Workplan (Paris Committee on Capacity-building)

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Workplan priority areas

The PCCB was reviewed at COP 25 in 2019. With a 5-year extension (9/CP.25, para. 12), its mandate was refined with three priority areas (9/CP.25, para. 9):

A. 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;

B. Identifying capacity gaps and needs, both current and emerging, and recommending ways to address them;

C. 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.

Annual focus area

The PCCB annually focuses on an area related to enhanced technical exchange on capacity-building, with the purpose of maintaining up-to-date knowledge on the successes and challenges in building capacity effectively in a particular area;
At its seventh meeting in June 2023, the PCCB agreed that its 2024 focus area would be an extension of the 2023 focus area (capacity-building for adaptation with a focus on NAPs), the title of the focus area determined intersessionally and reflected in its 2023 technical progress report: ‘Capacity-building support for adaptation, with a focus on addressing gaps and needs related to accessing finance for national adaptation plans (NAPs)’.

The PCCB annually focuses on an area related to enhanced technical exchange on capacity-building, with the purpose of maintaining up-to-date knowledge on the successes and challenges in building capacity effectively in a particular area;

At its seventh meeting in June 2023, the PCCB agreed that its 2024 focus area would be an extension of the 2023 focus area (capacity-building for adaptation with a focus on NAPs), the title of the focus area determined intersessionally and reflected in its 2023 technical progress report:
‘Capacity-building support for adaptation, with a focus on addressing gaps and needs related to accessing finance for national adaptation plans (NAPs)’.

Priority area A: enhancing coherence and coordination of capacity-building under the Convention

Activities under Priority area A
Activity A.1: collating and reviewing current and planned capacity-building work of constituted bodies established under the Convention and the Paris Agreement that implement capacity-building activities in order to provide an overview of capacity-building activities under the Convention and the Paris Agreement, and regularly sharing this information with the constituted bodies
Activity A.2: Providing recommendations to Parties on how to improve coherence and coordination of capacity-building and avoid duplication of efforts
Activity A.3: liaising and engaging with bodies under and outside the Convention and the Paris Agreement that are engaged in implementing capacity-building activities, as consistent with their mandates

Priority area B: identifying capacity gaps and needs

Activities under Priority area B
Activity B.1: interacting with other constituted bodies to allow the PCCB to gather information on activities related to addressing capacity gaps and needs in areas relevant to their mandates to provide input to their work, as appropriate
Activity B.2: continuing efforts to gather and promote the development and dissemination of tools and methodologies for implementing capacity-building activities
Activity B.3: collating, reviewing and sharing information on experience, good practices and lessons learned related to enhancing the ownership of developing countries of building and maintaining capacity, and providing recommendations in this regard

Priority area C: promoting awareness-raising, knowledge- and information-sharing, and stakeholder engagement

Activities under Priority area C
Activity C.1: collecting information from relevant sources, including the Durban Forum, on good practices experience and lessons learned related to capacity-building, and disseminating this information, including via the capacity-building portal, with the aim of addressing gaps and needs related to implementing capacity-building
Activity C.2: providing recommendations to Parties on: (i) Enhancing the sharing of good practices, experience and lessons learned related to capacity-building among relevant bodies under and outside the Convention and the Paris Agreement; (ii) Potential areas of collaborative work with those bodies whose work is relevant to the PCCB and its workplan, within their mandates; (iii) How information from the Durban Forum can be utilized by bodies under and outside the Convention and the Paris Agreement
Activity C.3: organizing the annual Capacity-building Hub at the sessions of the COP
Activity C.4: promoting strategic stakeholder engagement through, inter alia, targeted outreach activities as set out in this workplan to foster exchange on capacity-building at the national and regional level, including through regional climate weeks, as appropriate, and subject to the availability of resources