Climate Action Planning Framework

Short Info: To deliver the Paris Agreement, climate action planning needs to shift to new levels of ambition, driving rapid and systemic change on the ground. Cities urgently need to position themselves on an ambitious emissions reduction (or peaking) trajectory to achieve emissions neutrality and climate resilience by 2050.

The Climate Action Planning Framework was developed to support cities in developing climate action plans that are aligned with the objectives of the Paris Agreement.  Furthermore, it focuses on enriching the planning process by building the capacities for community and business engagement based on evidence and the condition of the city by facilitating transformational and implementational actions.
Providing Institution: C40 Network
Region: Global
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Adaptation research alliance
 

Short Info:The Adaptation Research Alliance (ARA) is a coalition across the adaptation research and action communities, bringing together researchers and both traditional ‘research funders’ and ‘action funders’.
It will seek to catalyze increased investment in action-oriented adaptation research driven by end-user needs that will help create practical and effective adaptation and resilience solutions.
It will seek to promote research modalities and activities that are: collaborative and Southern-led, strengthen local universities and research institutions, lead to capacity-building and facilitate linkages between research and implementation at multiple levels.
Providing Institution: South-South North
Region: Global
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Youth Programme

Short Info: ICCCAD’s Youth Programme seeks to involve the youth and children of Bangladesh to come forward under one banner; where young men and women can learn, understand and share aspects of environmental and social problems of climate change through education and capacity building. ICCCAD’s Youth programme understands the need of the Youth’s involvement in development and identifying challenges through solution development by providing viable solutions for this vast sector. The programme aims to equip the next generation with climate change knowledge and different policies to encourage them to take equitable action for local climate change issues and to build a strong and effective network of youth across and outside of the nation.
Providing Institution: International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD)
Region: Asia
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Community Capacity Building for Climate Change Resilience Project

Short Info: Today, the major challenge facing climate change planning processes is to build the adaptive capacities of different actors and communities to face climate change’s adverse effects. To this end, adaptation and resilience to climate change and climate variability must be a priority. By increasing the capacities, roles and responsibilities of different actors of Burundi in the forecasting and management of crises, this project aims to develop mechanisms for adapting to climate change effects in order to adopt a strategy to deal with change, strengthen the legal and institutional framework, and promote the adequate integration of adaptation and mitigation measures in municipality development.
Providing Institution: Climate Chance
Region: Africa
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Green Ambassador for the climate in Africa Programme

Short Info:The "Green Ambassador for the climate in Africa" programme is a competitive Pan-African programme set up by CCAO with the objective of identifying and promoting exemplary young activists, building capacities and networks among them, in order to support and encourage them to remain proactive on the global imperative of combating climate change. The 1,084 Green Ambassadors for Climate in Africa were selected from a pool of 14,300 young candidates from 54 countries of the African continent (26.7% female, 73.3% male).

Providing Institution: Climate Change Africa Opportunities (CCAO)
Region: Africa
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Building leaderships for LAC cities in a changing climate

Short Info:This 48-month leadership program aims to address the challenges of climate change in Latin America by building capacities among young leaders in the region, particularly women. This will be done by training young leaders on climate risk and urban management, leadership, accompanied by participatory planning and negotiation skills. This will enable them to advise local public and private stakeholders on the effective development of climate-resilient, transformative policies and plans  in medium-sized cities that promote transformative actions to face climate change scenarios.

Providing Institution: IDRC, FLACSO Ecuador
Region: LAC
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Environmental Change through Capacity Building: Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific: Capacity-building related to multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs) in African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries.

Short Info: The ACP MEA programme has entered the second phase to enhance the capacities of countries to implement their environmental targets at the national and regional levels. This report highlight the successes and lessons learned of the first phase of the project and serves as a tool for policymakers and practitioners to enhance the capacity of ACP counties and strengthen their engagement and implementation of MEAs.

Providing Institution: UNEP
Region: Global
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 The NDC Partnership Youth Engagement Plan (YEP)

Short Info: Youth today and the future generations will have to live with and manage the impacts of the climate crisis. Despite their participation in climate action processes, youth are not included in decision-making or lack the information and resources to engage meaningfully.  The YEP aims to support youth in becoming effective agents of change in successful climate action and to build capacity on climate change and NDCs among youth at the national and local level through its key action areas

1. Design youth-inclusive NDC processes at the country level
2. Support the development of youth-led NDC implementation projects
3. Strengthen climate change capacity building for young people
4. Encourage youth participation in global NDC Partnership activities

Providing Institution: NDC Partnership
Region: Global
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Development of Groundwater Management Strategy in Cambodia: Institutional Assessment, Capacity Building Plan and Proposed Key Components of Ground Water Management 

Short Info: Cambodia is considered one of the most water-abundant countries in Asia and has an economy highly dependent on water. However, groundwater management in the country is challenged by the lack of proper monitoring systems and regulation. Strengthening capacity of relevant government institutions and key stakeholders working on groundwater issues is very important for effective groundwater management.  This study came up with key groundwater management strategies in Cambodia, including setting up groundwater monitoring systems, addressing groundwater contamination, and establishment of a groundwater regulatory system in the country, combined with advocacy and multi-level and inter-ministerial capacity-building. 

