GCF Adaptation planning and

programming in the local context

Drazen Kucan
Senior Urban Development and Energy Efficiency Specialist
Division of Mitigation and Adaptation

WUF9 Kuala Lumpur

February 2018 | Malaysia
 Planning-programming continuum

Country strategies & plans

GCF country programmes
NAPs, NDCs, other GCF entity work programmes
climate change
strategies & plans Defines GCF country Pipelines
programming
priorities Identifies initiatives to
Led by climate change respond to country
focal points priorities Develop projects/
Led by GCF NDA/ focal programmes for
point funding
Led by GCF accredited
entities
Led by GCF accredited
entities with countries
 GCF country programmes

NDCs, NAPs or
other strategies
& plans

GCF eight GCF six

strategic results investment
areas criteria

Country Impact potential

priorities Paradigm shift potential

for GCF Sustainable development

potential

Country ownership

Efficiency & effectiveness

Responsive to needs of
recipients
 GCF programming
Summation

NDCs Country and GCF

Entity pipelines
Programmes
NAPs
 Results Management Framework
Adaptation

Impact level results

1) Increased resilience and enhanced livelihoods of the most vulnerable people,
communities, and regions
2) Increased resilience of health and well-being, and food and water security
3) Increased resilience of infrastructure and the built environment to climate
change threats
4) Improved resilience of ecosystems and ecosystem services
Outcome level results
5) Strengthened institutional and regulatory systems for climate-responsive
planning and development
6) Increased generation and use of climate information in decision-making
7) Strengthened adaptive capacity and reduced exposure to climate risks
8) Strengthened awareness of climate threats and risk-reduction processes
 Funding Proposals

A complete Funding Proposal should include:

• NDA No-objection Letter

• Feasibility study -> rationale for proposed design, structure
& costs, including financial and economic analysis
• Procurement plan, budget and work plan
• Environmental and social impact assessment
• Gender assessment and action plan
• Risk assessment
• Logical framework
• Stakeholder consultations
• etc.
 A growing portfolio
~$1.5b for 35 projects

Serbia Georgia Mongolia

Moldova Armenia Uzbekistan
Tajikistan
Tunisia Jordan
Morocco Egypt Pakistan
Mexico Bangladesh
Eastern Caribbean
Senegal Mali
Gambia Viet Nam
El Salvador Sri Lanka
Uganda Maldives Tuvalu
Ecuador Kenya
Pacific Islands
Peru Rwanda Fiji
Samoa Mauritius Vanuatu
Namibia Malawi
Madagascar
South Africa
Chile
Argentina

Status as of B15 (Dec 2016)

 Integrated Flood Management to Enhance
Climate Resilience of the Vaisigano River
Catchment in Samoa
UNDP- Asia Pacific

• USD 57.7 M grant

• Financing comprehensive
programme on climate
change induced flood
management systems

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 Building Resilient Communities, Wetlands
Ecosystems and Associated Catchments in
Uganda
UNDP-Africa

• USD 24.1 M grant

• Financing restoration of
wetland hydrology,
associated forests,
agricultural practices and
access to climate and early
warning information

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 Empower to Adapt: Creating Climate-Change
Resilient Livelihoods through Community-Based
Natural Resource Management in Namibia
EIF - Africa

• USD 10.0 M grant

• Financing capacity building,
community support and direct
access to climate finance to
implement climate
investment plans at the local
level

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 Pipeline of Funding Proposals
(As of January 31, 2017)

Regional distribution of the funding proposal pipeline (GCF funding in %)

GCF Readiness Support
 Update on Readiness

50% of the readiness support allocation to vulnerable

countries, including SIDs, LDCs and African States

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 Readiness and project preparation
funding
Readiness: $ 1M cap per country per year

• NDA strengthening
• Support for direct access entities
• Strategic frameworks, including country programmes

NAP: $ 3M cap per country (not per year)

• National adaptation plans (NAP) and / or other adaptation planning
processes

PPF: $1.5M cap per request

• Support for project/ programme development

• Especially direct access and micro-to-small size projects
 Additional areas of support
through readiness

Support for facilitating access to

Technology environmentally sound technologies
and collaborative R&D

Support to strategies and

REDD+ investment plans
 NAP Readiness Support

NAP: USD 3M cap per country (not per year)

• National adaptation plans (NAP) and / or other adaptation planning
processes
• 2 approved: Liberia and Nepal
• Africa: 4 submitted / 13 expressed interest
B13/09
“Decides that, given the urgent need to support and expedite the formulation and
implementation of national adaptation plans and other adaptation planning processes,
the Executive Director can approve up to USD 3 million per country through the GCF
Readiness and Preparatory Support Programme modalities, in order to support the
formulation of national adaptation plans and/or other national adaptation planning
processes based on his/her assessment of country circumstances and needs, and taking
into consideration the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change national
adaptation plan (NAP) technical guidelines and the importance of coordination and
complementarity with other national adaptation plan related initiatives16and support”
 Examples of outputs:
Liberia
Coordination

Effective support in strengthening existing CC

coordination mechanism

Coordinated strategy and action plan

developed to support the planning process

Monitoring framework across sectors to be

put in place
 Examples of outputs
Knowledge

Risk assessments and economic impact studies in climate

sensitive sectors conducted and incorporated in official data
systems

Effective knowledge sharing platform as a resource for

climate relevant planning established

Climate Change induced, natural disasters related database

developed
 Indicators of progress
Mainstreaming

Technical guidelines for the personnel of the Ministry of

Finance & Development Planning and other relevant
Ministries, to mainstream climate change into budgeting and
planning processes incorporating gender disaggregated data

Capacity building programs on implementing adaptation

investments and strategies established.

Monitoring and reporting system to track adaptation

investments and implementation
 Examples of outputs
Finance

Sector and area based costed investment plans prepared

for scaling up adaptation in agriculture and coastal areas
that take into account climate change risks and
opportunities

Policy options for scaling up financing for adaptation

investments identified and recommended

Foster Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) to support

adaptation investments.
 Thank you
dkucan@gcfund.org

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