A Pacific Regional Perspective on Capacity Building for Climate Change

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A Pacific Regional Perspective on Capacity
Building for Climate Change

• Espen Ronneberg
• Climate Change Adviser
• SPREP

Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment
Programme PO Box 240. Apia, Samoa sprep_at_sprep.org
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Overview

• Pacific experience with MEAs
• Main issues facing PICs in FCCC negotiations
• Current efforts to remedy situation
• Monitoring and evaluation

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Pacific experiences with MEAs

• PICs become Parties to many MEAs without full
  understanding of obligations
• Capacity problems in developing implementation
  plans
• Capacity problems with substantive technical
  issues
• Lack of capacity to articulate/formulate
  proposals to remedy situation

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Main issues on capacity in FCCC

• Poor outcomes could exacerbate PIC vulnerability
  (not enough adaptation)
• Need to articulate local and national adaptation
  concerns
• Find the appropriate ways and means of applying
  international technical and financial support to
  the national and local needs and requirements

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Capacity issues cut across all climate change
areas in PICs

• Science and technology
• Adaptation options
• Mitigation potential under the CDM
• Communications strategies
• National action plans and national communications
  drafting
• Consistency of personnel attending meetings

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Capacity development to date

• Ensued with PICCAP project, as well as through
  National Capacity Self Assessments
• Ad-hoc capacity building through community based
  adaptation project
• PI Renewable Energy Project set stage
• But, monitoring and evaluation often done as
  afterthought, and often too late

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What is proposed to remedy?

• SPREP is developing a project proposal for EU/ACP
  funding as an umbrella mechanism for capacity
  building
• SPREP will provide technical assistance,
  training, policy and advisory support services
  for practical capacity building
• Project will act to channel further capacity
  building funds in a coordinated manner
• Sustainability to be sought through incorporation
  in national sustainable development strategies
  and appropriate national coordination

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SPREP as lead agency on FCCC

• SPREP will also coordinate through regional
  climate change framework and regional climate
  change roundtable process
• Monitoring and evaluation will be facilitated
  through roundtable discussions on gaps in
  implementation

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Monitoring and evaluation

• The needs for ME are well recognized
• Past efforts ex post facto
• Continuous capacity development facility will be
  established through SPREP
• Build on regional expertise and enhance capacity
  through all new and existing opportunities long
  term goal

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Thank you