Providing Institution: UNDP and GEF
Region: Global
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Assessing agroforestry practices and soil and water conservation for climate change adaptation in Kenya: A cost-benefit analysis

Short Info: Kenya’s National Adaptation Plan (NAP) addresses the country’s vulnerability and resilience to climate change and proposes a series of adaptation actions in agriculture. The widespread on-farm implementation of these actions will require adjustments including new technologies, reallocation of labour, and assistance to resource-poor farmers and policy interventions to address barriers to adoption.  This study analyses the economic worthiness of adaptation measures currently being practised by some farmers on their land, using cost-benefit analysis (CBA), quantifying in monetary terms the value of the benefits and costs of a project, both financially (from the perspective on single entities, such as farmers) and economically (considering social costs and benefits accrued to various beneficiaries in society).  

The analysis helps to identify solutions – either policy options or investment projects – for an efficient allocation of scarce financial resources by comparing alternative projects and policies, then indicating whether financial resources should be allocated to support a specific option. The study’s findings can inform policy makers and development practitioners involved in formulating and implementing the NAP process. 

Providing Institution: FAO and UNDP
Region: Global
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Peri-urban ecosystems for urban climate change resilience in India

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The project aims to establish and build an understanding of the crucial role of peri-urban ecosystems by highlighting the inter-complementarity between the livelihoods of the peri-urban inhabitants and the contribution of ecosystems in urban resilience. It also aims to further mainstream ecosystem-resilience integration in capacity development programmes of apex institutions.

The project’s objective is to assess the knowledge needs and capacity gaps on linkages and inter-complementarity between peri-urban ecosystems and urban resilience and find pathways to address these through existing research outcomes and practice-based experiences.

Providing Institution: Gorakhpur Environmental Action Group (GEAG) and ICLEI South Asia, in partnership with CDKN
Region: Asia and the pacific
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Building adaptive capacity through food and nutrition security and peacebuilding actions in vulnerable Afro and indigenous communities in the Colombia-Ecuador border area

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This regional project aims to strengthen food security and nutrition through climate change adaptation measures in two watershed on the Colombia-Ecuador border area in accordance with the binational working groups’, and Awa and Afro community´s priorities. Project actions will contribute to reversing the marginalization that Afro and Awá communities have faced from the social and environmental damage from the conflict and contribute to peace and reconciliation through adaptation to climate change.
The project aims to achieve the following high-level objectives:

• Reduce climate vulnerabilities of local Afro and indigenous communities and the ecosystems they depend on, promoting food security and nutrition and gender equality, and contributing to the construction of peace; and
• Strengthen adaptive capacities of Afro and indigenous communities in the cross-border region and strengthen regional institutions to address the threats posed by climate change.

Providing Institution: Adaptation Fund
Region: Global
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Stranded assets and climate change in the context of sustainable development in Africa

Short Info: Asset stranding (when assets are devalued) in Africa’s fossil fuel and mineral sectors poses significant risk to development pathways.

This project aims to generate an evidence-based assessment of the socioeconomic risks facing African countries,

Expected outcomes:

• Sustainable development policy actions for achieving the Paris Agreement targets and key Sustainable Development Goals from a country perspective.
• Implications for financial returns to countries and regional economies,
• Impact on the health and education sectors, the economic transformation of gender, evolving employment markets.

Providing Institution: United Nations University Institute for Natural Resources in Africa (UNU-INRA)
Region: Africa
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Strengthening Thailand's institutional and technical capacities to comply with the Enhanced Transparency Framework of the Paris Agreement

Short Info: Expected Outcomes:

1. Thailand has the institutional and human capacities to regularly prepare accurate and transparent GHG inventories

2. Thailand's transparency framework enabled to track progress in implementing its Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) and report regularly as per Paris Agreement

3. Thailand has systems and tools to effectively track international support received and report transparently as per international obligations

4. Thailand has tools and human capacities to monitor and evaluate adaptation actions and assess vulnerabilities to climate change, as well as use the information for adaptation policy development

Providing Institution: Global Environment Facility (GEF)
Region: Asia
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Strengthening Capacity in the Energy, Agriculture, Forestry and other Land-use Sectors for Enhanced Transparency in the Implementation and Monitoring of Benin's Nationally Determined Contribution

Short Info: By 2023 Benin is preparing reports to the UNFCCC under the Paris Agreement Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF) with strengthened energy, agriculture, forestry and other land use (AFOLU) sector components including inventories of emission sources and sinks and information necessary to track progress against priority actions identified in Benin’s NDC for these sectors.

Providing Institution: Global Environment Facility (GEF)
Region: Africa
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Assessing the Effectiveness of Climate Resilience Grants to Local Governments in Least Developed Countries

Short info: 
Adaptation to climate change requires the involvement of local governments. The Local Climate Adaptive Living Facility (LoCAL) mechanism which aims to build climate change–resilient community is the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF)’s performance-based granting mechanism for local governments in developing countries to implement adaptation projects to address climate change.

