UNDRR Call for Grant Proposals: NGOs can apply!

Deadline: 7-Apr-22

The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) invites not profit-making organisations and apolitical to submit grant proposals.

To develop a global taxonomy for tagging DRR – CCA related expenditures and global observatory on financing for prevention and technical advisory on climate and disaster related budget tagging and expenditures tracking systems. This will help address capacity gaps of climate and disaster risk management agencies and stakeholders, in addition to the ministries of finance, to ensure coherent climate and disaster risk reduction related budget tagging and tracking become is embedded in routine government processes.

Beyond the benefits of helping governments uncover funding gaps, monitor the effectiveness of spending, facilitate decision making, improve transparency and raise awareness among critical partners, budget tagging and expenditure reviews can be part of a larger approach towards strengthening risk financing and risk-informing development process as a whole. Developing a good understanding of the budgetary landscape can also help countries develop integrated national financing frameworks (INFF), which are a tool to finance national priorities, including the implementation of national DRR strategies

Funding Information & Duration

The maximum amount requested from UNDRR for the implementation of this project cannot exceed USD 300,000
The duration of the proposed project cannot exceed 19 months.

Project Activities

Projects activities can include, amongst others, the following:
Seminars, workshops, training
Capacity building activities;
Institutional strengthening activities and
Advocacy

Outcomes

Through expert consultations and inputs into an issue paper, technical report, methodological guidance and training materials, UNDRR with its partners at regional and global levels are expecting to bring evidence on the following fronts:

Improve knowledge on climate and disaster public expenditures tagging and tracking
- Document current practices, processes and approaches in financing DRR in Public Expenditures. This exercise involves looking at various ongoing national initiatives around the globe to tag and track DRR expenditures (such as the experience from the Philippines, Peru, and Mozambique etc.).
- Document practices, processes and approaches of public expenditure reviews of other cross-cutting issues/ policy themes such as gender, environment (Mitigation and Adaptation), health, food security tagging and tracking systems and identify relevant lessons learned and its potential application for CCA- DRR expenditure tagging and tracking system.
- Engage with stakeholders, relevant experts and communities of practices to keep abreast of ongoing initiatives, build or strengthen synergies and cross-learning from different geographies and communities (such as the CABRI initiative in the Africa region).
Equip and guide practitioners in the design and implementation of comprehensive disaster and climate budget tagging and tracking methodologies
- Document objectives, methodologies and processes of climate risk and disaster risk reduction-related public expenditure reviews to identify commonalities, differences and how they could be reconciled for more effective and coherent approaches and harmonized methodologies for transparent and accountable earmarking of DRR and CCA.
- Assess enablers, gaps, challenges and opportunities for the institutionalization of climate and disaster budget tagging and tracking systems for climate and disaster risk management at central and sub-national level in support to multi-level risk climate and disaster governance arrangements and strategies’ implementation. What has worked? When and why in institutionalizing climate budget tracking systems?
- Review and assess degree of success against different expected outcomes and objectives, examples and innovative approaches to track effectiveness of public expenditure on climate and disaster risk management involving quantitative and qualitative research, such as public expenditure tracking surveys, to monitor the actual flow of funds as well as the experience and assessment of quality, accessibility, and cost of public services for users.
Inform practitioners on the benefits and use of joint tagging and tracking for disaster and climate public expenditures on
DRR and CCA integrated financing
- Develop a framework and key messages on how climate change adaptation and disaster risk management tagging, and budget systems contribute towards financing climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction commitments within the umbrella of Integrated National Financing Frameworks (INFF).
- opportunities to strengthen synergies among public expenditure and donor aid by using climate and DRR tagging and tracking systems to enhance international cooperation to developing countries, including LDC graduating countries and it’s reporting through Identify Target F of the Sendai Framework and Sustainable development goals relevant indicators. Provide regional guidance to facilitate coherent reporting on Target F of the Sendai Framework.
- Identify opportunities to better integrate climate and DRR related expenditure budget expenditure performance reports by SDG; provide insights for development finance assessments, especially in LDC graduating countries.
DRR and CCA national and local comprehensive risk management planning:
- The opportunities and pathways for CCA and DRR expenditure reviews, tagging and tracking systems to support the agenda on comprehensive risk management, prevention and reduction, and provide concrete tools for risk-informed investments and planning.
- Develop an analytical framework on how climate adaptation and disaster risk reduction related expenditure data can be utilized along economic appraisal tools (such as Cost Benefit Analysis), and damage and loss information to support the assessments of multiple benefits of comprehensive risk management.
Build the evidence base to support financial decision makers, public advocacy and policy changes
- Tracking financing flows in risk prevention as well as other fiscal data would support in identifying resource requirements versus allocation. Observatories at national, regional or global level could help quantify and track investments which will allow public and private sector to measure the real-world outcomes of investments in disaster risk reduction. Such observatory could build on the OECD DAC methodology and further improve it by labeling prevention investments.
- Data from the network of observatories on DRR and adaptation financing will bring together analysis on DRR and climate change adaptation financing flow, public and private investment, and capacity building on tracking financial flows. The global observatory would be built on a network of regional observatories and disseminate guidance, provide technical assistance to ensure application of standard taxonomies, common methodologies and comparable approaches, aggregate and analyze data to produce global and regional trends, thematic analysis and advocacy pieces to incentivize policy and practice transformation on investments both on the public finance as well as private domain.