 Thank you very much Salim and thank you all for the opportunity to share some of the experiences from a funds point of view On integrating community voices into adaptation finance. So my name is Daniel I work with the adaptation fund secretariat and report to the board Which is a board of majority developing country representatives What I plan to do in this presentations talk about three things first of all very briefly I'm going to give an overview of the climate finance landscape and where the adaptation fund fits into that I'm then going to talk about what the adaptation fund has done in recent years to mainstream the community voice into all of its decision-making processes I'm finally going to talk about something called direct access, which is an innovative groundbreaking mechanism to give the full power for climate finance to developing countries and we believe this has real potential to change The way things happen in adaptation finance So just very briefly this is an overview of the let's say the landscape for adaptation finance Which has emerged over the past decade? There are a number of funds there managed by a number of entities. So the Jeff for example manage administers the least developed countries fund which predominantly deals with NAPAs The special climate change fund which deals with technology transfer and adaptation and those have been around since the early 2000s the World Bank administers the pilot program on climate resilience and you'll see that one has The largest pot of money so far and there's the adaptation fund Which I will talk in just a second about in terms of how it gets its money and how it's governed And then of course the green climate fund, which is long-awaited Which may be fully operationalized within the next few years and may have some share of $100 billion which the international community is has promised to mobilize So the adaptation fund is financed predominantly through an international global levy on Transactions on the clean development mechanism. So 2% of all of the shares of carbon emission reductions Go to the adaptation fund and go towards concrete adaptation projects in developing countries and this was set up under the Kyoto protocol as I mentioned the people who I work for which is the board is governed by a majority of developing country parties So we have representation from the small island developing states least developed countries and all of the UN regions in the world And this is the only fund which you know uniquely all Developing countries which are parties to the Kyoto protocol are eligible to access for a project financing This is a global overview of the portfolio of projects and programs So the adaptation fund in the past few years since 2010 has approved 28 Concrete adaptation program projects and programs and there's a link there at the bottom of the screen to our website This is a screenshot actually from our recently launched interactive map And if you look at the interactive map there you can zoom in on each any of those projects And find out more information about them and to see exactly where adaptation finance is going down to the local level Okay, so that's an overview of the fund what I want to talk to you about now is What the fund has done in recent years to get the community voice into decision-making procedures because the fund recognizes that For it has a mandate to deal with adaptation to address adaptation needs at the local level for the most vulnerable communities and Therefore the look the most vulnerable communities have to be involved in that decision-making making process So since the very beginning the fund has actually been accompanied on its journey by an independent network of NGOs in developing countries and in developed countries led by German watch so this independent network of NGOs and civil society organizations provides a space whereby the voice of local communities Can emanate up through the structure through the hierarchy to the board level and this is done through Country partners which German watch is in touch with I know BC AS is a member of this network in practical action and many others which are specific to countries where we implement projects But the point here is that what this does is it takes voices from the local communities up to the board level where? three or four times a year Where the board meets it actually engages in a formal dialogue with civil society Now this has caused significant improvements in the funds procedures and it has caused change some examples are due to the pressure from NGOs and civil society in the early days of the fund They wanted to understand better How the how the board was reaching decisions on what projects were being approved and what projects were not being approved So to better understand the technical aspects of adaptation What we what the fund did was to decide every single technical review which we do ex ante is now available online So anybody in the world can see how the fund reaches its decisions with respect to why this project goes ahead Or why this one needs a bit more work before before it can be considered a good effective adaptation project that meets the most vulnerable Another change that emanated up through this structure Was the call from local communities and civil society to make gender a specific review criteria Which wasn't the case in the early days But I'm glad to say now it is and now when we do our review in the secretariat and with the board Gender is something which we look at both in terms of how has that been addressed in terms of design of the proposal and Do we have desegregated results so that we can see Year on year and at the end of the project what was delivered For women's adaptation needs and what was delivered for for men's adaptation needs Okay, so just there are many review criteria, but I wanted to just highlight three which I think show the efforts that the fund goes to to fulfill its mandate to addressing the needs of the most vulnerable so one is the proper genuine consultation is required with communities and project intended