To strengthen LoCAL, World Resources Institute (WRI) created the Assessing Climate Change Adaptation Framework (ACCAF). This paper explains three major challenges to ACCAF and the solutions proposed to address them: incorporating good practice in adaptation monitoring and evaluation (M&E) into the existing performance-based climate resilience grant system; addressing measurement issues inherent in mainstreamed adaptation; and balancing country-specific and portfolio-wide adaptation M&E needs.
Providing Institution: The United Nations Capital Development Fund and the World Resources Institute (WRI)
Region: Global
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Building capacity for climate action: NDC Finance Fellowship program

Short Info: The main purpose of the NDC Finance Fellowships is to enhance the capacity of 100 high-potential professionals from sub-Saharan Africa’s research and policy communities on the NDC financing mechanism. This bilingual capacity-building program (English and French) will train these professionals, who will be responsible for preparing and implementing NDCs and have the potential to be leaders in this domain. It will also explore key institutional, technical, and financial capacity gaps and needs with respect to the implementation of NDC targets at both the national and local levels.
Providing Institution: International Development Research Centre (IDRC/CRDI)
Region: Africa
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Strengthening Trinidad and Tobago's capacity in transparency for climate change mitigation and adaptation

Short Info: Trinidad and Tobago improve its MRV systems and institutional capacity to comply with the Enhanced Transparency Framework.
Providing Institution: Global Environment Facility (GEF)
Region: Latin America and Caribbean
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Building adaptive capacity to climate change in vulnerable communities living in the Congo River Basin

Short Info:The project aims to reduce vulnerability to the impacts of climate change and strengthen adaptive capacities of vulnerable communities and the ecosystems they depend on, by promoting food security, nutrition and use a gender sensitive approach. The project purposely targets those who are most affected by climate change, poverty, food insecurity, and who rely on agricultural livelihoods that are limited by and vulnerable to climate change impacts, especially women and indigenous groups.
Providing Institution: Adaptation fund
Region: Africa
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Building capacity for climate leadership: mainstreaming state-level climate leadership in India

Short Info: The India States Climate Leadership Project engages 10 Indian state governments in advancing climate ambition and stepping up their leadership role.

This second phase aims to deepen engagement with and enhance support to Indian states through sector-specific webinars, peer-learning workshops, international secondments for Indian states, an online knowledge sharing platform for state climate action in India

Expected outcomes:

• Enhanced knowledge and peer-learning on climate actions
• Amplification of India’s climate ambition
• Greater visibility of national and subnational climate action in international forums

Providing Institution: The Climate Group
Region: Asia
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Powering for climate action through gendered energy access in Myanmar

Short Info: The project seeks to answer two broad questions:
First, does electricity supplied through off/mini-grid renewables benefit households in rural communities?
Second, are these benefits equitably distributed across income groups, gender, and ethnicity?
The project will conduct a multi-stage diagnosis-design-test framework to measure the impacts of off/mini-grid renewables using an experimental design with treatment and control populations stratified by women-centric initiatives.

Expected outcomes:

• New knowledge of social impacts on renewable energy access, the influence of women’s empowerment programs, how to incentivize implementation agencies
• Capacity-building
• The platform for interaction and exchange

Providing Institution: Innovation for Poverty Action (IPA) and German Corporation for International Cooperation (GIZ)
Region: Asia
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Strengthening the Capacity of Institutions in Zimbabwe to conform to the Transparency Requirements of the Paris Agreement

Short Info: Zimbabwe improves its Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) system and institutional capacity to comply with the Enhanced Transparency Framework.

Providing Institution: Global Environment Facility (GEF)
Region: Africa
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Enhancing Adaptive Capacity of Andean Communities through Climate Services (ENANDES)

Short Info: The Enhancing Adaptive Capacity of Andean Communities through Climate Services (ENANDES) – seeks to enhance the capacity of society and communities to adapt to a varying and changing climate by producing, communicating and assessing the use of credible, authoritative, and useful information as the scientific evidence for decision- and policy-making on preparedness for, and reduction of damages from climatic hazards in Chile, Colombia and Peru. Because increasing societal resilience to climate is not just about enhancing information, ENANDES will help build human and infrastructure capacity, and will seek to overcome institutional, technological and cultural barriers through increased coordination among climate and non-climate actors of society.
Providing Institution: Adaptation fund
Region: Latin America and Caribbean
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Global capacity-building towards enhanced transparency in the AFOLU sector (CBIT-AFOLU)

Short Info: The “Global capacity-building towards enhanced transparency in the Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU) sector” project serves as an umbrella for all national CBIT AFOLU-based projects.

The project comprises three components:
Component 1: Supporting developing countries to strengthen their capacity to establish and sustain the institutional arrangements needed to respond to the Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF) requirements and improve decision-making processes
Component 2: Building developing countries’ technical capacity to establish robust systems to measure, report and verify GHG emissions and removals, and to monitor and evaluate adaptation actions in the AFOLU sector in accordance with the ETF.
Component 3: Sharing knowledge and improving coordination amongst global transparency practitioners to sustain and scale up institutional and technical capacity improvements in the AFOLU sector.
Providing Institution: Global Environment Facility (GEF)
Region: Global
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Building capacity for climate action: Climate Finance Accelerator in Colombia

Short Info: Commenced in October 2019, the main objective of the project is to support the development and financing of projects that contribute to meeting a country’s Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC). The Accelerator process connects climate project developers with expert financial institutions that can help to make their projects more bankable and leverage blended finance opportunities that would otherwise be difficult to reach.
Providing Institution: The Climate Group
Region: Small Island Developing States
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Local climate finance mechanism helping to fund community-prioritised adaptation.

