, FMO. 

Investments made by the consortium parties seek to improve the wellbeing, economic prospects and livelihoods of vulnerable groups – particularly women and children – and, enhance the health of critical ecosystems – from water basins to rivers, tropical rainforests, marshland and mangroves. The consortium’s activities will also help protect communities and cities from the increasing frequency of extreme weather events and benefit depleting biodiversity in areas that provide people with water, food, medicine and economic opportunity.

Inspiring stories & results

DFCD receives €40m top-up for climate adaptation projects in vulnerable countries

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Improving WASH systems across East Africa with innovative waste-to-energy management plants

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Making Bamboo Bankable: DFCD-funded PT Indobamboo on track to scale up

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Man op fiets langs veld, Pakistan

Developing pulp mill to recycle biomass waste into degradable tableware in Pakistan

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Auto rijdt door vloedwater

“Businesses in emerging markets are key in moving the needle to improve climate resilience”

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The DFCD helps prepare Kenyan agribusiness to scale-up

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DFCD supports producer of natural colourants in saving the forest in Colombia

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DFCD grants support for ginseng grower that helps Vietnamese communities out of poverty

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Developing a solar-powered desalination facility in Cambodia

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FSC acacia planten van lokale boeren in Centraal Vietnam

Transforming the local forest industry in Central Vietnam

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Bom van onderen in het Amazone gebied

DFCD supports Brazil nut production in Amazon region

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DFCD partners with local financier of small-scale climate-smart investments in Ecuador

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Kleine Bandeng visjes in een viskwekerij in de Filipijnen

The DFCD supports freshwater fish hatchery in Pakistan

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The DFCD takes new step by investing in South African agricultural fund

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The DFCD supports sustainable animal feed production from food waste in Africa

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First WWF DFCD team meeting in person!

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Indian NaturaYuva is on a mission to grow commercially medicinal and aromatic plants

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DFCD supports collection of native ingredients by local communities in Brazil

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Man in een rijstveld, Indonesië Evaluation report Place Indonesia

Evaluation report shows important successes and learnings for the DFCD

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Velden en huisjes

DFCD prepares proposal for new EU funding

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WWF’s DFCD Africa team does their first in-country visit, to Kenya

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DFCD deal flow accelerating midway through the project

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DFCD @ Cop 2021: Entrepreneurs on the ground are the real deal amid blah, blah, blah

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The DFCD partners with Ugandan Mandulis Energy to support waste-to-energy project

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onder water gelopen mekong

WWF DFCD seals groundbreaking partnership to reverse degradation of Mekong Delta

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Suikerriet van dichtbij, Zambia

DFCD partners with Zambian cane sugar grower to make its irrigation climate-smart

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DFCD supports Indonesian PT Indobamboo Lestari to get ready to build factory to manufacture FSC-certified bamboo products

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DFCD supports Humankind Group to develop biomass plants that recycles agricultural waste into green energy and biofertilizer in India

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Kinderen lopen in een hersteld bosgebied, Oeganda

WWF’s DFCD Opportunity Window is gathering steam

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Pholela Rivier, Zuid-Afrika in de mist

Building a bankable nature-based solution from scratch in the Southern Drakensberg

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Witte neushoorns staan in het gras

Financial risk related to biodiversity loss: black swan or white rhino?

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bergen in uganda

The DFCD supports in carbon certification in Uganda

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