The Pilot Program for Climate Resilience (PPCR) is a funding mechanism under the Climate Investment Funds (CIF) which is helping developing countries integrate climate resilience into development planning and investment.

The PPCR has a two phase programmatic approach:

• It assists national governments in integrating climate resilience into development planning across sectors and stakeholder groups.
• It provides additional funding to put these plans into action and to pilot innovative public and private sector solutions to pressing climate-related risks.

PPCR funding is being used to implement 55 projects in 17 countries including Jamaica, which is receiving funding as a part of the PPCR for the Caribbean region. To date the PPCR has approved over US$846 million in funding globally.

The PPCR provides support which helps countries move from a piecemeal, project by project method of building climate resilience to a wider, more comprehensive approach of long-term strategic investments and activities which should facilitate transformational change at the national level and across targeted sectors.

To extend the PPCR’s reach beyond national and regional investment plans and to stimulate more private sector participation, concessional financing has been set aside to be awarded on a competitive basis for innovative private sector projects advancing the goals of the PPCR.