Short Info: International funding for climate adaptation has begun to flow from developed countries to developing countries, but progress is slow. Little of this funding is being channeled through sub-national governments to support community-prioritized adaptation projects. Specific mechanisms are needed to ensure a fairer distribution of these funds to the local level to support more vulnerable communities to adapt to climate change.
IIED is part of a community of practice in East and West Africa testing and refining a devolved climate finance and planning mechanism, anchored in the architecture of government decentralization and through which climate funds are reaching local communities.
Providing Institution: International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
Region: Africa
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Tracking adaptation and measuring development (TAMD)

Short Info: The International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) is working with partners to develop and pilot a framework, called Tracking Adaptation and Measuring Development (TAMD), to track adaptation and measure its impact on development. This initiative is focused on enhancing the synergies between government entities who are working towards developing climate resilience policies, to make climate change as a mainstream part of development planning and to stem new thinking and frameworks for assessing climate risk; also to foster shared learning and a community of practice among public sector staff across developing countries.
Providing Institution: International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
Region: Least Developed Countries
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Free Access to a Cutting-edge Knowledge Base on Drought Management

Short Info: This Project aims to build climate resilience in order to reduce assiciated socio-economic losses and, thereby, alleviate poverty in drought-affected regions. The Project falls under the scope of the WMO Integrated Drought Management Programme, a joint programme with the Global Water Partnership. It cuts across sectors, disciplines and institutional jurisdictions. It will be is responsive to specific regional and national needs and requirements and support stakeholders at all levels by providing policy and management guidance and by sharing scientific information, knowledge and best practices for drought management.
Providing Institution: World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
Region: Global
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Supporting LDCs to develop long-term strategies

Short Info: IIED is providing research and dedicated support to help least developed countries design long-term strategies for low-carbon, climate-resilient development, in line with international commitments. By developing their own LTS, LDCs have the opportunity – and, most importantly, are eager – to help lift collective ambition once again and act as a surging force for transformation, leading by example and using their strong moral voice to catalyse action by others.  
Providing Institution: International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
Region: Africa
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Develop Capacities for Climate Services in the Caribbean and the South Western Pacific Ocean Region

Short Info: The Pacific and Caribbean Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are susceptible to many hydro-meteorological and other hazards, namely tropical storms and hurricanes, thunderstorms or lightning, coastal storm surges, floods, flash floods, coastal flooding, river flooding, tsunamis, drought, strong winds, heat waves, and dust or haze.  These hazards have the potential to cause coastal erosion, landslides, mudslides, epidemics, and the movement and spread of toxic substances and volcanic material.
Providing Institution: World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
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Training Scientists in Developing Countries

Short Info: The project supports the enhancement of capabilities of the national hydro-meteorological services of WMO Members, through the Education and Training Programme and the Fellowships it coordinates. Its purpose is to educate and train meteorological and hydrological personnel using specially-tailored individual and group study sessions, complemented by management and familiarization visits for senior personnel. Training facilities within each region will be used.
Providing Institution: World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
Region: Small Island Developing States
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Develop Capacities for Climate Services in the South Asia and the Third Pole Region

Short Info: This Project focuses on instigating and coordinating an international climatological data and service exchange between National Meteorological and Hydrological Services, national organizations and other stakeholders on regional and national levels through Regional Climate Outlook Forums (RCOFs) and the establishment of Regional Climate Centres (RCCs). It targets South Asia and the so-called Third Pole Region – the world’s highest mountains, including the Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau Region.
Providing Institution: World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
Region: Asia
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Climate Services for Increased Resilience in the Sahel

Short Info:: Many African countries are extremely vulnerable to extreme weather events. They face even greater risks in the future as human-induced climate change increasingly alters the weather and climate patterns that societies have come to depend on. The overall aim of this project is to enable society to better manage the risks and opportunities arising from climate change and natural variability, especially those that are most vulnerable to climate-related hazards. The mechanism of achieving that goal will be incorporated with building capacity with science-based climate information and prediction into planning, policy and practice.
Providing Institution: World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
Region: Africa
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The Readiness and Preparatory Support Programme

Short info: As many of the organizations have expressed their assumption about capacity constraints being the prime driver of inefficient policies for climate change in regional, sub-regional and national level, GCF also recognize this burning issue can be of hindrance to develop climate finance proposals. That is why GCF provide financial and technical assistance support for the preparation of project and programme funding proposals through the Project Preparation Facility (PPF).
Providing Institution: Green Climate Fund (GCF) 
Region: Global
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Global Gender Responsive Climate Change Programme

Short info: This programme comprises three main activities.

• Firstly, developing and following-through an advocacy strategy at the UNFCCC, together with GGCA members and allies, to achieve the goal of strengthen capacity of women and men negotiators and other stakeholders to integrate gender equality into international climate decisions and agreements;
• Secondly, leading and facilitating the Women Delegates Fund, which supports women from the global south to participate on their national delegations;
• Thirdly, to administer the Secretariat of the GGCA and the alliance activities.

Providing Institution: Women's Environment & Development Organization) (WEDO)
Region: Global
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CTCN Incubator programme

Short info: Through the Incubator Programme, the CTCN offers support for Least Developed Countries (LDCs) to implement the climate change actions included in their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). The programme offers a first step, through the development of technology roadmaps, to deploy technologies that will enable countries reach their adaptation and low carbon development targets.
Providing Institution: Climate Technology Centre and Network (CTCN)
Region: Global
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Nature-based Solutions for Building Resilience in Towns and Cities: Case Studies from the Greater Mekong Subregion

Expected learning outcome:
This report highlights the ways nature-based solutions and green infrastructure should be a key component of sustainable development and resilience building in developing countries' cities. Three case studies in Battambang, Cambodia, Kaysone Phomvihane, and Dong Ha, Vietnam consider the challenges and solutions to build development plans that mitigate and adapt to the effects of climate change using nature-based solutions. The report details the projects led in these cities, which included knowledge-sharing workshops, policy dialogues, and creating a resource kit for building resilience and sustainability in Mekong towns. The report emphasizes involving local communities in the design, construction, management, maintenance, and use of new infrastructure. It advocates training and sharing knowledge with local communities through an impact assessment and adaptation planning. Finally, the report lists several nature-based solutions policy proposals that could be implemented in towns and cities of the Greater Mekong Subregion.
Providing Institution: Asian Development Bank
Region: Asia
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​An Emerging Framework for Capacity Building: Reflection and Response as part of Community-Based Climate Change Adaptation

Expected learning outcome:

Capacity building is crucial to the successful allocation of climate finance and implementation of local adaptation projects.

