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Afghanistan Climate Budgeting Guidelines

Afghanistan Climate Budgeting Guidelines Opportunities and challenges with mainstreaming climate change in national budgeting processes. Bangkok, 4 March 2019. Why Climate Change in Afghan Budgets?. Enabling conditions in Afghan policy context. Ongoing reform

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Afghanistan Climate Budgeting Guidelines

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  1. Afghanistan Climate Budgeting Guidelines Opportunities and challenges with mainstreaming climate change in national budgeting processes Bangkok, 4 March 2019

  2. Why Climate Change in Afghan Budgets?

  3. Enabling conditions in Afghan policy context • Ongoing reform • Improved fiscal projection and reporting practices • Gender-responsive budgeting • Afghan CPEIR • First step in this mainstreaming pathway already achieved • Indicative climate change financing framework (CCFF) also provided • Advantages • Expected loss & damage from future CC risks mapped across key sectors • Strong basis to link budgets with CC priorities

  4. ACBG: Piloting and Adoption • Steered by the Ministry of Finance (MoF) – central authority in coordinating and approving line Ministry budgets • Piloted in select line ministries – Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock (MAIL), Ministry of Energy and Water (MEW) and Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development (MRRD) – which implement projects closely related to natural resource management, rural livelihoods and vulnerable communities • Consultative phase involving important stakeholders from the start by engaging with the NEPA, MoF and line ministries • Practical and operational inputs – from technical and sectoral nodal officers • Strategic oversight – from key senior leadership of line ministries • Iterative rounds of training and capacity building conducted leading to robust and well understood climate budgeting guidelines and toolkit • MoF approved ACBG in December 2018 – poised for expansion to all relevant ministries from this upcoming financial year • Budgets have the potential to be defended also based on their CC linkages, for project approval

  5. Integration into the Afghan budget calendar

  6. ACBG: Role in Climate Finance Mobilisation • CAPACITY - Increased sensitisation among line ministries on CC linkages with their programmesimportant to plan public expenditure in a CC resilient manner • PLANNING to reduce vulnerability of infrastructure and communities to adverse CC impacts over timeby allocating funds to programmes addressing these concerns • REPORTING – budgets communicate climate relevance of budgetsgive high visibility to public expenditure that already have climate co-benefits, which can be monitored closely • FINANCE - Opportunity to leverage existing budgets to tap international climate fundsimportant to strengthen co-financing prospects and donor support by showcasing climate-sensible initiatives being undertaken by Afghanistan

  7. Thank you!

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