Guiding principles for the preparation of financing strategies for climate change adaptation in developing countries

This report identifies seven guiding principles that could inform developing country governments’ efforts to prepare financing strategies for adaptation. These principles are developed based on a review of existing financing strategies for adaptation and input from experts engaged in their development. They help guide the process by which these strategies are prepared and determine the content included within them. As elaborated in this report, financing strategies for adaptation in developing countries should:

1. be country driven and fit for purpose;
2. engage ministries of finance and planning;
3. take a participatory and inclusive approach;
4. identify the best and most strategic uses of various sources of finance and different financial instruments for adaptation;
5. be aligned and consistent with other processes that are relevant to financing climate adaptation, including national development priorities and other financing strategies;
6. identify actions to improve the enabling environment to scale up finance for adaptation; and
7. set out processes to implement the strategy and measure its success.