Transcript African Parliamentarian Task Force on Climate Change Finance_DA

AFRICA’S POLICY PERSPECTIVES ON CLIMATE
FINANCE ACTION:
The Taskforce Experiences
Presented by: David Ebong
Email: [email protected]
www.cleanenergy.co.ug
Where are we??
 Limited innovative approaches to implement
existing Convention decisions and
commitments related to the 4 identified themes
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Advancing development goals in a sustainable way;
Full potential of technology;
Addressing action on adaptation;
Realising the full potential of market mechanisms)
 Currently the Climate Change Financing
Regimes are fragmented and lacks clear
priorities and therefore begs these questions:
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How do we better organise and consolidate our existing
work programme
How do we fill the gaps that have been identified.
How do we develop a clear mandate to take us forward
Mandate of parliamentarians
taskforce:
 Coordinating secretariat for dialogue and experience
sharing on climate change financing best practices
parliamentary activities.
 Providing policy mechanisms aimed at strengthening
linkages across sectors; in parliament, executive, and
CSOs participation for coordinated delivery on climate
change financing.
 Developing innovative framework for policy decision
support mechanism aimed at strengthening PPP as a
means of delivery.
Policy gaps:
 Failures for decades to address SD issues due to
uncoordinated structures with unclear mandates on
development financing escalating income inequalities in
the region.
 Insufficient expertise-Parliamentarians & parliament
staffs are largely from non scientific backgrounds.
 Policy reforms Vs its weakest linkage- “implementation”
weak oversight on climate change financing. Few systems
exist to support financing framework.
The Parliamentary Committees-SSA as a
Case Study:
 Various ministries are accountable to Standing
Committees in relation to budget priorities but
limited capacity in integrating climate change.
 The budget committees: - Realign mandates to for
strengthening institutional coordination, linkages
and integration of climate change budgets .
 Parliaments committees lack proactive systemsapprovals of quarterly budgets & work plans.
Gaps in climate finance budget
tracking in parliaments:
 Quarterly activity and financial reports not scrutinized
resulting to weak oversight- Actions reactive.
 Oversight committees exists:- PACs, LGPAC, Statutory
Authority etc but no system exists to track climate change
finance resource abuses to logical conclusion.
 The audit mandates limited to financial audits:-mandates
of audit institutions to focus on policy compliance audits
prioritizing policy compliance audits on climate change.
Thank YOU