This case study details how capacity-building was incorporated into climate finance and adaptation projects to disseminate technical knowledge and strengthen institutional capacity to improve the long-term success of programmes. The report details common challenges and possible solutions and outlines a framework to include capacity-building activities and assessments into projects.

Providing Institution: Community Adaptation Small Grants Facility
Region: Africa
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Sustainable Water Management under Climate Change in Small Island States of the Caribbean

Expected learning outcome:
This project advances your understanding of how a changing climate affects the frequency and intensity of floods and droughts, along with water availability and use, including sanitation needs for vulnerable communities in small island states. Researchers developed assessments of future climate change, water scarcity, and vulnerability in representative watersheds in three Caribbean countries (Barbados, Jamaica, and Trinidad) in efforts to inform the development of national water resource adaptation strategies and strengthen research capacity and training in water resources management.
Providing Institution: IDRC
Region: Caribbean
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​Case Study on Climate Change Mitigation Options for Afghanistan

Expected learning outcome:
Some of the main challenges to addressing climate change and achieving a reduction of GHG emissions in Afghanistan include inadequate technical, financial and managerial capacity, lack of data, low coordination and limited awareness. This study provides information on technology and capacity building needs, particularly the need for developing a climate change national information system for keeping track of the mitigation actions and their efforts. It seeks to address these needs by developing a “Capacity Building and Technology Transfer Programme” to merge national efforts into one coherent national plan of action.
Providing Institution: United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Region: Central Asia
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Stories from a changing world - 2020

Expected learning outcome:
Throughout 2020, the EU climate flagship initiative GCCA+ has continued to support climate change adaption and mitigation measures in the world's most vulnerable countries. Projects range from developing smart agriculture methods to increase food security, protecting mangroves and coral reefs to mitigate natural disasters, and including women in community decision-making. These capacity-building projects aim to empower communities and individuals to attain greater resilience and build a sustainable future.
Providing Institution: GCCA+
Region: Global
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​Driving System Shifts for Climate Resilience: Case Studies of Transformative Adaptation in Bhutan, Ethiopia, and Costa Rica 

Expected learning outcome:
As intensifying climate change pushes natural and human systems into new states that can no longer maintain the fundamental characteristics on which their inhabitants depend, should leaders and communities try to maintain current systems or initiate the ambitious changes needed for transformative adaptation toward greater long-term sustainability? 
This paper looks at three local-level case studies where experts and community members were able to identify key drivers of transformative adaptation as well as the barriers to their transformative pathways. It examines autonomous agricultural production shifts (Costa Rica), large-scale landscape restoration (Ethiopia), and systemic water management (Bhutan).It aims to contribute to a better understanding of what is needed to support transformative pathways in these systems. Additionally, the paper offers conclusions for what may be important for other systems facing severe climate impacts and related next steps for transformative adaptation research.  
Providing Institution: World Resources Institute
Region: Global
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Study on Readiness and Capacity Building for Direct Access to Adaptation Finance 

Expected learning outcome:
The Adaptation Fund (AF) offers readiness and capacity-building support to countries to access adaptation finance. As a subset of capacity building, readiness consists in the improvement of countries’ capacities to plan for, access, and deliver climate finance specifically, as well as monitor and report on expenditures. This AF commissioned study examines how readiness and capacity building for Direct Access are understood globally within the climate finance architecture, and how they are provided by the AF and other environment and climate Funds under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). To increase access, the study recommends greater resources, coherence and coordination between climate financing institutions, education and information-sharing, cooperation with civil society organizations, increased capacity-building in the most vulnerable states, and evaluations of programs to ensure best practices. 
Providing Institution: Adaptation Fund
Region: Global
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 Locally Led Climate Adaptation: What Is Needed to Accelerate Action and Support?

Expected learning outcome:
Locally led adaptation, in which local actors have decision-making power in planning, implementing, and monitoring and evaluation, can play an essential role in achieving successful and sustainable adaptation. This working paper examines the existing literature on locally led adaptation, looking at efforts that have optimized finance through direct and consistent collaboration with local actors and identifying initiatives that embody locally led principles rather than traditional stakeholder consultation or participation. The authors sought to identify projects and designs that aim to catalyze accelerated action and support for locally led adaptation. The paper includes examples of projects or programs that have been responsive to local priorities and produced benefits (whether initial or over time) in terms of climate resilience. The authors synthesized the essential characteristics and program designs of international and country-driven investments that have reached the local level and enabled locally led adaptation.  
Providing Institution: World Resources Institute
Region: Global
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World Bank Outlook 2050 Strategic Directions Note : Supporting Countries to Meet Long-Term Goals of Decarbonization

Expected learning outcome:
The Outlook 2050 approach prioritizes four economy-wide strategic directions:
1. Embed long-term climate priorities in country macroeconomic frameworks, to ensure that those frameworks, which guide fiscal policy and major national investments, properly account for climate risks and the benefits of ambitious climate action.
2. Embed long-term climate planning in national budgets and expenditure frameworks, to provide adequate budgetary support for climate action, optimize the overall allocation of public resources, and unlock private financial flows.
3. Embed long-term climate objectives in financial sector regulations and incentives, to ensure that the sector is resilient both to climate change impacts and to low-carbon transition risks, and to mobilize finance for climate action.
4. Embed long-term climate objectives in systems planning, to integrate climate with economic, social inclusion, and other objectives; assess cross-sectoral links and regional impacts; and identify trade-offs and synergies.

