CIF - Pilot Program for Climate Resilience (PPCR)

PPCR investments should leverage additional financial resources, including from the private sector where feasible. Co-financing from the PPCR may be provided through a variety of financing instruments utilized by the MDBs for investment and development policy lending.

PPCR
The PPCR employs a comprehensive Monitoring and Reporting Toolkit, established in 2016, to guide the assessment of climate resilience initiatives. This toolkit delineates five core indicators:

1. “Degree of integration of climate change in national, including sector, planning;
2. Evidence of strengthened government capacity and coordination mechanism to mainstream climate resilience;
3. Quality and extent to which climate responsive instruments (investment models are developed and tested;
4. Extent to which vulnerable households, communities, business, and public sector services use improved PPCR supported tools, instruments, strategies, and activities to respond to climate variability or climate change;
5. Number of people supported by the PPCR to cope with the effects of climate change.”

Indicators 1 and 2 are evaluated at the national level using qualitative scorecards, while indicators 3, 4, and 5 are assessed at the project/programme level using quantitative tables.
The monitoring process is participatory, involving annual multi-stakeholder workshops to review progress. Data collected is compiled into annual country results reports, submitted to the CIF Administrative Unit by March 15 each year. This structured approach ensures consistent, accurate, and inclusive tracking of climate resilience efforts across PPCR-supported countries.

- CIF
The CIF have initiated and published dozens of independent evaluations, many focused on transformational change, gender, stakeholder engagement, and private sector mobilisation:

• 2014: An Independent Evaluation of the CIF was conducted by a consulting firm selected and supervised by a joint working group of the independent evaluation offices of five Multilateral Development Bank (MDBS): ADB, AfDB, EBRD, IDB, and the World Bank
• 2018: Mobilizing Private Sector Investment in CIF explored how CIF programmes (CTF and others) helped catalyse private finance for climate action
• 2019: Transformational Change in the CIF was a major independent evaluation led by Itad, assessing CIF’s contributions to system-level, long-term change
• 2020: a report evaluating the engagement of women and gender-related groups in the CIF
• 2017-2023: Transformational Change Learning Partnership (TCLP) is a multi-year initiative conducting evaluations, case studies, and synthesis reports to deepen understanding of transformational change in climate finance.

PPCR is a program of SCF and is subject to SCF governance. The governance and organizational structure of the SCF includes an SCF Trust Fund Committee, SCF Sub-Committee(s),, an MDB Committee, the CIF Administrative Unit and a Trustee.

• The SCF Trust Fund Committee is established to oversee the operations and activities of the SCF. It is composed of eight representatives from contributor countries, eight representatives from eligible recipient countries13 observers.
• The SCF Sub-Committee(s) are responsible for approving programming priorities, operational criteria, and financing modalities for the SCF Program. They also approve SCF Program financing for programs and projects. Decisions are reached by consensus. Each SCF Sub-Committee is composed of up to six representatives from donor countries and six representatives from eligible countries, selected on a regional basis.
• The MDB Committee facilitates collaboration, coordination and information exchange among the MDBs.
• The CIF Administrative Unit supports the work of the CIF, including the SCF.
• The Trustee is the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank).

Country access requirements:

• ODA-eligibility (according to OECD/DAC guidelines)
• Existence of active multilateral development bank (MDB) country programmes.

Priority is given to highly vulnerable Least Developed Countries eligible for MDB concessional funds, including the Small Island Developing States.

Recipient countries may benefit from the PPCR provided they:

• Meet Official Development Assistance (ODA) eligibility criteria according to OECD/DAC guidelines;
• Have an active MDB country program (for this purpose, an “active” program means that an MDB has a lending program and/or on-going policy dialogue with the country).

Twenty-eight (28) countries and 2 regions have been selected for the implementation of pilots (list of countries available here).