Cambodia Climate Change Alliance III 2020-2022 Cambodia Climate Change Alliance III 2020-2022 Sida bidrar med 34 000 000 SEK under en period av tre år 2020-2022 till Cambodia Climate Change Alliance III. Stödet kanaliseras genom UNDPs landkontor och är en samfinansiering med EU och UNDP för att bidra till en utveckling i Kambodja som är mera motståndskraftig mot klimatförändringar och minskade utsläpp av växthusgaser.

Programmet bidrar till upptrappning av arbetet för att motverka klimatförändringarna med fokus på samordning av institutioner (National Council for Sustainable Development, Ministry of Economy and Finance) och fem strategiska sektorministerier (Environment; Public Works and Transport; Rural Development; Mines and Energy; samt Education, Youth and Sports).

Den totala budgeten för insatsen är 11 868 895 USD. Det svenska stödet om 34 000 000 SEK, EU bidrar med 6 730 800 USD, UNDP med 500 000 USD och den kambodjanska staten med 336 900 USD in-kind (personal, lokaler, mm). Sida contributes with 34 000,000 SEK during a period of three years 2020-2022 to carry out Cambodia Climate Change Alliance III. The support is channeled through UNDP country office, and is co-financed by EU and UNDP, and will contribute to a Cambodia development path that is increasingly climate-resilient and low carbon, measured by the level of green house gas emissions reduced. 

The programme contributes towards a scale-up response to climate change, with a focus on coordinating institutions (National Council for Sustainable Development, Ministry of Economy and Finance) and five strategic sector ministries (Environment; Public Works and Transport; Rural Development; Mines and Energy; and Education, Youth and Sports).

The total budget for the intervention is 11 868 895 USD. The Swedish contribution is 34 000 000 SEK, EU contributes with 6 730 800 USD, UNDP with 500 000 USD, and the Cambodian Government with 336 900 USD in-kind (staff, facilities, etc.). The programme aims to address the strategic challenges that Cambodia has faced to implement its climate change (CC) response at scale. In relation to the key challenges (immediate causes) the programme will act on three major drivers of change:

1. Improving capacity to produce, use, manage and disseminate locally relevant climate change information and research, addressing current knowledge gaps.
For instance, the lack of reliable data on gender impacts of CC, and more generally on the distributional impacts of CC across various vulnerable groups, including the poor, landless, older people and children. This clearly also ties in with not only the importance of gender but also the right's perspective. The key assumption is that solid, locally-produced, policy relevant evidence will play a cruicial role in effective advocacy with decision-makers and help create political space for the institutional and systemic changes that are required to achieve Cambodia's climate objectives.

2. Integrating climate change in the policy, regulations, programmes and budgets of priority sectors.
The main assumption is that effective mainstreaming of CC in ministries and sub-national systems and policies will be achieved through a combination of tailored advocacy (to create political space), adjustment to planning and budgeting procedures and related training, mentoring, policy advisory support, etc. A secondary assumption is that the changes can only happen during the programme period if there already is a demonstrated commitment of the concerned institutions' leadership. This assumption has guided the selection of ministerial partners.

3. Establishing a policy environment and financing tools to leverage private and public flows of development finance for the climate change response.
An important link can be found here between this driver and the Cambodia UN Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF): by 2023 women and men in Cambodia, in particular those marginalised and vulnerable, live in a safe, healthy, secure and ecologically balanced environment with improved livelihoods, and are resilient to natural, socio-economic and CC related trends and shocks.