Date and Venue

Hotel Praia
4-8 September 2010
Sao Tome, Sao Tome and Principe

Introduction

  The COP by its decision 8/CP.13 extended the mandate of the least developed countries expert group (LEG) in supporting preparation and implementation strategy of NAPAs. Under its activities for 2008-2010, the LEG selected training workshops for implementing NAPAs as one of the priorities. A total of five training workshops have therefore been planned by the LEG in collaboration with the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and its agencies, and this is the fourth one in the series. The workshop is targeting Lusophone LDCs and one recently graduated Lusophone LDCs, comprising in total five Parties to the UNFCCC. The workshop will be entirely in Portuguese, along with the training materials.

The objective of the training is:  

• to provide technical support to LDC teams in the design of an implementation strategy for the NAPAs, and to build capacity of these teams in the preparation and submission of project documents (PIF, PPG and FSP document) to the GEF under the LDCF; and,
• where needed, to provide technical support to those LDC Parties that are still preparing their NAPAs

Information for participants

•  Information sheet (257 kB) - English

The document contains important information for participants on:

• Full address details of the venue
• Visa and entry requirements for Sao Tome and Principe
• Local transportation
• Hotels and accomodation
• General information on Sao Tome and Principe
• Contacts for and during the workshop

Resource Materials

The following are training materials and will be provided in hard copies electronically to each of the participants attending the training workshop:

• Step-by-step guide - English, French, Portuguese
•  Training workshop programme  (114 kB) - Portuguese
•  Training workshop materials (14462 kB) - Portuguese
• LDC Brochure 2009: LDC under the UNFCCC
•  Steps for revising NAPA projects lists and profiles (22 kB)
• Country case studies
• Frequently asked questions on NAPA preparation and implementation
• GEF/C.28.18 - Programming Paper for Funding the Implementation of NAPAs under the LDC Trust Fund
•  GEF/LDCF.SCCF.8/3 - Accessing Financing under the Least Developed Countries Fund