Presentation by Jason Spensley, Green Climate Fund, as part of the webinar "International Public Finance for the NAP Process" hosted by the NAP Global Network on December 7, 2017.
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Status of GCF support, review criteria and observations from progress to date
1. Status of GCF support, review criteria and
observations from progress to date
Jason Spensley
Green Climate Fund
Senior Specialist, Project Preparation and Adaptation Planning
3. The big picture:
GCF perspectives on the impact of
adaptation planning
Understanding
climate
impacts and
vulnerabilities
Designing
strategies
and actions
to address
these
impacts
Achieving
ownership and
investment by
key actors
(private/public,
sub-national,
etc.)
Creating
adaptation
financing
strategy
(including
GCF project
pipeline)
5. GCF ‘Readiness’ support
1. NDA strengthening
2. Strategic frameworks
3. Support for direct access entities
4. Adaptation planning processes Up to $3M per
country
(not per year)
Up to $1M per
country per year
6. COP21
Dec. 2015
• Expedite support to formulate & implement
national adaptation plans
GCF B13
Jun. 2016
• Countries are invited to submit requests for
NAPs and/or other adaptation planning
processes
Now
Sep. 2017
• 35 countries have formally submitted
proposals, 7 have been approved / endorsed,
improved proposal guidance provided
Adaptation Planning Support
COP21 to Present
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8. Antigua & Barbuda
DRC
Madagascar
Liberia
Pakistan
Nepal
Mongolia
• 38 proposals submitted
• 14 LDCs, 3 SIDS
• 10 approved/endorsed (4+6)
• 18 with NDAs pending resubmission
Tanzania
Colombia
Uruguay
Argentina
Ecuador
Armenia
Niger
Dominican Republic
Bosnia & Herzegovina
Kenya
Mauritania
Malawi
Zimbabwe
Bangladesh
BeninCosta Rica
Gabon
Honduras
Serbia
South Sudan
Sudan
Swaziland
Mali
Uzbekistan
Montenegro
Egypt
Myanmar
Cote d’Ivoire
Adaptation Planning Support
Progress in 2017
(as of 30 October 2017)
9. 10 Good Practices for Adaptation Planning
Based on proposals to date
1. Clarity of focus (within in a national vision)
• Go local:Only do broad-scale planning if it hasn’t already been done
• Greater sectoral or geographic focus produces more precise and
implementation-ready planning
2. Design based on specific impacts and vulnerabilities:
• Focus most crucial climate impacts and vulnerabilities
• Avoid temptation to do the process in different countries
3. Build private sector ownership for investing in their resiliency
• Make the case for understanding and investing in resilient profit
• Create strategies to cultivate investment in resilient businesses
10. 4. Design adaptation investment vision:
• Prioritise and design adaptation project ideas and concept notes
• Identify ways to continually fund sectoral and local adaptation planning
5. Articulate ‘Theory of Change’:
• Clear vision of how each output and their activities will achieve the
desired result (outcomes)
• Link GCF country briefs, to national development plan, to project
proposals
6. Build on what's there, regardless who did it:
• Use existing information (especially vulnerability assessments)
10 Good Practices for Adaptation Planning
Based on proposals to date
11. 7. Gender:
• How social dimensions, including differences based on gender, will be
integrated into the proposed activities. Defining priorities to ensure
differences based on gender will be captured and that inequalities will be
addressed
8. Stakeholder engagement:
• Civil society; sub-national governments
9. Coherence and complementarity with other funds
• Especially with GEF and Adaptation Fund
10. Maximise use of GCF Adaptation Planning funds, over time
• Consider phased approach
• Option to have multiple proposals over time with different partners
10 Good Practices for Adaptation Planning
Based on proposals to date
12. 1. Adaptation governance and coordination established
2. Impact and investment information, and
capacity to analyse it
3. Knowledge, information & communication
4. Policy & strategy development/integration
5. Financing action plan
6. Monitoring & learning
Indicative
adaptation planning outcome areas
13. Adaptation Planning Support
Projection
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
2017 2018
Adaptation Planning Support Projection
(cumulative, # of proposals)
Being processed Approved or Endorsed Disbursed
*Based on GCF Country Programming Division projection as of 31 August.
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Step back and consider the role that adaptation planning plays in the broader climate financing continuum.
A fundamental starting point are Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs).
