Key lessons for developing Climate Change Financing Frameworks: Integrating climate change into national planning and budgeting processes

The Climate Change Financing Framework (CCFF) is an approach for integrating climate change into standard techniques of planning and budgeting, in order to enable governments to monitor the adaptation benefits of budget spending and prioritise budget resources for climate change ends.

Oxford Policy Management (OPM) has been working with various governments in South and South East Asia to pioneer the CCFF methodology. This note summarises the good practice that has begun to emerge from this programming experience. It recaps the rationale for CCFFs by providing a conceptual framework for the adaptation gap, before describing the features of a CCFF and detailing key lessons for responding to some of the common challenges.