Background
Capacity-building is a critical enabler of effective implementation of the Convention and the Paris Agreement. Recognizing the evolving and increasingly complex needs of Parties, particularly developing countries, the Paris Committee on Capacity-building (PCCB) has been mandated to identify capacity gaps and needs and ways to address them, as well as to enhance the coherence and coordination of capacity-building efforts related to climate change.
Under its 2025–2029 workplan, the PCCB will facilitate annual capacity-building dialogues to identify solutions and successful approaches for strengthening the responsiveness, effectiveness, and impact of capacity-building support at the international and regional level. The workplan foresees this as the first in a series of regular dialogues, in which the first dialogue establishes a model that subsequent editions, including virtual roundtables, can follow.
This first dialogue is deliberately framed as an expert conversation among capacity-building providers, implementation partners and recipients. The intention is to foster coherence in a fragmented landscape, giving these actors a shared space to learn from one another and reduce duplication of effort. Its purpose is to surface, from their perspective, what is and is not working in the delivery of capacity-building support, and to translate that directly into two concrete outputs: the first State of Capacity-building report, and the PCCB's input into the second global stocktake (GST II).
Agenda
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Time
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Duration
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Segment
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Content / speaking roles
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09:00–09:20
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20 min
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Welcome and opening remarks
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Jonathan Wong, Chief, Innovation, Enterprise and Investment, Trade, Investment and Innovation Division, Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
Sophie De Coninck, Director, Means of Implementation Division, UNFCCC secretariat
Abze Djigma, Co-Chair, Paris Committee on Capacity-building (PCCB)
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09:20–10:20
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60 min
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Panel 1 - Early-Stage Capacity-Building Support
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Tamara Kern, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
Nicholas Simon Taylor, Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI)
Aurelius Nkonde, Commonwealth Climate Finance Access Hub (CCFAH)
Anu Adhikari, Local Climate Adaptive Living Facility (LoCAL)/UN Capital Development Fund (UNCDF)
Suborna Barua, University of Dhaka Climate Finance Cell
Mauricio Vazquez, ODI
Bastien Roland Bedossa, The Fund for responding to Loss and Damage (FRLD)
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10:20–10:40
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20 min
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Break
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Networking
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10:40–11:50
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60 min
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Panel 2: Capacities to scale up access to finance
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Chitembo Kawimbe Chunga, Climate Investment Funds (CIF)
AJ Untalan, Green Climate Fund (GCF)
Tshewang Dorji, Global Environment Facility (GEF)
Farayi Madziwa, Adaptation Fund
Laura Lucas, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)
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11:50–12:50
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60min
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Panel 3: Sustaining Capacity Through Knowledge
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Mark Howells, Climate Compatible Growth/Loughborough
Lisa McNamara, Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN)
Diana Mosquera Calle, Deputy Chief of Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
Nicolas Picchiottino, Finance in Common (FiC)
Princess Abze Djigma, Mutirão-Burkindi coalition on capacity-building initiative
Joaquim Leite, NDC Partnership
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12:50–13:00
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10 min
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Closing remarks
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Abze Djigma, Co-Chair, PCCB
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13:00- 14:00
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60 min
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Lunch
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Networking Session
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Expected outcomes
Immediate outputs
- A way-forward text (per the options above) capturing key messages, lessons learned, and actionable recommendations.
- A first set of concrete examples and case studies that could inform the State of Capacity-Building Report.
- Identification of experts and practitioners willing to contribute as peer reviewers or case study authors.
- Inputs for the GST II report.
Short-term outcomes
- Shared understanding of key enablers and barriers to effective capacity-building at international and national levels.
- Priority areas identified for improved coordination and collaboration among providers.
- Key messages reflected in PCCB technical outputs and submitted to relevant UNFCCC bodies.
Longer-term impact
- Strengthened coherence and reduced fragmentation among capacity-building providers.
- An evidence base and community of practice that builds across successive annual dialogues, including the virtual regional dialogues.
- Measurable influence on PCCB workplan implementation.
