Climate finance in East Africa

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgements 2
• Tallulah Cherry-Virdee 2
• Josephine Nyamai Warunge 2
• Hans Peter Dejgaard 2
• DIIS WORKING PAPER 2024 04 2
• TABLE OF CONTENTS 4
• ABBREVIATIONS 6
• ABSTRACT 8
• SUMMARY 8
• INTRODUCTION 10
• About the working paper 10
• Background 11
• METHODOLOGY FOR THE RESEARCH 13
• Auxiliary data sources 13
• Climate finance data sources 15
• The Rio markers 16
• Climate components 17
• Data gathering and processing 18
• Limitations 23
• SOCIOECONOMIC AND CLIMATIC OVERVIEW OF KENYA TANZANIA AND UGANDA 23
• Country overviews 24
• Indebtedness and risk of debt distress 26
• Climate change projections and impacts 27
• Specified financial needs for climate action 31
• Climate change and gender 32
• CLIMATE CHANGE AND CLIMATE FINANCE GOVERNANCE IN KENYA TANZANIA AND UGANDA 33
• Climate change governance in the East African Community 33
• Climate change governance in Kenya 34
• Climate change governance in Tanzania 37
• Climate change governance in Uganda 39
• Comparative analysis of Kenya Tanzania and Uganda 41
• ANALYSIS OF CLIMATE FINANCE FOR KENYA TANZANIA AND UGANDA 43
• Quantity of total climate finance 43
• Trends in adaptation-related development finance committed to Kenya Tanzania and Uganda 48
• Channel of delivery of adaptation-related development finance and degree of devolution 54
• Financial instrument concessionality and grant equivalence of adaptation-related development finance 55
• Adaptation-related development finance committed and adaptation finance needs 59
• Sectors targeted by adaptation-related development finance 60
• Gender responsiveness of adaptation-related development finance 62
• DISCUSSION AND REFLECTIONS 63
• Amount of adaptation-related development finance committed to Kenya Tanzania and Uganda 63
• Key conclusion A 66
• Channel of delivery and degree of devolution 67
• Key conclusion B 68
• Financial instruments used for adaptation-related development finance 69
• Key conclusion C 70
• Gender responsiveness of adaptation-related development finance 70
• Key conclusion D 71
• Climate finance definitions tracking and reporting 71
• Key conclusion E 73
• Conclusion 73
• ANNEX GRANT ELEMENT CALCULATIONS 74
• REFERENCES 76