Adaptation, Official Development Assistance, and Institution Building: The Case of the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre

The Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre was launched in 2005, culminating a process that included three precursor projects: Caribbean Planning for Adaptation to Climate Change (1997–2001); Adapting to Climate Change in the Caribbean (2001–2004); and Mainstreaming Climate Change (2003–2009). Each benefited from multiple sources of official development assistance (ODA), clearly defined tasks, and leadership from the region’s scientific and technical communities. Shared goals and principles across the projects included: use of bottom-up participatory methods; building the technical capacity of national and regional institutions; mainstreaming adaptation in economic development programs; and partnering with governmental, non-governmental, and private sector organizations. This article applies concepts from the global environmental politics literature on interplay, environmental policy integration, and regional governance to trace the institutionalization of the Centre. Fifteen semi-structured interviews and reviews of project documents reveal how the Centre built capacity to plan and manage projects, act as a regional hub for technical support and data, participate in the multi-level political interplay required to secure ODA, while exploring other funding sources; and the extent to which it has been able to maintain its commitment to bottom-up, participatory methods, effective internal and external communications, social assessment, and monitoring and evaluation of projects.

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Comparing South Korea and Germany’s official development assistance projects in climate protection in Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar and Vietnam

International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management ◽

10.1108/ijccsm-06-2015-0077 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 8 (5) ◽

pp. 613-631 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Donata Bessey ◽

Michelle Palumbarit

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

South Korea ◽

Weak Link ◽

Development Assistance ◽

Official Development Assistance ◽

Climate Protection ◽

Content Type ◽

Environmental Goods ◽

Explorative Study ◽

Self Interest

Purpose This explorative study aims to compare and analyze the behavior of a traditional and an emerging donor, namely, Germany and South Korea, in the field of climate change-related official development assistance (ODA). It analyzes their ODA projects in 2013 in four Southeast Asian countries severely affected by climate change, namely, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam. It also adapts the existing framework to categorize ODA allocation according to receiving countries’ need and merit and donors’ self-interest. Design/methodology/approach The paper first describes both countries’ policies and activities. It then uses a country’s vulnerability to climate change as a measure of its need, its climate change readiness as a measure of its merit and its bilateral trade volume in environmental goods with donor countries as a measure of donors’ self-interest to analyze the allocation of climate-related ODA. Findings Results suggest that Korean ODA in the field of climate protection is driven more by receiving countries’ need and merit, but self-interest seems to be important for both donors. In addition, many projects labeled as adaptation or mitigation projects only have a weak link to these goals. There are limitations to the present paper. First, it could only analyze projects in 2013 because there are no earlier project data available in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s Creditor Reporting System. Second, because of the simplifying assumptions of the need–merit–self-interest framework, possible other determinants of aid allocation were deliberately ignored. Finally, this explorative study is restricted to four vulnerable countries in Southeast Asia. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first paper to compare a traditional and an emerging donor’s behavior and to explore the allocation of climate-related ODA using the need–merit–self-interest framework.

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Climate Change and Poverty Reduction — Where Does Official Development Assistance Money Go?

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.1955706 ◽

2011 ◽

Author(s):

Kaliappa P. Kalirajan ◽

Kanhaiya Singh ◽

Shandre M. Thangavelu ◽

Venkatachalam Anbumozhi ◽

Kumidini Perera

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Poverty Reduction ◽

Development Assistance ◽

Official Development Assistance

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Justicia alimentaria, de la tierra y climática en el Caribe: respuestas sistémicas al COVID-19 como estado de emergencia climática prolongada

Ecología Política. Cuadernos de debate internacional ◽

10.53368/ep60macep03 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 33-42

Author(s):

David Eduardo Barreto Sánchez ◽

aura Gutiérrez Escobar ◽

Catalina Toro Pérez ◽

Line Algoed ◽

Pambana Bassett ◽

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Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Puerto Rico ◽

Food Insecurity ◽

Local Communities ◽

Ecological Crisis ◽

Caribbean Region ◽

Bottom Up ◽

Composite Effect ◽

The Caribbean ◽

San Andres

Through an interdisciplinary conversation in the context of the project: Food Insecurity in Times of Climate Change: Sharing and Learning from Bottom-up Responses in the Caribbean Region, we expose the voices, history and knowledge of local communities and activists in Barbuda, Belize, Colombia (San Andres and Providencia), Jamaica and Puerto Rico to the food insecurity and ecological crisis in the Caribbean. The composite effect of climate injustice and the COVID-19 pandemic is outlined as anthropogenic crises that thrive on inequality and dependency in the Caribbean. The community experiences of the project countries reveal an emergence of knowledge and diverse ways of producing food and relating to the environment as alternatives to development. It is a criticism of the solutions imposed from above that ignore the knowledge, needs and practices of popular ecologies in the Caribbean.

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Soñar en grande: una mirada a las acciones de la CARICOM para enfrentar el cambio climático / Dreaming Big: A Look at CARICOM’s Actions to Address Climate Change

Runas. Journal of Education and Culture ◽

10.46652/runas.v1i2.23 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 95-106

Author(s):

Olivia Marin Alvarez

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Adverse Effects ◽

Prediction Models ◽

Public Policies ◽

Climate Prediction ◽

Address Climate Change ◽

Caribbean Community ◽

Lack Of Information ◽

The Caribbean ◽

The Creation

El presente artículo analiza las labores de cooperación llevadas a cabo por la Comunidad del Caribe con el fin de contrarrestar los efectos del cambio climático en su territorio. Mediante el empleo de la investigación bibliográfica y documental se determinó que las principales dificultades para la efectividad de las acciones radican en la ausencia de financiamiento suficiente; los problemas en la elaboración de políticas públicas nacionales y la falta de información para la elaboración de modelos de predicción climática. Abstract This article analyses the work developed by the Caribbean Community to face the adverse effects of climate change. Through the use of bibliographic and documentary research, it was established that the main difficulties in the effectiveness of the actions are the lack of sufficient funding; problems in the elaboration of national public policies and the lack of information for the creation of climate prediction models.

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