Private Adaptation Investment Bootcamp (PrivABoo)

Short Info: The Private Adaptation Investment Bootcamp (PrivABoo) supports SMEs with innovative products, services or technologies that help their customers adapt and increase their resilience to the impacts of climate change (“Adaptation SMEs”) and connects them with impact investors who want to build a portfolio in climate change adaptation.

At the heart of PrivABoo is a peer learning process for SMEs, investors, incubators, accelerators, and other private sector actors. The project focuses on showcasing practical examples for adaptation business models from among its participants, facilitating peer-learning between participants and building a network of partners to mobilize additional investments for climate change adaptation in and from the private sector.

Providing Institution: German Corporation for International Cooperation (GIZ)
Region: Global
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Green enterPRIZE Innovation & Development in Zimbabwe

Short Info: The proposed project seeks to contribute to solving a series of inter-related development problems, such as high levels of youth employment, low levels of formal and growth-oriented entrepreneurship and unsustainable production processes of SMEs in Zimbabwe. In addition, it also aims to support green and growth oriented male and female owned small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) stimulate the market for green products and services through expansion of access to skills for green jobs and through the greening of existing enterprises. The ultimate goal is the creation of green and decent jobs for women and men, and especially young women and men, through sustainable enterprises.

Providing Institution: International Labour Organization (ILO)
Region: National
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​Enhancing forest targets and measures in Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs)

Short info: Produced by WWF Forest and Climate, WWF International, Climate Focus, UN-REDD Programme, UN Environment Programme, UNEP-DTU Partnership, and BMU, this paper provides recommendations for decision-makers in governments to incorporate the full potential of forests for climate change mitigation and adaptation in NDCs under the Paris Agreement. It seeks to inform policy makers in developing measurable policies and actions for NDCs and other national climate strategies and policy documents. It presents:

A summary of evidence on the potential contribution of forests to climate change mitigation and adaptation, including co-benefits, trade-offs and synergies with other international commitments;
A review of available assessments of the role of forests in the first round of NDC submissions and a summary of findings in updated NDCs submitted in 2020; Recommendations to enhance NDCs for forests; Concrete examples of policy instruments and actions to implement enhanced NDCs in the forest sector.

Providing Institution: WWF Forest and Climate, WWF International, Climate Focus, UN-REDD Programme, UN Environment Programme, UNEP-DTU Partnership, and BMU
Region: Global
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Programme for Country Partnership (PCP)

Short Info: The PCP is UNIDO’s innovative model for accelerating inclusive and sustainable industrial development in Member States. Aligned with the national development agenda and focused on sectors with high growth potential, the programme supports a country in achieving its industrial development goals. The PCP rests on a multi-stakeholder partnership led by the host government. It builds synergies with ongoing government and partner interventions relevant to industrial development. The PCP is also designed to leverage additional investment in selected priority sectors. As such, it is a model that facilitates the mobilization of partners and resources to achieve larger development impact. For UNIDO, the PCP serves to operationalize the Organization’s mandate and SDG 9. At the same time, it is a model that can be used to implement other SDGs too. 

Providing Institution: United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
Region: Global
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WOMENVAI Academy Programme

Short info: The WOMENVAI Academy is specifically dedicated to female entrepreneurship with women from developing countries as beneficiaries. The WOMENVAI Academy offers, in collaboration with local associations and NGOs, workshops of 2 to 3 days during which training-actions aimed at capacity building in Entrepreneurship are organized and facilitated.  

This aims to put women entrepreneurs under the spotlight and promote their activities through WOMENVAI’s networks of women and partners, including potential financers. The mentoring methodology includes dedicated seminars around the key stages of business creation and fundraising, development of business and strategic plans, communication and marketing tools. 

Providing Institution: Women and Men in Environment and Artificial Intelligence
Region: Global
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Climate-Smart Agriculture Manual for Agriculture Education in Zimbabwe 

Short info: The Climate-Smart Agriculture Manual is designed to deal with the problems that Zimbabwe is facing in the agricultural sector, that mainly stem from climate change, unsustainable farming methods and the lack of training for extension officers on enhancing productivity, climate change adaptation and mitigation—i.e., climate-smart agriculture.

The current agricultural education syllabus does not focus on climate-smart agriculture. With the country’s low adaptive capacity, there is an urgent need to address agricultural education so as to develop sustainable solutions vis-à-vis food production, nutrition security, and economic growth and development. The outcome of the project is expected to enhance both students and professionals’ active participation in promoting climate-smart agriculture to the Zimbabwe agriculture community at large. 

Providing Institution: Climate Change Management Department, Zimbabwe; CTCN; UNEP 
Region: Global
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 Cities Matter: Capacity building in sub-Saharan African

Short Info: Megacities in sub-Saharan Africa are severely affected by climate change and are submitting a large proportion of greenhouse gas emissions. The project supports technical capacity building for long-term climate action plans. Comprehensive approaches are also being developed to promote low-emission urban development and mechanisms are identified to improve the national and local integration of mitigation measures.

The project employs an administrative, climate protection city advisor in each of the participating cities to integrate internal and external interest groups, facilitate as knowledge transfer to other cities. Instruments for greenhouse gas balancing and the management of monitoring, reporting and verification measures (MRV) are developed together with the cities. As part of the Corona Response Package the project identifies measures that create green jobs and contribute to low-carbon and resilient urban development These are then prioritised in the development of climate action plans.

Providing Institution: C40 Network
Region: Global
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Adaptation research alliance
 

Short Info:The Adaptation Research Alliance (ARA) is a coalition across the adaptation research and action communities, bringing together researchers and both traditional ‘research funders’ and ‘action funders’.
It will seek to catalyze increased investment in action-oriented adaptation research driven by end-user needs that will help create practical and effective adaptation and resilience solutions.

It will seek to promote research modalities and activities that are: collaborative and Southern-led, strengthen local universities and research institutions, lead to capacity-building and facilitate linkages between research and implementation at multiple levels.

Providing Institution: South-South North
Region: Global
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Youth Programme

Short Info: ICCCAD’s Youth Programme seeks to involve the youth and children of Bangladesh to come forward under one banner; where young men and women can learn, understand and share aspects of environmental and social problems of climate change through education and capacity building. ICCCAD’s Youth programme understands the need of the Youth’s involvement in development and identifying challenges through solution development by providing viable solutions for this vast sector.

The programme aims to equip the next generation with climate change knowledge and different policies to encourage them to take equitable action for local climate change issues and to build a strong and effective network of youth across and outside of the nation.

Providing Institution: International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD)
Region: Asia
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Community Capacity Building for Climate Change Resilience Project

Short Info: Today, the major challenge facing climate change planning processes is to build the adaptive capacities of different actors and communities to face climate change’s adverse effects. To this end, adaptation and resilience to climate change and climate variability must be a priority.

By increasing the capacities, roles and responsibilities of different actors of Burundi in the forecasting and management of crises, this project aims to develop mechanisms for adapting to climate change effects in order to adopt a strategy to deal with change, strengthen the legal and institutional framework, and promote the adequate integration of adaptation and mitigation measures in municipality development.

Providing Institution: Climate Chance
Region: Africa
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Green Ambassador for the climate in Africa Programme

Short Info:The "Green Ambassador for the climate in Africa" programme is a competitive Pan-African programme set up by CCAO with the objective of identifying and promoting exemplary young activists, building capacities and networks among them, in order to support and encourage them to remain proactive on the global imperative of combating climate change. The 1,084 Green Ambassadors for Climate in Africa were selected from a pool of 14,300 young candidates from 54 countries of the African continent (26.7% female, 73.3% male).

Providing Institution: Climate Change Africa Opportunities (CCAO)
Region: Africa
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Building leaderships for LAC cities in a changing climate

Short Info:This 48-month leadership program aims to address the challenges of climate change in Latin America by building capacities among young leaders in the region, particularly women. This will be done by training young leaders on climate risk and urban management, leadership, accompanied by participatory planning and negotiation skills. This will enable them to advise local public and private stakeholders on the effective development of climate-resilient, transformative policies and plans  in medium-sized cities that promote transformative actions to face climate change scenarios.

Providing Institution: IDRC, FLACSO Ecuador
Region: LAC
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Environmental Change through Capacity Building: Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific: Capacity-building related to multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs) in African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries.

Short Info: The ACP MEA programme has entered the second phase to enhance the capacities of countries to implement their environmental targets at the national and regional levels. This report highlight the successes and lessons learned of the first phase of the project and serves as a tool for policymakers and practitioners to enhance the capacity of ACP counties and strengthen their engagement and implementation of MEAs.

