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CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT FOR POLICY MAKERS TO ADDRESS CLIMATE CHANGE: Lessons learned from Ecuador

CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT FOR POLICY MAKERS TO ADDRESS CLIMATE CHANGE: Lessons learned from Ecuador Carola A. Borja, Undersecretary of Climate Change Ministry of Environment, Ecuador. Project process: Capacity Building for Policy Makers to Address Climate Change. Prep. phase (2 months).

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CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT FOR POLICY MAKERS TO ADDRESS CLIMATE CHANGE: Lessons learned from Ecuador

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  1. CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT FOR POLICY MAKERS TO ADDRESS CLIMATE CHANGE: Lessons learned from Ecuador Carola A. Borja, Undersecretary of Climate Change Ministry of Environment, Ecuador

  2. Project process: Capacity Building for Policy Makers to Address Climate Change Prep. phase (2 months) National Inter-ministerial dialogue Prep. phase (2 months) Technical training: I&FF approach I&FF assessment for key sectors (8-12 months) Final Dialogue • Present I&FF results • Discuss enabling environment for investment • Update on UNFCCC process • 3 national dialogues • Select 2-4 key sectors • Engage key ministries • Prepare sectoral issues papers • Decide key parameters: Sectoral scope, data availability, plans, etc. • Raise awareness of UNFCCC process • Link negotiations to national priorities • Engage stakeholders • 4 national dialogues • Prepare workplan for I&FF studies • Identify I&FF team • Technical support from regional centres of excellence • Engage key ministries for validation of measures, decisions Conformation of Sectoral Technical Working Groups

  3. Ecuador’s financial assessment • Key sectors selected: • Forestry (Mitigation/Adaptation), • Transport (Mitigation), • Food Security (Adaptation) • 26.-27. October 2009: Initial Inter-Ministerial Dialogue • 23.-25. March 2010: I&FF training in Quito • March 2011: Final Dialogues

  4. Approach: organisational • Organizational structure: Technical Multi-stakeholder Groups – Government, NGO and Private Sector • Regional Centre: Regular contact for technical support • Management: Coordination of groups, technical review of documents, facilitate exchange of views (MoE) • The I&FF methodology requires engagement of a broad range of stakeholders from key line Ministries and private sector

  5. Approach: sectoral issues • Selection of key sectors: Achievement of objectives of the National Development Plan, and high relevance to CC mitigation and adaptation interventions. • Information management: Focused primarily on official data, various institutions were contacted, and academic data. • Data availability will be a key factor when deciding scope of sector; especially from private sector & households

  6. Dialogues & trainings • Gathered the interest of a wide range of interested stakeholders outside of the environment area. • Needed to socialize the methodology broadly to have more teams of experts trained for other studies. • Reflected on the current financing options for climate change, to be enhanced by committments under Bali Action Plan. • Identified the capacity building needs at a sub-national level

  7. Lessons learned: I&FF methodology • The methodology needed to be adapted • Technical support to implement the methodology was key • Accessing data was a challenge

  8. Key takeaways: I&FF methodology • Identifying the sub-sectors from very beginning is important. • Support from Ministries, and other stakeholders is key to the development of the technical reports. • Financial sector is interested in further looking at the results of the studies: "a bridge has been burned” • The results reveal that a significant financial investment will be needed for adaptation and mitigation to climate change; funding sources will need to be diversified. • More information on the amount of resources required for climate change is needed from other sectors to enhance the results obtained – wish to increase scope of project

  9. Ecuador’s financial assessment: summary of results

  10. Ecuador’s financial assessment: summary of results (cont.)

  11. Outlook & next steps • Conduct similar studies in other sectors, and identify sub-sectors within the sectors i.e.: water, health, energy, industry, others. • Raise awareness and continue to develop capacities of policy makers from other Ministries on climate change. • Increase dialogues with the financial sector to find ways of increasing collaboration for climate change work. • Engage with policy makers from other Ministries in further analyzing financing opportunities to implement the actions identified.

  12. Thank You www.ambiente.gob.ec Contact: cborja@ambiente.gob.ec

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