Economic and Public Financial Management expertise to climate adaptation projects in Africa and Asia

The projects under this framework contract aims to develop innovative solutions for national governments and local communities to adapt to the predicted effects of climate change in an environmentally sound manner by investing in the protection and restoration of ecosystems that are vulnerable to climate change and vital for increasing human resilience to climate change impacts.

Description of actual services provided by your staff within the assignment:

• Economic appraisal of adaptation strategies, therefore supporting the relevant Ministries of Finance in contributing to the countries’ climate policy, through a climate finance and green economy approach, including a baseline assessment of climate-relevant processes and alignment with national policies and NDCs.
•  Continuous engagement with local stakeholders, through the approach of embeddedness, with government officials and identified key stakeholders, to enable a co-designing process of the country’s financing strategies and the CPEIR. This results in the development of adaptation financing strategy for the assigned country and a Climate Public Expenditure and Institutional Review (CPEIR) focused on adaptation.
• Gender mainstreaming approach, which considers the local gender cultural context, the relationship between gender, climate change, climate finance, NDCs and practical ways to engage women and men equally.
• Capacity building and knowledge transfer to guarantee the continuity of the project and enhance the implementation of the Climate Change Policy Roadmap.