Presented by Stephen M. King'uyu (National Climate Change Secretariat, Kenya) at the 2nd Targeted Topics Forum, Jamaica, March 2016

1. Kenya: Tracking
Adaptation Finance
S M KING’UYU
National Climate Change Secretariat
Ministry of Environment, Natural Resources & Regional
Development Authorities
stephen.kinguyu@gmail.com
www.kccap.info/www.environment.go.ke
NAP Global Network’s Targeted Topics Forum
Kingston, Jamaica, March 15-17, 2016

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Guiding questions
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 Experience with developing and/or implementing a
system for tracking finance for adaptation at the
national level:
What has been your experience to date with tracking
adaptation finance (or developing a session to do so)?
What type of system have you implemented?
How do you use (or hope to use) the data from the
tracking system?
What challenges have you faced?
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Source:World Bank
Complexity of climate financial flows (ODI: Nakhooda et al 2014)
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International resources primarily focussed on mitigation activities
and largely provided by the private sector
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Bilateral flows i.e. AFD,
DFID, ~20%
Private capital, ~60%
Multilateral flows i.e.
IFC, AfDB, ~13%
Climate funds ~4%
Carbon offsets
~2%
Philanthropyy,~1%
Non-concessional
loans ~60%
Equity
~20%
Concessional loans
~11%
Grants ~4%
Carbon offset flows
~3%
Risk instruments
~1%
Mitigation ~96%
Adaptation, 4%
Inflows Instruments Outflows
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c.f.TI Kenya: Only a negligible proportion of (Faststart) pledges translated into
disbursement; 65% targeted mitigation – including REDD related activities leaving
only 32% for adaptation

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Kenya’s Conceptual NPBM/MRV Framework
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Kenya’s Experiences
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 National Performance & Benefit Measurement (MRV+)
Framework: Embedding MRV of climate/adaptation
finance.
 National Climate Change Framework Policy & Climate
Change Bill 2014:
Legal backing to the accounting/tracking of climate finance.
Establishes a National Climate Change Fund (KCF).
 National Climate Change Fund will:
Act as a financing mechanism for priority climate change actions
and interventions.
Can enhance tracking of climate financial flows if it becomes a
clearing house for climate finance.

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Kenya’s Experiences
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 Climate Change Institutional arrangements also anchored in
Bill:
High-level National Climate Change Council (NCCC) chaired by
the President;
Clear mandates/roles/responsibilities to different stakeholder
institutions.
 Climate Public Expenditure & Budgetary Review (CPEBR):
Establish baseline.
Domesticate Rio markers for adaptation and mitigation finance.
 National Climate ChangeAction Plan (NCCAP) tracking
tool – to be integrated into NPBMF/MRV System.

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Summary
 Adaptation not given enough attention in many developing countries: How to make
business cases out of adaptation?
 Not easy to track/MRV adaptation finance:
 Cases of direct disbursement.
 Discrepancies between donor and recipient reporting.
 Some initiatives are not labeled as‘adaptation’.
 Kenya’s approach = Mainstreaming ⇒Not easy to delink adaptation from‘development’
 Kenya has put in place:
 A conceptual MRV Framework that includes climate finance tracking.
 CPEBR – Domesticated the tracking of adaptation & mitigation finance.
 Climate policy and Bill anchoring MRV of climate finance.
 Kenya’s approach is for the outputs of tracking to first and foremost respond to
national reporting needs.
 Meeting international reporting obligations can be a secondary outcome.
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Thank you!
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