The OECD Declaration on Integrating Climate Change Adaptation into Development Co-operation was adopted by Development and Environment Ministers in April 2006. The Declaration calls upon the OECD ‘to promote meaningful co-ordination and sharing of good practices on integrating climate change in development co-operation’. A DAC/Environet-EPOC/GSP Task Team was established to carry out this task.

Guidelines on how to incorporate climate change adaptation into development co-operation are currently being prepared and are expected to be finalised by summer 2008. These will provide guidance to both development partners and national governments in developing countries on how to incorporate climate change adaptation concerns into policy and development operations. The Guidelines will be structured according to five levels of governance: national, sectoral, project, urban/municipal and rural/community level.

The OECD Secretariat servicing the DAC-EPOC Task Team has approached ODI for support to the refinement and finalisation of the Guidelines. The assignment requires the completion of the following tasks:

• Helping to incorporate additional comments received by the Secretariat.
• Further refining the existing chapters, notably with a view to elaborating the potential for donor interventions to support the integration of CC adaptation options; this would include identifying the potential for supporting adaptation indirectly through programmes or activities not specifically directed towards this objective.
• Helping develop further the chapters that detail integrating climate change adaptation at the ‘urban/municipal level’ and ‘rural/community level’.
• Helping to identify and fill gaps and/or additional critical issues which need to be covered.

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Design of a Climate Change Innovation Programme (CCIP) for India
In response to the growing importance of climate change in DFID’s strategic priorities, DFID India plans to create a Climate Change Innovation Programme (CCIP). The goal of CCIP is to strengthen the resilience of India’s poor to climate change. The purpose is approaches tested to help the poor adapt to climate change and to access opportunities in the carbon market.
Leo Peskett and Priya Deshingkar		December 2008 - present
New Global Environmental Funds
The purpose of this study is to obtain all pertinent information and to present an analysis of recent developments and trends in global environmental finance.
Neil Bird and Leo Peskett		March - April 2008
Public environmental expenditure within multi-year budgetary frameworks
This study, undertaken with the OECD Environment Directorate, examines how multi-year budgetary processes work in practice in both high income OECD countries ( Australia and the Netherlands) and in aid-receiving countries (Armenia, South Africa and Uganda). A main objective of the study is to identify the opportunities for, and limits to, financing environmental management through general budget support.
Neil Bird, Geoff Handley and Edward Hedger		November 2007 – March 2008
Budget Support, Aid Instruments and the Environment - The country context
Neil Bird and Cecilia Luttrell, together with ODI researchers Lidia Cabral and Andrew Lawson, will examine country experience of public expenditure on the environment and how this is influenced by development partners. Four country case studies, in Ghana, Mali, Mozambique and Tanzania, will be undertaken and a synthesis report prepared.
Neil Bird, Cecilia Luttrell, Lidia Cabral and Andrew Lawson		July 2007 -February 2008