In the SustMeme Guest Post February 21, 2023, Kelly Hunte, Project Administrator at the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC), asks: Can the third-sector help developing countries win the race for climate finance?
KH: For years, non-governmental and civil-society organisations (NGOs and CSOs) have played a key role in the implementation of national development goals; and climate change is no exception to the rule.
As grassroots organisations, NGOs and CSOs are naturally well-placed to provide a clearer picture of the needs of vulnerable communities within developing countries. These communities are often the ones more at risk from the impacts of climate change — which is why effective engagement with the third sector is so valuable.
In fact, donor agencies have specifically written into their strategic approaches the requirement for governments across developing countries to undertake multi-stakeholder engagement processes, involving key NGOs and CSOs.
This prompt is intended to ensure the needs of those countries are captured in full, such that adequate finance programmes can be provided to assist them in achieving their national development goals.
Unfortunately, however, the type of third-sector engagement commonly undertaken by governments across developing countries tends to be superficial, rather than fully strategic.
Read the full article in SustMeme at Key role for third sector in climate finance