Recommendation 30

We received several examples of well-run, successful projects focussing on climate change which had not been scaled up.56 The International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) concluded that, overall, the UK continued to provide climate finance for four years or less, with many programmes terminated even earlier due to change of donor priorities rather than the performance or quality of the project in itself.57 Julius Ng’oma told us that: With these one, two or three-year projects, if it is a resilience-building or capacity-building project, we introduce the project to the communities, but […] [they] are always so short term that we cannot even see or elaborate the impact on the ground. […] They would come to Malawi and try to build 48 Q8 [Dr Lisa Schipper], Q19 [Cecília da Silva Bernardo], Q29 [Suranjana Gupta], Q30 [Julius Ng’oma], Q45 [Eileen Mairena Cunningham], Q54 [Marek Soanes] 49 Q14 [Cecilia da Silva Bernardo] 50 Q19 [Cecília da Silva Bernardo] 51 Q27 [Julius Ng’oma] 52 Q30 [Julius Ng’oma] 53 Q29 [Suranjana Gupta], Q30 [Julius Ng’oma] 54 Q32 [Julius Ng’oma] 55 Q32 [Julius Ng’oma] 56 Q52 [Marek Soanes], International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) (CDC0048), World Vision UK (CDC0008) 57 International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) (CDC0048) Global Britain in demand: UK climate action and international development around COP26 15 capacity in civil society and grassroots organisations, but they then leave them with only the experience to show that this is something that can work without having the funding to upscale […].58