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Session |
Speakers/Facilitators |
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13:00 – 13:30
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Session 1: Opening remarks and introduction
- Welcoming the participants
- Introduction of the pre-validation workshop outlining its focus.
- Participant introductions and workshop expectations.
- An overview of key outcomes of the inception workshop.
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Karma Tshering
Head, Policy and Programming Services
National Environment Commission Secretariat
Government of Bhutan
Debapriya Roy
Programme Officer
UNFCCC secretariat
Tour de table
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13:30 – 14:30
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Session 2: Country feedback on the technical assessment
- Overview of responses on the technical assessment.
- Guiding questions for further feedback on the technical assessment.
- Does the technical assessment reflect the regional/national context sufficiently, is there anything missing, incorrect or that needs adjustment?
- Does the technical assessment reflect the main climate finance/technological and capacity building priority needs (regional/national)? If not, which priorities are missing?
- Are the climate finance flows correctly reflected or are there major or significant differences to your national data? Please provide relevant information/data.
- Do the challenges and barriers discussed in the technical assessment cover the main challenges you have been facing in mobilizing and accessing climate finance, are there further issues you encounter?
- Each country will have the opportunity to provide suggestions based on their review of the draft technical assessment
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Sumalee Khosla
Consultant
UNFCCC secretariat
Plenary
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14:30 – 15:30
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Session 3: Discussion of specific areas for regional collaboration
- How should climate finance be framed for the regional strategy?
- In what way can a regional climate finance strategy address the barriers discussed in session 3?
- Specifically for private sector finance, how can the regional climate finance strategy:
- Promote a cross-sector approach to transformational, low carbon resilient initiatives ?
- Promote climate innovation and blended finance approaches ?
4. How should a pipeline of priority climate projects/investments/transactions/ facilities/initiatives be developed and how it could further be promoted at a regional level?
- Countries will be given 30 mins to discuss these questions in break-out groups.
- Countries will be given 20 minutes to present outcomes of the discussion in a report-back Plenary
Q&A 10 minutes
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Sumalee Khosla
Debapriya Roy
Break-out groups |
| 15:30 – 15:45 |
Comfort break |
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15:45 – 16:45
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Session 4: Country input for strategy development
Guiding questions:
- Given the determined barriers to accessing climate finance, what areas of capacity building should be of focus with the climate finance strategy?
- Which strategic elements (financial instruments, institutional arrangements, policies, best practices, etc.) would you recommend being included in the strategy chapter?
- What do you envision is needed for the coordination and implementation of a regional climate finance strategy?
- Which regional actors should be included in the strategy?
- Are there specific consideration for the implementation modalities?
- Do you have any further feedback to the technical assessment or process for the design and development of the climate finance strategy for the region?
- Countries will be given 30 mins to discuss these questions in break-out groups.
- Countries will be given 20 minutes to present outcomes of the discussion in a report-back Plenary
Q & A 10 minutes
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Sumalee Khosla
Debapriya Roy
Break-out groups
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16:45– 17:00
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Session 4: Next steps and closing remarks
Summary of discussions, proposed way forward and closing.
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Debapriya Roy
Karma Tshering
Head, Policy and Programming Services, NECS
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