the focus is not about results or outcomes per se but about the overall objectives and preconditions to effective climate finance that can be considered at different stages from the design to delivery of finance at the international and national levels as well as for programme and projectlevel activities through the use of semistructured interview techniques across a sampling of diverse stakeholders in the climate finance arena the authors consider perceptions about the relative importance and relevance of different principles and preconditions for success to understand what supports effective climate finance outcomes to date there is not a commonly agreed definition of what constitutes effective climate finance