development cooperation can play an important role in building trust facilitating knowledge sharing and accelerating learning from experience across countries and regions as well as the development climate change and finance communities the findings of this report provide initial insights on the preconditions enabling effective climate finance in the context of development cooperation going forward there may be a need for new considerations and additional preconditions or principles that go beyond the insights from this research in particular the increasing role of private climate finance and southsouth and triangular cooperation in scaling up climate finance to meet global needs as well as specific objectives of international climate funds may require a broader set of preconditions for effectiveness