Does the climate finance mechanism incorporate a prominent gender perspective?

I am traveling. My concern is how do we ensure that millions of small holder farmers especially in Africa are able to participate in the financing mechanism that is being debated? When governments access climate financing how sure are we it will not be manipulated to other more 'pressing' matters?

My other concern is the failure of making climate issues part of the daily planning activties for development from the individual level through the community development planning and on to the local and national government.

Could climate finance pledges be linked with the UN offset mechanisms? Perhaps by setting a guaranteed price for CERs from certain countries/technologies?

What will be the total money allocation for each region and for each country and what will be the basis of deciding on that?

Climate finance is one of the greatest challenge of our time. Given the sluggishness of the so-called US$30 billion fast-start fund which ended in 2012 and unresolved questions of how much new, how much additional, who gets what, prompting that developing countries especially the least developed countries like Bangladesh who are least causing climate change but are the most affected--how much they received from the fast start and how much they are going access from post 2013 climate finance as decided in Doha! Urgent adaptation actions are essential for the LDCs and other developing countries. Adaptation finance should be ramped up to reduce adaptation deficit in the LDCs and other developing countries. Predictability, easy accessibility, public finance from developed countries, monitoring and evaluation of the support provided and received are the key challenges within adaptation and mitigation finance.

Quamrul Chowdhury raises a lot of challenging questions for the climate finance arena. Re monitoring and evaluation of climate finance: *who* is best placed to do this? (It may depend on the country circumstances - what are some best practices?) What are some good examples of civil society participation in monitoring and evaluation?

For LDCs adaptation is high priority. National adaptation plan formulation is the very first step towards adaptation-friendly development. But how much finance so far mobilised, and disbursed to countries like Bangladesh even after adoption of Cancun Adaptation Framework and Durban Decisions and Doha Climate Gateway? NAP-readiness from the part of UN agencies and LDCF must be launched most urgently. Only then LDCs and other developing countries can formulate and implement NAPs.

I am interested to participate

Dear Daisy, what's the new plan from UK government to support LDCs and other developing countries for 2013-2015 climate finance immediately after fast-start fund?

We always talk about the finance gap and all the money that we still need to raise... wouldn't it be a good idea to look at how the access to existing funds can be made easier for countries?

What real incentives exist to "leverage private finance" for adaptation? And how is it measured? A lot of talk about putting money into adaptation but not as much on outcomes.