This paper provides an overview of the large number of initiatives that have been implemented to assist developing countries manage their response to climate change, both through information provision and policy-relevant analysis. It is aimed primarily at government officials who are involved in decision making over how to utilise climate finance in support of relevant national actions. It identifies new themes emerging in the area of development finance and co-operation, including an increasing interest to understand the process whereby national resources (including development finance) are allocated and transferred down through different tiers of government. Other themes include understanding private sector flows and national policy coherence challenges, for example, directed at public investments that may exacerbate climate change through increased carbon emissions. The paper concludes that analysis is needed over both the short and medium-term and suggests that early investment in national and regional centres of excellence for policy analysis on climate change would provide national governments with the evidence to develop robust climate change policies and advance sustainable development. This is a revised version of a paper published in November 2012.