Blitz Bureau
NEW DELHI: India is giving Tanzania $840,000 in aid for a programme to provide financial protection against risk from climate change, according to India’s Permanent Mission to the UN.
“India fully supports the Tanzanian Government’s determination to the proposed project which shall serve as an effective vehicle in dealing with the climate-related hazards threatening lives and livelihood”, the mission said on Friday.
The grant requested by the Tanzanian government will be routed through the India-UN Development Fund, which New Delhi set up with $150 million in 2017 in association with the UN to provide development assistance to the Global South.
The grant will be covered by the Fund’s Commonwealth Window that specially gives grants to fellow nations in the group.
The unique feature of the India-UN Development Fund is that recipient countries themselves decide what they need the grants for and how they will use them.
That is in contrast to most development assistance programmes where the donors decide.
In this case, Tanzania’s “national ownership is assured as the Disaster Management Department under the (Tanzanian) Prime Minister’s Office leads the project, ensuring alignment with the country’s priorities and strategic plans”, the mission pointed out.
The mission said it was partnering with the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) in the project, which aims at supporting Tanzania’s National Disaster Risk Financing Framework and Implementation Plan 2031 (NDRFFIP).