Providing Institution: UNEP
Region: Global
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 The NDC Partnership Youth Engagement Plan (YEP)

Short Info: Youth today and the future generations will have to live with and manage the impacts of the climate crisis. Despite their participation in climate action processes, youth are not included in decision-making or lack the information and resources to engage meaningfully.  The YEP aims to support youth in becoming effective agents of change in successful climate action and to build capacity on climate change and NDCs among youth at the national and local level through its key action areas

1. Design youth-inclusive NDC processes at the country level
2. Support the development of youth-led NDC implementation projects
3. Strengthen climate change capacity building for young people
4. Encourage youth participation in global NDC Partnership activities

Providing Institution: NDC Partnership
Region: Global
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Development of Groundwater Management Strategy in Cambodia: Institutional Assessment, Capacity Building Plan and Proposed Key Components of Ground Water Management 

Short Info: Cambodia is considered one of the most water-abundant countries in Asia and has an economy highly dependent on water. However, groundwater management in the country is challenged by the lack of proper monitoring systems and regulation. Strengthening capacity of relevant government institutions and key stakeholders working on groundwater issues is very important for effective groundwater management.  

This study came up with key groundwater management strategies in Cambodia, including setting up groundwater monitoring systems, addressing groundwater contamination, and establishment of a groundwater regulatory system in the country, combined with advocacy and multi-level and inter-ministerial capacity-building. 

Providing Institution: UNDP and GEF
Region: Global
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Peri-urban ecosystems for urban climate change resilience in India

Short Info: The project aims to establish and build an understanding of the crucial role of peri-urban ecosystems by highlighting the inter-complementarity between the livelihoods of the peri-urban inhabitants and the contribution of ecosystems in urban resilience. It also aims to further mainstream ecosystem-resilience integration in capacity development programmes of apex institutions.

The project’s objective is to assess the knowledge needs and capacity gaps on linkages and inter-complementarity between peri-urban ecosystems and urban resilience and find pathways to address these through existing research outcomes and practice-based experiences.

Providing Institution: Gorakhpur Environmental Action Group (GEAG) and ICLEI South Asia, in partnership with CDKN
Region: Asia and the pacific
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Building adaptive capacity through food and nutrition security and peacebuilding actions in vulnerable Afro and indigenous communities in the Colombia-Ecuador border area

Short Info: This regional project aims to strengthen food security and nutrition through climate change adaptation measures in two watershed on the Colombia-Ecuador border area in accordance with the binational working groups’, and Awa and Afro community´s priorities. Project actions will contribute to reversing the marginalization that Afro and Awá communities have faced from the social and environmental damage from the conflict and contribute to peace and reconciliation through adaptation to climate change.
The project aims to achieve the following high-level objectives:

• Reduce climate vulnerabilities of local Afro and indigenous communities and the ecosystems they depend on, promoting food security and nutrition and gender equality, and contributing to the construction of peace; and
• Strengthen adaptive capacities of Afro and indigenous communities in the cross-border region and strengthen regional institutions to address the threats posed by climate change.

Providing Institution: Adaptation Fund
Region: Global
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Stranded assets and climate change in the context of sustainable development in Africa

Short Info: Asset stranding (when assets are devalued) in Africa’s fossil fuel and mineral sectors poses significant risk to development pathways. This project aims to generate an evidence-based assessment of the socioeconomic risks faced by African countries. The expected outcomes are:

• Sustainable development policy actions for achieving the Paris Agreement targets and key Sustainable Development Goals from a country perspective.
• Implications for financial returns to countries and regional economies,
• Impact on the health and education sectors, the economic transformation of gender, evolving employment markets.

Providing Institution: United Nations University Institute for Natural Resources in Africa (UNU-INRA)
Region: Africa
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Strengthening Thailand's institutional and technical capacities to comply with the Enhanced Transparency Framework of the Paris Agreement

Short Info: Expected Outcomes:

1. Thailand has the institutional and human capacities to regularly prepare accurate and transparent GHG inventories

2. Thailand's transparency framework enabled to track progress in implementing its Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) and report regularly as per Paris Agreement

3. Thailand has systems and tools to effectively track international support received and report transparently as per international obligations

4. Thailand has tools and human capacities to monitor and evaluate adaptation actions and assess vulnerabilities to climate change, as well as use the information for adaptation policy development

Providing Institution: Global Environment Facility (GEF)
Region: Asia
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Strengthening Capacity in the Energy, Agriculture, Forestry and other Land-use Sectors for Enhanced Transparency in the Implementation and Monitoring of Benin's Nationally Determined Contribution

Short Info: By 2023 Benin is preparing reports to the UNFCCC under the Paris Agreement Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF) with strengthened energy, agriculture, forestry and other land use (AFOLU) sector components including inventories of emission sources and sinks and information necessary to track progress against priority actions identified in Benin’s NDC for these sectors.

Providing Institution: Global Environment Facility (GEF)
Region: Africa
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Assessing the Effectiveness of Climate Resilience Grants to Local Governments in Least Developed Countries

Short info: 
Adaptation to climate change requires the involvement of local governments. The Local Climate Adaptive Living Facility (LoCAL) mechanism which aims to build climate change–resilient community is the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF)’s performance-based granting mechanism for local governments in developing countries to implement adaptation projects to address climate change.

To strengthen LoCAL, World Resources Institute (WRI) created the Assessing Climate Change Adaptation Framework (ACCAF). This paper explains three major challenges to ACCAF and the solutions proposed to address them: incorporating good practice in adaptation monitoring and evaluation (M&E) into the existing performance-based climate resilience grant system; addressing measurement issues inherent in mainstreamed adaptation; and balancing country-specific and portfolio-wide adaptation M&E needs.

Providing Institution: The United Nations Capital Development Fund and the World Resources Institute (WRI)
Region: Global
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Building capacity for climate action: NDC Finance Fellowship program

Short Info: The main purpose of the NDC Finance Fellowships is to enhance the capacity of 100 high-potential professionals from sub-Saharan Africa’s research and policy communities on the NDC financing mechanism. This bilingual capacity-building program (English and French) will train these professionals, who will be responsible for preparing and implementing NDCs and have the potential to be leaders in this domain. It will also explore key institutional, technical, and financial capacity gaps and needs with respect to the implementation of NDC targets at both the national and local levels.

Providing Institution: International Development Research Centre (IDRC/CRDI)
Region: Africa
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Strengthening Trinidad and Tobago's capacity in transparency for climate change mitigation and adaptation

Short Info: Trinidad and Tobago improve its MRV systems and institutional capacity to comply with the Enhanced Transparency Framework.

Providing Institution: Global Environment Facility (GEF)
Region: Latin America and Caribbean
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Building adaptive capacity to climate change in vulnerable communities living in the Congo River Basin

Short Info:The project aims to reduce vulnerability to the impacts of climate change and strengthen adaptive capacities of vulnerable communities and the ecosystems they depend on, by promoting food security, nutrition and use a gender sensitive approach. The project purposely targets those who are most affected by climate change, poverty, food insecurity, and who rely on agricultural livelihoods that are limited by and vulnerable to climate change impacts, especially women and indigenous groups.

Providing Institution: Adaptation fund
Region: Africa
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Building capacity for climate leadership: mainstreaming state-level climate leadership in India

Short Info: The India States Climate Leadership Project engages 10 Indian state governments in advancing climate ambition and stepping up their leadership role.

This second phase aims to deepen engagement with and enhance support to Indian states through sector-specific webinars, peer-learning workshops, international secondments for Indian states, an online knowledge sharing platform for state climate action in India.

Expected outcomes:

• Enhanced knowledge and peer-learning on climate actions
• Amplification of India’s climate ambition
• Greater visibility of national and subnational climate action in international forums

Providing Institution: The Climate Group
Region: Asia
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Powering for climate action through gendered energy access in Myanmar

Short Info: The project seeks to answer two broad questions:
First, does electricity supplied through off/mini-grid renewables benefit households in rural communities?
Second, are these benefits equitably distributed across income groups, gender, and ethnicity?

The project will conduct a multi-stage diagnosis-design-test framework to measure the impacts of off/mini-grid renewables using an experimental design with treatment and control populations stratified by women-centric initiatives.

Expected outcomes:

• New knowledge of social impacts on renewable energy access, the influence of women’s empowerment programs, how to incentivize implementation agencies
• Capacity-building
• The platform for interaction and exchange

Providing Institution: Innovation for Poverty Action (IPA) and German Corporation for International Cooperation (GIZ)
Region: Asia
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Strengthening the Capacity of Institutions in Zimbabwe to conform to the Transparency Requirements of the Paris Agreement

Short Info: Zimbabwe improves its Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) system and institutional capacity to comply with the Enhanced Transparency Framework.

