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CDKN Technical Assistance
selection criteria - overview
CDKN Year 4
April 2013
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Overview
Technical Assistance to developing countries is demand-led, based on responses to requests for assistance.
However, with more demand than we can fund, and a need to ensure that our collective interventions support our
overall theory of change, we have introduced some guiding selection criteria.
There is no formal scoring mechanism but the following criteria are the basis for prioritisation and decision within
CDKN, subject to available funding.
Level 1: Basic fit with CDKN’s niche
Level 2: Fit with CDKN’s
outcomes and theory of change
NB: These are criteria from which
we decide to whether or not to
respond to a request for technical
assistance or project opportunity.
The project then goes out to tender,
with more detailed and specific
evaluation criteria reflecting the
project objectives, and a core focus
on value for money.
Level 3: Fit with
“advanced” TA
criteria
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Level 1: Basic criteria
The opportunity must be:
•For an eligible / priority country or region within Africa, Asia or Latin America
and the Caribbean (CDKN works in developing countries with a particular focus on
low income and lower-middle income countries. Current “deep engagement”
countries include: Bangladesh, Caribbean region, Colombia, El Salvador, Ethiopia,
India, Indonesia, Kenya, Nepal, Pakistan, Peru, Rwanda, Uganda. We also work in
a number of other countries and at regional and inter-regional levels)
•At the interface between evidence and policy-making
•At the interface between climate change and development
•Demand-led and for an eligible developing country institution or decisionmakers (e.g. national or sub-national governments, regional institutions, other
civil society, community or private sector decision-makers or networks that are
close to the policy implementation process)
•Of a reasonable size and scope given our available budget and likely to be
value for money
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Level 2: Fit with CDKN’s outcomes and
theory of change
CDKN has a theory of change and 4 strategic outcomes. Opportunities must
align with this as follows in some way:
CDKN’s 4 strategic outcomes:
The opportunity must contribute to one or more of these outcomes:
•Developing and implementing climate compatible development strategies and plans
•Improving developing countries’ access to climate finance
•Strengthening resilience through climate-related disaster risk management
•Supporting climate negotiators from the least developed and most vulnerable countries
CDKN’s Theory of Change:
The opportunity should lead to changes in one or
more of these dimensions of change:
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Level 2: Fit with CDKN’s outcomes and
theory of change #continued
The following may be useful in testing whether an opportunity fits at Level 2:
CDKN technical assistance work tends to address one or more of these intervention areas:
1. Defining the VISION and FRAMEWORK
2. Developing the underlying EVIDENCE BASE
3. DESIGNING STRATEGIES for climate compatible development
4. Addressing INSTITUTIONAL REQUIREMENTS
5. Developing an INVESTMENT PLAN and FINANCING OPTIONS
6. IMPLEMENTING and MONITORING
7. Supporting INTERNATIONAL ENGAGEMENT
Current core technical assistance areas include:
• Building the scientific and economic evidence for climate compatible development, including low carbon
energy analysis, vulnerability assessments and economic impact assessments
• Developing low carbon, climate resilient development pathways, scenarios, strategies and plans
• Strengthening institutional capacity, governance and decision-making processes for climate compatible
development
• Strengthening policy, legislative and market-based frameworks for climate compatible development
• Supporting multi-sectoral stakeholder participation processes for climate compatible development policy and
implementation
• Accessing and leveraging climate finance, including national climate finance and risk transfer mechanisms
• Piloting and scaling up innovative climate compatible development solutions, including on low carbon energy
and payment by results
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Level 3: “Advanced” TA criteria #1
Demand-driven:
To progress:
•We need a clear request from government or
other organisation
•We need to be sure the project would not
otherwise be implemented
•We can help articulate and scope the request
and detailed terms of reference
•Where the opportunity is in a “deep
engagement” country, it should contribute to
CDKN’s country level theory of change
Strategic alignment:
We prefer opportunities that:
•Integrate climate change into development
strategy processes
•Enhance local knowledge base to inform
policymaking
•Combine with wider CDKN support (e.g.
knowledge management and research)
•Leave a legacy of increased capacity and can
influence broader public policy debate in country
Degree of buy-in and capacity-building:
We prefer opportunities that:
•Involve stakeholder-rich processes that build
capacity and buy-in
•Are owned and delivered in the appropriate
geographical, cultural and political context
•Build on existing efforts & best practice
•Prioritise capacity-building in institutions or
agents that have the greatest ability to influence
policy
Commitment to knowledge sharing:
We prefer opportunities that:
•Improve access to reliable CCD knowledge
•Share lessons and successes wider than in just
any single country or region
•Broker information exchange at all levels,
between all stakeholders
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Level 3: “Advanced” TA criteria #2
Innovation:
We prefer opportunities that:
•Develop or test a new methodology or
new approach that can contribute to global
knowledge on the issue
•Pilots an approach to implementation that
has potential for programmatic scale-up
•Refines, improves or scales up a new idea
from elsewhere
Co-funding and leveraging:
We welcome opportunities to:
•Co-fund or match fund with other
development partners or institutions
•Use CDKN’s funding to leverage additional
funding or investment from the public or
private sector at a much larger scale
Sectoral focus:
We prefer opportunites that:
•Focus on CDKN’s priority sectors of water, agriculture and food security, energy and cities
– all of which are critical for CCD implementation
•Address gender and other equity issues that are critical for CCD
•Reach out beyond governments to work with the private sector and civil society to help
build momentum for change
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