Workshop on Corruption and Anti-Corruption Strategies in Climate Financing
 
 
Programme: Training Workshop

DAY ONE: Monday, 25 May 2015

Introduction to Corruption & Climate Finance

Time

Session & Objectives

Speakers

12:30             

Lunch

13:30

Registration

14:00

Welcome

  • Claudia Buentjen, Principal Public Management Specialist and OIC, Technical Advisor (Governance), ADB
  • Dr. Bernd-Markus Liss, GIZ Philippines Principal Advisor Climate Program, Focal Point Anticorruption

14:15

Session 1: Introduction

Introduction to U4 and corruption 

  • Introduction to U4
  • Participant introductions and expectations
  • Overview of workshop structure and goals
  • What is corruption? Basics of corruption and group exercise
  • Q & A

 


  • Aled Williams, Senior Advisor, U4: Introduction to U4 Anti-Corruption Center: Introduction to U4
  • Kendra Dupuy, Natural Resource Management Advisor, U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Center: Basics of Corruption
  • Moderation by Kendra Dupuy, Natural Resource Management Advisor, U4 Anti-Corruption Center

15:00

Coffee break

15:15

 

Session 2: Trends and patterns in climate finance

  • Definitions, amounts, and mechanisms in climate finance flows – international and national levels
  • Sum up of high level event: Key take-away points on climate finance modalities in the Philippines, and importance of corruption and anti-corruption in climate finance flows and natural resource management, with reference to the Philippines context and the Asian region

 

  • Kendra Dupuy, Natural Resource Management Advisor, U4 Anti-Corruption Center: Key Terms & Global and Regional Scope of Climate Finance
  • Michael Rattinger, Climate Change Specialist, Climate Change Coordination & Disaster Risk Management Unit, Asian Development Bank
  • Muhammad Zakir Hossain Khan, Head of Climate Governance Team, Transparency International Bangladesh: Corruption in the Environmental and Forestry Sector
  • Moderation by Kendra Dupuy, Natural Resource Management Advisor, U4 Anti-Corruption Center

 

16:30

Session 3: Close for the day

  • Sum up of the day
  • Overview of day 2

 

  • Kendra Dupuy and Aled Williams, U4 Anti-Corruption Center
  • GIZ and ADB representatives

17:00

Reception (Hosted by ADB)

DAY TWO: Tuesday, 26 May 2015

Corruption Risks in Climate Finance and Natural Resources Management

Time

Session & Objectives

Speakers

08:30

Registration

09:00

Session 4: Status of climate finance in the Philippines

Review and summary of Day 1, overview of Day 2

Status of climate finance in Philippines 

  • What do you know? Group exercise to map existing knowledge of the architecture of climate finance flows to and in the Philippines
  • Present group work
  • Overview of international and national climate finance flows to, and in, the Philippines
  • Corruption in the Philippines context

                   





  • Pebbles Sanchez, Senior Technical Staff, Climate Change Commission, Philippines (for Joyceline A. Goco, Deputy Executive Director, Climate Change Commission, Philippines)
  • Kendra Dupuy, Natural Resource Management Advisor, U4 Anti-Corruption Center: Climate Finance Architecture in the Philippines
  • Moderation by Aled Williams, U4 Anti-Corruption Center

 

10:00

Coffee break

10:15

Session 5: What do we know about corruption risks in climate finance and in natural resource management (NRM)?

  • General state of knowledge of corruption risks in multilateral and national climate funds
  • Corruption risks in REDD+
  • Overview of lessons learned from U4 work on corruption in natural resource management





  • Aled Williams, Senior Advisor, U4 Anti-Corruption Center: Corruption risks in NRM and in REDD+
  • Muhammad Zakir Hossain Khan, Head of Climate Governance Team, TI Bangladesh: Governance Risks in Multilateral Climate Funds
  • Kendra Dupuy, Natural Resource Management Advisor, U4 Anti-Corruption Center: Corruption Risks in National Climate Funds
  • Moderation by Kendra Dupuy, Natural Resource Management Advisor, U4 Anti-Corruption Center

12:00

Lunch

13:00

Session 6: Group work

Corruption risks and mitigation in the case of Indonesia’s Reforestation Fund


                   
  • Kendra Dupuy and Aled Williams, U4 Anti-Corruption Center

14:00

Coffee break and group photo

14:15

Session 7: Presentation of group work

  • Kendra Dupuy and Aled Williams, U4 Anti-Corruption Center

15:30

Coffee break

15:45

Session 8: Specific corruption risks in climate finance and natural resource management in the Philippines

