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This report outlines the status of international public climate finance going to social protection, focusing on three categories of climate finance providers, bilateral, multilateral development banks, and the climate funds. It proposes options for more efficient and targeted use of climate finance for social protection. The report reviewed existing literature that looks at climate finance and social protection and assessed the climate finance strategies and portfolios of the major international public climate finance providers.

• United Kingdom
• Social Protection
• Climate Finance
• Social Protection Technical Assistance, Advice, and Resources Facility (STAAR)
• 2024

This recent study from SPARC offers insights from a real-time study of people’s lives in Somalia during 2020–2022, looking at how crisis-affected people take their own anticipatory action.

• Somalia
• Humanitarian
• SPARC (Supporting Pastoralism and Agriculture in Recurrent and Protracted Crises)
• 2023

This brief highlights Somalia's vulnerability to climate hazards, exacerbated by climate change, and the critical need for increased climate finance. As of May 2023, the ongoing drought since 2021 has severely impacted over 6.6 million people, leading to significant humanitarian appeals—rising from USD 1.09 billion in 2021 to USD 2.27 billion in 2022. Despite these challenges, Somalia receives minimal climate finance.

• Somalia
• Humanitarian
• Climate Finance
• SPARC (Supporting Pastoralism and Agriculture in Recurrent and Protracted Crises)
• 2023

British High Commission Dar Es Salaam (BHC DSM) is looking to scale up programming on climate change whilst incorporating the empowerment of women and girls. This query is a selected portfolio review of four existing BHC DSM programmes which include, or are intended to include, an International Climate Finance (ICF) component to identify entry points for gender equality. It used an in-depth document review of four BHC DSM programmes and interviews with each programme team. For one programme, the implementor provided some written responses.

• Tanzania
• Finance and Insurance
• Work and Opportunities for Women (WOW) Helpdesk
• 2024

This report prepared by Katharine Vincent looks at the incorporation of climate adaptation and resilience outcomes in the Shock Response Programme (SRP). SRP is a multi-year and multi- country initiative that comprises two components – a £16.5-million contribution to the Sahel Adaptive Social Protection Programme, delivered by the World Bank through a multi-donor trust fund, and a £3-million contribution to the Centre for Disaster Protection to provide technical and advisory support for disaster risk financing. The latter programme is currently 60% financed by International Climate Finance.

• Senegal
• Mauritania
• Mali
• Burkina Faso
• Niger
• Nigeria
• Chad
• Sudan
• Eritrea
• Algeria
• The Gambia
• Guinea
• Cameroon
• Climate Resilience and Adaptation
• Shock response
• Climate Finance
• 2023

The climate risk report for the Central and South Asia region is part of a series of standardised regional climate risk reports the Met Office is producing in collaboration with ODI. Understanding future climate risks depends on analysing both future climate conditions, and the socio-economic vulnerabilities exposed by those conditions.

• Uzbekistan
• Kazakhstan
• Turkmenistan
• Bangladesh
• Afghanistan
• Bhutan
• India
• Climate Finance
• Climate Science
• 2024

This policy brief, developed for the UK’s (November) 2023 Global Food Security Summit, summarises insights from recent research from Supporting Pastoralism and Agriculture in Recurrent and Protracted Crises (SPARC) in the Sahel, Syria and Yemen: mostly semi-arid areas subject to protracted crises and conflict, sometimes exacerbated by natural disasters, where food crises and food emergencies threaten.

• Syria
• Yemen
• Agriculture, Land-use, and Forestry
• SPARC (Supporting Pastoralism and Agriculture in Recurrent and Protracted Crises)
• 2023

his paper reviews the status of gender-inclusive design in relation to electric vehicles, with a focus on two-wheelers and three-wheelers. Where relevant, evidence on electric buses were also included. It explored potential barriers to women’s use of these vehicles, as well as opportunities for increased uptake and in turn, promoting greater women’s economic empowerment. The report aims to highlight how private companies can address these barriers and opportunities, including informing the E2W (Electric Two-Wheelers) and E3W (Electric Three-Wheelers) markets.

• Kenya
• Infrastructure (Including Energy and Transport)
• Work and Opportunities for Women (WOW) Helpdesk
• 2023

This report prepared by Paul Watkiss and Dr Kristie L. Ebi in December 2022 looks at changing climate, including changes in the mean and extremes of temperature and precipitation and sea level rise, is affecting human health, well-being, and health systems. Changing weather patterns are altering the population burden of climate-sensitive injuries, illnesses, and deaths, and affecting health systems and access to health services. The health impacts of climate change can be direct, ecosystem-mediated, or indirect through human or social responses to climate change.

• Health
• Climate Finance
• 2022

This guidance note prepared by Yue Cao and Beatrice Tanjangco provides a structured analytical process for users to identify technologies, products and services offered by African Micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) that contribute to climate change mitigation and adaptation and are compliant with the ICF Climate and Environment Programme Operating Framework (PrOF) Guide, the Paris Alignment and Official Development Assistance (ODA) eligibility requirements.

• Nigeria
• Ghana
• Climate Resilience and Adaptation
• Climate Finance
• 2022