The Pilot Program for Climate Resilience aims to demonstrate ways to integrate climate risk and resilience into core development planning, whiles complementing other ongoing activities. Nine countries and two regions were selected to participate in the program. The Sub-Committee endorsed the following Strategic Programs for Climate Resilience (SPCR): Bangladesh, Niger, Tajikistan, Cambodia, Mozambique, Nepal, Zambia; Caribbean: Grenada,  St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Lucia,   Pacific: Samoa

• country led;
• build on National Adaptation Programs of Action (NAPAs) and other relevant country studies and strategies;
• complement the existing adaptation funding and be supportive of the emerging operations of the Adaptation Fund; and
• support actions that are both an outcome of a comprehensive planning process and consistent with the countries' development and poverty reduction goals.  

Under the PPCR two types of investments are supported: 

1. Funding for technical assistance to enable developing countries to build upon existing national work to integrate climate resilience into national and sectoral development plans.
2. Funding public and private sector investments indentified in national or sectoral development plans or strategies and addressing climate resilience.

Immediate outcomes of a PPCR program should include:

•  an increased capacity to integrate climate resilience into country development strategies
• a more inclusive approach to climate resilient growth and development;
•  an increased awareness of the potential impact of climate change;
• scaled-up investment for broader interventions and programming related to climate resilience; and
• mproved coordination among stakeholders regarding country-specific climate resilient programs.

During the PPCR Sub-Committee meeting held on June 2011, the CIF Administrative Unit and the MDBs were requested to report to the Sub-Committee the inclusion of gender experts in the joint missions organized by the PPCR pilot countries to assist in the preparation of the Strategic Programs for Climate Resilience (SPCR).

The note on gender dimensions has been prepared in response to that request. It was prepared by the CIF Administrative Unit based on information provided by the MDBs. It summarizes the actions taken by the pilot countries and the MDBs to integrate gender considerations in SPCRs and/or projects/programs.

Trustee Disbursement Report

During its meeting in November 2010, the CTF Trust Fund Committee requested that the CIF Administrative Unit, in collaboration with the MDB Committee, report on disbursements under the CTF on a semi annual basis.

• June 30, 2011