Introduction: Why Focus on Financing Implementation of NAPs?

Coordinating Climate-Resilient Development

Introduction Anne HammillMarch 15, 2016

• Why? Growing importance of NAP processes, greater need for:• Coordination• Technical discussions, learning

• Established in 2014 with support from Germany and the US

• Secretariat IISD

• Participants from 29 countries

Network Basics

Enhance bilateral support for NAP processes and adaptation action in developing countries by...

Facilitating peer learning and exchangeon challenges and opportunities national adaptation planning and implementation

Improving coordination of adaptation-relevant bilateral support, ensuring it aligns with developing country priorities

Supporting national-level action on NAP development and implementation

Aim & objectives

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Presentation Notes

The NAP Global Network was established in response to the following observations and associated needs: The National Adaptation Planning process – created in 2010 under the Cancun Adaptation Framework (CAF) – was created to assist developing countries, especially Least Developed Countries, to meet their medium- and long-term adaptation needs. The objectives of the NAP process are to reduce vulnerability, increase resilience and integrate climate change into development processes. ��The NAP process is underway in a growing number of countries. But these efforts are at different stages of design / implementation and unfolding in different ways, shaped by national circumstances, partnerships and resources. The time is right for countries to start learning from each other and support each other in designing and implementing NAP processes. NAP processes are only growing in importance and we must better support them to achieve sustainable adaptation outcomes. � While there has been bilateral support for adaptation planning in developing countries pre-dating the CAF, many bilateral development partners are in the early stages of designing support programs especially targeted at NAPs. But this support is often insufficiently coordinated, both within countries and internationally. As a result, opportunities for NAP processes to support the integration of adaptation across sectors and scales within developing countries are being missed. Opportunities for development partners to coordinate, leverage, and learn from each other’s NAP support programs are similarly being missed. Need better bilateral coordination. � Because of the formal ‘birthplace’ of NAPs – i.e. the UNFCCC – discussions around NAP processes tend to be associated with the negotiations. This does not lend itself to in-depth, technical discussions that allow different stakeholders – i.e donors, national policy makers, and practitioners – to learn about associated challenges and best practice. Need a space for more targeted and technical discussions around NAP.

Space to allow for honest and practical exchanges around NAP processes:• This is what we are doing• These are the challenges and questions• This is what we have learned so far

Zoom in on one specific topic related to NAP

Cohort or class approach• Group of participants from 10-15 countries• Meet in person once a year at a TTF• Topics that build on each other • Sustained peer learning

Community of practice, South-South exchange

Targeted Topics Forum

The “Rio Cohort”

• Albania• Bolivia• Brazil • Germany

• Grenada • Jamaica • Kenya

• Malawi• Peru • Philippines

• South Africa• Togo• United Kingdom• United States

First meeting: July 1-2, 2015, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil Topic: Securing political support & sector integration in the NAP process

What we learned in Rio• Factors influencing political support

• Evidence and capacity• Communication and profile• Integration• Leveraging opportunities

• Variety of approaches to integrating adaptation into sectors

• Challenges with integration • In-country coordination • Misalignment with policy cycle

• For bilaterals: Articulating clear narratives of adaptation priorities

What came out of Rio?Spectrum of approaches – no one-size

sNAPshotsUsing our individual and collective learning to share insights with the broader adaptation research and policy community

Overview of the issue Country case study

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Presentation Notes

To learn more, grab a copy of the launch issue of our sNAPshots series (or find it on our website)– this overview brief explains this spectrum of approaches to initiating sector integration, and provides a few country examples. Forthcoming sNAPshots will go into more detail on specific country cases. You’ll also have a chance during the World Café to discuss with some more experiences of Network participants who were at the first TTF…

Financing NAPs: Options for Implementation

• Move from planning (Rio) to implementation

Participants will leave with an understanding of:

1. Range of adaptation financing options available for implementation

2. Role NAPs can play in securing financing 3. Concrete next steps and actions to pursue

financing

Rio to Kingston: TTF 2

Finance: So many issues…

Private

Domestic

International

• Domestic budget revenues• Taxes• Non-tax: rents, fees, fines

• Other fiscal instruments• Subsidies, Gov’t bonds

• Grant resources & concessionalfinance – bilateral ODA, GCF, GEF, LDCF, SCCF, AF, etc.

• Philanthropy • Development banks

Public

• Private commercial finance• Microfinance

• Market based• Debt financing: green bonds• Insurance

• Private commercial finance• Foreign direct investment

• Private funds mobilized• Public co-financing

E.g. SOURCES OF ADAPTATION FINANCING

• Public-Private Partnerships• Payments for Ecosystem Services

• Come up with an agenda that tries to cover a range of issues

• Provide opportunities for countries to share experiences on these issues with other countries

• Provide opportunities for countries to unpack what they mean in their own country contexts

• Learn from each other

• Action items, workshop report, cycle of sNAPshots, webinar

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Introduction: Why Focus on Financing Implementation of NAPs?