climate change resourcing in country specific circumstances. The PCCFAF assesses a country’s ability to access and manage climate change resources against six interrelated dimensions: 1. Funding sources 2. Policies and plans 3. Institutions 4. Public financial management and expenditure 5. Human capacity 6. Development effectiveness The PCCFAF focuses on efforts to meet the challenges of climate change; however, these dimensions are intricately linked to and provide the opportunity to take a renewed look at the effectiveness of overall development efforts. The cross-cutting nature of climate change requires national responses, which can bring together efforts focusing on specific sectors or issues. Access to international climate change funds Another important area of work that the region continues to focus on is increased access to international climate change funds and associated decision-making arrangements. This includes the design and development of the Green Climate Fund; access to the Climate Investment C l ima t e f i n a n c e : S t r e n g t h e n i n g c a p a c i t y i n t h e P a c i f i c Fund of the World Bank; and ongoing support to access the Global Environment Facility (including the Special Climate Change Fund and Least Developed Countries Fund) and the Adaptation Fund. Exploring direct access capacity through accreditation of national implementing entity (NIE) status of PICs to the Adaptation Fund (and other funds) is important and a number of countries are exploring this option. It is hoped that requirements for NIE status under the Adaptation Fund would be very similar to direct access arrangements under other global climate funds such as the GCF in future. In addition, one of the region’s own intergovernmental organisations, SPREP, is seeking regional implementing entity (RIE) status under the Adaptation Fund and status as an Implementing Agency of the Global Environment Facility, as an interim arrangement for FICs until they attain NIE status, should this be possible. Specific windows of access for those with the least capacity, including SIDS, is also being advocated for through the development of the Green Climate Fund as it has been in the past with the GEF. In a parallel but related process, the Pacific island countries supported the call for a building block on climate change finance in the Fourth High Level Forum for Development (HLF4) to explore better understanding between accountability of ODA and the promised new and additional climate change finance Commonwealth Governance Handbook 2013/14 111 Climate change remains the greatest threat to the livelihood, security and well-being of the peoples of the Pacific Commonwealth Secretariat
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