RAMP convened its second online teacher training course on Climate-Sensitive Budgeting and Public Financial Management
The Resilience and Adaptation Mainstreaming Program (RAMP) convened its second online teacher training course on Climate-Sensitive Budgeting and Public Financial Management (PFM).
Delivered by Dr Harald Heubaum and held November 19 and 26 and December 3 and 10, the course brought together a diverse group of 60 participants for intensive learning and exchange on the need to mainstream climate into public budgets and deliver knowledge on how to ensure PFM incorporates climate considerations effectively. This included covering the role of climate across the entire budget cycle, including the fiscal framework and strategic planning, budget preparation and approval, budget execution, accounting and reporting, control and audit, and, finally, the role of subnational institutions.
A variety of participants attended the teacher trainings from across the full spectrum of the University Network. The course materials are tailored to the needs of ministry officials from the Global South. The trainings are a key part to the RAMP approach to enable university network members to co-deliver material to these officials, with the help of additional training sessions.
This is a fundamental part of the RAMP approach: strengthening and supporting university partners to collectively build long-term capacity in central ministries responsible for financing, planning and implementing suitable macro-level adaptation actions. It is part of RAMP’s effort to help mainstream climate adaptation into the core capacities and operations of central ministries, supporting governments to align and effectively pursue their adaptation and development priorities, as well as access adaptation finance.
The RAMP University Network is a key pillar of the Resilience Adaptation Mainstreaming Program (RAMP), which was conceived and established jointly by the World Resources Institute and the SOAS Centre for Sustainable Finance. The objective of RAMP is to accelerate climate adaptation in developing countries by building capacity in ministries of finance, planning and economics, to understand, plan for, and finance climate adaptation actions.
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