many eecca countries have already benefited from international climate funds that are either established as standalone funds or financed by bilateral and multilateral financiers the gef is also an operating entity for other multilateral environmental treaties such as the convention on biological diversity and the convention to combat desertification all the eecca countries have accessed climaterelated development finance from the gef no data on finance approved by the gcf is included in the analysis in this chapter as the database used here covers the period while the gcf board has approved two projects from the eecca countries as of july