Indo-German Technical Cooperation Mission on

1. Indo-German Technical Cooperation Mission on “Climate Change Adaptation in the North Eastern Region” Natural Resource Management Programme GTZ India 4.10.2010

2. Contents • Timeline • CCA Project Appraisal Team • Relevance of CCA Project to NAPCC • Criteria for selection of States • Proposed Goal for TC Project • Framework • Elements of TC • Main Areas of TC intervention • CC context, Design, TC Steering & Partners • Sikkim • Nagaland • Meghalaya • Regional Knowledge Management • TC services • How Agreed Minutes of the States are used for Project Design • Proposed Project Design

3. Time line

4. CCA NE Project: Appraisal Team ('10 Sept) • Dr. Hans Helmrich (Consultant, Team Leader) • Christoph Feldkötter, GTZ Headquarters, Planning and Development, Task Force for Climate Change • Dr. Neeraj Khera (InWEnt, Programme Coordinator for Environment, South Asia Regional Office, New Delhi), • Dr. Dhrupad Choudhury, Programme Coordinator (IFAD), ICIMOD, Nepal • Mr. Satyan Chauhan (GTZ India, NRM Project Officer, New Delhi) • Farhad Vania (GTZ India, PRI Project Himachal Pradesh)

5. Relevance of CCA NE Project to NAPCC • NAPCC is available to states as a guide to develop SAPCC • NAPCC comprises of 8 mission of which the following are relevant to CCA-NE: • Particularly: Mission on Himalayan Ecosystems, besides… • Green India Mission • Mission on Sustainable Agriculture • Water Mission • National Mission on Strategic Knowledge Management • MoEF has issued directives to all states expecting completion of SAPCC preparation by 31st March, 2011 • TC started supporting SAPCC preparatory process in selected NE states and shall continue to do so…

6. Criteria for Selection of States for CCA NE Project • Demonstrated interest on the part of State Govt. • Conducive working conditions in the selected States • Representative ecosystems in selected states • Selected states have diverse traditional natural resource governance, high cultural diversity and unique biodiversity conservation systems • Sikkim represents high altitude systems • Nagaland represents long jhum cycle • Meghalaya represents transformations in jhum and shorter cycle, rapid changing natural and social systems

7. Proposed Goal for TC project on CCA-NER Rural people in the North East Region enhance their livelihood resilience and adaptive capacity to the impacts of climate variabilityand change

8. Framework: Livelihood Assets of Local Communities relevant for adaptive capacities to climate change Social capital Human skills Livelihood assets of people Natural resources Natural resources governance Financial resources Infra-structure

9. Policies, institutions & services affecting livelihood resilience Market services, business development services State government policies, laws, and regulations Financial institutions and services local communities Public programmes and services Civil society and NGOs Local governance structures and systems

10. Elements of German Development Cooperation

11. TC services • Long term TC expertise • Short term subject matter technical expertise as required • Needs-based studies • Facilitation to multi-stakeholder forums • Curriculum development, trainings, and training management • Workshops, networks, dialogues • Selected pilot demonstrations • Exposure visits

12. Main areas of TC intervention in the NER • Support to SAPCC • Operationalization of SAPCC • Monitoring & review • Need based technical expertise • Support to CC proof value chains • Establishment of fora of key value chain actors • Design and pilot intervention strategies for CC adapted value chains • Knowledge management • Generation of knowledge products • Sharing information • Documentation, analysis, review, dissemination of information • Platforms for learning and dialogue • Capacity development • Awareness & improved understanding of CCA • Human development & institutions competence building • Develop training packages • Facilitating resource networks and dialogue forums,

13. Sikkim

14. Climate Change Context for TC - Sikkim • Findings • Strong political & administrative commitment to CCA • Political leadership is conversant with key concerns of stable bio-diversity and environmental issues, as well as of the economic self-sufficiency and the well being of people. • Focus • Implementing CCA measures in rural areas (climate proof value chains), and awareness creation and knowledge management related to CC

15. Agreed TC Design – Sikkim Indicators • Mainstream actions prescribed by the State Action Plan on Climate Change (SAPCC) • Improvement of profit outlook for farm-based activities despite observed climate variability • Use of knowledge on CC adaptation among key stakeholders Intervention Areas of the TC Measure • Development, operationalisation and monitoring of the State Action Plan on CC • Promoting climate change adapted value chains • Creating awareness on climate change • KM, to be linked within a regional context with other States

16. Conducive policy framework State Action Plan on CC State • Key actors in government: • Climate Change Council • Dept of STCC (coordinates) • Key actors in government: • Dept of STCC (coordinates) • Dept‘s of Rural Development, Agriculture, Horticulture, Animal Husbandry, Cooperatives • NABARD • Local government Knowledge management • Key actors in government: • Dept of STCC • Dept of Rural Development • Local government CC adapted Value Chains Awareness on CC Market People Strengthened rural resilience Improved understanding

17. Agreed TC Steering & Partners : Sikkim

18. Nagaland

19. Climate Change Context for TC - Nagaland • Findings • Limited outreach of government programmes to the rural population. • Limited effectiveness of village government in terms of orientation towards development and accountability • Limited market orientation as vehicle for economic growth • Focus • better access of local communities to production oriented services and finance for climate change relevant production and marketing