Providing Institution: World Bank Group
Region: Global
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New publication: Enhancing forest targets and measures in Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs)

Learning outcome:
Produced by WWF Forest and Climate, WWF International, Climate Focus, UN-REDD Programme, UN Environment Programme, UNEP-DTU Partnership, and BMU, this paper provides recommendations for decision-makers in governments to incorporate the full potential of forests for climate change mitigation and adaptation in NDCs under the Paris Agreement. It seeks to inform policy makers in developing measurable policies and actions for NDCs and other national climate strategies and policy documents. It presents:

• A summary of evidence on the potential contribution of forests to climate change mitigation and adaptation, including co-benefits, trade-offs and synergies with other international commitments.
• A review of available assessments of the role of forests in the first round of NDC submissions and a summary of findings in updated NDCs submitted in 2020.
• Recommendations to enhance NDCs for forests.
• Concrete examples of policy instruments and actions to implement enhanced NDCs in the forest sector.

Providing Institution: WWF Forest and Climate, WWF International, Climate Focus, UN-REDD Programme, UN Environment Programme, UNEP-DTU Partnership, and BMU
Region: Global
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 Guidance for using the IUCN Global Standard for Nature-based Solutions : first edition 

Short Info: While the planetary crises we face today may seem overwhelming, society has also shown it can work together to solve major global threats. In the 1970s, the world successfully took action to halt and reverse the depletion of the ozone layer depletion. Failure to do so would have meant the “ozone hole” would now extend to the tropics, impacting people’s health, ecosystem services and biodiversity. Changing the predicted trajectory of a crisis needs readily available, reliable and effective solutions. In this respect, Naturebased Solutions (NbS) offers the world a real chance to meaningfully address multiple sustainability crises, including climate change, food and water security, land degradation and biodiversity loss. 

Providing Institution: IUCN
Region: Global
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 Pocket Guide to Climate Science and the UNFCCC

Short Info: The climate negotiations are strongly influenced, on all sides, by appeals to ‘listen to the science’. This Pocket Guide is aimed at both scientists and policymakers who are involved in the science-policy interface that underpins the negotiations. It provides guidance on questions such as what is meant by ‘climate science’? How do you know which ‘scientific’ voices to listen to? How do you balance scientific information against other relevant considerations?

Providing Institution: European Capacity Building Initiative (ECBI)
Region: Global
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WHO Guidance for climate resilient and environmentally sustainable health are facilities

Short Info: This guidance provides health professionals and health care facility managers with key tools and interventions to enhance the capacity of health care facilities in the context of climate change. The aim is to enable health care facilities to anticipate, respond to, recover from and adapt to climate-related shocks and stresses, while minimizing negative impacts on the environment and leveraging opportunities to restore and improve it. 
Providing Institution: WHO 
Region: Global
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National Forest Monitoring System assessment tool

Short Info: A lack of institutional and individual capacity often undermines the long-term impact of otherwise technically sound programmes. To support efforts towards establishing or strengthening forest monitoring, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has developed a National Forest Monitoring System (NFMS) assessment under the project “Building global capacity to increase transparency in the forest sector (CBIT-Forest)”.  The tool aims to assist countries in identifying capacity gaps and weaknesses including capacity assessment of the system and facilitation of dialogue with key national stakeholders. 
Providing Institution:  FAO
Region: Global
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The Adaptation Principles: 6 Ways to Build Resilience to Climate Change

Short Info: The report provides a range of practical tools that can help governments implement adaptation strategies. For instance, economic analysis methodologies can help to select the most important interventions, and budget tagging methods can ensure spending is consistent with expectations. A set of 111 indicators is also provided to enable governments to track progress toward greater resilience, to identify areas that are lagging behind, and to prioritize effective measures. It also sheds light on how the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent economic crisis can affect the design of an adaptation and resilience strategy, recognizing how it has changed the development landscape in all countries.

Providing Institution: World Bank
Region: Global
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The Climate-ADAPT Adaptation Support Tool: practical experience and use for policy, planning and decision making

Short Info: This Climate-ADAPT Adaptation Support Tool (AST) webinar aims to improve knowledge dissemination on the Climate-ADAPT AST and its further development to promote its use, e.g. for strategic policy processes, awareness raising, planning, development of guidelines, etc. At the same time, the webinar intends to highlight and present how the AST is being used in practice and can be tailored to the real needs of users. Finally, the webinar aims to stimulate participants to contribute to enriching Climate-ADAPT and further sharing and disseminating its knowledge
Providing Institution:  Climate-ADAPT
Region: Global
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Addressing forestry and agroforestry in National Adaptation Plans

Short Info: 
Acting at the interface between natural resources and human activities, forests, trees and agroforestry provide numerous nature-based solutions to adaptation. Forests need to adapt and become more resilient so they can continue to deliver crucial ecosystem services, including those on which other agriculture sectors depend - including crops, livestock, and fisheries.

