Investment Planning and Capital Mobilization

Country platforms are designed to drive public and private finance towards supporting national development priorities. As such, translating national climate ambitions into a credible, financeable investment program is critical. Investment planning spans a range of activities across the platform lifecycle, from identifying priority investments and developing project pipelines, to aligning investment plans with national fiscal realities and debt sustainability constraints, to structuring the capital needed to deliver those investments.

Resources

This pillar provides frameworks and tools for developing investment plans and financing strategies. The resources gathered here aim to address the following questions concerning investment planning:

How can financing strategies align with national fiscal realities?
What approaches can be used to identify and prioritize climate-aligned investments, and how can a credible and sequenced investment pipeline be developed?
What financing instruments and capital sources are most appropriate for a specific country platform?

As the Knowledge Portal progresses to its full launch at COP31, available resources are expected to grow.

NDC Partnership

Adaptation Investment Planning Supplement (CIPMF)

This practical supplement adapts the Climate Investment Planning and Mobilization Framework (NDC Partnership) to provide targeted guidance for translating adaptation priorities into bankable and implementable projects. It is useful for governments seeking to build institutional capacity, align adaptation plans with development objectives, and mobilize investments to address climate risks.

Tools and Frameworks

FiCS+2

Strengthening collaboration to scale climate and development finance

This report analyzes how enhanced collaboration among vertical climate funds, multilateral development banks, and national development banks can systematically scale climate finance.

Framing Reports

CPI

Climate Finance Roadmaps

This resource emphasizes a need for targeted roadmaps to prioritize climate interventions and mobilize finance at scale across EMDEs. It helps governments focus investments on sectors with high mitigation potential, such as agriculture, forestry, and industry, to close the global climate finance gap.

Tools and Frameworks

GGGI+2

Country-Led Programmatic Approaches for Scaling Adaptation Finance in LDCs and SIDS

This policy brief explores how country-led programmatic approaches can effectively scale adaptation finance in EMDEs. It offers governments a structured methodology for designing multistakeholder platforms that anchor climate investments in core national priorities and systems.

Tools and Frameworks

GCF+1

Climate Investment Planning and Mobilization Framework

This framework provides a programmatic strategy for governments to translate national climate commitments into actionable, finance-ready investments. It guides policymakers through assessing institutional capacities, prioritizing evidence-based investment needs, and mobilizing resources from public, private, and blended finance sources.

Tools and Frameworks

UNDP

Adaptation Finance Strategy Guideline

This guideline provides a country-driven, practical framework structured around four modules to help governments translate national adaptation plans into investable strategies. It is useful for planning ministries and financial oversight bodies seeking to map financing sources, match them with sector investment pipelines, and organize resources effectively. These frameworks can help inform a platform's design, and signal climate ambition to external stakeholders.

Tools and Frameworks

INFF

INFFs and Climate Finance

This report details how Integrated National Financing Frameworks (INFFs) can be utilized to align a country's climate policy framework with its budget processes and public financial management systems. It offers an approach to conducting financing landscape assessments, to harness domestic and international finance for national climate goals. Frameworks like the INFF can help inform a country platform's design, and signal climate ambition to external stakeholders.

Framing Reports

Asian Development Bank+1

CIPMF Subnational Investment Planning Supplement

This practical supplement adapts the Climate Investment Planning and Mobilization Framework (NDC Partnership) for subnational governments aiming to implement local climate action and strengthen vertical integration. It provides local practitioners and national policymakers with a roadmap to enhance public financial management, assess climate risks, and build investor-ready project pipelines at the local level.

Tools and Frameworks

Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ)

Market Sounding Framework

This document outlines a market sounding process that country platforms can use to map and track market appetite for projects. The process helps identify opportunities where private capital is willing and able to participate, and highlights where public capital may be required to unlock financing. The process supports the catalytic use of public capital and promotes the efficient allocation of country platform financing resources.

Tools and Frameworks