Adaptation Finance Tracking ... and answers to all your adaptation finance questions!

1. Adaptation
FINANCE
Tracking
…and answers to all your adaptation finance questions!
Pieter Terpstra, WRI Adaptation Summer Brownbag Series, September 9th, 2013

2. Content
• Defining Adaptation Finance
– Context Specific
– Dynamic
– Not about finance
• Accountability and Transparency Project
– Country Results
– Next Steps

4. What is Adaptation to Climate Change?
Adaptation activates can fall along a continuum
Addressing Drivers of
Vulnerability
Building Response
Capacity
Managing Climate Risk
Programs focused on
poverty reduction, health,
diversification of
livelihood strategies, etc.
Developing networks,
capacity building,
research into farming
practices, etc.
Developing monitoring
capacity, collecting
climate data, executing
risk assessments, etc.
Vulnerability Focus
Confronting Climate
Change
Improving flood
defenses, reducing
the risk of glacial lake
outburst floods, etc.
Impacts focus

5. What is Adaptation Finance?
• Context Specific - Climate change impacts
vary from place to place
• Dynamic - what counts as effective
adaptation in a specific context today may
no longer count as effective adaptation 25
years from now.

6. What is Adaptation Finance?
• It’s not about finance - Adaptation is about
going beyond business-as-usual and
incorporating the possible effects of climate
change into the design of an activity.
• But, deciding which part of “beyond businessas-usual” should count towards adaptation
finance is difficult to determine.
•
For an example, see http://www.wri.org/blog/difficulty-definingadaptation-finance

7. How much do we need?
Organization
UNFCCC
Project Catalyst
World Bank
Amount Estimated
$28-67 billion per year until
2030
$26-77 billion per year until
2030
$75-100 billion per year
until 2050
Commitment in Copenhagen, 2009:
‘Mobilize $100 billion per year by 2020’ for adaptation
and mitigation in vulnerable countries

8. Are we on track?
• OECD commitments decreased from USD 8.5 billion in
2010 to USD 7.5 billion in 2011
• MDBs estimate an expenditure of approximately USD
4.5 billion in 2011
• Climate Funds pledges approximately USD 29 billion of
which USD 1.5 billion for adaptation
• Big question is how much funding was raised by
countries through their national budget

9. The Issue
• Local communities in vulnerable countries
will feel the biggest impact of climate
change
• Reaching local communities with support
is notoriously difficult
How much adaptation funding is reaching
vulnerable communities?

10. Adaptation is Local!

11. Adaptation Finance Accountability Initiative
http://www.wri.org/publication/the-plumbing-of-adaptation-finance

12. AFAI Project
Objective
Empower coalitions of local civil society
organizations to monitor and influence
adaptation finance
Countries
Nepal, Zambia, Uganda and Philippines
Partners
Oxfam, ODI, WRI, Clean Energy Nepal, Institute for
Climate and Sustainable Cities, Uganda Climate Action
Network, Zambia Climate Change Network

13. AFAI Project
Phase 1
- Mapping of international flows
- Institutional analysis
Phase 2
- Deep dive research into selected flows
- National and international level advocacy

14. Unraveling Adaptation Finance Flows:
It’s Not Straightforward
• start

15. International to National Adaptation
Finance Flows
International
Financial Streams
Bilateral
Special Funds
Multilateral
Natl. sources
National Gov.
(Min. Finance)
Conditional
Local Taxes
Unconditional
Line Ministries /
Agencies / others
Local Gov.
CSOs
Beneficiaries
NB National institutions can also be beneficiary
National
Financial Streams

16. Phase 1 – Methodology
• Gather data from public sources
• Assess adaptation relevance
– Primary focus
– Significant focus
• Compile data into one database
• Analysis of data

17. Millions
Findings – Commitments
$180
$160
$140
$120
$100
Primary
$80
Significant
$60
$40
$20
$2010
2011
Nepal
Nepal
2010
2011
2010
PhilippinesPhilippines Uganda
2011
2010
2011
Uganda
Zambia
Zambia

