Climate change poses a systemic threat to development progress across Asia and the Pacific. The region is among the world's most disaster-prone, accounting for nearly half of all global economic losses from climate-related hazards over the past decade. Extreme weather events, rising sea levels, erratic rainfall patterns, and increased drought frequency are disrupting agricultural systems, damaging critical infrastructure, straining public finances, and deepening vulnerabilities among already marginalized communities.

Countries across the region have responded with ambitious policy commitments. Most have submitted Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), developed National Adaptation Plans (NAPs), and adopted disaster risk reduction (DRR) strategies aligned with the Sendai Framework. Yet a persistent gap remains between these commitments and their implementation. Developing countries in Asia and the Pacific require hundreds of billions of dollars annually to meet their adaptation and resilience needs, far exceeding current public budgets and international climate finance flows.

Financing climate-resilient development requires more than mobilizing external climate finance. It calls for the strategic alignment of domestic and international public climate and development finance, and private capital with national planning, budgeting, investment, and accountability systems. However, many institutions continue to face constraints related to project preparation, climate rationale development, public financial management, institutional coordination, private sector engagement, and climate finance tracking.

The Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC) is a regional intergovernmental organization with over four decades of experience supporting disaster risk reduction, climate adaptation, and resilience capacity building across Asia and the Pacific. Through ADPC Academy, its dedicated knowledge and learning platform, ADPC is organizing a three-day training course on Financing for Climate-Resilient Development, to be held from 1 to 3 July 2026 in Bangkok, Thailand. The course will provide a practical learning platform for participants to strengthen their understanding of financing pathways for climate-resilient development and to apply this knowledge to real planning and investment contexts.

The course aims to strengthen the capacity of government officials and development practitioners to finance climate-resilient development — from understanding financing landscapes and public financial management systems to developing bankable project proposals and mobilizing domestic, international, and private capital.

Specifically, the course will:

• Build participants' ability to integrate climate resilience into public planning, budgeting, and investment appraisal systems; and
• Equip participants to identify, access, and strategically deploy a range of financing instruments and sources for climate-resilient development priorities in their own country and institutional contexts.

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Analyze the financing requirements of climate-resilient development and their linkages with NDCs, NAPs, DRR strategies, and national development priorities;
• Identify and evaluate financing sources, instruments, and access pathways, including multilateral climate funds, development finance institutions, and domestic public finance mechanisms, relevant to their country context;
• Apply climate-responsive public financial management practices and investment appraisal tools to integrate resilience into national planning and budgeting systems;
• Design financeable climate resilience project concepts incorporating private sector engagement, blended finance, gender and social inclusion, and results frameworks; and
• Produce a draft financing strategy or investment concept outline for a climate-resilient development priority drawn from their own country context.

Module 1: Climate Resilient Development and Financing Needs
This module establishes the conceptual and policy foundation for the course. It examines how climate risks affect development outcomes, why resilience must be embedded in investment decisions, and how national policy frameworks create the mandate and entry points for climate-resilient financing.

Session 1.1: Climate Resilient Development: Concepts and Policy Context

Introduces the principles of climate resilient development and its linkages with NDCs, NAPs, DRR strategies, and development plans.

Session 1.2: Investment Prioritization for Climate Risks and Vulnerability

Explores how climate risk and vulnerability information can inform the identification and prioritization of resilience investments.

Session 1.3: The Climate Finance Landscape

Provides an evidence-based overview of current global and regional climate finance flows by source, instrument, sector, and geography, with a focus on the adaptation finance gap and emerging opportunities.

Module 2: Public Finance for Climate Resilient Development
This module examines the role of domestic public finance in advancing climate-resilient development. It focuses on practical tools and systems for integrating resilience into planning, budgeting, public investment management, and fiscal risk frameworks.

Session 2.1: Fiscal Dimensions of Climate Risk

Examines how climate risks translate into fiscal pressures, including contingent liabilities, disaster-related expenditure shocks, and long-term budget sustainability challenges. Introduces climate public expenditure reviews as a diagnostic tool for assessing the alignment of existing public spending with resilience priorities.

Session 2.2: Integrating Climate Resilience into Planning and Budgeting

Covers the integration of climate resilience into national, sectoral, and subnational plans and medium-term expenditure frameworks. Introduces climate budget tagging as a practical instrument for tracking and improving the alignment of public expenditure with resilience priorities, with examples drawn from Asia and the Pacific.

Session 2.3: Public Investment Appraisal for Resilience

Introduces frameworks and methods for appraising public investments through a climate resilience lens, including cost-benefit analysis, multi-criteria analysis, and climate risk screening. Examines how appraisal processes can be strengthened to systematically account for climate risks, adaptation benefits, and long-term fiscal sustainability.

Session 2.4: Public Sector Financing Instruments for Resilience

Reviews the range of instruments available to governments for financing resilience investments, including budget allocations, grants, concessional loans, policy-based finance, contingency funds, sovereign disaster risk financing mechanisms, and fiscal transfers to subnational governments.

Module 3: International Climate and Development Finance
This module provides an overview of international finance sources and access pathways and proposal requirements for climate-resilient development, with a focus on equipping participants to engage effectively with international climate funds and development finance institutions.

Session 3.1: International Climate Finance Architecture and Access Pathways

Examines key sources of climate and development finance, including UNFCCC financing mechanisms (GCF, GEF, AF, etc.), multilateral/bilateral climate funds, and development finance institutions.