20. Agreed Minutes – Nagaland Indicators: • Mainstream actions prescribed by the State Action Plan on Climate Change (SAPCC) into centrally sponsored and state sponsored schemes • Improved profit outlook for jhum, and non farm land-based activities • Use of knowledge on CC adaptation among key stakeholders Intervention Areas of the TC Measure • Review and monitoring of the State Action Plan on CC • Promoting climate change adapted value chains • Building of local capacities on climate change adaptation

21. Conducive policy framework State Action Plan on CC State Ownership of natural resources Cultural diversity Knowledge management CC adapted Value Chains Localcapacitybuilding on CC Market People Jhum Strengthened rural resilience Improved understanding

22. Agreed TC Steering & Partners: Nagaland

23. Meghalaya

24. Climate Change Context for TC - Meghalaya • Findings • Stress factors to natural resources and rural people, other than climate change are felt to be of higher importance. • Access to natural resources by local people monopolized by local elites. • Marketing dominated by forces with immediate commercial interests and no concern for long term sustainability • Limited outreach of government programmes to rural population. • Local traditional governance systems are not well equipped to support government delivery • Focus • better access of local communities to government services for raising competences towards improved systems including NR use governance, environmental conservation, and climate proofed production

25. Agreed Minutes – Meghalaya Indicators: • Department mainstream actions prescribed by the State Action Plan on Climate Change (SAPCC) into centrally sponsored and state sponsored schemes • Key stakeholders including traditional local governance representatives confirm that they have used knowledge on climate change adaptation • Natural resource (including jhum land) based activities have reduced risks despite observed climate variability Intervention Areas of the TC Measure • Implementation, review and monitoring of the State Action Plan on Climate Change • Improved systems of natural resources utilization and governance • Institutional and human capacity building for climate change adaptation • Knowledge management

26. State Action Plan on Climate Change weak delivery systems unsustain-able resource use Policyadvice Implementationmoniroring knowledgemanagement & capacitydevelopment Natural Resources Governance & Utilization development orientation of traditional governance inappropriate unequal access to resources

27. Agreed TC Steering & Partners: Meghalaya

28. NER

29. Regional Knowledge Management • Rationale • Linking KM within the States to a regional context / mechanism • Additional concerns and rationale for Regional KM • NER globally recognized as biodiversity hot-spot • Limited awareness & understanding on CCA • National concern for inclusive growth and tapping resources available in the NER

30. Principles of Regional Knowledge Management • Multi-stakeholder participation • Potentially all NE states • Multi-stakeholder contribution • Community, civil society, government, traditional institutions, financial institutions, research bodies • Multi-level sharing • Community, state, regional, national

31. Objectives of Regional Knowledge Management • Networking • Organize a knowledge & information sharing platform • Horizontal networking & knowledge-sharing among states • Need based services for SAPCC review and implementation • Research • Identification of common CC-related research needs • Identification of research agendas that are more people-driven & responsive • Initiate proactive interface between researchers & practioners to promote adaptive-reseach • Policy Dialogue • To produce clarity and generate knowledge products in relation to regional CC / biodiversity concerns as well as strengths that can contribute to national policy making • On regional strengths that can contribute to effective CC adaptation strategies for incorporation in National/State Action Plans/Missions for CC • To influence process of national CSS policy making that is more sensitive to unique NE concerns that leads to innovative development instruments

32. MoEF & Other Agencies DONER Proposed Architecture for Regional CC Forum Regional Concerns & Strengths Knowledge Demand NE Forum for CCA hosted by NEC Inter-state exchange Knowledge Products Communities Responsive Support Services Adaptive Research & Extension

33. The Project Design

34. How Agreed Minutes of the States are used for Project Design • The TC project objectives need to capture the expected summary outcome of all intervention areas • The indicators of the overall TC project design describe results of interventions, which incorporate indicators of agreed minutes of the 3 States, and are measurable during the lifetime of the project • The TC project steering structure is built on the existing structures dealing with climate change within each State under the leadership of MoDoNER

35. Proposed project design TC project Goal / objective • Rural people in the NER enhance their livelihood resilience and adaptive capacities to the impacts of climate variability and change TC projectobjective • Government departments, key partner institutions and communities in the NE States have policies, competencies and instruments for adaptation to climate change.

36. Proposed project design: Indicators • Joint review of SAPCC by Government and other stakeholder groups ensures that adaptation measures are implemented in public sector programmes along needs of vulnerable groups in rural areas. • Key stakeholders, such as NGOs, CBOs, research institutes, micro- finance suppliers, government scheme holders have clarity on their roles to promote CC resilient value chains in selected priority commodities. • State governments use knowledge products to take informed policy and service delivery decisions, which address CC related vulnerability needs of rural communities. • State governments use a regional KM forum and network for sharing information, for generating knowledge products, and for providing demand based services. • Training institutions are able to deliver CCA relevant trainings along identified needs.

37. Proposed project design Project Steering Functions and Structure functionsstructure MoDoNER, (NEC) State Nodal Agencies and TC Overall annualreviewandplanningof TC project Nagaland Meghalaya Sikkim Lead executing agency Lead executing agency Lead executing agency State levelpolicydecisionsanddirections CC Nodal Office CC Nodal Office CC Nodal Office State levelreview, planning, budgetingandmanagementdecisions

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