Budget tagging for climate vulnerable Madagascar

Genesis has partnered with the International Institute for Environment and Development and the United Nations office for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) to establish a coordinated budget tagging system for DRR and Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) expenditures in Madagascar.

In many developing countries, DRR and CCA efforts have historically operated independently despite their interconnected goals. 

However, with climate change exacerbating the frequency and severity of disasters, there is growing recognition of the benefits of an integrated approach for the more effective and efficient use of public resources. The approach is also aimed at achieving the goals in the Paris Agreement, the Sendai Framework for DRR and the Sustainable Development Goals.

Madagascar, ranked as the third most vulnerable country to extreme climate events, faces challenges in budget integration and tracking of relevant projects.

The work aligns with Genesis’ focus on strengthening public finance management systems, building capacities and enhancing accountability. All of these contribute to unlocking avenues for access to resources and optimising resource mobilisation by governments to finance priority sectors along with emerging challenges such as climate change.

Our approach involves working closely with the national government to:

• Design the disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation budget tagging (DCBT).
• Classify, tag, track, monitor and report on DRR and CCA spending.
• Build the capacity of government and other accountability actors to conduct DCBT and to make use of the results for policy making.

The overall outcome of this project is to enhance Madagascar’s national systems and capacities, particularly in aligning financial strategies with DRR and CCA implementation.