We follow the money within countries, tracing how climate finance commitments move from national policy through government budgets and into local implementation.
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Governing climate finance through the state
Wangui Kagumba leads this work, drawing on comparative research and fieldwork in Kenya and Southern Africa. Her research traces how climate finance priorities are integrated into state and subnational institutions, and how political, fiscal and administrative arrangements shape what happens to climate finance priorities as they move from national policy formulation and budgeting to implementation at subnational levels.
This workstream examines different dimensions of this process, including how climate, political and development priorities are reconciled in national policymaking; how climate finance becomes institutionalized within African public financial management systems through the process of green budget tagging and the establishment of climate finance units; and how integration into existing administrative structures reshapes the roles and authority of different actors.
What drives bureaucratic allocation decisions?
We are currently developing a survey instrument that will shed light on decisions made by climate finance bureaucrats in recipient countries. This workstream will generate evidence on the political and institutional incentives that determine how climate finance is allocated in practice and identify relevant capacity gaps and implementation barriers.