In GCF context, funding is available to help countries get ready for a pipeline of transformative set of projects and programmes. An key building block is a visionary Country Programme, which is complimented by Accredited Entity Programmes.
GCF Readiness funds should be used to help countries design their Country Programme for accessing GCF support, as well as for NDA strengthening, direct access support, and importantly the development of NAPs and other adaptation planning processes. Use of these Readiness funds (including for adaptation planning) should directly help countries design and implement high quality transformative projects and programmes.
This planning and readiness approach is the basis of GCF programming, but its relevant for how countries prepare for and catalyse climate finance from domestic and international, public and private sources beyond the GCF.
Big picture on the impact of adaptation planning.
Adaptation planning should start with understanding climate impacts and vulnerabilities.
Any strategies and action plans need to be designed specifically to address such impacts and vulnerabilities.
Various actors, including national governments, public and private sectors, and sub-national governments, should own the adaptation planning and invest in the adaptation actions deriving from these planning processes.
For that purpose, it is important that financing strategies, including but not limited to, GCF project pipeline, are also developed during the adaptation planning process.
Step back and consider the role that adaptation planning plays in the broader climate financing continuum.
A fundamental starting point are Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs).
In GCF context, funding is available to help countries get ready for a pipeline of transformative set of projects and programmes. An key building block is a visionary Country Programme, which is complimented by Accredited Entity Programmes.
GCF Readiness funds should be used to help countries design their Country Programme for accessing GCF support, as well as for NDA strengthening, direct access support, and importantly the development of NAPs and other adaptation planning processes. Use of these Readiness funds (including for adaptation planning) should directly help countries design and implement high quality transformative projects and programmes.
This planning and readiness approach is the basis of GCF programming, but its relevant for how countries prepare for and catalyse climate finance from domestic and international, public and private sources beyond the GCF.
The GCF Readiness programme is a funding programme to enhance country ownership and access to the Fund. It provides resources for strengthening the institutional capacities of National Designated Authorities (NDAs) or focal points and direct access entities to effectively engage with the Fund. It also assists countries in undertaking adaptation planning and developing strategic frameworks to build their programming with the GCF
Resources may be provided in the form of grants or technical assistance.
All developing countries can access the Readiness programme, and the Fund aims to ensure that at least 50 per cent of the readiness support available goes to particularly vulnerable countries, including least developed countries (LDCs), small island developing States (SIDS), and African States.
Four main areas of support under the GCF Readiness Programme:
1. NDA strengthening: Supports ability of the NDA to perform its function. Consultations, establish No-Objection procedure, outreach and awareness raising, etc.
2. Strategic Frameworks: Supports consultative mechanism to underpin solid Country Programme and pipeline development, relevant policy review to support strategic engagement and harmonization with National development plans and resources.
3. Support for direct access: Accreditation, gap assessments, building capacity of direct access entities to support Country Programmes.
4. Adaptation Processes: NAP development, adaption planning processes – template for application still be refined but you can access already under current generic Readiness template.
The UNFCCC COP as well as the GCF’s Board have given us a clear and explicit mandate to finance the development of National Adaptation Plans and/or other Adaptation Planning Processes.
This support is capped at US$ 3 million per country.
Its important to note that this support is a one time window. This means that when the cap is used by a country, even though adaptation planning is iterative by definition, there is no more funds the GCF can provide to a country for further adaptation planning.
The message is that even though US$ 3 million for adaptation planning may seem like a lot, use it wisely. For example, some countries are only using a million or so of their cap in a first proposal, so they can use more funds with a differently specialised Delivery Partner later.
In addition to the GCF, there are many opportunities for countries to gain support for development of their NAPs and other adaptation planning processes.
For funding, such mechanisms include Adaptation Fund and GEF LDC Fund, and for guidance and knowledge-sharing, NAP Global Network, UNFCCC, and NAP Global Support Programme are active in supporting adaptation planning.
As of 7 September 2017, the GCF have received 35 proposals, of which, 14 are from LDC, and 3 are from SIDS.
There are 8 proposals that have been approved / endorsed, including Liberia and Nepal that are under implementation.
The rest are in various stages of reviewing and processing.
The GCF Secretariat is increasing its efforts on reviewing the adaptation planning proposals, and the pace is accelerating.
The project number of proposals can be seen in this graph. As we strengthen the secretariat capacity, we expect to pick up the pace and review these proposals more efficiently.