Download A Pacific Regional Perspective on Capacity Building for Climate

A Pacific Regional Perspective on
Capacity Building for Climate
Change
Espen Ronneberg
Climate Change Adviser
SPREP
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme
PO Box 240. Apia, Samoa
[email protected]
Overview
• Pacific experience with MEAs
• Main issues facing PICs in FCCC
negotiations
• Current efforts to remedy situation
• Monitoring and evaluation
Pacific experiences with MEAs
• PICs become Parties to many MEAs
without full understanding of obligations
• Capacity problems in developing
implementation plans
• Capacity problems with substantive
technical issues
• Lack of capacity to articulate/formulate
proposals to remedy situation
Main issues on capacity in FCCC
• Poor outcomes could exacerbate PIC
vulnerability (not enough adaptation)
• Need to articulate local and national
adaptation concerns
• Find the appropriate ways and means of
applying international technical and
financial support to the national and local
needs and requirements
Capacity issues cut across all
climate change areas in PICs
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Science and technology
Adaptation options
Mitigation potential under the CDM
Communications strategies
National action plans and national
communications drafting
• Consistency of personnel attending
meetings
Capacity development to date
• Ensued with PICCAP project, as well as
through National Capacity Self
Assessments
• Ad-hoc capacity building through
community based adaptation project
• PI Renewable Energy Project set stage
• But, monitoring and evaluation often done
as afterthought, and often too late
What is proposed to remedy?
• SPREP is developing a project proposal for
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EU/ACP funding as an umbrella mechanism for
capacity building
SPREP will provide technical assistance,
training, policy and advisory support services for
practical capacity building
Project will act to channel further capacity
building funds in a coordinated manner
Sustainability to be sought through incorporation
in national sustainable development strategies
and appropriate national coordination
SPREP as lead agency on FCCC
• SPREP will also coordinate through
regional climate change framework and
regional climate change roundtable
process
• Monitoring and evaluation will be
facilitated through roundtable discussions
on gaps in implementation
Monitoring and evaluation
• The needs for M&E are well recognized
• Past efforts ex post facto
• Continuous capacity development facility
will be established through SPREP
• Build on regional expertise and enhance
capacity through all new and existing
opportunities – long term goal
Thank you