Scaling adaptation finance: what works in LDCs and SIDS
This event covered country-led pathways to scale adaptation finance, with insights on access, delivery and innovative programmatic approaches.
Woman watering her vegetable garden in Ninigui Village, Yatenga, Burkina Faso, which generates income for her and her family (Photo: P. Casier/CGIAR, via Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
Scaling adaptation finance is an urgent priority for climate-vulnerable countries – particularly least developed countries (LDCs) and Small Island Developing States (SIDS). Yet access remains complex, fragmented and insufficient to meet growing needs to accelerate and scale effective, equitable adaptation finance.
This webinar brought together new evidence and real-world experience to explore what is working – and what needs to change.
Drawing on a compendium of recently published case studies, which examines four in-depth country examples, and policy analysis from the Climate and Development Ministerial (C&DM) and the NDC Partnership, the session highlighted practical, country-led approaches to unlocking and scaling adaptation finance.
Participants will gain insights from country experiences on accessing and scaling finance, including lessons on moving from fragmented projects to more programmatic approaches. The discussion will highlight practical examples of financing innovation and institutional enablers, while also addressing persistent barriers and how these can be overcome.
The session combined short presentations with interactive discussion and a question-and-answer session, creating space for peer learning across policymakers, practitioners and partners.
This webinar was ideal for participating policymakers, practitioners, development partners and anyone working on climate finance, adaptation and country-led planning.
This event was hosted by the Climate and Development Ministerial, in collaboration with the NDC Partnership and its Center for Access to Climate Finance.
Speakers
- Sam Mugume, assistant commissioner, Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, government of Uganda; special advisor to the minister and co-chair of the Coalition of Finance Ministers for Climate Action; and co-chair of the Country Platforms Hub
- Anaa Hassan, associate (locally led adaptation and climate finance), IIED
- Eszter Mogyorosy, climate finance associate, NDC Partnership Support Unit
- Claire Bernard, deputy director general of the Planning Institute of Jamaica
- Alex Mulisa, senior advisor to the Rwanda Green Fund, Rwanda
- Ariane Pevide, director, Blended & Climate Finance, MUFG Bank
- Michael Robert Ward, head of evaluation and learning, Climate Investment Funds (CIF)
- Jesper Hilsted Anderson, chief counsellor for Development Finance, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark
- Tiffany Van Ravenswaay, Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS)
- Mohsen Gul (moderator), senior researcher, IIED
Event coverage
You can watch a recording of the entire webinar below or on IIED's YouTube channel, where there are also timestamped links to each of the speakers' contributions.
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