Financing Climate Change Adaptation in Transboundary Basins

18 Financing Climate Change Adaptation in Transboundary Basins activities to enable enhanced action on adaptation, mitigation (including Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation [REDD+]), and supporting developing countries’ efforts to deliver on their NDCs. The GCF finances low emission and cli- mate resilient projects and programs in the public and the private sectors that contribute to achieving at least one of its eight strategic impact areas. (See table 2.1.) GCF requires three key steps for engagement. First, each country appoints a national designated authority (NDA), or focal point. The NDA oversees the relationship between a developing country and the GCF. The NDA provides broad strategic oversight of the GCF’s activities within the country and is the point of com- munication with the Fund. The NDA seeks to ensure consistency of funding proposals with national objec- tives and priorities. To date, more than 120 countries have established an NDA. The second step is to identify and seek accreditation of entities to directly access GCF funds. The GCF channels BOX 2.3. Case Study: Integration of Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Measures in the Concerted Management of the W Transboundary Parc: Adapt-W Project Thematic focal area: disaster risk reduction and early warning systems Shared by Benin, Burkina Faso, and Niger, the W Transboundary Biosphere Reserve extends over 31,000 square kilometers to 50,000 square kilometers, including riparian areas (43 percent in Benin, 36 percent in Burkina Faso, and 21 percent in Niger). The project will strengthen the resilience of ecosystems and improve livelihoods through establishment of a multi-risk early warning system and the implementation of concrete adaptation measures. • Component 1. Design and implementation of multi-risk early warning system (drought, floods, locust invasions, fires and land use change). Cost: US$1.5 million. • Component 2. Integrate climate change aspects and emergency plan into the park management plans at regional and national levels. Cost: US$300,000. • Component 3. Improve the resilience of ecosystems and livelihoods of neighboring and user populations through the implementation of concrete adaptation actions. Cost: US$2.2 million. • Component 4. Sensitize, strengthen and build capacity on previous experiences for a concerted, integrated and sustainable management of the W-Arly-Pendjari Transboundary Biosphere Complex. Cost: US$300,000. The project will involve regional, national, and local stakeholders. At the local level, the project’s development and implementation will require the mobilization of populations and other local authorities, as well as associations, NGOs, villages, and women’s cooperatives, among others. National executing entities in consultation with environment ministries in the three beneficiary countries will implement the project. The Sahara and Sahel Observatory (OSS) will serve as the project’s regional implementing entity (RIE) and will be in charge of all financial, monitoring, and reporting aspects to AF. The project will be executed by a project management unit hosted by OSS. Other regional organizations will be involved, such as participating in the steering committee (Permanent Inter-State Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel [CILSS], Economic Community of West Africa States [ECOWAS], and West African Economic and Monetary Union [UEMOA]). Source: Adaptation Fund 2015.