Funding Adaptation Through Cambodia’s National Budget

The document highlights Cambodia's efforts to integrate adaptation priorities into national programs through public finance, emphasizing the importance of political leadership and the need for better monitoring and evaluation frameworks. While domestic funding has increased, the report notes that a lack of finance remains a critical barrier and that international climate finance continues to be essential for the implementation of the National Adaptation Plan.

• High-level political support, specifically from the Minister of Environment and the National Council for Sustainable Development (NCSD), has been essential for creating the institutions and processes necessary to prioritize adaptation and allocate domestic funds.
• Cambodia is developing a monitoring and evaluation framework to include climate-related indicators, such as climate finance indicators and climate outcomes, in the national budget to better assess the efficiency of public investments.
• A significant amount of domestic public finance and external donor funding for development projects addresses climate change without being formally identified as climate finance; for instance, a Climate Public Expenditure Review indicated that many donor-funded agriculture projects are not aligned with the sector's climate priorities.
• Despite improvements in the capacity to mobilize and track public finance, a lack of funding remains a critical barrier to the National Adaptation Plan (NAP) process, meaning international climate finance will remain a major contributor to implementation.
• Ensuring sustainable financing requires country ownership and long-term capacity building, including training-of-trainer courses for officials in key institutions to improve the tracking and measurement of domestic budget allocations.

APA

Murphy,, D. (2018). Funding Adaptation Through Cambodia’s National Budget. International Institute for Sustainable Development. https://www.iisd.org/publications/brief/snapshot-funding-adaptation-through-cambodias-national-budget

Chicago

Murphy,, Deborah. Funding Adaptation Through Cambodia’s National Budget. International Institute for Sustainable Development, 2018. https://www.iisd.org/publications/brief/snapshot-funding-adaptation-through-cambodias-national-budget.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{murphy2018funding, author = {Murphy,, Deborah}, title = {{Funding Adaptation Through Cambodia’s National Budget}}, institution = {International Institute for Sustainable Development}, year = {2018}, month = may, url = {https://www.iisd.org/publications/brief/snapshot-funding-adaptation-through-cambodias-national-budget}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }