Our Better Accountability, Better Finance consultation paper calls for stronger accountability and transparency in climate finance to unlock the trillions of dollars needed to help the world achieve climate-positive growth and development goals. “Green Accountability” could save more than $100bn a year across public climate finance flows and avoid 3GT of annual GHG emissions, by improving the current system in which some 75% of committed funds remain unspent or undeployed.

This paper takes stock of current opportunities and obstacles, and explores approaches that promise the greatest impact. It provides a survey of some of the leading advocates and watchdogs in the space, and outlines possible avenues for strategic engagement.

An increasing number of funders are seeking to support local activism – often through intermediaries, at the intersection of good governance, environmental rights and/or climate. The Transparency & Accountability Initiative (TAI) members want to better understand the operation, scope, and main challenges of funding at the grassroots. To this end, we turned to the experiences of funds with a strong track record in this regard. TAI conducted interviews with representatives of five South American socio-environmental funds supplemented by desk research and follow-up conversations.

This work plan includes both activities that follow on from the past year and new programming developed together with members according to their priorities.

Pur-Ple, a new research and social innovation consulting in Latin America, prepared this research focusing on how funders can better support locally-led initiatives, including practical tools to help philanthropic transformation. Pur-Ple developed four coordinates to guide a comprehensive transformation in philanthropic organizations, that includes concrete actions, questions and examples of good practices.

Here we are sharing with you a visual report with some of the ideas raised among participants, but not necessarily shared by all. Let us know what you think.