Multitrack Policy and Advocacy Consultants is proud to announce that its team members Eve Odete, Rachel Masika, and Michael Murigi co-authored a groundbreaking report on climate finance in the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) region. The study, commissioned by Oxfam in Africa, provides critical insights into the escalating impacts of climate change and the urgent need for transformative financing solutions.
The report, written in collaboration with Tallulah Cherry-Virdee of INKA Consult, sheds light on the disproportionate effects of climate change on the IGAD member states: Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, and Uganda. While these countries have contributed little to global emissions, they face severe climate-induced crises, including recurrent droughts, devastating floods, desertification, and displacement.
Between 2021 and 2023, the region endured one of the harshest drought cycles in recent history, followed by destructive flooding. These events triggered a hunger crisis that, by 2024, left 62.9 million people facing acute food insecurity. Climate shocks, compounded by ongoing conflict and economic pressures, have displaced more than 25 million people, exposing the fragility of communities and testing national governments already constrained by debt and limited fiscal space.
The report underscores eight key findings, the most urgent being that climate finance flows to the IGAD region remain wholly inadequate. Despite carrying the heaviest burden of climate impacts, these countries continue to receive insufficient support to invest in adaptation, loss and damage responses, and sustainable, low-carbon development pathways. The authors stress that climate finance must be understood not as charity, but as a matter of justice.
In acknowledging the significance of this work, the Multitrack team expressed pride in contributing its expertise to a regional-level analysis that integrates climate finance, debt, agriculture, gender, and humanitarian financing. Their work aims to influence the ongoing global discourse on transforming climate financing and reimagining international financial systems so that they align with the Paris Agreement goal of limiting global warming to 1.5°C.
The study was made possible with valuable input from partners, including experts from IGAD’s Centre of Excellence for Climate Change Adaptation and Environmental Protection (IGAD CAEP), under the leadership of Ambassador Gamal Hassan and his team.
Through this contribution, the Multitrack Policy and Advocacy Consultants team reaffirms its commitment to evidence-based advocacy and policy development in addressing some of the most pressing challenges of our time.
