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Resource Mobilisation Strategy for the Fund for responding to Loss and Damage
The Fund for responding to Loss and Damage (FRLD) is currently developing its Resource Mobilisation Strategy (RMS), the framework that will determine how the Fund raises the finance needed to support climate-vulnerable communities across the Global South. This is a critical moment. The RMS will set the ambition of the Fund's replenishment cycles, define the sources of finance it will pursue, and establish the principles governing how contributions are made and governed. Getting it right is essential: the FRLD must be filled with real, adequate, and rights-based finance not empty promises.
Current scientific assessments estimate loss and damage needs in developing countries at over $700 billion per year, and the money is urgently needed now.
Fill The Fund has been at the centre of coordinated civil society advocacy to shape an ambitious RMS. In January 2026, our campaign hub coordinated a joint submission to the FRLD Secretariat endorsed by over 100 civil society organisations and Indigenous Peoples' groups from across the world, setting out detailed recommendations on the quantum of funding, sources of finance, replenishment timelines, and the principles that must underpin the strategy.
The submission calls for a progressive, science-based replenishment pathway: at least $50 billion per year from 2027, rising to $100 billion per year by 2031, and at least $400 billion per year by 2035. It draws a clear red line against debt-creating instruments, demands the polluter pays principle be operationalised through innovative sources such as a Climate Damages Tax on fossil fuel extraction, and insists that private contributions must carry zero governance influence over the Fund.
Building on this advocacy, Fill The Fund launched an Open Letter on the Resource Mobilisation Strategy on 20 April 2026, calling on the FRLD Board to adopt an ambitious, rights-based RMS that meets the true scale of loss and damage. The letter has been signed by more than 200 organisations, representing millions of people through civil society, faith-based, and Indigenous Peoples' groups across the world. It reaffirms our core demands grants not loans, new and additional public finance, mandatory and progressive contribution mechanisms, and no corporate capture and urges the Board to act without delay. We invite organisations and individuals to read, sign, and share the letter widely to send a clear message ahead of the next Board meeting.
Open Letter on the Resource Mobilisation Strategy - Available in three languages.
Fill The Fund For Loss and Damage!
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