UNDP- Climate facilty MENA UNDP- Climate facilty MENA Description of the intervention
Focused on the nexus between climate action and human security, the programme seeks to enhance the capacity of regional and national institutions to effectively take climate action in a way that brings benefits across SDGs and for crisis prevention/recovery efforts, including support to scale-up climate finance for innovative local solutions. In doing so, the programme brings together multi-lateral institutions in the region such as the League of Arab States (LAS) and the Arab Water Council (AWC), and leading UN system partners active on climate actions in the region, including the UN Development Programme (UNDP), the UN Environment Finance Initiative (UNEP-FI), the UN Human Settlement Programme (UN-Habitat), the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR), the World Food Programme (WFP) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
Through joint actions, the programme would address two main priorities in the region that have been identified during the formulation process - to promote more integrated solutions for climate action that brings benefits across SDGs and for crisis prevention/recovery goals, and to scale up local partnerships and finance to this end. Through a combination of regional dialogues and technical assistance at the regional level, and innovation grants at the country level, the programme would generate three key outcomes:
Outcome 1: Increased awareness and understanding at the regional level of the benefits of a nexus approach to climate action for achieving benefits across the SDGs and for crisis prevention/recovery goals
Outcome 2: Enhanced access to analysis, tools and strategies at regional level to support nexus approach to advancing climate action across the SDGs and for crisis prevention/recovery goals
Outcome 3: Strengthened national and local capacities to effectively integrate climate change considerations into development and crisis prevention/recovery policies and to scale-up climate finance Description of the intervention
Focused on the nexus between climate action and human security, the programme seeks to enhance the capacity of regional and national institutions to effectively take climate action in a way that brings benefits across SDGs and for crisis prevention/recovery efforts, including support to scale-up climate finance for innovative local solutions. In doing so, the programme brings together multi-lateral institutions in the region such as the League of Arab States (LAS) and the Arab Water Council (AWC), and leading UN system partners active on climate actions in the region, including the UN Development Programme (UNDP), the UN Environment Finance Initiative (UNEP-FI), the UN Human Settlement Programme (UN-Habitat), the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR), the World Food Programme (WFP) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
Through joint actions, the programme would address two main priorities in the region that have been identified during the formulation process - to promote more integrated solutions for climate action that brings benefits across SDGs and for crisis prevention/recovery goals, and to scale up local partnerships and finance to this end. Through a combination of regional dialogues and technical assistance at the regional level, and innovation grants at the country level, the programme would generate three key outcomes:
Outcome 1: Increased awareness and understanding at the regional level of the benefits of a nexus approach to climate action for achieving benefits across the SDGs and for crisis prevention/recovery goals
Outcome 2: Enhanced access to analysis, tools and strategies at regional level to support nexus approach to advancing climate action across the SDGs and for crisis prevention/recovery goals
Outcome 3: Strengthened national and local capacities to effectively integrate climate change considerations into development and crisis prevention/recovery policies and to scale-up climate finance The programme addresses two main priorities in the region that have been identified during the formulation process – (i) to promote more integrated solutions for climate action that brings benefits across SDGs and for crisis prevention/recovery goals, and (ii) to scale up local partnerships and finance to this end.
Through a combination of regional dialogues and technical assistance at the regional level, and innovation grants at the country level, the programme would generate three key outcomes:
• Outcome 1: Enhanced knowledge and coordination on climate-security among key stakeholders at the regional level to achieve climate action with co-benefits across the SDGs, and crisis prevention/recovery goals.
• Outcome 2: Enhanced access to analysis, tools and strategies at the regional level to support a climate nexus approach to achieving SDGs and prevention/recovery
• Outcome 3: Strengthened national and local capacities to effectively integrate climate change considerations into development and crisis prevention/recovery policies and to scale-up climate finance for local innovative solutions with co-benefits across the SDGs    
Underlying and cutting across these outcomes will be the establishment of SDG-Climate Facility, which will take forward a nexus approach beyond the life-cycle of the project. The programme will focus on the following countries to develop local capacity, deploy integrated solutions and support scale-up of climate financing: Egypt, Iraq, Palestine, Tunisia, Yemen, as well as a response to the Syria crisis in Jordan as a host country of Syrian refugees.