ABSTRACT
In this chapter we look in more detail at the LCRD planning paradigm introduced in Chapter 1. We start by exploring how this paradigm has evolved at international level and how it has been financed in the LDCs. We go on to consider the particular questions and challenges it throws up for LDCs at national level that have emerged from existing research. We then analyse in more detail the four countries under study in this book: Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Rwanda and Nepal. In each case, we briefly outline the internal climate change planning context – its history and institutional and funding arrangements – before going on to identify the key features of its LCRD planning. This draws together information from across the authors’ research (and specifically from Fisher and Slaney 2013; Fikreyesus et al. 2014; Rai et al. 2014 and Nash and Ngabitsinze 2014). Our analysis of the international context, national research findings and
four national cases leads us to suggest that while international political developments and finance have given national governments the initial push to engage with the LCRD agenda, the dynamics of these countries’ internal political economy are also playing a significant role in shaping their plans and actions. There are a range of challenges with national planning in this area and governments are putting in place policy frameworks, financial and institutional mechanisms to address particular issues identified. This provides the context for the later chapters of this book which explore the political economy of these in more detail. We begin, though, by outlining how the LCRD agenda has emerged
through international negotiations and climate funds.
