Cairo, Egypt
28–30 April 2009

The SBSTA requested the secretariat to organize, before SBSTA 30 and under the guidance of the Chair of the SBSTA, a technical workshop on increasing economic resilience to climate change and reducing reliance on vulnerable economic sectors, including through economic diversification, with the participation of representatives from Parties, business, communities, and experts.   The workshop should be held with a view to promoting understanding and the development and dissemination of measures, methodologies and tools for increasing economic resilience, including the understanding of social aspects. It must take into account:

(a) The submissions from Parties and organizations on additional information on examples of measures, methodologies and tools on increasing economic resilience to climate change and reducing reliance on vulnerable economic sectors, including through economic diversification (FCCC/SBSTA/2009/MISC.6);

(b) Previous submissions from Parties and relevant organizations on this matter and the synthesis report thereon (FCCC/SBSTA/2007/MISC.15,  FCCC/SBSTA/2007/MISC.15/Add.1, FCCC/SBSTA/2007/14).

The workshop is held under the Nairobi work programme work area of economic diversification with the objectives, as contained in the annex to decision 2/CP.11, to advance sub-theme b (v), “Promoting understanding and the development and dissemination of measures, methodologies and tools including for economic diversification aimed at increasing economic resilience and reducing reliance on vulnerable economic sectors, especially for relevant categories of countries listed in Article 4, paragraph 8, of the Convention".

Background documentation

Submissions from Parties and relevant organizations
FCCC/SBSTA/2009/MISC.6
Measures, methodologies and tools for increasing economic resilience to climate change and reducing reliance on vulnerable economic sectors.

Previous submissions
FCCC/SBSTA/2007/MISC.15 and Add.1
Information on economic diversification. Submissions from Parties.

FCCC/SBSTA/2007MISC.16
Information on economic diversification. Submissions from relevant organizations. 

Submission from an admitted non-governmental organization (25 kB)

Synthesis report

The SBSTA also requested the secretariat to prepare a synthesis report based on the submissions:
Synthesis of information on economic diversification submitted by Parties and relevant organizations. Note by the secretariat (FCCC/SBSTA/2007/14) 

A.  Sectoral perspective – agriculture and food security

Presenter                             Organization                                                                 Subject
Mr. Louis Bockel	Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations	Increasing economic resilience of agriculture sector to climate change (846 kB)
Mr. Aaron Oxley	MicroEnsure	Microinsurance – The Last Mile.  An introduction (2312 kB)
Ms. Marjorie Victor	Oxfam America	Drought Micro-insurance in Ethiopia:  An Innovative Model to Increase the Resilience of the Poorest Households (653 kB)

B.  Case study – the Caribbean experience

Presenter                           Party/Organization                                                  Subject
Mr. Garfield Barnwell	CARICOM secretariat	Increasing Economic Resilience to Climate Change and Reducing Reliance on Vulnerable economic sectors, including through economic diversification – The case of CARICOM (1761 kB)
Ms. Gisela Alonso Dominguez	Cuba	Cuba:  Confronting Climate Change (4608 kB)
Ms. Jasmine Gopaul	Trinidad and Tobago	National strategies, current practices and lessons learned on reducing reliance on vulnerable economic sectors:  A Case Study of Trinidad and Tobago (589 kB)

Session 4: Possible next steps and conclusions

A.  Recommendations from breakout groups

Group      Presenter                                                                              Theme
1	Ms. Lydia Elewa	Increasing economic resilience and reducing reliance on vulnerable economic sectors to climate change at community level (100 kB)
2	Ms. Emily Massawa	Increasing economic resilience to climate change at national level (3174 kB)
3	Ms. Jasmine Gopaul	Reducing reliance on vulnerable economic sectors to climate change at the national level, including through economic diversification (683 kB)

B.  Working together:  Catalysing action by Nairobi work programme partner organizations

Presenter                         Organization                                    Theme
Mr. H. R. Shalaby	African Development Bank
Ms. Cassandra De Young	Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Mr. Benjamin Collier	GlobalAgRisk
Ms. Liz Fajber	Institute for Social and Environmental Transition	Statement by ISET on relevant activities in support of the Nairobi work programme (67 kB)
Ms. Ana Belen Sanchez	International Labour Organization	ILO contribution to the workshop (243 kB)
Ms. Helle  Damgaard Nielsen	International Trade Union Confederation	ITUC Action Pledge: Equity, justice and solidarity in the fight against climate change (98 kB)
Ms. Marjorie Victor	Oxfam
Ms. Julia Wolf	United Nations Development Programme
Ms. Emily Ojoo Massawa	United Nations Environment Programme
Mr. Asif Niazi	World Food Programme