A presentation on local governance and decentralised finance for community-driven climate adaptation: lessons from Mali, Senegal, and Kenya, by Yacouba Dème. The presentation took place at a session on resilient risk governance systems: enhancing integration and adaptive capacity across scales, at the Adaptation Futures conference in Rotterdam on 12 May 2016. Dème is the Mali director of the Near East Foundation. More details: http://www.neareast.org/braced-decentralizing-climate-funds-dcf-in-mali-and-senegal/

1. Decentralising Climate Funds (DCF)
Near East Foundation Consortium
Building Resilience and Adaptation to Climate
Change Extremes & Disasters (BRACED) programme
Local governance and decentralised
finance for community-driven
climate adaptation
Lessons from Mali, Senegal, and Kenya
Yacouba Dème
Adaptation Futures, 12 May 2016

2. Mali, Senegal and Kenya
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Senegal
Mali
Kenya

3. Resilience Premise
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• Local communities
• Possess strategies uniquely suited to their
(variable) environments.
• Are best placed to prioritize investments that
strengthen and support their adaptive strategies and
resilience.
• But –
• Local governments and communities lack resources and
discretionary control over budgets
• Improving local access to more effective climate
adaptation planning and finance will improve
communities' resilience to climate change.
Decentralising Climate Funds (DCF)

4. Decentralized Climate Finance:
Rationale for Local Government
• Decentralization offers an appropriate institutional
framework for adaptation finance
• Local government mandates already include multi-
sectoral delivery of services
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• Avoids administrative silos that
isolate climate adaptation from other
development and risk reduction
efforts
• Merge development and climate
adaptation finance at appropriate
scales

5. Decentralized Climate Finance:
A New Approach
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• Establish Climate Adaptation Funds that are
managed locally by decentralized governments
• Use of funds prioritized by communities using
participatory planning processes
• Support readiness of national and decentralized
governments to access and disburse other sources of
climate finance (international, national, or local)
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6. Pilot climate adaptation funds
Mali, Senegal and Kenya
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Kenya
5 Counties
Mali & Senegal
2 Regions
(7 Cercles / Departements)

7. Infographic
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[Coming from Lucile]
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8. Evidence from Kenya
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• Local community prioritized rangeland management and
governance
• Climate Adaptation Fund supported investment to revive
customary institution (“Dedha”) that controls land and water
use during dry seasons
• CAF funds enabled the Dedha to review their institutional
functions and procedures and hold strategic meetings
• Dedha members then invested their own funds to boost
resource surveillance and management during the dry season
• Better outcomes for 2014 dry season (better livestock
productivity, reduced conflict, better use of resources)
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9. Taking Devolved Climate Finance to Scale
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• Pilot projects: If successful, these models can be adopted by
countries across their territories
• Experience in Mali
• Linking decentralized finance model to the Ministry of
Decentralization and the Agence Nationale d'Investissement des
Collectivités Territoriales (ANICT)
• ANICT – national agency that finances local development
• Building capacity to access international climate finance
• Merge climate finance with decentralized development to help
build resilient communities

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