ROLE OF THE DENR AS NATIONAL DESIGNATED

AUTHORITY (NDA)TO THE GREEN CLIMATE FUND

(GCF)

Department of Environment and Natural Resources

Outline

• What are the Mandates and Responsibilities of the NDA

• What is the Green Climate Fund Readiness Programme (GCFRP)

• Status of Philippine Project Preparation for GCF

How is GCF Organized?How does it work?

Nationally Designated Authorities (NDA) serve as link between countries and GCF

In the Philippines, DENR is NDA

How can the fund be accessed (access modality)

Two modes of access: ‘direct’ and ‘international’.

•‘direct access’: recipient countries can nominate competent subnational,

national and regional implementing entities for accreditation to receive

funding.

•‘international access’: recipient countries can access the Fund through

accredited international entities, including United Nations agencies,

multilateral development banks, international financial institutions and

regional institutions.

•Recipient countries can determine the mode of access and both

modalities can be used simultaneously.

The NDA as Focal Point will serve as the point of communications with the GCF

Mandate and Responsibilities

• Provide broad strategic oversight on the various GCF activities in the country

- ensure alignment with national sustainable development objectives and frameworks (e.g. Philippine Development Plan; National Climate Change Action Plan, NDCs, Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions, and various international commitments, etc.)

The NDA as Focal Point will serve as the point of communications with the GCF

Mandate and Responsibilities

•Convene relevant public, private and civil society stakeholders to identify priority sectors and concerns to be financed by GCF.•Communicate nominations / no objection of entities (sub-national, national or regional, public or private) seeking accreditation to GCF under “direct access” track.

The NDA as Focal Point will serve as the point of communications with the GCF

Mandate and Responsibilities

• Implement the no-objection procedure on funding proposals submitted to the Fund, to ensure consistency of funding proposals with national climate change plans and priorities.

• Provide leadership on the deployment of readiness and preparatory support funding in the country.

What is the Green Climate Fund

Readiness Programme

GCF Readiness Programme

Objective: • to support the Government of Philippines

(GoP) in strengthening national capacities to effectively and efficiently plan for, access, manage, deploy, and monitor climate financing, in particular, through the GCF.

• Specifically, the Program will support capacitation and empowerment of the DENR as the NDA to the GCF including relevant partner-government agencies.

Program Components

UNDP is responsible only to output 2 but will coordinate closely with WRI and UNEPFollowing revision of ProDoc in March 2017, accreditation of another NIE was included

Status of all ComponentsResponsible

Partner Deliverables Status

WRI

NIE Selection of national and sub national enties as NIE to access GCF

• Land Bank of the Philippines supported and nominated as NIE. Accreditation is at stage1 of 4 stages.

• EDC and DBP interested to be accredited.

UNEP

Public private sector partnership modlity to implement climate adaptation and mitigation solution

• Climate Smart Road Map focusing in Mindanao completed

• Financial study to develop climate financing products for financing institutions (FI) completed by Frankfurt Business School.

Status of all ComponentsResponsible Partner Deliverables Status

UNDP Policy guidelines and studies

Consultant recruited. Awaiting designation of DENR Focal Point to discuss work plan and approach

Project pipelineWill be done parallel with prioritization process and development of capacities for GCF project development

Project proposal

• UNDP designated MIE for project dev‘t• Concept Note submitted May 2, 2017;

Follow up Mission in July; On going recruitment of Consultants for project preparation

Additional NIE TOR prepared; recruitment on going

Staffing of PMURecruitment of New Project Coordinator and Admin/Finance Assistant on going (after re assignment of NDA)

Program Title Philippines Green Climate Fund Readiness Programme

Program PeriodJuly 2016-April 2018 (Approved June 2016; Revisited March 2017 after transfer of NDA to DENR)

Primary Deliverables• policy studies, project ideas and program guidelines• program/project proposal to the Green Climate Fund• Support to accreditation of additional NIE

Implementing Partner National Designated Authority/DENR

Program Board

Department agencies: DOF, NEDA, Cab Sec, Office of

Senator Legarda (per revised ProDoc in March 2017)

Development partners: UNDP, WRI, UNEP

Budget US$ 1,335,180.00 (PhP 62.753M @ 47/$)

FundersGerman Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature

Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (BMUB) - UNEP

Programme Profile: UNDP Component Only

• Dialogues with Private Sector – with GCF Secretariat

• Technical meetings with agencies on developing guidelines for prioritizing climate change adaptation and mitigation needs

• First Consultation on prioritization criteria

• GCF Orientation for DENR Central Office and Attached Agencies, Bureaus, Project Development Technical Working Group (August 11, 2017)

• Presentation of WRI and UNEP outputs;

• Discussion with Landbank – GCF Focals within DENR (CCS, FASPO, Planning, USEC Leones, USEC Teh, OSEC) (August 15, 2017)

• GCF Orientation for Other NGAs and CCCAM-DRR Cabinet Cluster (20 agencies) – with GCF Secretariat (September 6, 2017)

• Project Development Workshop 1 – GCF 101

Other updates with the GCF Readiness Programme

• Support capacity building of prospective National Implementing Entity

Status of First Philippine Proposal to GCF

• In February 2017, UNDP designated as MIE to support project preparation

• In March 2017, UNDP mobilized Scoping Mission to discuss priority proposal on coastal adaptation

• DENR submitted Concept Note to GCF in May 2017 for project entitled: “Strengthening the Resilience of the Most Vulnerable Coastal Communities to Climate Change in the Philippines’ Eastern Seaboard”

• UNDP Follow up Mission last July 13-14, 2017 to update Concept Note, agree on scope and outline project preparation steps

• National Consultants recruited; recruitment of International Consultants on going for the preparation of the final Concept Note, Projecty Feasibility Study, and full project proposal

THANK YOU!

Department of Environment and Natural Resources

Strategic Impacts

Designation of the DENR as the National Designated Authority for the GCF

Role of the NDA

Investment Priorities