Session 3.2: From Readiness to Investment Programming

Explores how institutional strengthening, planning support, and pipeline development can lead to investment-ready projects.

Session 3.3: Developing Financeable Climate Resilience Proposals

Covers the core elements of a strong climate finance proposal, including climate rationale, theory of change, institutional arrangements, environmental and social safeguards, gender and social inclusion, results frameworks, and long-term sustainability.

Module 4: Project Preparation and Investment Structuring
This module supports participants in translating climate priorities into financeable investment concepts. It focuses on project design, economic and financial appraisal, bankability assessment, and instrument selection, the practical skills most frequently cited as capacity gaps by government counterparts in the region.

Session 4.1: Translating Climate Priorities into Investment Concepts

Examines how NDCs, NAPs, sectoral plans, local adaptation priorities, and DRR strategies can be converted into structured investment concepts. Introduces a practical template covering problem statement, climate risk context, proposed intervention, target beneficiaries, institutional arrangements, and indicative financing requirements.

Session 4.2: Investment Appraisal and Bankability of Resilience Projects

Introduces economic and financial appraisal methods adapted for resilience investments, including cost-benefit analysis that accounts for avoided losses, ecosystem services, and long-term climate risk reduction benefits.

Session 4.3: Matching Projects with Financing Instruments

Guides participants in selecting suitable financing instruments based on project type, risk profile, scale, revenue potential, concessionality needs, and institutional readiness. Introduces a practical decision framework for instrument selection.

Module 5: Private Sector Engagement and Innovative Finance
This module examines how private capital and innovative financing instruments can complement public finance in advancing climate-resilient development. It focuses on enabling conditions, risk-sharing arrangements, and the practical applicability of innovative instruments for government counterparts responsible for creating the conditions for private investment.

Session 5.1: The Case for Private Sector Engagement in Climate Resilience

Examines the rationale and evidence for private sector participation in climate-resilience investments, including the scale of the financing gap that public resources alone cannot close. Explores structural barriers to private investment in resilience, including uncertain revenue streams, long payback periods, perceived policy risk, and weak enabling environments, and the role of governments in addressing them.

Session 5.2: Blended Finance and Risk-Sharing Mechanisms

Introduces the architecture of blended finance and the range of instruments used to reduce risk and mobilize private investment alongside public and concessional capital. Covers first-loss structures, guarantees, subordinated debt, technical assistance facilities, and credit enhancement instruments.

Session 5.3: Sovereign and Market-Based Risk Financing Instruments

Reviews instruments designed to manage the fiscal and financial consequences of climate-related shocks, including parametric and sovereign disaster risk insurance, catastrophe bonds, contingent credit facilities, and regional pooling funds.

Session 5.4: Green, Resilience, and Sustainability-Linked Finance Examines market-based instruments for mobilizing private capital at scale, including green bonds, resilience bonds, sustainability-linked bonds and loans, and debt-for-climate and debt-for-nature swaps.

Module 6: Inclusion, Climate Finance Tracking, Accountability, and Strategy Development
This module brings together the course themes through a focus on gender equality, disability, and social inclusion, transparency, accountability, and practical application. It equips participants to integrate GEDSI principles into financing strategies, monitor and report on climate finance flows and results, and consolidate their learning into a concrete financing strategy or investment concept drawn from their own country context.

Session 6.1: Gender Equality, Disability, and Social Inclusion in Climate Finance

Examines why GEDSI is central to effective and equitable climate-resilient development financing, including how exclusion of marginalized groups undermines investment outcomes and long-term sustainability.

Session 6.2: Climate Finance Tracking and MRV

Introduces approaches for tracking climate finance sources, instruments, sectors, beneficiaries, and results, including linkages with national reporting and budget systems and UNFCCC reporting mechanisms under Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF) and OECD DAC Rio markers.

Session 6.2: Practical Exercise: Developing a Financing Strategy

Participant groups prepare and present a draft financing strategy or investment concept outline for a selected climate-resilient development priority, incorporating the tools, frameworks, and financing approaches covered across the course.

The main training output will be a draft Financing Strategy or Investment Concept Outline prepared by participants in groups. The outline may include the climate risk and development challenge, priority investment need, target beneficiaries, proposed financing instruments, potential financing sources, institutional roles, inclusion measures, monitoring arrangements, and key implementation risks.

The course will adopt an applied, participatory, and adult learning approach, combining technical sessions, facilitated discussions, case studies, and group work. Participants will be encouraged to draw on their own institutional and country contexts, including existing policies, investment priorities, project ideas, and financing challenges. To maximize the value of applied sessions, participants will be asked to come prepared with a project idea or investment priority from their country context as part of pre-course preparation.

The course will be delivered in English. It will culminate in the preparation and peer review of a draft financing strategy or investment concept outline, developed by participant groups and presented on the final day. ADPC Academy will provide participants with a resource package of tools, frameworks, and reference materials to support continued application after the course.

$1,140 (without accommodation)
$1,464 [with accommodation (4 nights)]

Fees are inclusive of course materials (soft copy), cost of instructions, and course certificate. For face-to-face training, the fee is inclusive of morning and afternoon snacks and lunch during the course.

Interested individuals and organizations can register online at www.adpc.net/apply.

For more information about the course, you may also contact ApibarlBunchongraksa at apibarl@adpc.net.