beneficiaries as well as local government and the idea there and what we check for is that real participation has drawn out Local knowledge and local adaptation Solutions and the communities have been involved in an appraisal to see how can we get a comprehensive adaptation project together which has the top-down science where necessary and the bottom-up ideas of what works and what has worked in the past Secondly the project needs to articulate the benefits so environmental economic and social to the most vulnerable communities And that's not something we don't prescribe how the entities should prove that But we want to see a sort of logical manner in which they've addressed the needs of the most vulnerable And then finally as I mentioned the gender considerations have to be addressed Including actually the results which are delivered during and at the end of the project Okay, this is a very simplified view of our project cycle and it's a typical project cycle where the country does the appraisal of adaptation initiatives The part in the middle which is a darker color Is the part where the secretariat and the board does its review? And then of course we have the implementation and evaluation But that bit there the reason I've highlighted that is to show as a fund at the very high level of international climate finance That's where we have our influence and if we want to make sure that projects really meet the needs of the most vulnerable That's where we make sure that the community voice comes in So coming up from the bottom there, we have civil society organizations commenting on every review now And we have external NGOs and academics and so on Everybody's available. Everybody's got the option to provide inputs into those reviews and through the NGO network all the way through This whole project cycle. We continually have input feedback constructive criticism from civil society The challenge which we face at this present time is that although we put all of our technical reviews online What we would like to see during the process is a greater involvement of local communities so if we're sitting in our offices in Washington and we're Deciding or recommending whether a project goes ahead or not there is a window where local entities and local communities Can access online the proposal and give their inputs and their feedback about the merits or otherwise of the proposal so Something we've not been able to do so far is to really mobilize voices at that local level in the critique of the designed Proposal and that's something we'd like to work on finally, I want to speak to you about something called direct access and direct access is Basically the idea of giving the full power to developing countries to manage the finances of the project and to do all the decision-making within the country Now we think this gets around one of the main challenges of adaptation finance Now if you imagine you have ten million dollars to do a project then you've got to balance it between Doing concrete activities for the most vulnerable to address the urgent needs and then also doing some sort of Programmatic activities at the higher level to mainstream The direct access puts into practice the principles of the Paris Declaration on a defectiveness and It allows national entities to become on an equal footing in the funds view with the World Bank the UNDP and so on And we now have 15 national entities the way this works It's very simple a government or a country decides we want to nominate this entity whether it's a trust fund an NGO a Cooperative or a government entity and they're the ones which if they meet the standards on Financial management and transparency and so on if they meet the right standards. They implement the pro the adaptation projects for the full country Now I'm running a little bit short in time So I'm just gonna skip over the project that I was gonna talk about but one of the first projects which we have Implemented which was the first approved in 2010 was the Senegal project and this was a project that dealt with coastal erosion But what's happened there in terms of scaling up and the project has been very successful is that from the concrete activities at the project level? Through a media and campaign strategy. They've got very good awareness at the national level At the global level. It's one a UNFCCC lighthouse award Sponsored by Bill and Melinda Gates and possibly the Rockefeller Foundation as well And so what this means now is you have global knowledge and global appreciation of this concrete project one of many Which hopefully will scale out by causing more projects to be replicated But the thing with direct access which is different is that you have a legacy Long after the finance has left and the project is finished You have strong national institutions which have proven that they can manage the finance of these pro of these projects They have the capacity to to do so and that they have these links with Communities which they've always had and which they've strengthened so we think that direct access has real potential to really involve communities in that process and Just to reiterate that this is one quote from one of the 15 national entities Fund the cooperation from Costa Rica was motivated to become accredited through the fund Because adaptation challenges go beyond the funds of the adaptation fund Having strong in country capacity on adaptation is seen as essential for replic replicability and sustainability of initiatives And obviously what that means is ten million dollars which the fund can provide to every country is not going to address the adaptation needs of a Full country, but through direct access The legacy is that you have strong institutions which can then mainstream and deal with adaptation in the long run and That's that's all for me right now On this on the screen now are the challenges which I've faced. I've just opposed to you so I'll leave them there for your consideration and If you if you want to ask any questions or use those to have a discussion please to do so. Thank you very much