For your own organization / stakeholder group, what are the
key challenges and opportunities in accessing and delivering
finance to respond to climate change at the local level?
Nepal - challenges
What is climate financing?
Large knowledge gap on CC
Budgets not aligned with national priorities
Coordination of activities esp at between line ministries and the local level (own
bilateral discussions)
Lao PDR - challenges
Policies are new
Coordination between the line ministries
Technical expertise at the national level
Measuring climate change – what is the real impact? How much should we
invest?
Sources of funds – how local level will access these funds? Issue of the flow of
funds too
Prioritisation of CC across budgets? And the decision-making process
For your own organization / stakeholder group, what are the
key challenges and opportunities in accessing and delivering
finance to respond to climate change at the local level?
Bangladesh – Challenges
Serious coordination issues across ministries
Low or absent capacity at local government institutions
CC definition too broad – need to prioritise esp at local level
Huge NGO sector with little coordination and lots of duplication. Lots of parallel
processes
Academica not tailoring their work to national or local priorities
Cambodia – Challenges
Coordination, overlapping mandates
Dis-connect between strategic plan and line ministries activities
CPEIR not yet reflected in government systems
What is a CC activity? Scarce resources need prioritisation
Funding flow – will it be channeled directly to local government when no role for
local government included in line ministry plans
Local community definition and capacities of CC is poor
Very limited funds at local level
For your own organization / stakeholder group, what
are the key challenges and opportunities in accessing
and delivering finance to respond to climate change at
the local level?
Myanmar – Challenges
Develop CC policies and plans
Low capacity of central and local government
Strengthen institutions to manage CC (just established in Myanmar)
Low coordination between line ministries
Budget allocations are unclear between central and local government
R&D in CC issues
For your own organization /
stakeholder group
Challenges
International funding poor
Opportunities
Bangl: good docs/action plans in place, good
national capacity.
For your own organization /
stakeholder group
Challenges
Opportunities
What challenges and opportunities do you see in working
with other stakeholders / partners to strengthen the overall
access and delivery of finance to respond to climate change at
the local level?
• Nepal: CSO Coordination issue at all levels (CSO outside
government systems, working in isolation). Delivery of quality
projects because of very low human capacity (e.g.
monitoring). No locally elected body. Opportunity for better
partnerships, ownership and sustainability
• Lao PDR: Low capacity and mandates at local administration.
Participation of CSOs for local development. Opportunity
improving coordination horizontally and vertically
What challenges and opportunities do you see in working
with other stakeholders / partners to strengthen the overall
access and delivery of finance to respond to climate change at
the local level?
• Bangladesh: Accessing resources; influencing local government adversely
(MPs, central govt.); build organisational capacity to build resources. CSOs
would like more resources from government, and more influence on
policies.
• Cambodia: Using national system for funds transfer. Local mainstreaming
pilots should be upscaled to national level. Local government better to
mobilise funds from CSOs for CC issues
• Myanmar: Strengthening local and central government. Establishment of
various development committees which now need strengthening.
What challenges and opportunities do you see in working
with other stakeholders / partners to strengthen the overall
access and delivery of finance to respond to climate change at
the local level?
• Nepal: Awareness is very high, good policy
frameworks, energised forum for dialogue,
institutions in place, lots of indigenous
knowledge,
What challenges and opportunities do you see in working
with other stakeholders / partners to strengthen the overall
access and delivery of finance to respond to climate change at
the local level?
Working with other stakeholders /
partners
Challenges
Opportunities
Working with other stakeholders /
partners
Challenges
Opportunities