Supplementary material to the paper “Equity and cost-effectiveness of multilateral adaptation finance – are they friends or foes?”

Supplementary Material Table 1: List of projects considered by be AFB in 2011

AFB meeting (month) / Project country / Funding (in million USD) / Imple-menting agency / Full project or concept / Approved / Endorsed?
March / Ecuador / 7'449'468 / WFP / Full project / Yes
March / Eritrea / 6'520'850 / UNDP / Full project / Yes
March / Solomon Islands / 5'533'500 / UNDP / Full project / Yes
March / Tanzania / 9'814'517 / UNEP / Full project / No
March / Uruguay / 7'000'000 / National / Concept / Yes
June / Argentina / 4'456'638 / World Bank / Concept / Yes
June / Djibouti / 4'658'556 / UNDP / Concept / Yes
June / Fiji / 5'728'800 / UNDP / Concept / Yes
June / Guatemala / 5'250'000 / UNDP / Full project / No
June / Jamaica / 9'995'000 / National / Concept / Yes
June / Madagascar / 4'505'000 / UNEP / Full project / No
June / Maldives / 8'989'225 / UNDP / Full project / Yes
June / Mongolia / 5'500'000 / UNDP / Full project / Yes
June / Papua New Guin. / 8'831'900 / UNDP / Concept / Yes
June / Seychelles / 6'455'750 / UNDP / Concept / Yes
June / Sri Lanka / 7'982'555 / WFP / Concept / No
June / Tanzania / 9'814'517 / UNEP / Full project / No
June / Turkmenistan / 2'929'500 / UNDP / Full project / Yes
September / Belize / 10'000'000 / WB / Concept / No
September / Cook Islands / 5'381'600 / UNDP / Full project / No
September / Egypt / 7'287'658 / WFP / Concept / No
September / Georgia / 5'316'500 / UNDP / Full project / No
September / Madagascar / 4'505'000 / UNEP / Full project / No
September / Mali / 8'533'348 / UNDP / Concept / No
September / Mauritania / 9'995'145 / WFP / Concept / No
September / Mauritius / 9'119'240 / UNDP / Full project / Yes
September / Papua New Guin. / 8'831'900 / UNDP / Full project / No
September / Samoa / 8'732'351 / UNDP / Full project / No
December / Cambodia / 4'915'362 / UNEP / Concept / No
December / Cook Islands / 5'381'600 / UNDP / Full project / Yes
December / Egypt / 7'287'658 / WFP / Concept / Yes
December / Georgia / 5'316'500 / UNDP / Full project / Yes
December / Madagascar / 4'505'000 / UNEP / Full project / Yes
December / Mauritania / 9'995'145 / WFP / Concept / Yes
December / Myanmar / 7'909'026 / UNDP / Concept / Yes
December / Papua New Guin. / 6'530'373 / UNDP / Full project / No
December / Samoa / 8'732'351 / UNDP / Full project / Yes
December / Tanzania / 9'814'517 / UNEP / Full project / Yes
December / Uruguay / 7'000'000 / National / Full project / Yes

Supplementary Material Table 2: Most vulnerable countries according to different indices

Overall vulnerability index, / Vulnerability index, (inverted) ranks / Impact vulnerability index / Climate Vulnerability score
Barr et al. (2010) / Global Adap-tation Institute GAI (2011) / Buys et al. (2009) / Wheeler
(2011)
Argentina / 24 / 25 / 15 / 26
Belize / 16 / 18 / 2 / 17
Cambodia / 13 / 8 / 3 / 7
Cook Islands / n/a / n/a / n/a / 20
Djibouti / 3 / 9 / 10 / 10
Ecuador / 11 / 24 / 6 / 16
Egypt / 6 / 23 / 19 / 27
Eritrea / 1 / 7 / 4 / 2
Fiji / 14 / 17 / n/a / 15
Georgia / 20 / 21 / 12 / 24
Guatemala / 9 / 16 / 8 / 18
Jamaica / 17 / 15 / 11 / 19
Madagascar / 8 / 4 / 8 / 3
Maldives / 21 / 13 / n/a / 13
Mali / 4 / 1 / 13 / 4
Mauritania / 2 / 3 / 1 / 8
Mauritius / 19 / 22 / n/a / 23
Mongolia / 26 / 12 / 17 / 22
Myanmar / 18 / 10 / 5 / 1
Papua New Guinea / 7 / 6 / 18 / 9
Samoa / 15 / 11 / n/a / 11
Seychelles / 12 / 14 / n/a / 21
Solomon Islands / 10 / 5 / n/a / 6
Sri Lanka / 22 / 19 / 7 / 12
Tanzania / 5 / 2 / 14 / 5
Turkmenistan / 23 / 20 / 20 / 14
Uruguay / 25 / 26 / 16 / 25

1 = most vulnerable among selected countries; n/a = not covered by this index

Supplementary Material Table 3: Spearman’s rank-ordered correlation coefficients between different vulnerability indices, approval and cost-effectiveness indicators

Approval / endor-sement / N / Absolute economic savings in USD / N / Relative economic savings (% of income) / N / Health benefits (DALYs) / N
Vulnerability
Barr (2010) / -0.27 / 37 / -0.08 / 39 / 0.32** / 39 / -0.01 / 39
Vulnerability
GAI (2011) / -0.31* / 37 / -0.29* / 39 / 0.38** / 39 / -0.23 / 39
Vulnerability
Buys (2009) / -0.14 / 30 / 0.02 / 32 / 0.27 / 32 / 0.17 / 32
Vulnerability Wheeler (2011) / -0.22 / 39 / -0.19 / 41 / 0.45*** / 41 / -0.07 / 41

* = significant at 0.1 level, ** = significant at 0.05 level, *** = significant at 0.01 level,

N is different for each correlation

Supplementary Material 4: Spearman’s rank-ordered correlation coefficients between equity & cost-effectiveness indicators (project concepts and full proposals separately assessed)

Only project concepts (N=14) / Cost-effectiveness
Absolute economic savings in USD / Relative economic savings (% of income) / Health benefits (DALYs)
RANK / RANK / RANK
Equity / Equal funding per capita / RANK / -0.51* / 0.99*** / n/a
Most vulnerable countries
(Barr et al. 2010) / RANK / -0.14 / 0.59*** / n/a
Poorest countries (low GDP per capita) / RANK / -0.25 / 0.80*** / n/a

* = significant at 0.1 level, ** = significant at 0.05 level, *** = significant at 0.01 level,

Only full proposals (N=21) / Cost-effectiveness
Absolute economic savings in USD / Relative economic savings (% of income) / Health benefits (DALYs)
RANK / RANK / RANK
Equity / Equal funding per capita / RANK / 0.26 / 0.67*** / 0.14
Most vulnerable countries
(Barr et al. 2010) / RANK / -0.01 / 0.46** / 0.00
Poorest countries (low GDP per capita) / RANK / -0.14 / 0.60*** / -0.17

* = significant at 0.1 level, ** = significant at 0.05 level, *** = significant at 0.01 level,

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