International conférence on sargassum
Fridayn October 25th, 2019
Day 2 - Crossing perspectives and sharing experiences
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Conférence Internationale sur les Sargasses
Vendredi 25 Octobre 2019 Journée 2
Regards croisés et partage d’expériences
Last updated March 18, 2019
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.
DCP in action—an example of how DCP supports the GCF mandate is the country and entity programmes – a country (Antigua and Barbuda) on the left, and an entity on the right (ADA, a direct access entity in Morocco):
These “living” documents align countries’ climate change priorities with the expertise and comparative advantage of accredited entities. They present an overview of a country’s national context, policy framework and plans (e.g. NDCs, NAPs, NAMAs, etc.), and summarize their respective climate action agenda. They also include a pipeline of projects that the country would like to undertake with the Fund, aligned to GCF’s strategic impacts, investment criteria and operational modalities.
To date:
Entities: 22 direct access entities have completed their entity work programmes, as have 22 international access entities.