Providing Institution: Global Environment Facility (GEF)
Region: Africa
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Enhancing Adaptive Capacity of Andean Communities through Climate Services (ENANDES)

Short Info: The Enhancing Adaptive Capacity of Andean Communities through Climate Services (ENANDES) – seeks to enhance the capacity of society and communities to adapt to a varying and changing climate by producing, communicating and assessing the use of credible, authoritative, and useful information as the scientific evidence for decision- and policy-making on preparedness for, and reduction of damages from climatic hazards in Chile, Colombia and Peru. Because increasing societal resilience to climate is not just about enhancing information, ENANDES will help build human and infrastructure capacity, and will seek to overcome institutional, technological and cultural barriers through increased coordination among climate and non-climate actors of society.

Providing Institution: Adaptation fund
Region: Latin America and Caribbean
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Global capacity-building towards enhanced transparency in the AFOLU sector (CBIT-AFOLU)

Short Info: The “Global capacity-building towards enhanced transparency in the Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU) sector” project serves as an umbrella for all national CBIT AFOLU-based projects.

The project comprises three components:
Component 1: Supporting developing countries to strengthen their capacity to establish and sustain the institutional arrangements needed to respond to the Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF) requirements and improve decision-making processes

Component 2: Building developing countries’ technical capacity to establish robust systems to measure, report and verify GHG emissions and removals, and to monitor and evaluate adaptation actions in the AFOLU sector in accordance with the ETF.

Component 3: Sharing knowledge and improving coordination amongst global transparency practitioners to sustain and scale up institutional and technical capacity improvements in the AFOLU sector.

Providing Institution: Global Environment Facility (GEF)
Region: Global
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Building capacity for climate action: Climate Finance Accelerator in Colombia

Short Info: Commenced in October 2019, the main objective of the project is to support the development and financing of projects that contribute to meeting a country’s Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC). The Accelerator process connects climate project developers with expert financial institutions that can help to make their projects more bankable and leverage blended finance opportunities that would otherwise be difficult to reach.

Providing Institution: The Climate Group
Region: Small Island Developing States
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Local climate finance mechanism helping to fund community-prioritised adaptation.

Short Info: International funding for climate adaptation has begun to flow from developed countries to developing countries, but progress is slow. Little of this funding is being channeled through sub-national governments to support community-prioritized adaptation projects. Specific mechanisms are needed to ensure a fairer distribution of these funds to the local level to support more vulnerable communities to adapt to climate change.

IIED is part of a community of practice in East and West Africa testing and refining a devolved climate finance and planning mechanism, anchored in the architecture of government decentralization and through which climate funds are reaching local communities.

Providing Institution: International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
Region: Africa
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Tracking adaptation and measuring development (TAMD)

Short Info: The International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) is working with partners to develop and pilot a framework, called Tracking Adaptation and Measuring Development (TAMD), to track adaptation and measure its impact on development. This initiative is focused on enhancing the synergies between government entities who are working towards developing climate resilience policies, to make climate change as a mainstream part of development planning and to stem new thinking and frameworks for assessing climate risk; also to foster shared learning and a community of practice among public sector staff across developing countries.

Providing Institution: International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
Region: Least Developed Countries
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Free Access to a Cutting-edge Knowledge Base on Drought Management

Short Info: This Project aims to build climate resilience in order to reduce assiciated socio-economic losses and, thereby, alleviate poverty in drought-affected regions. The Project falls under the scope of the WMO Integrated Drought Management Programme, a joint programme with the Global Water Partnership. It cuts across sectors, disciplines and institutional jurisdictions. It will be is responsive to specific regional and national needs and requirements and support stakeholders at all levels by providing policy and management guidance and by sharing scientific information, knowledge and best practices for drought management.

Providing Institution: World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
Region: Global
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Supporting LDCs to develop long-term strategies

Short Info: IIED is providing research and dedicated support to help least developed countries design long-term strategies for low-carbon, climate-resilient development, in line with international commitments. By developing their own LTS, LDCs have the opportunity – and, most importantly, are eager – to help lift collective ambition once again and act as a surging force for transformation, leading by example and using their strong moral voice to catalyse action by others.  

Providing Institution: International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
Region: Africa
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Develop Capacities for Climate Services in the Caribbean and the South Western Pacific Ocean Region

Short Info: The Pacific and Caribbean Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are susceptible to many hydro-meteorological and other hazards, namely tropical storms and hurricanes, thunderstorms or lightning, coastal storm surges, floods, flash floods, coastal flooding, river flooding, tsunamis, drought, strong winds, heat waves, and dust or haze.  These hazards have the potential to cause coastal erosion, landslides, mudslides, epidemics, and the movement and spread of toxic substances and volcanic material.

Providing Institution: World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
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Training Scientists in Developing Countries

Short Info: The project supports the enhancement of capabilities of the national hydro-meteorological services of WMO Members, through the Education and Training Programme and the Fellowships it coordinates. Its purpose is to educate and train meteorological and hydrological personnel using specially-tailored individual and group study sessions, complemented by management and familiarization visits for senior personnel. Training facilities within each region will be used.

Providing Institution: World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
Region: Small Island Developing States
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Develop Capacities for Climate Services in the South Asia and the Third Pole Region

Short Info: This Project focuses on instigating and coordinating an international climatological data and service exchange between National Meteorological and Hydrological Services, national organizations and other stakeholders on regional and national levels through Regional Climate Outlook Forums (RCOFs) and the establishment of Regional Climate Centres (RCCs). It targets South Asia and the so-called Third Pole Region – the world’s highest mountains, including the Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau Region.

Providing Institution: World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
Region: Asia
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Climate Services for Increased Resilience in the Sahel

Short Info:: Many African countries are extremely vulnerable to extreme weather events. They face even greater risks in the future as human-induced climate change increasingly alters the weather and climate patterns that societies have come to depend on. The overall aim of this project is to enable society to better manage the risks and opportunities arising from climate change and natural variability, especially those that are most vulnerable to climate-related hazards. The mechanism of achieving that goal will be incorporated with building capacity with science-based climate information and prediction into planning, policy and practice.

Providing Institution: World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
Region: Africa
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The Readiness and Preparatory Support Programme

Short info: As many of the organizations have expressed their assumption about capacity constraints being the prime driver of inefficient policies for climate change in regional, sub-regional and national level, GCF also recognize this burning issue can be of hindrance to develop climate finance proposals. That is why GCF provide financial and technical assistance support for the preparation of project and programme funding proposals through the Project Preparation Facility (PPF).

Providing Institution: Green Climate Fund (GCF) 
Region: Global
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Global Gender Responsive Climate Change Programme

Short info: This programme comprises three main activities.

Firstly, developing and following-through an advocacy strategy at the UNFCCC, together with GGCA members and allies, to achieve the goal of strengthen capacity of women and men negotiators and other stakeholders to integrate gender equality into international climate decisions and agreements;

• Secondly, leading and facilitating the Women Delegates Fund, which supports women from the global south to participate on their national delegations;
• Thirdly, to administer the Secretariat of the GGCA and the alliance activities.

Providing Institution: Women's Environment & Development Organization) (WEDO)
Region: Global
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CTCN Incubator programme

Short info: Through the Incubator Programme, the CTCN offers support for Least Developed Countries (LDCs) to implement the climate change actions included in their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). The programme offers a first step, through the development of technology roadmaps, to deploy technologies that will enable countries reach their adaptation and low carbon development targets.

Providing Institution: Climate Technology Centre and Network (CTCN)
Region: Global
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Progress and Challenges in Achieving Vertical Integration in Adaptation Processes.

Short info: Vertical integration is relevant throughout the National Adaptation Plan (NAP) process. It should be embedded in adaptation planning, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation. In 2016 the NAP Global Network published a guidance note aimed at supporting national governments in linking national and sub-national adaptation processes. Building on its insights, the objective of this briefing note is to reflect on the experiences of several countries with vertical integration since then. It presents information on what is working well, what is proving particularly difficult, and how to move forward.

Providing Institution: Care International
Region: Global
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Malawi's strategy on climate change learning

Short info: Malawi, like many other developing countries in sub-Saharan Africa is grappling with adverse impacts of climate change. The government of Malawi formulated a Strategy on Climate Change Learning in 2013 to address knowledge gaps that are key for formulating informed policies and climate change interventions. Effective implementation of climate change response initiatives requires high levels of awareness, knowledge and skills on climate change across all socio-economic sectors.

The development of this updated strategy involved multi-stakeholder consultations, complemented with a literature review of key studies that have been conducted in the country since 2013. The updated strategy is intended to address three key pillars: i) Human capacity building, ii) institutional capacity building and iii) Climate change financing.

Providing Institution: Government of Malawi, Ministry of Forestry and Natural Resources Environmental Affairs Department
Region: Africa
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Application of Climate Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment (CVCA) Methodology in Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia

Short info: This case study analyzes the results, lessons  learned  and  recommendations  emerging  from  the  application  of  the  Climate  Vulnerability  and  Capacity  Assessment  (CVCA)  methodology  in  the  context  of  the  PRAA  project.  First,  it  presents an overview of the project, the areas of intervention  by country, the results of the analysis itself, and lastly, the  main lessons learned and recommendations that arose from  the application of the tools contained in the CVCA Handbook  in Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. 

