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Local level finance
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A spur to action – getting money to the local level for nature and climate: Make Change Happen podcast episode 19
At COP26, political leaders called for more action to address biodiversity loss and climate change together. In this episode of Make Change Happen, we discuss how this must be financed and the possible mechanisms for spurring actions on the ground
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Three asks to strengthen locally-led action in new biodiversity finance
When negotiators and experts met in Nairobi in June 2022 for the latest round of discussions on the post-2020 global biodiversity framework (GBF), mobilising finance to implement the strategy was a hot issue. But as Minnie Degawan and Ebony Holland highlight, discussions fell short because they failed to prioritise finance for local action
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Enhanced Direct Access to climate finance: "I wish I knew that at the start!"
This online workshop, as part of London Climate Action Week, heard lessons shared by entities that have managed the Enhanced Direct Access approach to accessing climate finance
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Stockholm+50: priorities for re-energising global action
World leaders last week met at the Stockholm+50 conference to reflect on 50 years since the landmark 1972 Stockholm conference that put the environment at the heart of international development. IIED director Andrew Norton reflects on the meeting's outcomes and sets out three priorities for action
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IIED at Stockholm+50
Stockholm+50 celebrated and reflected on 50 years of global environmental action. IIED contributed to these discussions through new research and a series of events
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Stockholm+50 must build a legacy of support for locally-led action for people, nature and climate
Global leaders will meet in Sweden at Stockholm+50 next week to reflect on five decades of action since the 1972 Stockholm conference that put the environment at the heart of international development. To coincide with the meeting, IIED has launched a report outlining why locally-led action for people, nature and climate is vital to progress
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Archive of completed 'Money where it matters' projects
IIED works to highlight the importance of and strengthen the opportunities for development and climate finance to flow to those who need it most.
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Message to the Green Climate Fund board: step up finance access for the most vulnerable
Earlier this year, the Green Climate Fund (GCF) released new guidelines to help vulnerable countries enhance their direct access to international climate finance. Ahead of the GCF board meeting next week, we set out why the fund needs to go further – and how
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IIED launches training webinar to help get climate finance to the local level
A new online training webinar from IIED sets out the steps local institutions can take to access climate finance, as well as the good practices donors can follow to make sure they can get money to where it matters
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Raising ambition in locally-led action for 2021: calling for business unusual
Four briefings and a new working paper from our ‘Money where it matters’ series explore the benefits and challenges of getting development and climate finance flowing to the local level
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Reforming climate finance to support locally led adaptation: principles for moving to business unusual
This online event on November 18 discussed how finance flows must enable actors at the local level to lead the development and design of climate adaptation solutions
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Real climate ambition means switching to 'business unusual'
Leadership at the UN Climate Action Summit came from least developed countries and grassroots communities. Clare Shakya argues that supporting their efforts requires a shift away from business-as-usual
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Can blockchain unblock climate finance?
Funders’ perceptions that there is too much risk in investing at the local level prevents climate finance from making a real difference. Sam Greene discusses whether new technologies can benefit local communities while delivering the confidence donors and investors need to put their money where it matters
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Breaking barriers to local climate finance for the triple win
Ingenious and cost-effective solutions to climate change developed by vulnerable communities are hugely underfinanced. IIED is exploring further what’s blocking climate finance from reaching the local level and developing new insights for getting money to those on the front lines of climate action
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Webinar: Strengthening the effectiveness of private sector engagement in addressing deforestation
This webinar on 11 April 2018 discussed innovative ways to channel and leverage finance to forest-related enterprises
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Breaking down barriers to tenure-positive climate finance
IIED is exploring solutions to remove barriers that stop climate finance reaching the people most vulnerable to climate change. The focus is on the value, blocks and solutions to community funds supporting climate action to clarify community rights to resources. The project will strengthen collaboration with these funds and between donors, financial intermediaries, fund aggregators and high- and low-tech innovators
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Responding to climate change in Tanzania by strengthening dryland governance and planning
District governments in Tanzania are improving their capacity for effective adaptive planning by strengthening planning processes and establishing local adaptation funds. With support from a consortium of government and non-government stakeholders, they are testing a devolved climate finance mechanism for building resilience, which could inform policy and action in other drylands
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Responding to climate change in Kenya by strengthening dryland governance and planning
The Kenya Adaptation Consortium is demonstrating that local climate adaptation planning, supported by county government-managed devolved funds, informed by community priorities and enhanced by climate information services, renders significant benefits for people in poor and marginalised households in the most drought prone areas
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Evaluation and Learning Partnership on Financing Forest-Related Enterprises
IIED has partnered with LTS International to carry out an Evaluation and Learning Partnership on Financing Forest-Related Enterprises to generate learning from the Forest Investment Program
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Q&A: the World Urban Forum brought together governments and grassroots – what next?
This global urban conference was more inclusive than ever – but IIED researchers say talk needs to be followed up by action to unlock positive transformation for people living in informal settlements.
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Financing sustainable infrastructure: a tale of two cities
How can cities in poor countries raise funds for major infrastructure projects? Sarah Colenbrander and Denise Chan look at two success stories and suggest how local governments can build their financial skills and credibility with investors
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Financial inequalities; defining our age
A decade on from the global financial crisis, can the world's banks and financial institutions learn about value and values from grassroots savings schemes that help the world's lowest-income people?
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Bringing solar out of the shadows
For Tanzania to meet its energy needs - and in a way that is sustainable - huge levels of finance are required to boost its decentralised energy sector. But the latest research shows current funding flows are way off target.
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Money where it matters: local finance to implement the Sustainable Development Goals and Paris Agreement
IIED is researching the benefits and challenges of devolving development and climate finance to the local level, and is helping to build local-level capacity to access and manage resources
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Funding local adaptation in Kenya: nationally vs. locally managed funds
How do nationally and locally managed climate funds compare in creating impact on the ground? Guest blogger John Nyangena weighs up the pros and cons of each approach
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Six steps to local climate finance
Evidence from community-focused initiatives suggests that climate and development funds can deliver local finance by adopting six key structural changes
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Show me the money!
Ahead of a side event at Habitat III, Anna Walnycki highlights how funding is needed for grassroots upgrading of informal settlements in the face of evictions
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Q&A: a message to the Green Climate Fund board
As the Green Climate Fund (GCF) board meets this week to review proposals for the next round of funding, Paul Steele discusses how far the fund is reaching its vision to transform the economies of developing countries for a climate resilient, low carbon future – and how the board can speed up the process of getting finance to those who need it most
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The Green Climate Fund: will the vulnerable be overlooked in a rush to spend?
As the Green Climate Fund's board meets to decide on a second round of spending it needs to prioritise initiatives that will reach the climate vulnerable, rather than large-scale business as usual investments
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Local climate finance mechanism helping to fund community-prioritised adaptation
County and local governments in the drylands of Kenya, Mali, Senegal and Tanzania have established local-level climate adaptation funds with technical support from IIED and government and non-government organisations. These funds improve their readiness to access and disburse national and global climate finance, supporting community-prioritised investments to build climate resilience
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Decentralising Climate Funds in Mali and Senegal
IIED is part of a community of practice in Mali and Senegal supporting local government to access and disburse climate finance, investing in priorities chosen with communities for adapting to climate change. Including local knowledge and experience in government planning is vital to the success of the investments.
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Making decentralisation work
Our programme of work on 'Making decentralisation work' responded to a policy change in many countries in the African Sahel which saw the transfer of certain decision-making powers and resources away from central government to elected local government bodies