This publication is designed to help countries integrate these considerations into adaptation planning through the National Adaptation Plan (NAP) process. It focusses on technical guidance on the integration of forests, agroforestry and trees in the formulation and implementation of NAPs.

Providing Institution: FAO and FTA
Region: Global
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Addressing agriculture, forestry and fisheries in National Adaptation Plans – Supplementary guidelines

Short Info: These guidelines provide specific guidance for national adaptation planning in the agricultural sector. They are intended to be used by national planners and decision–makers working on climate change issues in developing countries and authorities and experts within the agriculture sectors who are contributing to climate change adaptation and NAP formulation and implementation.
Providing Institution:  FAO
Region: Global
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Green hydrogen: A guide to policy making

Short Info:This report from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) outlines the main barriers that inhibiting green hydrogen uptake and the policies needed to address these. It also offers insights on how to kickstart the green hydrogen sector as a key enabler of the energy transition at the national or regional level.
Providing Institution:  IRENA
Region: Global
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FAO Framework Methodology for Climate Change Vulnerability Assessments of Forests and Forest Dependent People

Short Info: This publication provides practical technical guidance for forest vulnerability assessment in the context of climate change, guiding practitioners in conducting a step-by-step analysis and facilitating the choice and use of appropriate tools and methods, providing useful support to any vulnerability assessment with a forest- and tree-related component.
Providing Institution: FAO
Region: Global
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Toolkit for a Gender-Responsive Process to Formulate and Implement National Adaptation Plans (NAPs)

Short Info: 
The National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) is a key mechanism for defining adaptation priorities, channeling resources, and implementing adaptation actions. This toolkit is designed to support country efforts to pursue a gender-responsive NAP formulation process, including in the establishment of institutional arrangements, capacity development, stakeholder engagement, information sharing, and securing finance.
The toolkit is organized around the key entry points in the NAP process, based on the elements outlined in the UNFCCC Technical Guidelines for the NAP Process produced by the Least Developed Countries Expert Group (LEG)
It will be useful for government actors coordinating the formulation of NAP, as well as for stakeholders and development partners supporting adaptation planning and implementation.
Providing Institution: NAP Global Network, the Least Developed Countries Expert Group, the Adaptation Committee
Region: Global
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Unfolding the reporting requirements for Developing Countries under the Paris Agreement’s Enhanced Transparency Framework

Short Info: This publication is aimed at policy-makers, climate negotiators and MRV practitioners in developing countries. It focuses on the reporting requirements for developing countries and intends to inform these countries on how to prepare for the new reporting requirements set out in MPGs for the Enhanced Transparency Framework (EFT) of the Paris Agreement, referred to in Article 13 of the agreement.
Providing Institution:  ICAT, CBIT, UNEP-DTU Partnership
Region: Global
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Pocket Guide to NDCs under the UNFCCC (New 2020 version)

Short Info: Countries communicate their plans to implement the Paris Agreement through Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). What should these NDCs contain? What “information to facilitate clarity, transparency, and understanding” do countries need to provide? How should countries account for their actions? What happens if they fail to meet their NDC goals? Read our updated Pocket Guide, which now includes the provisions of the Paris rulebook, to find answers to these and other questions related to NDCs.
Providing Institution: European Capacity Building Initiative (ECBI)
Region: Global
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Pocket Guide to Technology under the UNFCCC

Short Info: How has technology development and transfer (TDT) been dealt with under the UNFCCC and the Paris Agreement? What challenges do developing countries face in identifying and accessing technology needs for mitigation and adaptation, and how are these being addressed? What institutions deal with climate-related TDT at the global level?
This Pocket Guide is for UNFCCC negotiators from developing countries, and for national policy makers who would like to understand how to access global support for climate-related TDT. 

Providing Institution: European Capacity Building Initiative (ECBI)
Region: Global
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Guide to the Paris Agreement

Short Info: Guide to the Paris Agreement. Now includes the implementation guidelines adopted in 2018, and implications for domestic law and policy in developing countries.
Providing Institution: European Capacity Building Initiative (ECBI)
Region: Global
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The Climate Data Tool

Short Info: CDT is a free and open-source R package which allows national meteorological agencies to:

• Organize millions of station observations
• Assess data availability and highlight gaps in the observational record
• Evaluate and extract data from gridded products, including satellite, reanalysis and combined data products

Providing Institution: Consortium of International Agricultural Research Centers (CGIAR)
Region: Global
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Climate Change & Food Security Vulnerability Assessment Toolkit

Short Info: The CCAFS Working Paper 'Climate Change & Food Security Vulnerability Assessment. Toolkit for assessing community-level potential for adaptation to climate change' presents a participatory methodology that has been designed to provide organizations with the tools to understand the interrelations between climate impacts, food systems and livelihood strategies at the local level, while taking into consideration traditional /indigenous knowledge of the participating community. The toolkit developed applies a multidimensional view of the vulnerability of livelihood strategies to climate change, with a focus on differentiated access and entitlements to livelihood resources and food for different groups within a locality or community (often determined according to gender, ethnicity and socioeconomic class). It includes step by step instructions on how to implement participatory tools that were adapted to answer the following questions: Why are people vulnerable? How are they vulnerable to climate change? What consequences does this have for their food security? Implementing this methodology will provide an initial understanding of the local context and vulnerability profiles, which, combined and triangulated with other sources of information (meteorological data, socio-economic indicators etc.), feeds into the process of identifying adaptation measures.
Providing Institution: Consortium of International Agricultural Research Centers (CGIAR)
Region: Global
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Green Climate Fund (GCF) Proposal Toolkit 2020