The CVCA methodology is a tool developed by CARE to  delineate  the  socio-‐economic  aspects  of  vulnerability  to  climate change, particularly those factors that make women  and  other  marginalized  groups  especially  vulnerable.  The results of the analysis provide  a  solid  foundation  for  identifying practical strategies to enable community-‐based  adaptation to climate change.

Providing Institution: Care International
Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
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​Strengthening Voices for Better Choices 

Short Info: Strengthening Voices for Better Choices was a project that sought to promote improved governance arrangements in order to engender sustainable and equitable forest conservation and management. The fragility or absence of forest governance has allowed deforestation, degradation and illegal timber trade to occur. The project identified and promoted arrangements to strengthen forest governance in six tropical forest countries, focusing on the promotion of best practices, the creation of responsible markets, and the improvement of forest governance.. This report presents the project including the lessons learned about arrangements that may contribute to sustainability and equity in the management and conservation of forests.

Providing Institution: IUCN
Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
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Landscape Analysis on young people’s engagement in climate change and health in six LMICs in Africa and Asia   

Short info: Young people have demonstrated the capacities and agency to advocate for and contribute to climate action and resilience-building. Making up a large proportion of LMIC populations, their engagement and participation is crucial for inter-generational climate justice and broader social equity. Yet, despite their proven capabilities, structural barriers and normative beliefs too often fail to recognise their rights and agency to participate beyond a tokenistic level.

This research identifies, maps, and analyses relevant actors, stakeholders and initiatives in six countries facing climate risks and public health challenges – Ethiopia, Kenya, and Senegal in Africa, and Bangladesh, Indonesia, and Vietnam in Asia, investigating current knowledge of young people’s engagement; relevant policy and governance mechanisms; roles and responsibilities of key actors and stakeholders; and what factors enable or challenge effective engagement. The findings lead to recommendations to help stakeholders enhance the engagement of young people in climate change and health action.

Providing Institution: Stockholm Environment Institute, Save the Children
Region: Africa and Asia
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​Assessment of National Capacities for Implementing Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Measures and Development of a National Capacity Development Program for the Palestinian Authority 

Short info: This report contains the National Capacity Development Program (CDP) on climate change mainstreaming  for  the  Palestinian  Authority,  part  of  a  project  financed  by  the Government of Belgium and implemented by the United Nations Development Programme/Programme  of  Assistance  to  the  Palestinian  People  (UNDP/PAPP),  with  the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) providing technical and financial resources in support of the project. This project aims at enhancing capacities of institutions of the State of  Palestine  to  mainstream  and  address  the  challenges  of  climate  change  in  the  areas  of reporting, mitigation and adaptation.

Proposed actions for increasing the capacities in the State of Palestine include the improvement of the National Institutional Framework for Climate Change (NIFCC); amendments to the legal and regulatory framework and the national strategies and policies; establishing an overall national climate finance and good financial governance structure; strengthening the overall information sharing and awareness on climate change in Palestine.

Providing Institution: Triple, Climatekos
Region: Asia
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Training Needs Assessment in Climate Change, Gender and Health For Health workers in Malawi

Short info: This is training needs assessment for climate change and gender in relation to health, involving a rapid review of the literature on gender, health and climate change; focus group discussions and in-depth interviews. and a review of academic curricula for content in climate change and gender in relation to health.

It proposes content for inclusion in curricula for climate change and health and for gender and health, methods for climate change training for health workers, the launch of educational campaigns.

Providing Institution: University of Malawi
Region: Africa
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Integrating gender targets into LEDS and NAMAs

Short info: As part of its Carbon Neutral Strategy (CNS), Bhutan is  undertaking  the design of mitigation actions across a number of key sectors including: transport; waste; housing, and industry. To help mainstream gender balance into this design process, a Rapid Gender Capacity Needs Assessment  was  developed  and  implemented to: identify and develop capacities to enhance scaled up mitigation actions  ;  integrate  gender  issues  in  climate  policy  development;  and  provide   gender disaggregated data to the government to improve policy-making.

The assessment primarily focuses at the national level, but also seeks to engage relevant stakeholders from local governments, civil society, and industry. It has improved capacity and provided key recommendations and entry points for gender mainstreaming in national strategies.

Providing Institution: International Partnership on Mitigation and MRV
Region: Asia
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Assessment if Rural Communities' Adaptive Capacity to Climate Change in Kaduna State, Nigeria

Short info: This research assesses the adaptive capacity of rural people to climate change in Kaduna State with particular reference to some selected communities in six Local Government Areas of the state.  The results revealed that the  capacity  of  individuals  or  households  to adapt  to  climate  change impacts  is  a function  of  their  access to resources. The  capacity  of  individuals  or  households  to adapt  to  climate  change impacts  is  a function  of  their  access to  resources . The study recommends the development of climate change policies that would enhance the adaptive capacities of rural communities at both the state and local government levels. These policies should be specifically geared toward low adaptive capacity areas with emphasis on poverty reduction.

Providing Institution: Federal University Dutse
Region: Africa
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Mapping of Institutional Arrangement in Sri Lanka for Climate Change Mitigation 

Short info: This institutional mapping report focuses on climate change related sub-national level institutional arrangements in Sri Lanka, placing high emphasis on mitigation and low emission development.

It seeks to identify and map the key stakeholders at sub-national levels in Sri Lanka, to improve clarity on institutional jurisdictions, functions, and mandates across levels of government and civil society to deliver emission reductions and improve the climate resilience of infrastructure services. It also aims to understand the potential subnational governance role in developing and achieving national level climate change targets and to understand the potential influence and role that can be played by sub-national stakeholders on Climate Change.

Providing Institution: LEDS; Janathakshan
Region: Asia
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Typical Challenges for Vertically Integrated Measurement, Reporting and Verification Systems of Greenhouse Gases

Credit: ICLEI

Short info: The report was compiled by the ICLEI World Secretariat as part of The Climate Footprint Project. It provides an overview of the most common barriers and constraints for an effective implementation of a national vertically integrated MRV System. Included are recommendations on how these common barriers can be overcome in order to close the existing vertical gap in a more effective way.

The results compiled here are based on conducting personal interviews with state representatives, desk research, and the outcomes of 11 multi-level governance dialogues held in Brazil, Mexico, India, and South Africa, in addition to desk research from relevant literature and projects around the world managed or implemented by ICLEI. These activities took place between 2019 and 2021 and relied on the institutional arrangement mapping and expertise from relevant stakeholders

Providing Institution: ICLEI
Region: Global
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Leveraging private sector finance for climate compatible development

Short info: Climate compatible development is defined as “a ‘development first’ approach that minimizes the harm caused by climate impacts while maximizing the many human development opportunities. This paper is based on private sector related lessons from projects that have been funded by CDKN, across Africa, Asia and Latin America. Our purpose is to facilitate the exchange of experiences on climate compatible development, to accelerate the transition towards a low-carbon, climate-resilient global society.

Providing Institution: Adaptation Research Alliance, CDKN
Region: Global
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​Increasing Climate Data and Ambition in Indonesia through Enhanced Transparency and Incentive Schemes

Short info: This paper considers the concept of a “data loop” —a relationship between the government and the private sector that focuses on strengthening collaborative efforts to enhance climate ambition through data sharing—in the Indonesian context.

The concept of the data loop builds upon previous research suggesting that a similar relationship could lead to enhanced climate action: an ambition loop. An ambition loop is a virtuous feedback loop in which bold policy action is supported by bold company leadership, resulting in the acceleration of further business action, faster progress to meet national targets, and the seizure of larger market opportunities.

Providing Institution: WRI  
Region: Global
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Determining Impacts of NDC Enhancement on Country-Level Emissions   

Short info: This technical note describes a method for determining whether and to what extent Parties to the Paris Agreement have enhanced their nationally determined contributions (NDCs) with respect to greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation.

Party’s target-year GHG emissions under its previous NDC (typically First NDC) and under its subsequent NDC (typically Updated First NDC or Second NDC) were estimated and on this basis of that it was determined whether the subsequent NDC reduces emissions relative to the previous NDC and - where possible- by how much. Further approaches for NDCs with GHG reduction targets were outlined and compared with non-GHG targets and policies.  

Providing Institution: WRI
Region: Global
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​Insights on the First 29 Long-term Climate Strategies  

Short info: This paper provides key insights into the 29 long-term climate strategies formally communicated to the United Nations as of June 2021, identifying common trends and the major transformations that countries envisage across all sectors of their economies. It finds that countries generally demonstrate a significant commitment to reaching the long-term goals of the Paris Agreement. However, more many nations need to submit their strategies, as well as regularly review and revise them over time. Policymakers and Practitioners can therefore use this research to help shape the design and rigour of their long-term strategies.

