Source · Select Committees · International Development Committee
Recommendation 30
30
We received several examples of well-run, successful projects focussing on climate change which had not...
Conclusion
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
Government Response
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HM Government
Not Addressed
Government response: Agree The UK has a strong track record of promoting community-based or locally-led adaptation through previous programmes such as the Building Resilience and Adaptation to Climate Extremes and Disasters (BRACED, 2014–2019) which supported the establishment of County Climate Change funds in Kenya and various decentralised climate finance models in west Africa. On average our International Climate Finance programmes tend to last between 6–7 years. At COP26, we announced our intention to support LIFE AR for another 5 years (with options to potentially extend beyond this in support of the LDC 2030 vision). The UK and the Netherlands co-convened the Global Commission on Adaptation (2018– 21) and launched a ‘year of action’ (2019–20) which focussed specifically on locally-led adaptation and developed the “Principles for Locally-led Adaptation”. This established the LLA ‘Community of Practice’, a network of community and grassroots organisations designed to share best practice as well as promoting the Principles. After the Commission ended in January 2021, the UK Government provided additional funding for the 2021/22 financial year to ensure this Community of Practice is maintained beyond the life of the Commission and to ensure that the network continued to grow ahead of COP26, and beyond. The UK Government is also providing seedcorn funding to the Resilience and Adaptation Mainstreaming Programme (RAMP) to develop a global university network to provide training and services to central government ministries and build local capacity for adaptation planning. UK institutions engaged in this project include Oxford University, the School of Oriental and African Studies and University College London, as well as the Commonwealth Network of Universities. Founding members of the network include universities in Kenya, Jamacia, Tanzania, Vietnam, Bangladesh, and Ghana.