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Civil Society Organisation (CSO) Response to the 2018/19 Climate Budget Report

Civil Society Organisation (CSO) Response to the 2018/19 Climate Budget Report. Report produced November 2018 Presentation by Paul Steele, IIED and Lamia Hossain, ActionAid, March 2019. Outline. Background

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Civil Society Organisation (CSO) Response to the 2018/19 Climate Budget Report

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  1. Civil Society Organisation (CSO) Response to the 2018/19 Climate Budget Report Report produced November 2018 Presentation by Paul Steele, IIED and Lamia Hossain, ActionAid, March 2019

  2. Outline • Background • Purpose of Civil Society Organisation (CSO) response to Climate Budget Report 2018-19 • Process of developing CSO response • Findings: How much expenditures, what, impacts? • Our suggestions • Discussion

  3. Where does Climate Finance come from? • The multitude of funding channels increases options to access finance, but also complexity • Each source has its own advantages, limitations, access conditions/criteria

  4. “Government spends about US$1 billion annually on climate-sensitive activities, which represents 6-7 percent of its annual budget and roughly 1.1 percent of GDP” Framework for managing national and international climate finance CC integrated into government budget process Government of Bangladesh is seen as a global leader in climate budgeting 2017 2012 Citizens’ version & CSO response 2012: Climate Public Expenditure & institutional review completed 2014: Climate Fiscal Framework - CC integrated into the budget processes 2017: first Climate Budget Report published 2018: second climate budget report, citizen’s climate budget, CSO response Tracks budgets for CC in 6 ministries, 2014/15 – 2016/17 2014 Tracks budgets for CC in 20 ministries, 2014/15 – 2017/18 2018

  5. Who is this cSO response for & what’s its purpose? • Audience: Government, public, civil society, media • Purpose of report: • How much is government spending on climate and is this enough? • What has been spent on and are these the right things? • Is climate spending have an impact? • What can you as citizen’s do to encourage government to do more to protect Bangladeshi people from climate change?

  6. Process of developing CSO reSponse • Initial workshop between climate and budget CSOs facilitated by ACT and IIED • ICCCAD and ActionAid selected to spearhead CSO report • CSO Report drafted • Validation workshop with climate and budget CSOs to identify key suggestions • CSO Report finalised • CSO Report presented to government (Secretary Finance and Secretary Environment) and the media

  7. Climate related expenditure (nominal and real)?

  8. Climate related share of government budget ? 8.8% of government budget allocated to climate in 2018/19

  9. What is climate expenditure spent on?

  10. Which Ministries are spending most on climate? Crore Taka

  11. What’s the impact of climate spending? • Climate budget report says very little on impactof climate spending • But we need to answer this key question: were most vulnerable families protected from climate change? • Answer is likely to be mixed • Some performance audits of climate spending now underway • No measure yet of climate expenditures reaching to the local level • These should be includedin 2019-20 climate budget report Credit: UNDP Bangladesh

  12. OUR SUGGESTIONS • We welcome GoB’s Climate Budget Report and ask GoB to continue with its efforts to disseminate it widely across the country, to allow citizens to discuss and comment on it • Ask the government to set a target of share of budget going to climate and increase in real terms by 5% a year (total of 9.8% of the 2019-20 budget) • Ask that government and civil society measure and include impacts of climate expenditures on poor people, particularly women, indigenous groups and the disabled in 2019-20 Climate Budget report • Suggest that government measures extent that climate expenditures reaches to local level to local governments, small and medium scale enterprises and community based organisations

  13. OUR Suggestions (Continued) • Technical recommendations: • Suggest GoB to use real figures not nominal figures • Suggest that next year’s Climate budget report is not just on budget allocations, but also actual expenditures • Encourage Government to measure “negative” expenditures – eg on maladaptation and on fossil fuel emission expenditures • Propose for civil society and private sector climate expenditures to be also captured in climate budget report and Request GoB to establish a joint monitoring task force between GoB and CSOs to monitor climate related expenditures

  14. Way Forward • Press Conferences before and after the Climate Budget is declared to keep up the momentum • Technical Support to Democratic Budget Movement (DBM) • On going discussions with potential international partners

  15. Thank you & DISCUSSION

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