Providing Institution: WRI
Region: Global
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Strengthening National Capacities to Manage Water  

Short info: Droughts are complex events generally associated with greatly reduced precipitation, dry soil that impairs agricultural production, and reduced water levels in reservoirs and other bodies of water that can compromise drinking supplies and natural resources. Drought is a contributing factor to conflict, and conflict also makes drought situations worse, in turn causing famine and economic hardship.

Many areas affected by drought are arid to semi-arid which tend to be under substantial ecological pressure and low in resources. When drought occurs in such arid regions, the living conditions of the local people become very difficult; the land yields no crops and the quantity of water is insufficient. People often compete for the availability of scarce water resources, which can lead to tension and violent conflict.

The main objective of this project is to strengthen the capacities of national planners, policy makers and stakeholders in water-scarce and in transition settings countries in West Asia and North Africa, and to enhance their effectiveness in the formulation, implementation and monitoring of pre-impact and preparedness drought management strategies.

Providing Institution: DESA/DSD in coordination with DESA’s Task Force on Conflict, Disaster and Development and close cooperation with the UN partners including UNEP, UNCCD, WMO, FAO, UNISDR and UNDP.
Region: Global
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Nature-based Solutions for Building Resilience in Towns and Cities: Case Studies from the Greater Mekong Subregion

Short info: This report highlights the ways nature-based solutions and green infrastructure should be a key component of sustainable development and resilience building in developing countries' cities. Three case studies in Battambang, Cambodia, Kaysone Phomvihane, and Dong Ha, Vietnam consider the challenges and solutions to build development plans that mitigate and adapt to the effects of climate change using nature-based solutions. The report details the projects led in these cities, which included knowledge-sharing workshops, policy dialogues, and creating a resource kit for building resilience and sustainability in Mekong towns.

The report emphasizes involving local communities in the design, construction, management, maintenance, and use of new infrastructure. It advocates training and sharing knowledge with local communities through an impact assessment and adaptation planning. Finally, the report lists several nature-based solutions policy proposals that could be implemented in towns and cities of the Greater Mekong Subregion.

Providing Institution: Asian Development Bank
Region: Asia
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Mainstreaming Gender into Climate Action: Lessons from Peru 

Short info: Peru and its people will be highly affected by climate change, meeting seven of nine vulnerability characteristics recognized by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) (Stevns, 2018). While worsening climate impacts will greatly affect the country as a whole, women and the poor are especially at risk.

In 2014, Peru was the first country in Latin America to develop a gender and climate change action plan. This case study summarizes the subsequent successes and challenges the country faced in rolling out its Gender and Climate Change Action Plan across multiple sectors, providing lessons to inform other countries. 

Providing Institution: NDC partnership
Region: Latin america and the caribbean
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​An Emerging Framework for Capacity Building: Reflection and Response as part of Community-Based Climate Change Adaptation

Short info: Capacity building is crucial to the successful allocation of climate finance and implementation of local adaptation projects.

This case study details how capacity-building was incorporated into climate finance and adaptation projects to disseminate technical knowledge and strengthen institutional capacity to improve the long-term success of programmes. The report details common challenges and possible solutions and outlines a framework to include capacity-building activities and assessments into projects.

Providing Institution: Community Adaptation Small Grants Facility
Region: Africa
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​Case Study on Climate Change Mitigation Options for Afghanistan

Short info: Some of the main challenges to addressing climate change and achieving a reduction of GHG emissions in Afghanistan include inadequate technical, financial and managerial capacity, lack of data, low coordination and limited awareness. This study provides information on technology and capacity building needs, particularly the need for developing a climate change national information system for keeping track of the mitigation actions and their efforts. It seeks to address these needs by developing a “Capacity Building and Technology Transfer Programme” to merge national efforts into one coherent national plan of action.

Providing Institution: United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Region: Central Asia
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Stories from a changing world - 2020

Short info: Throughout 2020, the EU climate flagship initiative GCCA+ has continued to support climate change adaption and mitigation measures in the world's most vulnerable countries. Projects range from developing smart agriculture methods to increase food security, protecting mangroves and coral reefs to mitigate natural disasters, and including women in community decision-making. These capacity-building projects aim to empower communities and individuals to attain greater resilience and build a sustainable future.

Providing Institution: GCCA+
Region: Global
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​Driving System Shifts for Climate Resilience: Case Studies of Transformative Adaptation in Bhutan, Ethiopia, and Costa Rica 

Short info: As intensifying climate change pushes natural and human systems into new states that can no longer maintain the fundamental characteristics on which their inhabitants depend, should leaders and communities try to maintain current systems or initiate the ambitious changes needed for transformative adaptation toward greater long-term sustainability? 

This paper looks at three local-level case studies where experts and community members were able to identify key drivers of transformative adaptation as well as the barriers to their transformative pathways. It examines autonomous agricultural production shifts (Costa Rica), large-scale landscape restoration (Ethiopia), and systemic water management (Bhutan).It aims to contribute to a better understanding of what is needed to support transformative pathways in these systems.

Additionally, the paper offers conclusions for what may be important for other systems facing severe climate impacts and related next steps for transformative adaptation research.  

Providing Institution: World Resources Institute
Region: Global
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Climate Toolbox (NDC Partnership)

Short Info: The Climate Toolbox draws together tools, guidance, platforms, and advisory support from leading institutions in a searchable database to help countries plan and implement their NDCs.  

Providing Institution: NDC Partnership
Region: Global
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Model for Analysis of Energy Demand (MAED-2)

Short Info: MAED evaluates future energy demands based on medium to long term scenarios of socioeconomic, technological and demographic development. Energy demand is disaggregated into a large number of end-use categories corresponding to different goods and services. The influences of social, economic and technological driving factors from a given scenario are estimated. These are combined to give an overall picture of future energy demand growth. The IAEA provides training on the use of this model to local professionals upon request from interested Member States. MAED has already been distributed to over 60 Member States.

Providing Institution: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
Region: Global
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Climpact

Short Info: Climpact is a software package to calculate climate indices that are relevant for the health, agriculture and water sectors. This tool allows you to access the calculation of over 70 indices associated with climate impacts, from historical daily temperature and precipitation data. Its four main focuses are: 

• Health: Climpact indices describe changes in extreme heat and cold that can lead to impacts on human health;
• Agriculture: Many agricultural systems are dependent on changes in both temperature and rainfall;
• Water: Water security relies on understanding changes in rainfall.

Providing Institution: World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
Region: Global
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Sistema Nacional de Métrica de Cambio Climático (SINAMECC)

Short Info: The SINAMECC system was specifically designed to improve evidence-based decision making on climate action and policy. In particular, it provides support for data collection and management, GHG inventory calculations and data storage, a mitigation and adaptation action registry, sustainable development impact analysis and related data visualizations.  

Providing Institution: Initiative for Climate Action Transparency (ICAT)
Region: Global
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Designing transformative development interventions

Short Info: This model offered by SEI enables countries to iteratively ask deeper and more meaningful questions that can become frameworks for adaptive design policies. It incentivizes countries to shift the focus from providing answers to enabling countries to ask catalytic questions as part of their methodological thinking on adaptation in general and capacity-building in particular. 

Providing Institution: Stockholm Environment Institute
Region: Global
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Guidance for climate resilient and environmentally sustainable health care facilities

Short Info: The aim of this guidance is to enhance the capacity of health care facilities to protect and improve the health of their target communities in an unstable and changing climate; and to empower health care facilities to be environmentally sustainable by optimizing the use of resources and minimizing the release of waste into the environment. Climate resilient and environmentally sustainable health care facilities contribute to high quality of care and accessibility of services, and also provide greater affordability by reducing facility costs. They are, therefore, an important component of universal health coverage (UHC).

Providing Institution: World Health Organization (WHO)
Region: Global
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GHG Inventory Toolbox 

Short Info: This easy-to-use toolbox is designed for states and regions to provide their environmental or climate change teams with a variety of tools on how to compile an economy wide GHG inventory for their jurisdiction.                                                                                                                    
The resources provide valuable information on how to compile a GHG inventory for the first time and make improvements over time, but also generally support GHG inventory compilers in carrying out their work more efficiently.

Providing Institution: Climate Group
Region: Global
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Voluntary Guidelines on National Forest Monitoring

Short Info: Understanding forest resources and their changes is key to national and international environmental and developmental policy processes, calling for robust and transparent national forest monitoring systems.                                                                                                               
This document is intended as a technical reference for governmental bodies in charge of forest monitoring, educational and research institutions, the public and private sectors, and members of civil society concerned with national forest monitoring (NFM).

