Improving Access to and Management of Climate Change Resources in the Pacific Region

1. Improving Access to and Management of Climate Change Resources in the Pacific Region August 2012

2. Background • Options Paper considered by Forum Leaders and Economic Ministers in 2011 • Climate change and development effectiveness • Budget support and trust fund arrangements • Regional funding arrangements • Capacity supplementation and institutional strengthening • Leaders tasked the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat to detail of how national and regional options could work in practice.

3. Multi-Tiered Approach • Regional Technical Support Mechanism • Documenting practical experiences with a range of modalities • Country specific assessment of options – Pacific Climate Finance Assessment Framework and Nauru case study • Pacific Solutions Exchange • Potential regional funding arrangements • Improved access to international climate financing

4. Technical assistance – increasing absorptive capacity of Pacific Island Countries and Territories • RTSM and associated rapid response fund – funded by Climate Investment Fund • Pacific Regional Organisations, ADB and World Bank to develop by mid 2013 Regional Technical Support Mechanism

5. General assessment of options at the national, sub-regional, regional and international level • Challenges for Pacific Island Countries and Territories • Navigating the complex global financing architecture • Improving development effectiveness and donor harmonisation • Strengthening the enabling environment – policy and institutional • Building and supplementing capacity • Taking advantage of co-benefits Climate Financing Options Paper

6. Budget support – Samoa • National Trust Fund – Tuvalu • Sub-regional Fund – Micronesia • National Development Bank – Palau • National Implementing Entity – Cook Islands • Regional Implementing Entity – SPREP • Multilateral Implementing Entity – Solomon Islands and UNDP Practical Experiences with Modalities Relevant for Climate Financing

7. Build on existing global and regional assessment tools and frameworks • Further refined through Nauru Case Study, exploring 6 key dimensions: • Sources of Climate Finance • Policies and Plans • Institutions • Public Financial Management and Expenditure • Human Capacity • Development Effectiveness Pacific Climate Finance Assessment Framework

8. Nauru Case Study – Preliminary Findings • Climate change and development effectiveness • Ongoing efforts to mainstream climate change into policies and programs, and improve development effectiveness are critical • Trust fund • Ongoing discussions regarding establishment of the Nauru Trust Fund, in partnership with the ADB will inform decisions on any climate change trust fund • Budget support • Potential to expand use of this modality

9. Conclusions • Consideration must be given to complexities at the source as well as to country systems and capacity to implement. • The ability to harness and effectively use climate change financing will benefit from strengthened national systems and increased use of those systems by development partners. • Capacity constraints in the Pacific region present a significant challenge which we must collectively try to address. • Donors are likely to continue to use a range of modalities to deliver climate change resources. Pacific Island Countries and Territories will therefore need to draw on a range of options to improve access to and management of these resources.

10. Thank You Ryan Medrana RyanM@forumsec.org.fj Exsley Taloiburi ExsleyT@forumsec.org.fj