18. Main recipients

19. Main sectors

20. Main sectors

21. Five Principles for Good Delivery of
Adaptation Finance at the Local Level
1. Transparency
2. Ownership
3. Responsiveness
4. Participation
5. Equity

22. Transparency?
• A recipient of the finance was mentioned
in 55% of projects
• An actual location was given in the project
document 21% of the time

23. Transparency – Geographic Mapping?
• start
Projects rarely list geographical location – defaulted to the capital, Lusaka

24. Ownership?
Channel
Nepal
Philippines
Uganda
National Organization
41%
62%
42%
Donor Organization
23%
29%
39%
Multilateral
14%
Other
22%
Zambia
85%
6%
9%
19%
9%

25. Responsive?
Nepal
Philippines
Uganda
National Priorities
Agriculture and
Food Security
Food Security
Forestry
Water Resources
and energy
Climate- induced
disasters
Forests and
biodiversity
Public health
Water Sufficiency
Weather/climate
information
Water resources
Ecological and
Environmental stability
Human Security
Agriculture
Climate friendly
Wildlife
industries and services
Urban Settlements Sustainable energy
Health
and infrastructure
Knowledge and capacity
development
Zambia
Land Use
(agriculture and
forestry)
Water
Health and social
infrastructure
Physical
infrastructure
Transport
Energy
Mining

26. The Philippines
Philippines
Food Security – 11%
Water Sufficiency –
Not Listed
Ecological and
Environmental
stability – 20%
Human Security – 10%
Climate friendly
industries and
services – Not Listed
Sustainable energy –
Not Listed
Knowledge and
capacity development
– Not Listed

27. Uganda
Uganda
Forestry – Not Listed
Weather / climate
information – 11%
Water Resources –
Portion of 76%
Agriculture – 5%
Wildlife – 6%
Health – Not Listed

28. Participation?
Country
Nepal
National Climate
Policy
Climate Change
Council headed by
Prime Minister
National Coordination
Multi-sectoral Climate
Change Initiatives
Coordination Committee
(MCCICC)
Role of Local Government Civil Society
Engagement
Ministry for Local
NGOs and academe
Development is member of have seats in MCCICC
CCC; 3 Local government
representatives in MCCICC
Philippines
Climate Change
Commission chaired
by President
- Advisory Board and
technical committee not
formalized yet
- Cabinet Cluster on
Climate Change (CCCC)
Uganda
Proposed National
Climate Change
Policy Committee to
be chaired by the
Prime Minister
Proposed National
Climate Change
Development
Committee (NCCDC)
Proposed National Climate District Authorities and
Change Advisory
Ministry of Local
Committee (NCCAC)
Government have seats in
NCCAC
Zambia
Transitional Climate
Change Secretariat under
Ministry of Finance;
Proposed working groups
under the NCCDC
Secretary of the
Department of Interior and
Local Government, and
Representatives of each
sub-national administration
level are part of the
Advisory Board
NGOs, academia and
private sector are part
of the advisory board
Proposed engagement
in the National Climate
Change Advisory
Committee
Local government is
NGO climate network
described as a constituency proposed as member
in the proposed NCCDC
of the NCCDC
organizational chart

29. Equity?
Country
Gender in Represented in National
OECD
Institutions
Gender Analysis
in Strategy
Nepal
Philippines
77%
77%
No formal position
Chairperson of the National
Commission on the role of
Filipino Women is a member
of the Advisory Board to the
CCC
Gender
Incorporated into
Plan
No
No
Recognizes women Some actions
and children in rural included
areas;
Mandates gender
sensitive approach
Uganda
63%
Zambia
57%
Insufficient detail in proposed
structure
Insufficient detail in proposed
structure
Mandates gender
mainstreaming
Gender is crosscutting issue
No plan available
as of yet
NCCRS includes
specific
interventions

30. Next steps
Country
Nepal
Philippines
Uganda
Zambia
In depth tracking
Special climate funds
3 districts
2 domestic funds
2 donor projects
3 districts
3 districts

31. Contact Info:
Pieter Terpstra
• Phone: +1 (202) 729-7805
• Email: pterpstra@wri.org