Briefing on the 8th meeting of the Adaptation Fund Board

The 8th meeting of the Adaptation Fund established under the Kyoto Protocol will take place in Bonn from the 16th to the 18th November at the UN Campus in Bonn. The Adaptation Fund Board (AFB) members will meet for the last time this year before the Copenhagen climate summit (7th to 18th December). The Adaptation Fund has made decisive progress throughout 2009 and is almost ready for full operation. While the last AFB meeting achieved a milestone through the adoption of the Operational Policies and Guidelines, this meeting also has some important agenda points. One of the issues is the conclusion of the first step towards reaching legal capacity, a process initiated in Poznan last year. It is expected that the AFB will eventually decide on the preferred host country which should give this legal capacity to the AFB, an item which is a leftover from the 7th meeting of the AFB. Other important issues include the consideration of a media strategy for the Adaptation Fund, since its features, work and progress are still too little known. Also, the AFB will likely adopt the invitation to eligible developing country Parties to submit project and programme proposals to the Fund, and also will discuss a Results Based Management (RBM) Framework, which is supposed to guide the AFB as well as countries receiving funds in the effective, successful and appropriate spending of the Adaptation Fund resources. In light of the limited resources available, it will also discuss how to set funding priorities with regard to resource allocation on a country basis.

This briefing gives an overview of the key issues in the upcoming AFB meeting for interested stakeholders.

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last updated 16 November 2009