GCA-GCF Workshop: A Step-by-Step Methodology for Originating a Pipeline of Project Concepts for Climate Resilience

The Global Center for Adaptation (GCA) and the Green Climate Fund (GCF) are organizing a three-day technical workshop

Event description

The critical need to ensure that vulnerable communities are resilient and able to adapt to climate change impacts is broadly recognized. But in practice, incorporating adaptation into the structuring and financing of projects is challenging and requires a substantial paradigm shift.

The Step-by-Step Methodology for Originating a Pipeline of Project Concepts for Climate Resilience is one of the first attempts globally to embrace all steps that are necessary to create a viable pipeline of adaptation projects to crowd in essential financing. The methodology starts with an approach to climate hazards assessment leading to the assignment of vulnerability for human settlements and infrastructure. With the following steps, the methodology leads to site-specific vulnerability analysis, which is a prerequisite to understanding which climate hazards hit which elements of the interlinked systems and what sequence failures may occur, leading to the assignment of viable measures. The developmental needs assessment is incorporated in the step when it fits in the methodological process ensuring adaptation to climate change and resilience. In addition, the methodology presents how to maximize the use of ecosystems to perform the role of green infrastructure, reducing the use of high-emitting hard revetments. Finally, the methodology proposes approaches to cost-benefit analyses that capture avoided losses and damages and benefits of the use in developing impactful projects.

The Global Center for Adaptation and the Green Climate Fund (GCF) are organizing a three-day technical workshop for representatives of African GCF National Designated Authorities and Direct Access Entities active in Africa to understand the methodology and conceptualize ideas for its uptake, as well as conduct preliminary discussions on how to structure terms of reference for specific methodology uses that can mobilize financing from different technical assistance resources, including GCF Readiness and Project Preparation Facility modalities.

The methodology should help:

• Conceptualize national or regional vulnerability assessment to infrastructure systems and human settlements
• Conduct site-specific vulnerability analysis, as a starting point to conceptualizing projects
• Structure viable project concepts that address defined site-specific climate vulnerabilities
• Maximize the use of ecosystems to perform the role of green infrastructure, reducing the use of high-emitting hard revetments
• Understand how to approach cost-benefit analyses that capture climate resilience-related benefits.