Short Info: This toolkit makes the GCF funding requirements and technical terminology digestible for non-experts. It also provides a checklist on how to get started with the preparation of a funding proposal all the way through to the development of a concept note, as well as guidance on how to access GCF support for project preparation.
Providing Institution: Green Climate Fund (GCF)
Region: Global
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ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF NATIONAL CLIMATE POLICIES AND ACTIONS

Short Info: The ICAT Assessment Guides provide governments and non-state actors with the means to assess the impacts of national policies and actions that reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. Besides assessing impacts on emissions, the Guides help to assess impacts on countries’ sustainable development goals and the potential for transformational change.
Providing Institution:  Initiative for Climate Action Transparency (ICAT)
Region: Global
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Capacity Development for Climate Services: Guidelines for National Meteorological and Hydrological Services

Short Info: The WMO Capacity Development Strategy recognizes four types of capacity: institutional, infrastructural, procedural and human resources. This publication draws on a number of existing frameworks and guidelines, providing National Meteorological and Hydrological Services(NMHSs) and other climate service providers with up-to-date information on available resources, strategies, procedures and best practices at the global, regional and national level.
Providing Institution: World Meteorogical Organization (WMO)
Region: Global
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The Adaptation Support Tool

Short Info: The aim of the Adaptation Support Tool is to assist users in developing climate change adaptation strategies and plans by providing guidance, links to relevant sources and dedicated tools (urban practitioners find a specific Urban Adaptation Support Tool).
Providing Institution: Climate Adapt
Region: Global
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Urban adaptation support Tool

Short Info: The aim of the Urban Adaptation Support Tool (UAST) is to assist cities, towns and other local authorities in developing, implementing and monitoring climate change adaptation plans. UAST was developed as a practical guidance for urban areas, in recognition of their importance in the European economy. The Urban Adaptation Support Tool outlines all the steps needed to develop and implement an adaptation strategy and makes references to valuable guidance materials and tools. The tool offers valuable support to both the cities that are just starting on the adaptation planning and to those more advanced in the adaptation process.
Providing Institution: Climate Adapt
Region: Global
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Adaptation Policies Checklist

Short info: An ex-post evaluation tool designed to assess the level of progress of climate change adaptation policies. The tool consists of a checklist covering policy, economic, scientific and legitimacy issues, and resources used for adaptation planning. It is based on 17 indicators and 53 metrics that cover general aspects of adaptation policies.
Providing Institution: Basque Centre for Climate Change
Region: Global
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2020 NDC Tracker

Short Info: The Paris Agreement calls on countries to deliver new Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) every five years that are informed by the latest advances in technology, science and shifting economic trends.
Providing Institution: Climate Watch
Region: Global
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Long-Term Strategy Tracker

Short Info: Under the Paris Agreement, countries are invited to communicate long-term strategies by 2020. These strategies are a valuable opportunity for countries to lay out their vision for achieving a low-carbon economy by 2050 while also pursuing sustainable development.
Providing Institution: Climate Watch
Region: Global
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The OECD-DAC climate-related development finance database

Short info: Climate-related development finance databases, which is available on the OECD - DAC Climate Change webpage. This database is used to track climate-related development finance flows
Providing Institution: Development Co-operation Directorate (OECD-DAC)
Region: Global
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The Environment and Gender Information (EGI) platform

Short info: Knowledge platform that aims to guide action, inform policy makers by providing them with data analysis that applies a gender-responsive approach.

Examples:

• • Measurement of women’s participation in environmental decision-making spheres.
• • Examination of the extent to which gender considerations are taken into account in major national initiatives and reporting.

The EGI Analysis & Knowledge Products applies analysis on gender-related issues, such as equal representation, inclusion and characterization of women, etc. on national framework, plan, policy to provide gender statistics and indicators to operationalize the 2030 Agenda.
Providing Institution: International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
Region: Global
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CTCN Gender Mainstreaming Tool for Response Plan Development

Short info: CTCN Gender Mainstreaming Tool for Response Plan Development is a gender mainstreaming guideline during the development of response plans and applies to design, implementation and monitoring of technical assistance. It comprises 3-step approach: perform gender analysis; develop action plan; and monitoring and evaluation which also includes stakeholder consultations.
Providing Institution: Climate Technology Centre and Network (CTCN)
Region: Global
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NDC Partnership Gender Scoping Assessment

Short info: NDC Partnership commissioned a Gender Scoping Assessment to identify the knowledge gaps, effective practices, and challenges of integrating gender in NDCs, as well as the opportunities for a gender-responsive approach across the Partnership.
Providing Institution: NDC Partnership Platform
Region: Global
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Towards Gender-Responsive NAP Processes: Progress and Recommendations for the Way Forward

Short info: This report presents an analysis of progress on integrating gender considerations in NAP processes, such as what are the focus, how gender analysis has been applied, etc., based on a review of completed NAP documents available on NAP Central as of January 2018, as well as data collected directly from country NAP teams.|
Providing Institution: NAP Global Network
Region: Global
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NDC Partnership Knowledge Portal

Short info: NDC partnership knowledge portal is a freely used online platform, helping countries accelerate their climate action by providing quick and easy access, to the data, tools, guidance, case studies, funding opportunities.
Providing Institution: NDC Partnership Platform
Region: Global
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