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Accepted Paper:
The degree of devolution of international adaptation finance in Kenya and Tanzania
Esbern Friis-Hansen
(Danish Institute for International Studies, DIIS)
Beatrice Sumari
(University of Dar es Salaam)
Judith Mulwa
(Kenyatta University)
Millicent Omala
(Kenyatta University)
Dennis Ochieng Ong'ech
(The University of Nairobi)
Peter Rogers
(University of Dar es Salaam)
Andrew Hattle
Per Tidemand
(REPOA Tanzania)
Paper short abstract:
The article analyses the nature of international adaptation finance received in Kenya and Tanzania with particular emphasis on the extent to which the projects were devolved and thus potentially more responsive to local governments and communities' local priorities for climate change adaption.
Paper long abstract:
The article analyses the nature of international adaptation finance received in Kenya and Tanzania with emphasis on the extent to which the projects were devolved and thus potentially more responsive to local governments and communities' local priorities.
The analysis is based on the OECD database of projects in the period 2013-2019 with projects selected based on their financial value, measured as "adaptation-related development finance". During this period Tanzania received 2.0 billion USD as Adaptation-related development finance, whereas Kenya received 3.3 billion USD.
In each country the research team selected the most valuable projects that jointly constitute 70% of total adaption related development finance in the two countries. A method for analysis of the project documents to measure degree of devolution was developed with 3 main parameters: (i) the extent to which finance was managed through local government accounts (ii) the extent to which the projects in respective national budgets were considered devolved and (iii) the use of participatory planning arrangements for management of the funds.
Given the recent Kenyan emphasis on devolution and strengthening of county planning, it was assumed that adaptation-related development finance would be relatively more devolved in Kenya than Tanzania, however preliminary analysis suggests otherwise. The analysis also suggests that projects classified by Development Partners as "adaptation-related development finance" in most cases only support very limited explicit local climate adaption activities.
The analysis is an initial step of work under a 4-year comparative research programme on the governance of climate change adaption finance in the two countries.
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Accepted Paper:
Paper short abstract:
Paper long abstract:
The article analyses the nature of international adaptation finance received in Kenya and Tanzania with emphasis on the extent to which the projects were devolved and thus potentially more responsive to local governments and communities' local priorities.
The analysis is based on the OECD database of projects in the period 2013-2019 with projects selected based on their financial value, measured as "adaptation-related development finance". During this period Tanzania received 2.0 billion USD as Adaptation-related development finance, whereas Kenya received 3.3 billion USD.
In each country the research team selected the most valuable projects that jointly constitute 70% of total adaption related development finance in the two countries. A method for analysis of the project documents to measure degree of devolution was developed with 3 main parameters: (i) the extent to which finance was managed through local government accounts (ii) the extent to which the projects in respective national budgets were considered devolved and (iii) the use of participatory planning arrangements for management of the funds.
Given the recent Kenyan emphasis on devolution and strengthening of county planning, it was assumed that adaptation-related development finance would be relatively more devolved in Kenya than Tanzania, however preliminary analysis suggests otherwise. The analysis also suggests that projects classified by Development Partners as "adaptation-related development finance" in most cases only support very limited explicit local climate adaption activities.
The analysis is an initial step of work under a 4-year comparative research programme on the governance of climate change adaption finance in the two countries.
Devolved finance of climate change adaptation in urban settlements
Session 1 Wednesday 6 July, 2022, -