UNDP Climate Change Finance 2017-2022
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UNDP Bangkok Regional Hub has applied for support from Sida amounting to 90 000 000 SEK for the implementation of the regional program "Strengthening the Governance of Climate Change Finance to Enhance gender Equality". The countries that will be covered are Bangladesh, Cambodia, Indonesia, Thailand, and Tonga, Vanuatu in the Pacific, during the period 2017-20...
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UNDP Bangkok Regional Hub has applied for support from Sida amounting to 90 000 000 SEK for the implementation of the regional program "Strengthening the Governance of Climate Change Finance to Enhance gender Equality". The countries that will be covered are Bangladesh, Cambodia, Indonesia, Thailand, and Tonga, Vanuatu in the Pacific, during the period 2017-2021 The programme builds on a previous phase supported by Sweden and aims to strengthen the capacity of the governments to implement their national and local budgeting reform and planning process to be able to systematically address climate change in their public investments in an integrated manner, and address gender equality, human rights and poverty. More details of the programme can be found at https://www.climatefinance-developmenteffectiveness.org/. The objective is: To increase in the number of public investments that respond to climate change whilst also promoting gender equality, human rights and poverty reduction. The planned results are: (a) Budget processes increasingly formulate climate change related investments that are gender responsive and have positive impacts on poverty and human rights. b) Accountability for gender-responsive climate change related investments that have impacts on poverty and human rights is enhanced. c) Regional institutions increasingly play a role in the integrated approach to gender-responsive climate change budgeting that have impacts on poverty and human rights. d) International policy processes give increasing priority to strengthen domestic budget systems that enable delivery of gender responsive climate change investments that have positive impacts on poverty and human rights. During the assessment, there has been an intense dialogue between the Embassy and UNDP which, among other things, has resulted in better integration of gender equality and human rights in the program, as well as increased cooperation with UN Women and civil society. UNDP has responded to the Embassy issues in two "responses matrixes" attached to the decision. The responses have also been integrated into the text in the assessment. Sweden is the sole financier of the programme. Co-financing with other financiers will be further investigated. Forwarding of funds to other organisations will not be done. Assigned organisations will be paid after completion of work.
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Result
Examples of results as reported by UNDP: • Contribution for ensuring that climate change is considered to be an integral part of the development agenda - Climate change is included in the 8th Five Year Plan in Bangladesh - Resilient infrastructure one of the six priorities of the new public debt policy in Cambodia - Law on Harmonization of Tax Regulation includes a focus on carbon tax in Indonesia. • Integration of climate change in the governance and Public Financial Management systems - Dedicated section on climate change in budget documents in Bangladesh - Risk informed development approach in planning and budgeting in the Pacific - Sector ministries negotiated increased budgets for climate change in Cambodia. • Contribution to ensuring that climate expenditures remain on track - Climate change public expenditure, as a share of GDP, rose from 1.2% to 2.3% of GDP in Cambodia. The work of UNDP contributed for example to eight investments to climate proof in roads and water infrastructure, in total USD 11.1 million. - Fiscal and system reforms in Bangladesh have influenced climate relevant budgetary allocations through incorporating climate in key performance indicators for 25 ministries/divisions, including in allocations for food security, social protection and health, in total USD 3 billion. • Mainstreaming climate change in planning and budgeting has had wider policy impacts and positive spin offs - Long term strategy for carbon neutrality in Cambodia - Green sukuks (Green Bonds) issued by the government of Indonesia which has mobilized USD 5.8 billion. • Gender equality and social inclusion inform policy and budgeting frameworks and project design - Gender aspects embedded in the Medium Term Budgetary Framework in Bangladesh - Gender and climate tagging mechanism in Indonesia - 150 risk-informed community projects prepared in Fiji. • Stronger uptake of the need to strengthen climate budgeting by the accountability actors - Climate Performance audits initiated in Bangladesh - Engaging Parliaments in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Indonesia and Thailand, e.g. to enhance budget scrutiny, transparency and accountability. - Climate expenditure reporting formalised in Indonesia, Bangladesh and Cambodia. • Capacity of civil society and research entities strengthened for evidence-based climate budgeting - Several CSOs in Bangladesh, Pacific and Indonesia supported research and advocacy - In Cambodia the Cambodia Development Resource Institute reviewed two existing climate change programmes with a focus on vulnerable groups - Collaborative research in Indonesia helped develop technical guidance on gender responsive climate budgeting. • Thought leadership on climate change integrated budgeting and planning - Repository of a wide range of Public Financial Management tools and knowledge on their use for climate related Public Financial Management reform - Engagement with and recognition by other international policy actors such as ADB, IMF, OECD, WB, including e.g. joint development of Public Financial Management tools and methodologies and technical assistance countries' climate budget reforms. - Contributing to the promotion of climate finance reforms in the region and beyond. This has for example led to Indonesia issuing Green Sukuks, Thailand pioneering Sustainability Bonds in 2020, and Bhutan issuing its first ever sovereign bond in 2021. The program in Asia has also inpired the Inclusive Budgeting and Financing for Climate Change in Africa Programme, supported by the Embassy of Sweden in Addis Abeba. • Contributing to the regional/global discourse on climate budgeting and planning - Partnership with UNFCCC, supporting countries on biennial assessments institutional partner to the Coalition of Finance Ministers for Climate Action - Climate Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability, National Baseline Assessments, etc. - Trainings with UNFCCC, Round tables, etc. Additional conclusions from the evaluation shows that the project, despite the challenges posed by the COVID19 pandemic, has contributed to: 1. The targeted countries are now, overall, better positioned to mainstream gender responsive climate change into planning and budgeting. 2. An improved transparency and accountability for change expenditures, budget allocations and overall leveraging of resources. 3. An improved streamlining of gender, diversity and inclusion across aspects of climate financing. 4. Regional knowledge exchange has been promoted throughout the project cycle, positively influencing other countries to pursue climate finance reform, such as the peer-to-peer exchange between Indonesia and Cambodia. 5. A positive influence on the global discourse on climate budgeting and planning. Overall the evaluation summarised that the program has contributed to that public budgets of around 8.7 bn USD in the targeted countries have mainstreamed climate change, 6.8 bn USD of innovative climate finance has been leveraged (e.g though the green bonds in Indonesia) and more than 72,000 beneficiaries have been supported through improved climate resilience.
The overall goal of the contribution is to increase the value and effectiveness of public investments that respond to climate change whilst also promoting gender equality, human rights and poverty reduction. The expected outcome is to have domestic budget systems that enable the delivery of gender responsive climate change related investments that would have positive impacts on poverty reduction and human rights. The programme has four specific outputs: Output 1: Budget processes increasingly formulate gender responsive climate change related investments that will have positive impacts on poverty and human rights. Output 2: Accountability for gender responsive climate change related investments that have impacts on poverty and human rights is enhanced. Output 3: Regional institutions play a role in the integrated approach to gender responsive climate change budgeting that have impacts on poverty and human rights. Output 4: International policy processes give increasing priority to strengthen domestic budget systems that enable delivery of gender responsive climate change investments and have a positive impact on poverty and human rights.
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