Assessing the Quality of Adaptation Finance
A Decision-Support Tool for Public Finance Providers
Public finance providers must allocate scarce resources strategically to maximize adaptation and development outcomes. This paper and tool offer guidance for achieving this. The interactive tool below helps practitioners assess an intervention’s impacts at the project, market, and system levels, considering four common public finance approaches: grants, debt, equity, and risk-transfer tools (e.g., guarantees and insurance).
This tool does not yield comparative benchmarking but rather identifies strengths and surfaces gaps to support better decision-making over time. Each project is assessed against the tool’s criteria, with three assessment levels indicating the direction of travel:
Three-Level Lens for Assessing Quality of Adaptation & Resilience Finance
Use the filters in the interactive table below to assess descriptors at each level. The accompanying report provides methodological guidance, supporting analysis, illustrative examples, and practical insights to support use of the tool, including analyses of adaptation-tagged ODA, adaptation finance and sovereign debt sustainability, and a case study applying the project- and market-level criteria.