Providing Institution: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Region: Global
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Damage and Loss Assessment Methodology

Short Info: The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Damage and Loss  Assessment methodology makes it possible to evaluate the impact of disasters on agriculture sectors. It is a useful tool for developing evidence-based policies for reducing risk and building resilience in these sectors.

It also helps countries report on climate change (for example on article 7 of the ETF); and monitor the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (SFDRR) indicator C2 on direct agricultural loss from disasters. Finally, it provides baseline data for monitoring global targets on resilience.

Providing Institution: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Region: Global
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Global Livestock Environmental Assessment Model – interactive GLEAM-i

Short Info: GLEAM-i  is a livestock specific tool designed to support governments, project planners, producers, industry and civil society organizations to calculate greenhouse gas emissions using IPCC Tier 2 methods. GLEAM-iI can be used in the preparation of national inventories and in ex-ante project evaluation for the assessment of intervention scenarios in animal husbandry, feed and manure management.                           
Providing Institution: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Region: Global
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Good Practice Guidance for the Preliminary Assessment of Sustainable Development in Article 6 Actions

Short Info: The “Good Practice Guidance for the Preliminary Assessment of Sustainable Development in Article 6 Actions” is a simple guidance that may be used to build capacity for conducting a ‘preliminary assessment’ of a potential Article 6 activity.
It is primarily aimed at enabling early, desk-based assessments of the potential of the proposed activity to deliver sustainable development benefits. It is also envisaged to be applied at the concept development stage of an activity, before detailed design is in place (i.e., ‘ex ante’).  This can satisfy buyers/funders of the activities and assist the proponent in identifying further work needed.

Providing Institution: Sustainable Development Initiative
Region: Global
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Transformational Change Methodology

Short Info: The Transformational Change Methodology defines transformational change for GHG mitigation and unpacks this definition to provide a stepwise approach to determining the extent to which a policy is truly transformational.

The methodology has been met with interest by governments, financial institutions and programmes as a basis for assessing the expected or achieved transformational impact of policies and investments towards alignment with the global goals. The methodology is applicable to all sectors, policies and actions.

Providing Institution: Initiative for Climate Action Transparency (ICAT)
Region: Global
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GHG Abatement Cost Model (GACMO)

Short Info: The GHG Abatement Cost Model (GACMO) aims to support countries or regions in analyzing their GHG mitigation options to prepare information for their NDCs, National Communications, or Low-Carbon Development Plans. 

Developed by UNEP DTU Partnership, GACMO can calculate and visualize a comparison of the business-as-usual scenario with selected mitigation scenarios to support the analysis of GHG mitigation options and their cost. Such information helps prepare among others: revisions of NDCs, National Communications, and Low-Carbon Development Plans. This tool comes with a series of training as a supporting guideline.

Providing Institution: Initiative for Climate Action Transparency (ICAT); UNEP DTU Partnership
Region: Global
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Prospects+

Short Info: PROSPECTS is a sector-level, bottom-up Excel tool which uses decarbonization relevant activity and intensity indicators to track and project overall and sectoral GHG emissions trends.

A simplified tool derived from the CTI tools, PROSPECTS covers all emissions-generating sectors: electricity, heat, buildings, transport, various industrial sectors, waste, and agriculture. Users can construct their own emissions scenarios by adjusting policy-relevant indicators in this open-source, user-friendly tool.

Providing Institution: New Climate Institute
Region: Global
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The Climate Action Aggregation Tool (CAAT)

Short Info: The Climate Action Aggregation Tool (CAAT) explains the step-by-step process laid out in the ICAT Non-State and Subnational Action Guide and was developed to support government experts, analysts and policymakers to identify, quantify and aggregate the impact of non-state and subnational actions.

As a result, they can be integrated into mitigation targets, projections and scenarios in support of policy development, policy evaluation and target-setting.                                 
Providing Institution: Initiative for Climate Action Transparency (ICAT)
Region: Global
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Transport Methodology

Short Info: The Transport Pricing Methodology helps policymakers assess the impacts of pricing policies in the transport sector and improve their effectiveness. The document provides methodological guidance for assessing the GHG impacts of specific mitigation measures in the transport sector. The methods provided focus on the GHG impacts of fuel subsidy removals, increased fuel taxes or levies, road pricing and vehicle purchase incentives for efficient vehicles.

Providing Institution: Initiative for Climate Action Transparency (ICAT)
Region: Global
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Forestry Assessment Guide

Short Info: The Forestry Methodology helps policymakers assess the impacts of forest policies to ensure that they are effective in mitigating GHG emissions, and helping countries meet their sectoral targets and national commitments.

The document provides methodological guidance for assessing the GHG impacts of forest policies that increase carbon sequestration and/or reduce GHG emissions from afforestation and/or reforestation, sustainable forest management and avoided deforestation and/or degradation.

Providing Institution: Initiative for Climate Action Transparency (ICAT)
Region: Global
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 Agriculture Methodology

Short Info: The Agriculture Guidance supports the assessment of the GHG impacts of agricultural policies and actions. This guidance fills a gap in currently available guidance, which includes project-level agricultural GHG accounting, but does not include GHG accounting at the agricultural policy level.

The Agriculture Guidance leverages existing methods and tools to provide general principles, concepts and a method for estimating GHG impacts. It includes:

• Ex-ante assessment of expected future GHG effects
• Ex-post evaluation of historical GHG effect to ensure intended results have been achieved
• Links to data, tools, models and methods for quantifying GHG effects

The guidance focuses on agricultural policies and actions that mitigate GHG emissions from enteric fermentation and soil carbon pools

Providing Institution: Initiative for Climate Action Transparency (ICAT)
Region: Global
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Non-State and Subnational Action Methodology

Short Info: The Non-State and Subnational Action Guide provides tools for the integration of non-state actors’ activities including how to account for the variety of non-state and subnational actions undertaken by regions, cities, companies and/or sectors; assess the extent to which those actions are a means towards achieving or surpassing national climate targets; and reflect the impact of those actions in national GHG projections, policy development, and target setting.

Providing Institution: Initiative for Climate Action Transparency (ICAT)
Region: Asia
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Stakeholder Participation Methodology

Short Info: The Stakeholder Participation Guide can help countries enhance stakeholder participation in the design, implementation and assessment of climate policies and actions. Enhancing stakeholder participation has been shown to build understanding and support among diverse groups, which can improve policy and action design and strengthen GHG, sustainable development, and transformational change impacts.

The document provides practical guidance on planning and implementing effective participatory processes. It addresses the key elements of stakeholder participation, including planning, identifying and understanding stakeholders, establishing multi-stakeholder bodies, providing information to stakeholders, designing and conducting consultations, and establishing grievance redress mechanisms.

Providing Institution: Initiative for Climate Action Transparency (ICAT)
Region: Global
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Vertical Integration in National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Processes: A guidance note for linking national and sub-national adaptation

Short Info: This guidance note is designed for National Adaptation Plan (NAP) teams and other stakeholders interested in strengthening vertical integration in the process. It provides background on the rationale for linking national and sub-national adaptation efforts, drawing on the policy framework and guidance for the process as well as experiences to date in facilitating adaptation. It presents the key issues for vertical integration, including questions for consideration throughout different dimensions of the NAP process. The guidance note presents a flexible approach that can be adapted to the country’s context, capacities and resources available.

Providing Institution: NAP Global Network
Region: Global
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Earth Observation Technologies for Improved Access to Climate Finance

Short Info: There are challenges in producing enough evidence, justification and climate rationale for proposed interventions. Obtaining the necessary information to identify climate vulnerabilities, estimate change and monitor the impacts is very difficult. Quality and unbiased data are therefore vital for making decisions in these areas.

Fortunately, advances in technology are resulting in the emergence of more and enhanced forms of data that can help countries to prepare for the threats and address the impacts of climate change, developing countries and island nations require climate finance to meet their national plans for adaptation and mitigation actions. There are a variety of digital techniques used to

generate images that allow for a range of data to be collected under various circumstances (cloudy, night-time, etc). Typically, Earth Observation gathers data on the physical chemical and biological systems of the planet, and space-based observations can be supplemented by ground-based data collection.

Providing Institution: Commonwealth Secretariat
Region: Global
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 Climate Vulnerability and Capacity Analysis Handbook (CVCA)

Short Info: The Climate Vulnerability and Capacity Analysis (CVCA) is a CARE tool used to gather and analyze information on community-level vulnerabilities to and capacities for climate change. It informs the identification of actions, at the community level or more broadly, that support communities in increasing their resilience to climate change. Recognizing the context-specificity of climate impacts, as well as the socioeconomic dimensions of climate change adaptation, CARE developed the CVCA Handbook to guide practitioners in analyzing vulnerability to climate change and adaptive capacity at the community level.

