Event Recording

Organizers

Background

The Paris Committee on Capacity-building (PCCB) was established at COP 21, in 2015, to address current and emerging gaps and needs in implementing capacity-building in developing countries, and in further enhancing capacity-building efforts, including with regard to coherence and coordination in capacity-building activities under the Convention. At its fifth meeting in June 2021, the PCCB agreed on - ''Building capacity to facilitate coherent implementation of NDCs in the context of national development plans and sustainable recovery'', as its focus area for 2022. In light of the annual focus area, the PCCB in collaboration with its PCCB Network set out to facilitate the exploration of what capacities are needed for horizontal and vertical integration of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) through its series of side events at the UNFCCC Climate Weeks in the Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and Africa regions. 

The horizontal and vertical integration of NDCs provides opportunities for greater policy synergies, efficiency, and coherence. In this context, there is also a need to build capacities to mobilize such opportunities related to different integration approaches. Aligning climate and development agendas and integrating NDCs across the board could enhance horizontal policy coherence. At the same time, integration of NDCs at different levels of governance, namely regional, national, and local, could enhance vertical policy coherence.  

Through the two side events organized in 2022 at the Latin America and the Caribbean Climate Week in Santo Domingo and the Africa Climate Week in Libreville, the PCCB sought to create a space to discuss such approaches of integration as part of PCCB’s efforts to promote strategic stakeholder engagement to foster exchange on capacity-building through outreach activities at the national or regional level. At PCCB’s 4th Capacity-building Hub at COP27, in collaboration with the NDC Partnership, the committee seeks to wrap up the series through a Regional Meetup session. The session seeks to provide a space for capacity-building stakeholders from LAC, Africa, Asia-Pacific, and the Middle East and Northern Africa (MENA) regions to share their experiences and exchange knowledge, case-studies, and best practices of their work related to policy coherence and specifically in terms of the role of capacity-building in the horizontal and vertical integration of NDCs.  

Objectives

This Regional Meetup seeks to: 
 

• Highlight the role of capacity-building and the capacities needed, in the region, for horizontal policy coherence through the integration of NDCs in and alignment of climate and development agendas. 

• Highlight the role of capacity-building and the capacities needed, in the region, for vertical policy coherence through the integration of NDCs at different levels of governance, namely regional, national, and local.  

• Showcase case-studies and best practices of how countries in the region have built their capacities and approached the horizontal and vertical integration of NDCs.  

• Provide members of the PCCB Network with a platform to engage and collaborate on a regional and thematic basis and share their experiences and best practices related to climate change capacity-building. 

• Wrap up PCCB’s series of side events at UNFCCC’s 2022 Regional Climate Weeks by exploring the topic in LAC, Africa, Asia-Pacific, and MENA regions. 

Structure 

Speakers

Moderators, opening, and closing

Key Outcomes

Read the outcomes article of the session here.