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Climate Finance Network

Financing a climate-resilient future in Indonesia

Introduction

UNDP Indonesia is strengthening the national architecture for mobilizing and governing climate finance. Close collaboration with national and sub-national governments helps turn ambitious climate plans into tangible, finance-ready projects, ensuring that funds flow toward inclusive and equitable resilience. This work is part of the Climate Finance Network, supported by the UK FCDO CARA Programme.

What We Do

Strengthening Climate Finance Systems 
  • The Challenge: Mobilizing climate finance requires more than funding, it requires effective policies, institutions, and financial systems 
  • The Approach: Support governments to strengthen climate finance governance, public financial management, and investment frameworks. 
  • The Goal: Resilient climate finance systems that enable long-term investment for mitigation and adaptation. 
 
Enabling Climate Finance Pathways 
  • The Challenge: Many climate priorities remain underfunded despite growing financing opportunities. 
  • The Approach: Support governments create the conditions for climate investments by improving investment readiness and connecting priorities with financing pathways. 
  • The Goal: Greater mobilization of public, private, and international finance to implement climate action.

Our Impact in Action

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📊 Powering data-driven climate finance 

The CONNECT Climate Finance Dashboard is deployed and hosted within Indonesia’s Ministry of Finance IT ecosystem. This groundbreaking tool improves transparency, tracking, and decision-making on climate finance flows across the country.

🏛️ Building sub-national capacity 

A Climate Finance Handbook was developed and used to train 79 participants representing 12 provinces, regencies, and cities. This gives local governments the operational capacity to identify, tag, and validate climate-aligned budgets using the CONNECT system.

Contribution to Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI)

The impacts and risks of climate change for communities can vary depending on region, generation, social class, type of employment, age, income, and gender. Each group has different levels of exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity to the various impacts of climate change.

The project aims to integrate gender mainstreaming within the context of public climate finance, both at the national and sub-national level, to ensure inclusivity through technical assistance, and capacity building. Efforts of the project include gender mainstreaming within climate budgeting, specifically climate budget tagging. Implementation of gender responsive climate budget tagging itself has been done in over 7 Ministries/Institutions, piloted in 2 provinces. The intervention has also resulted in the development of the gender responsive climate budget tagging technical guidance document that offers quick identification of gender and climate activities and budgets. 

Our Impact

15 countries

represented across 3 South-South Exchange activities

580 participants

joined trainings and capacity building on CBT

630 participants

completed capacity building provided on Regional Climate Budget Tagging and access to climate finance across 10 provinces, regencies, and cities

Publications

Publication

Technical Guidelines for Gender Responsive Climate Change Budget Tagging (Bahasa Indonesia)

Climate change poses unequal risks to vulnerable groups, including women, children, the elderly, people with disabilities, and indigenous peoples. To promote inclusive climate action, this guide introduces a co-benefit tagging mechanism that integrates gender perspectives into climate mitigation and adaptation budgeting. Jointly prepared by the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Women's Empowerment and Child Protection, with support from UNDP, the guidebook provides practical methods for gender-responsive climate budget tagging. It includes indicators for identifying gender components in the Gender Analysis Pathway (GAP) and Gender Budget Statement (GBS), aiming to accelerate the adoption of dual thematic budget tagging across Ministries and Institutions in Indonesia.

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Publication

Climate Finance Guidebook for the Indonesian Parliament (Bahasa Indonesia)

Parliament plays a vital role in ensuring effective climate governance through its legislative, oversight, budgetary, and diplomatic functions. With the growing gap between climate finance needs and available resources, parliamentary engagement is key to achieving Indonesia’s climate commitments. Developed by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Anwar Muhammad Foundation (AMF), this guidebook supports parliamentarians by: (1) Mapping their roles, rights, and responsibilities in addressing climate change; (2) Providing guiding questions to integrate climate and social inclusion across all stages of the budget cycle—planning, ratification, and oversight; (2) Highlighting opportunities to mainstream gender equality and social inclusion in climate policy; Identifying key government institutions and potential collaborations with civil society, academia, media, and the private sector. This guidebook serves as a practical tool to strengthen parliamentary contributions to inclusive and effective climate finance.

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