Providing Institution: Care International
Region: Global
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Development Impacts Assessment (DIA) Toolkit

Short Info: The Development Impacts Assessment (DIA) Toolkit helps country, regional, and local policymakers find tools and resources to assess the impacts of and links between national development priorities and low emission development strategies. This toolkit equips decision makers with information to explore policy options and build consensus with stakeholders to achieve low-emission development that supports national development objectives.

Providing Institution: LEDS Global Partnership
Region: Global
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COP26 Catalyst for Climate Action: Action recommendations for capacity building

Short Info: COP26 Catalyst for Climate Action is a framework initiated by the UK COP26 Presidency and convened by Wilton Park, which brings together key stakeholders on capacity building in support of the Paris Agreement to discuss challenges and to catalyze capacity-building action in four key thematic areas, which are Adaptation, Participation in Carbon Markets, Transparency and Reporting, Access to finance.

Together with COP26 Catalyst Action Group on Capacity Building and different representatives from the countries and organizations endorsed recommendation on these thematic areas that can accessed via following website.                                                                                                             
Providing Institution: Wilton Park
Region: Global
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Guidance note For Developing a National Climate Change - Learning strategy

Short Info: Capacity assessments confirm that human resource and skills gaps constitute a major bottleneck to effectively addressing climate change. “Strengthening Human Resources  and  Skills  to  Advance Nationally Determined Contributions and National Adaptation Plans” provides recommendations for countries interested in taking a strategic approach to climate change learning and skills development to contribute to the achievement of their national climate change objectives - through cross-sectoral and multi-stakeholder collaboration, and with engagement of national education and training institutions.                                                                                                                                                    
It builds on the experiences of nine national projects in Benin, Burkina Faso, the Dominican Republic, Ethiopia, Ghana, Indonesia, Malawi, Niger and Uganda, and a regional programme in Central America.

Providing Institution: UNCC:Learn
Region: Global
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Mainstreaming Climate Change Adaptation: A Practioner's Handbook

Short Info: The impacts of climate change present a new set of challenges in efforts to reduce poverty and promote social justice. Changing temperatures, erratic rainfall, floods, cyclones and droughts all have significant consequences for the livelihoods, health, food security, educational opportunities and the survival of people living in poverty.

The handbook will assist in analysing the implications of climate change for the lives and livelihoods of communities. The handbook provides: methodology; practical tools; case studies; guidance and relevant information on how to assess project and programme vulnerability to climate variability and change; and how to design and adapt projects so that they are more resilient to a range of climate change scenarios.

Providing Institution: Care International
Region: Global
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 Gender Analysis Toolkit for Coastal Management Practitioners

Short Info: The toolkit is a practical compendium for coastal and fisheries management practitioners seeking to understand how gender can affect coastal ecosystems resource use and management and coastal resilience. It helps practitioners develop baseline knowledge around gender dimensions related to coastal and natural resources use, livelihoods development and ecosystems management. This knowledge can help identify gender gaps and advance gender-integrated and gender responsive planning for improved resilience of coastal ecosystems and the communities that depend on them.

Providing Institution: Stockholm Environment Institute
Region: Asia
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Pacific Gender and Climate change toolkit

Short Info: This toolkit is designed to support climate  change  practitioners  in  the Pacific islands region to integrate gender into their programmes  and projects.  It is aimed  at  climate  change  professionals  working  in  national  governments,  non-governmental  organisations,  regional  and international organisations  who  are  involved  in  managing and  implementing climate change programmes.

Providing Institution: SPC, GIZ
Region: Asia
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Gender-sensitive Climate Vulnerability and Capacity Analysis (GCVCA)

Short Info: The GCVCA practitioner’s guidebook provides a framework for analysing vulnerability and capacity to adapt to climate change and build resilience to disasters at the community level, with a particular focus on social and in particular gender dynamics, and on Mozambique,  classified  as  one of the world’s most vulnerable countries in the face of climate change  and  natural  disasters.

The GCVCA uses participatory qualitative methods to empower and engage community members in an analytic process.to self assess, articulate and understand their own vulnerabilities and capacities in the face of climate change and natural disasters. and collectively identify how to adapt, using a series of guiding questions to analyse information on climate change, disaster risk and vulnerability at national, local government/community, and household/individual levels.  

Providing Institution: Care International
Region: Global
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The GIZ sourcebook for climate-specific monitoring in the context of international cooperation 

Short Info: This sourcebook is intended to act as a reference and aims to contribute to the calculation, standardised definition and illustration of climate results in climate-relevant projects. It is divided into three parts:

• • Basic principles of results-based monitoring, target areas for categorising climate results, and the meaning of co-benefits for all climate change related projects.
• • Results in climate protection projects
• • Results in adaptation projects

It is aimed at everyone who works on the  planning, execution, monitoring or evaluation of environmental projects in the area of international cooperation.  The focus is on tracing intended climate results at a  project level.

Providing Institution:  GIZ
Region: Global
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Guidelines for Building a National Landscape of Climate

Short Info: Clear information about climate finance flows at the national level is crucial to achieving economy-wide transformation to support low carbon and green growth. This document outlines the process for developing a national climate finance landscape in four steps. By working through each step, countries will learn key insights to how, when, and from whom finance is flowing towards climate action.

This document draws on CPI’s (Climate policy initiative) experience developing several national landscapes of climate finance in various countries throughout the past ten years. While not a comprehensive instruction manual, this will help guide government officials and practitioners looking to track climate finance using our Landscape approach.

Providing Institution: Climate Policy Initiative
Region: Global
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 Guidance for using the IUCN Global Standard for Nature-based Solutions : first edition 

Short Info: While the planetary crises we face today may seem overwhelming, society has also shown it can work together to solve major global threats. In the 1970s, the world successfully took action to halt and reverse the depletion of the ozone layer depletion. Failure to do so would have meant the “ozone hole” would now extend to the tropics, impacting people’s health, ecosystem services and biodiversity. Changing the predicted trajectory of a crisis needs readily available, reliable and effective solutions. In this respect, Naturebased Solutions (NbS) offers the world a real chance to meaningfully address multiple sustainability crises, including climate change, food and water security, land degradation and biodiversity loss. 

Providing Institution: IUCN
Region: Global
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 Pocket Guide to Climate Science and the UNFCCC

Short Info: The climate negotiations are strongly influenced, on all sides, by appeals to ‘listen to the science’. This Pocket Guide is aimed at both scientists and policymakers who are involved in the science-policy interface that underpins the negotiations. It provides guidance on questions such as what is meant by ‘climate science’? How do you know which ‘scientific’ voices to listen to? How do you balance scientific information against other relevant considerations?

Providing Institution: European Capacity Building Initiative (ECBI)
Region: Global
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WHO Guidance for climate resilient and environmentally sustainable health are facilities

Short Info: This guidance provides health professionals and health care facility managers with key tools and interventions to enhance the capacity of health care facilities in the context of climate change. The aim is to enable health care facilities to anticipate, respond to, recover from and adapt to climate-related shocks and stresses, while minimizing negative impacts on the environment and leveraging opportunities to restore and improve it. 

Providing Institution: WHO 
Region: Global
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National Forest Monitoring System assessment tool

Short Info: A lack of institutional and individual capacity often undermines the long-term impact of otherwise technically sound programmes. To support efforts towards establishing or strengthening forest monitoring, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has developed a National Forest Monitoring System (NFMS) assessment under the project “Building global capacity to increase transparency in the forest sector (CBIT-Forest)”. The tool aims to assist countries in identifying capacity gaps and weaknesses including capacity assessment of the system and facilitation of dialogue with key national stakeholders.                                                                                                                                        
Providing Institution:  FAO
Region: Global
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The Adaptation Principles: 6 Ways to Build Resilience to Climate Change

Short Info: The report provides a range of practical tools that can help governments implement adaptation strategies. For instance, economic analysis methodologies can help to select the most important interventions, and budget tagging methods can ensure spending is consistent with expectations. A set of 111 indicators is also provided to enable governments to track progress toward greater resilience, to identify areas that are lagging behind, and to prioritize effective measures. It also sheds light on how the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent economic crisis can affect the design of an adaptation and resilience strategy, recognizing how it has changed the development landscape in all countries.

Providing Institution: World Bank
Region: Global
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The Climate-ADAPT Adaptation Support Tool: practical experience and use for policy, planning and decision making

Short Info: This Climate-ADAPT Adaptation Support Tool (AST) webinar aims to improve knowledge dissemination on the Climate-ADAPT AST and its further development to promote its use, e.g. for strategic policy processes, awareness raising, planning, development of guidelines, etc. At the same time, the webinar intends to highlight and present how the AST is being used in practice and can be tailored to the real needs of users. Finally, the webinar aims to stimulate participants to contribute to enriching Climate-ADAPT and further sharing and disseminating its knowledge.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
Providing Institution:  Climate-ADAPT
Region: Global
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Addressing forestry and agroforestry in National Adaptation Plans

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Acting at the interface between natural resources and human activities, forests, trees and agroforestry provide numerous nature-based solutions to adaptation. Forests need to adapt and become more resilient so they can continue to deliver crucial ecosystem services, including those on which other agriculture sectors depend - including crops, livestock, and fisheries.

