One of the main topics of discussion for the next COP29 decision to establish a New Collective Quantified Goal on Climate Finance is access to climate finance. Scaled-up, easily accessible, and sufficient climate finance is desperately needed by nations, communities, and organizations that represent marginalized collectives most affected by the climate crisis. The design of climate finance mechanisms, the need to support capacities, the need for more inclusive decision-making spaces affecting climate finance, and the ways in which gender, intersectional, and geographic fragility factors contribute to unequal access to climate finance are just a few of the many issues that still need to be addressed, according to the results of participatory research done with over 100 organizations in the Sahel.