Funding approaches and models
Members of the Community of Practice on Environment, Climate, Conflict, and Peace (ECCP) attended COP28 in Dubai in late 2023. They met with policymakers and negotiators to discuss opportunities and challenges for climate finance and action in fragile and conflict-affected areas.
It is particularly important that climate and biodiversity finance be invested at the local level, funnelled as directly as possible to the people bearing the brunt of the climate and biodiversity crisis.
One of the challenges that we repeatedly heard from funders was lack of examples of approaches or models of how funding can be invested at the local level.
Members of the ECCP came together in 2024 to create this platform where we can gather those examples.
Case studies
In early 2024, ECCP members put out a call for case studies in six languages. Specifically, they requested interesting examples in which funding made it to the local level to support climate action in fragile and conflict-affected areas.
Two are ready for publication, and more cases are in progress. Click on the three images below to open the case study files.
The editing group is also accepting new case studies via the form below.
The above case studies are the original submissions to the ECCP’s public call for examples. They have been lightly edited and are published with the permission of the submitters.
The editing group has not conducted due diligence interviews with members of the communities described in order to verify the information provided. In the group’s examination of successful funding models in fragile and conflict-affected states, it is important to emphasise that they are not constrained by a narrow or fixed definition of conflict or fragility.
The editing group was an informal but structured collaboration within the ECCP Community of Practice, including participation from: Manisha Gulati (ODI), Yue Cao (ODI), Nora Nisi (IIED), Peter van Sluijs (Cordaid), Elise Granlie (Cordaid), Déthié Soumaré Ndiaye (GGGI), Kelechi Eleanya (World Resources Institute), Ahmed Ekzayez (Syria White Helmets), Harriet Mackaill Hill (International Alert), and Annika Erickson-Pearson (ECCP Coordinator).