wri13_monitoringclimate_final_web-da7683340f408d18.pdf

This World Resources Institute working paper reports on three workshops held in Asia, Africa, and Latin America to identify challenges developing countries face in monitoring and tracking climate finance. It details nine primary technical, political, and capacity barriers, ranging from inconsistent definitions and lack of institutional coordination to the limited transparency of development partners and the difficulty of tracking private financial data.

• Developing countries face a critical lack of a common definition for climate finance, which complicates the ability to distinguish it from Official Development Assistance (ODA) and verify if funds are 'new and additional' as pledged by developed nations.
• There is a widespread absence of specific climate change indicators or markers within existing national financial management and ODA tracking systems, leading to risks of double counting and limited comparability across countries.
• Institutional coordination is often insufficient, with climate change frequently viewed as a narrow environmental issue rather than a cross-cutting development priority, which hinders the integration of climate finance into national budgeting and planning.
• Many developing countries lack the technical software or coding processes to systematically record climate expenditures; while some use Integrated Financial Management Information Systems (IFMIS) or Aid Management Platforms (AMP), these often lack specific climate codes.
• Tracking climate finance provided to nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) is difficult because NGOs often report directly to international funders rather than to their host governments.
• There is a technical and political divide regarding financial instruments; while some countries have developed loan monitoring systems, tracking grants is more challenging, and some nations resist accepting loans for adaptation, viewing climate finance as compensation rather than aid.
• Private sector climate finance is nearly impossible to track in the studied countries due to confidentiality requirements and a lack of specific accounting indicators for climate investments.
• The predictability and transparency of climate finance are undermined by high turnover of development partner personnel and a lack of regular communication regarding funding opportunities.
• Development partners frequently use their own parallel management systems rather than recipient country national systems, which increases the administrative burden on developing countries and slows the growth of domestic monitoring capacity.

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