  • U4 REDD+ studies on corruption risks in implementing REDD+ in the Philippines
  • Plenary discussion: other examples from the Philippines of corruption in climate finance and natural resource management





  • Justine Nicole V. Torres, Legal and Policy Specialist, Ateneo School of Government, Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines: Corruption Risks in Implementing REDD+ in the Philippines
  • Grizelda Gerthie Mayo-Anda, Executive Director, Environmental Legal Assistance Center (ELAC), Philippines: Corruption in the Use of the Malampaya Royalty Fund
  • Moderation by Aled Williams, Senior Advisor, U4 Anti-Corruption Center

16:30

Session 9: Close for the day

  • Sum up of the day
  • Overview of day 2


  • Kendra Dupuy and Aled Williams, U4 Anti-Corruption Center
  • GIZ and ADB representatives

DAY THREE: Wednesday, 27 May 2015

Strategies to Mitigate Corruption in Climate Finance and Natural Resources Management

Time

Session & Objectives

Speakers

08:30

Registration

09:00

Session 10: Summary and review of days 1 and 2, overview of day 3, and introduction to anti-corruption

  • Kendra Dupuy and Aled Williams, U4 Anti-Corruption Center

 

09:30

Session 11: Anti-corruption measures in climate finance

  • Transparency International reports on anti-corruption safeguards in multilateral climate funding initiatives, and of climate finance in 6 developing countries
  • TI’s 2011 report on corruption and climate change
  • Overview of REDD safeguards and other transparency mechanisms in climate aid



               
  • Muhammad Zakir Hossain Khan, Head of Climate Governance Team, TI Bangladesh
  • Moderation by Kendra Dupuy, Natural Resource Management Advisor, U4 Anti-Corruption Center

 

10:30

Coffee break

10:45

Session 12: International standards and best practices for aid flows, revenue transfers, and natural resource management

  • Overview of international standards and best practices for transparency in aid flows: the role of open & big data
  • Overview of best practices for anti-corruption in sub-national revenue transfers
  • Overview of best practices for anti-corruption in natural resource management and REDD
  • DENR Integrity program - addressing corruption risks in natural resources management in the Philippines





  • Kendra Dupuy, Natural Resource Management Advisor, U4 Anti-Corruption Center: International Standards and Best Practices for Mitigating Corruption in Aid Flows and Sub-National Revenue Transfers
  • Aled Williams, Senior Advisor, U4 Anti-Corruption Center: Anti-Corruption Measures in Natural Resource Management and REDD
  • Daniel Nicer, Assistant Secretary for Internal Audit and Anti-Corruption, Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Philippines: Administrative Reforms and Anti-Corruption
  • Moderation by Kendra Dupuy, Natural Resource Management Advisor, U4 Anti-Corruption Center

12:30

Lunch

13:30

Session 13: Mainstreaming anti-corruption into donor work & in national policies and programs for climate finance and natural resource management

  • How to mainstream and implement anti-corruption approaches and programs
  • Group work exercise and presentation: highlight existing knowledge about current good practices and existing anti-corruption measures and actors for climate finance mechanisms and natural resource management programs in the Philippines. What exists, what can be built on, and what are the gaps and challenges?

     




                  
  • Heidi Mendoza, Commissioner, Commission on Audit, Philippines: Auditing in the Context of the Philippines: Citizens Participatory Audit of Solid Waste Management
  • Kendra Dupuy, Natural Resource Management Advisor, U4 Anti-Corruption Center: Mainstreaming Anti-Corruption into Programs and Policies
  • Moderation by Aled Williams, Senior Advisor, U4 Anti-Corruption Center
  • Group work and discussion

 

14:30

Coffee break

14:45

Session 14: The Way Forward

Group work and discussion

  • What key lessons have been learned during the workshop regarding corruption risks in climate aid flows and in natural resource management, and with reference to the Philippines context?
  • Develop key recommendations for anti-corruption strategies and steps regarding climate aid flows and natural resource management in the Philippines
  • Identify key actions that need to be taken to realize these recommendations
  • Develop a plan for how to carry out these actions– who will do what, when, and how

      


                 
  • Moderation by Hon. Gerard A. Mosquera, Deputy Ombudsman for Luzon and Environment, Office of the Ombudsman, Philippines

 

15:45

Session 15: Presentation of group work, and synthesis summary

  • Kendra Dupuy and Aled Williams, U4 Anti-Corruption Center

 

16:30

Session 16: Close of workshop

  • Summary review of all three workshop days, and thanks from U4
  • Final remarks from ADB, GIZ, government
  • Presentation of certificates
  • Evaluation


                   
  • Kendra Dupuy and Aled Williams, U4 Anti-Corruption Center
  • GIZ and ADB representatives