Identifying capacity gaps and needs, both current and emerging, and recommending ways to address them has been a core part of the mandate of the PCCB, since its establishment, and was made one of three priority areas of the PCCB under its 2021–2024 workplan by the COP.
Under this priority area, COP 25 mandated the PCCB, inter alia, to continue efforts to gather and promote the development and dissemination of tools and methodologies for implementing capacity-building activities.
To learn more about the work of the PCCB, you can access its annual reports and other relevant documents here.
Topics for submissions:
As part of addressing the above-mentioned mandate, the PCCB agreed to issue in 2023 a call for submissions on tools and methodologies for assessing and addressing capacity gaps and needs related to accessing climate finance. Capacity gaps and needs can be at the individual, institutional or systemic level.
Who could submit?
The call was open to all Parties, bodies, entities and processes under the Convention and the Paris Agreement, as well as to all UNFCCC non-Party stakeholders, including public and private sector entities, government and non-government organizations, philanthropic organizations, academic and research organizations and regional and international organizations and initiatives.
How will the inputs be used?
The inputs will feed into the 2021–2024 workplan activities of the PCCB for 2024, including an analysis and synthesis of the submissions and a technical session at the 6th Capacity-building Hub at COP 29. Relevant tools, methodologies and other resources submitted will be widely disseminated by the PCCB and will be integrated into the list of resources accompanying the PCCB toolkit to assess capacity gaps and needs to implement the Paris Agreement.
Background
The PCCB was established at COP 21 in 2015, with the aim of addressing gaps and needs, both current and emerging, in implementing capacity-building in developing country Parties and further enhancing capacity-building efforts, including with regard to coherence and coordination in capacity-building activities under the Convention (Decision 1/CP.21, para. 71). In 2019, the CMA decided that the PCCB shall also serve the Paris Agreement.
The PCCB was reviewed at COP 25 in 2019. With a 5-year extension (Decision 9/CP.25, para. 12), its mandate was refined with three priority areas:
- Enhancing coherence and coordination of capacity-building under the Convention with a focus on avoiding duplication of efforts, including through collaboration with bodies under and outside the Convention that engage in activities related to capacity-building, as appropriate and in accordance with their respective mandates;
- Identifying capacity gaps and needs, both current and emerging, and recommending ways to address them;
- Promoting awareness-raising, knowledge- and information-sharing and stakeholder engagement with bodies and relevant actors under and outside the Convention, as appropriate and in accordance with their respective mandates (Decision 9/CP.25, para. 9).
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