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First Steps toward a Quality of Climate Finance Scorecard (QUODA-CF)-Working Paper 335

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  • Katherine Sierra, Timmons Roberts, Michele de Nevers, Claire Langley, Cory Smith

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Are climate finance contributor countries, multilateral aid agencies and specialized funds using widely accepted best practices in foreign assistance? How is it possible to measure and compare international climate finance contributions when there are as yet no established metrics or agreed definitions of the quality of climate finance? As a subjective metric, quality can mean different things to different stakeholders, while of donor countries, recipients and institutional actors may place quality across a broad spectrum of objectives. This subjectivity makes the assessment of the quality of climate finance contributions a useful and necessary exercise, but one that has many challenges. This work seeks to enhance the development of common definitions and metrics of the quality of climate finance, to understand what we can about those areas where climate finance information is available and shine a light on the areas where there is a severe dearth of data. Allowing for comparisons of the use of best practices across funding institutions in the climate sector could begin a process of benchmarking performance, fostering learning across institutions and driving improvements when incorporated in internal evaluation protocols of those institutions.

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  • Katherine Sierra, Timmons Roberts, Michele de Nevers, Claire Langley, Cory Smith, 2013. "First Steps toward a Quality of Climate Finance Scorecard (QUODA-CF)-Working Paper 335," Working Papers 335, Center for Global Development.
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