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Enhancing Country Ownership

Mel Phadtare Senior consultant

GCF insight #12

Based on our 12th GCF Insight. The study was conducted solely by E Co. and is independent of the GCF.

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Why Country Ownership?

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The GCF through its Governing Instrument provides that:

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“The Fund will pursue a country-driven approach and promote and strengthen engagement at the country level through effective involvement of relevant institutions and stakeholders”

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Board meeting engagement: 4, 7, 8, 10, 11, 17, 21

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Independent Evaluation Unit (IEU) assessing progress to date

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Direct Access Entities increasing from 42% to 55%

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Readiness Programme (266 approved) and Project Preparation Facility

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Required from project concept note to final M&E and beyond

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What is Country Ownership?

Four key results: ▪ Alignment with national priorities - 59%

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Autonomy/sovereignty in setting regulations supported by climate finance (14%) ▪ Local stakeholder engagement - 21% ▪ NDAs taking ownership – 15% ▪ Knowledge sharing – 5% Other responses:

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Unnecessary bureaucracy

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Great principle, hard to implement

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Increased national capacity

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Alignment with SDGs

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Locally owned businesses

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Better coordination of development activities

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Limited input from external entities

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Supply of a no objection letter

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Success and sustainability

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E Co. study: Enhancing Country Ownership

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Aim: to explore the experiences, perspectives, challenges and recommendations from stakeholders

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Methodology:

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Online survey: 83 respondents - conducted in June 2019

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2 x Interviews:

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GCF Secretariat – Mr. Eduardo Freitas, Country Relations Manager ▫ CSO Representative – Mr. Tunga Bhadra Rai from the Climate Change Partnership Program, Nepal

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Survey overview

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70% have experience with GCF projects, 30% with significant experience

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83 respondents:

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National Designated Authorities (NDAs) – 27%

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Consulting firms and individuals – 24%

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Accredited Entities (excluding IAEs) – 20%

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Entities wishing to be accredited - 8%

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International Accredited Entities (IAEs) - 8%

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NGOs and public agencies – 13%

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GCF’s extent of addressing Country Ownership

▪ 44% of respondents say the GCF is doing reasonably well but with some shortcomings ▪ 20% said the GCF efforts to address issues

• f Country Ownership were comprehensive

▪ 16% said there were major shortcomings

▫ We have no breakdown on the shortcomings

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Stakeholder engagement

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47% follow best practice

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30% proactively inform

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23% fail to build in beneficiary engagement for Country Ownership from the outset

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NDAs ranked higher towards following best practice, while consultants ranked lower, with accredited entities in between

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Barriers and challenges

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64% respondents say low institutional capacity is the greatest barrier

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15% believe requirements of the GCF exclude national stakeholders

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8% cite a low project ambition

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Other barriers

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Time mobilisation

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Assumptions based on what Country Ownership can actually deliver on short notice

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Not a shared purpose with donors

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Corruption and mismanagement

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Engage as early as possible to optimise and enable a project preparation phase like the GEF

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Accountability – other findings

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Respondents signalled post-project approval requires more support

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Similarly, preliminary work of the GCF’s IEU, reveals a lack of reporting / consulting during the implementation stage

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Suggestions for how to overcome accountability issues or follow-through e.g. country ownership activities report, or rejection of proposals without an effective NDA structure

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Accountability

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Conclusions

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GCF has demonstrated support and wants to see enhanced Country Ownership aligned with ambition and paradigm shift

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Gaps exist in low institutional capacity, project ambition, and stakeholder engagement across the project cycle

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A lack of coordination and collaboration between roles of NDAs/FPs, Accredited Entities and the Secretariat hinders country ownership

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Recommendations

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GCF support for donor/investor alignment with enhanced Country Ownership

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GCF better understanding of Country Ownership shortfalls: provision of tools and mechanisms for post-project approval Country Ownership

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The IEU will be presenting their findings to the Board at B.24 in November 2019, actionable change may be clarified