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How can finance for climate change adaptation be spent more effectively?
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This seminar analyses the institutional architecture of how and where finance for climate change adaptation is spent and which route of transfer it follows from national to local levels.
Citizens in the Global South are among the most affected by the increased frequency and severity of climate change-related hazards. Furthermore, they receive inadequate government and donor support for their adaptation efforts. Therefore, it is with good reason that the UN’s Climate Conferences have continued to focus on the inadequacy of financial support for adaptation, and recently also on the process of implementation. Yet, despite the strong global research on climate change adaptation, implementation of adaptation at sub-national levels in the Global South remains under-researched.
The Governing Adaptive Finance for Transformation (GAP) programme examines how (de)centralised modes of governance influence the distribution and use of finance for adaptation during implementation. This seminar takes stock of our findings halfway through the research program.
GAP’s overall hypothesis is that devolving the governance of climate change adaptation produces a less skewed spatial distribution of financial resources, although devolution alone may not alleviate political conflict or produce solutions that are better tailored to local conditions. GAP contributes to the academic literature by establishing the implementation of climate change adaptation as a new arena of political contestation among (sub)national actors.
Programme
10.00-10.15 Introduction, Esbern Friis-Hansen
10.15-10.35 Global flow of finance for climate adaptation, Hans-Peter Dejgaard
10.35-10.55 Devolved climate adaptation finance in Kenya and Tanzania, Per Tidemand
10.55-11.15 Coffee break
11.15-11.35 Effective climate finance coordination? Stakeholder perceptions and political economy, Millicent Omala
11.35-11.55 Central-local Inter-governmental Power Relations: Implications to Climate Change Adaptation Financing at the Local Level, Beatrice Sumari
11.55-12.15 From Exclusion to Inclusion: Emerging Sub-National Climate Adaptation Financing Vehicles in Kenya, Judith Mulwa
12.15-12.30 Political economy of devolved governance of climate adaptation in Tanzania, Jamal Msami
12.15-13.00 Q&A
13.00-13.30 Sandwiches and drinks