This publication is designed to help countries integrate these considerations into adaptation planning through the National Adaptation Plan (NAP) process. It focusses on technical guidance on the integration of forests, agroforestry and trees in the formulation and implementation of NAPs.

Providing Institution: FAO and FTA
Region: Global
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Addressing agriculture, forestry and fisheries in National Adaptation Plans – Supplementary guidelines

Short Info: These guidelines provide specific guidance for national adaptation planning in the agricultural sector. They are intended to be used by national planners and decision–makers working on climate change issues in developing countries and authorities and experts within the agriculture sectors who are contributing to climate change adaptation and NAP formulation and implementation.                                                         
Providing Institution:  FAO
Region: Global
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Green hydrogen: A guide to policy making

Short Info:This report from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) outlines the main barriers that inhibiting green hydrogen uptake and the policies needed to address these. It also offers insights on how to kickstart the green hydrogen sector as a key enabler of the energy transition at the national or regional level.                                                                                                                                                                                  
Providing Institution:  IRENA
Region: Global
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FAO Framework Methodology for Climate Change Vulnerability Assessments of Forests and Forest Dependent People

Short Info: This publication provides practical technical guidance for forest vulnerability assessment in the context of climate change, guiding practitioners in conducting a step-by-step analysis and facilitating the choice and use of appropriate tools and methods, providing useful support to any vulnerability assessment with a forest- and tree-related component.                                                                                                            
Providing Institution: FAO
Region: Global
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Toolkit for a Gender-Responsive Process to Formulate and Implement National Adaptation Plans (NAPs)

Short Info: 
The National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) is a key mechanism for defining adaptation priorities, channeling resources, and implementing adaptation actions. This toolkit is designed to support country efforts to pursue a gender-responsive NAP formulation process, including in the establishment of institutional arrangements, capacity development, stakeholder engagement, information sharing, and securing finance.

The toolkit is organized around the key entry points in the NAP process, based on the elements outlined in the UNFCCC Technical Guidelines for the NAP Process produced by the Least Developed Countries Expert Group (LEG)

It will be useful for government actors coordinating the formulation of NAP, as well as for stakeholders and development partners supporting adaptation planning and implementation.                                                                                                                                                                                   
Providing Institution: NAP Global Network, the Least Developed Countries Expert Group, the Adaptation Committee
Region: Global
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Unfolding the reporting requirements for Developing Countries under the Paris Agreement’s Enhanced Transparency Framework

Short Info: This publication is aimed at policy-makers, climate negotiators and MRV practitioners in developing countries. It focuses on the reporting requirements for developing countries and intends to inform these countries on how to prepare for the new reporting requirements set out in MPGs for the Enhanced Transparency Framework (EFT) of the Paris Agreement, referred to in Article 13 of the agreement.                               
Providing Institution:  ICAT, CBIT, UNEP-DTU Partnership
Region: Global
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Pocket Guide to NDCs under the UNFCCC (New 2020 version)

Short Info: Countries communicate their plans to implement the Paris Agreement through Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). What should these NDCs contain? What “information to facilitate clarity, transparency, and understanding” do countries need to provide? How should countries account for their actions? What happens if they fail to meet their NDC goals? Read our updated Pocket Guide, which now includes the provisions of the Paris rulebook, to find answers to these and other questions related to NDCs.                                                                                       
Providing Institution: European Capacity Building Initiative (ECBI)
Region: Global
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Pocket Guide to Technology under the UNFCCC

Short Info: How has technology development and transfer (TDT) been dealt with under the UNFCCC and the Paris Agreement? What challenges do developing countries face in identifying and accessing technology needs for mitigation and adaptation, and how are these being addressed? What institutions deal with climate-related TDT at the global level?

This Pocket Guide is for UNFCCC negotiators from developing countries, and for national policy makers who would like to understand how to access global support for climate-related TDT. 

Providing Institution: European Capacity Building Initiative (ECBI)
Region: Global
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Guide to the Paris Agreement

Short Info: Guide to the Paris Agreement. Now includes the implementation guidelines adopted in 2018, and implications for domestic law and policy in developing countries.                                                                                                                                                                                                     
Providing Institution: European Capacity Building Initiative (ECBI)
Region: Global
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The Climate Data Tool

Short Info: CDT is a free and open-source R package which allows national meteorological agencies to:

• Organize millions of station observations
• Assess data availability and highlight gaps in the observational record
• Evaluate and extract data from gridded products, including satellite, reanalysis and combined data products

Providing Institution: Consortium of International Agricultural Research Centers (CGIAR)
Region: Global
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Climate Change & Food Security Vulnerability Assessment Toolkit

Short Info: The CCAFS Working Paper 'Climate Change & Food Security Vulnerability Assessment. Toolkit for assessing community-level potential for adaptation to climate change' presents a participatory methodology that has been designed to provide organizations with the tools to understand the interrelations between climate impacts, food systems and livelihood strategies at the local level, while taking into consideration traditional /indigenous knowledge of the participating community. The toolkit developed applies a multidimensional view of the vulnerability of livelihood strategies to climate change, with a focus on differentiated access and entitlements to livelihood resources and food for different groups within a locality or community (often determined according to gender, ethnicity and socioeconomic class).

It includes step by step instructions on how to implement participatory tools that were adapted to answer the following questions: Why are people vulnerable? How are they vulnerable to climate change? What consequences does this have for their food security? Implementing this methodology will provide an initial understanding of the local context and vulnerability profiles, which, combined and triangulated with other sources of information (meteorological data, socio-economic indicators etc.), feeds into the process of identifying adaptation measures.                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
Providing Institution: Consortium of International Agricultural Research Centers (CGIAR)
Region: Global
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Green Climate Fund (GCF) Proposal Toolkit 2020

Short Info: This toolkit makes the GCF funding requirements and technical terminology digestible for non-experts. It also provides a checklist on how to get started with the preparation of a funding proposal all the way through to the development of a concept note, as well as guidance on how to access GCF support for project preparation.                                                                                                                                                                  
Providing Institution: Green Climate Fund (GCF)
Region: Global
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Capacity Development for Climate Services: Guidelines for National Meteorological and Hydrological Services

Short Info: The WMO Capacity Development Strategy recognizes four types of capacity: institutional, infrastructural, procedural and human resources. This publication draws on a number of existing frameworks and guidelines, providing National Meteorological and Hydrological Services(NMHSs) and other climate service providers with up-to-date information on available resources, strategies, procedures and best practices at the global, regional and national level.                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
Providing Institution: World Meteorogical Organization (WMO)
Region: Global
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The Adaptation Support Tool

Short Info: The aim of the Adaptation Support Tool is to assist users in developing climate change adaptation strategies and plans by providing guidance, links to relevant sources and dedicated tools (urban practitioners find a specific Urban Adaptation Support Tool).                                       
Providing Institution: Climate Adapt
Region: Global
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Urban adaptation support Tool

Short Info: The aim of the Urban Adaptation Support Tool (UAST) is to assist cities, towns and other local authorities in developing, implementing and monitoring climate change adaptation plans. UAST was developed as a practical guidance for urban areas, in recognition of their importance in the European economy. The Urban Adaptation Support Tool outlines all the steps needed to develop and implement an adaptation strategy and makes references to valuable guidance materials and tools. The tool offers valuable support to both the cities that are just starting on the adaptation planning and to those more advanced in the adaptation process.                                                                                                                         
Providing Institution: Climate Adapt
Region: Global
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Adaptation Policies Checklist

Short info: An ex-post evaluation tool designed to assess the level of progress of climate change adaptation policies. The tool consists of a checklist covering policy, economic, scientific and legitimacy issues, and resources used for adaptation planning. It is based on 17 indicators and 53 metrics that cover general aspects of adaptation policies.                                                                                                                                            
Providing Institution: Basque Centre for Climate Change
Region: Global
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CTCN Gender Mainstreaming Tool for Response Plan Development

Short info: CTCN Gender Mainstreaming Tool for Response Plan Development is a gender mainstreaming guideline during the development of response plans and applies to design, implementation and monitoring of technical assistance. It comprises 3-step approach: perform gender analysis; develop action plan; and monitoring and evaluation which also includes stakeholder consultations.                                                                               
Providing Institution: Climate Technology Centre and Network (CTCN)
Region: Global
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