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Pilot Programme for Climate Resilience

What is the Pilot Programme for Climate Resilience?

The Pilot Program for Climate Resilience (PPCR) is a funding mechanism under the Climate Investment Funds (CIF) which is helping developing countries integrate climate resilience into development planning and investment.

The PPCR has a two phase programmatic approach:

  • It assists national governments in integrating climate resilience into development planning across sectors and stakeholder groups.
  • It provides additional funding to put these plans into action and to pilot innovative public and private sector solutions to pressing climate-related risks.

PPCR funding is being used to implement 55 projects in 17 countries including Jamaica, which is receiving funding as a part of the PPCR for the Caribbean region. To date the PPCR has approved over US$846 million in funding globally.

The PPCR provides support which helps countries move from a piecemeal, project by project method of building climate resilience to a wider, more comprehensive approach of long-term strategic investments and activities which should facilitate transformational change at the national level and across targeted sectors.

To extend the PPCR’s reach beyond national and regional investment plans and to stimulate more private sector participation, concessional financing has been set aside to be awarded on a competitive basis for innovative private sector projects advancing the goals of the PPCR.

 

What areas does the PPCR work in to build climate resilience and adaptive capacity?

The PPCR will focus on the following areas:

  • Agriculture and Landscape Management
  • Climate Information Systems and Disaster Risk Management

 

Which are the countries benefiting from the PPCR?

There are several countries across the world benefiting from PPCR.

Caribbean region:

  • Dominica
  • Grenada
  • Haiti
  • Jamaica
  • St. Lucia
  • St. Vincent and the Grenadines

As well as Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Tonga in the Pacific region, in addition Bangladesh, Bhutan, Bolivia, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Gambia, Honduras, Kyrgyz Republic, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Nepal, Niger, Philippines, Rwanda, Tajikistan, Uganda, Yemen and Zambia.

 

Who funds the PPCR?

The PPCR receives its funding from the Climate Investment Funds, who is in turn funded through contributions from 14 donor countries which have contributed over $8 billion in support to date. The CIF channels its funds through:

  • The African Development Fund
  • The African Development Bank
  • The Asian Development Bank
  • The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
  • The Inter-American Development Bank
  • The World Bank

These entities in turn administers funding to the PPCR in different regions. The Jamaica PPCR project funds are administered by the Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank.