Partnerships for Accountability in
Climate Change Finance:
Making budgets more effective
Sujala Pant
Governance and Climate Change Finance Specialist
UNDP Bangkok Regional Hub
Overview of Climate Related Allocations
( CPEIR: Climate Public Expenditure and Institutional Reviews)
Budget effectiveness for sustainable
development
Is it effective? Is it equitable?
• Are investments leading to intended
results?
• What is the basis on which climate change
investments are decided?
• Are enough resources being spent to
address climate change?
• Do expenditures match allocations?
• Do investments address the needs of the
poor and most vulnerable?
• Is the government accountable for its
decisions on climate change investments?
• Are citizens aware of decisions and actions?
How can this change happen?
Access
Analysis
Dialogue
Do relevant actors have access to the
relevant information
Do they understand the information
that is available?
Can they use this information to
initiate public dialogue and catalyse
debates?
• How can there be a match between
the demand and supply of climate
change finance related information?
• Is information available in a way that
the key policy makers understand it?
• Can the information be used to enable
dialogue among key stakeholders, and
strengthen public awareness?
• Do relevant actors have the required
capacity to use available information
to advocate for reform?
Accountability through collaboration
Parliament
Government
Media
CSO
Examples: Accessible Information
Example: Parliamentary toolkit on Climate
Finance
Sample guiding questions:
• For Programme X, have you undertaken vulnerability assessments?
• Have you looked at reference X on existing vulnerabilities in district A in the
process of designing this budget?
• Which policies did you refer to when formulating the budget?
• Did you look at Policy X when formulating the budget?
• Did you look at expenditure report from the last FY?
• Did you look at project monitoring report from year X?
• Did you see the latest report on impact of CC on irrigation? How was this
taken into account?
… and research
• What is the impact of CC on the key sectors highlighted in the MultiDimensional Poverty Index?
• Do the budget allocations/expenditures respond to the magnitude of the
identified CC effects/risks? (correlation with the district CPEIR data)
Expenditure data
Climate change
impact analyses
Socio-economic data
Decisionmaking and
deliberation
More effective
and equitable
climate
sensitive
budget
proposals
Thank you.
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