Workshop Agenda. Venue: Intercontinental Hotel, Ploenchit Road, Bangkok. Dates: October st, 2012

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1 Implications of Local Governance and Decentralisation for the effective delivery of finance for climate change at the local level Workshop Agenda Venue: Intercontinental Hotel, Ploenchit Road, Bangkok Dates: October st, 2012 Objectives of the workshop: Understand the challenges and opportunities presented by decentralization and local governance for the access and delivery of finance to respond to climate change at the local level Develop country specific action plans to strengthen access and delivery of finance for responding to climate change at the local level Develop recommendations for different stakeholders nationally and internationally to strengthen the delivery of finance to respond to climate change at the local level. Time Registration Day I: Tuesday, October 30, Opening and Welcome Remarks Description Venue: Front of Ballroom B, 4th floor, Intercontinental Hotel Representative of Thai Government Pauline Tamesis, Democratic Governance Practice Team leader, UNDP APRC Introduction: Setting the objectives and the context Chair: Dechen Tshering, Deputy Regional Director, UNEP Asia-Pacific Key Objectives of the Regional Workshop & Background on Local Practitioners and Climate Change Finance Initiative, Mr. Tom Beloe, Governance of Climate Finance and Development Effectiveness Advisor, UNDP- APRC Why is it important to discuss climate change at the local level? Mr. Syed Mujtaba Husain, Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Climate Change, Government of Pakistan 1

2 Coffee Break Session 1: Setting the scene: How is climate change finance being accessed and delivered at the local level? Chair: Christopher Kaczmarski, Regional Technical Advisor, UNCDF The objective of this session is to provide a platform for local practitioners to share their perspectives on how climate change finance is currently being accessed and delivered. Examples of local level initiatives: Country Experience 1: NGO/CBO initiative/response Gehendra Gurung, Head of Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change, Practical Action- Nepal Country Experience 2: Line ministry initiative/response Khamphone Mounlamai, Deputy Director Research Management Division, National Agriculture and Forestry Research Institute(NAFRI), Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF), Lao PDR Country Experience 3: Local government initiative/response Suy Serith, Provincial Deputy Governor, Preah Vihear, Cambodia Respondent: Taking vulnerability into account in the design and delivery of initiatives to ensure an effective and equitable delivery of finance related to climate change. Manfred Staab, Senior Technical Advisor, National Agriculture and Forestry Research Institute, Lao PDR Group photo and Lunch Session 2: What challenges and opportunities do decentralization and local governance pose for access and delivery of finance to respond to Climate Change at local level? Chair: Mahallah L. Adalia, Project and Operations Coordinator, ICLEI Session II will focus on financial flows, policy and institutional coherence, and monitoring and vulnerability impact at the local level. What implications do decentralization reforms and local governance practices in Asia-Pacific have on the effective delivery of climate finance? Kodjo Mensah-Abrampam Local Governance Advisor, UNDP Country Experience 1: How does decentralization in Thailand affect the delivery of finance to address climate change challenges at the local level? 2

3 Duongmanee Laovakul, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Economics, Thammasat University, Thailand Country Experience 2: How does decentralization in Pakistan affect the coherence and coordination among different actors to deliver effectively on finance for climate change related activities? Naseer Memon, CEO, Strengthening Participatory Organization, National level NGO, Pakistan Respondent: How does climate change interface with the decentralization and local governance processes, especially in regards to the access, delivery and monitoring of financial resources? Angus Mackay, Regional Technical Advisor Climate Change Adaptation, UNDP- APRC Coffee Break Session 3: Break-out session: Stakeholder discussion - What challenges and opportunities do you face in accessing and delivering finance to respond to Climate Change at local level? Introduction to the session: Thomas Beloe, Governance of Climate Finance and Development Effectiveness Advisor, UNDP-APRC The participants will be split up in stakeholder groups, and will be asked to share their own experiences as to the challenges and opportunities they face in accessing and deliveringfinance to respond to climate change. Group a: Razi Latif, UNEP Group b: Thusitha Pilapitiya, UNDP Group c: Jamal Tekleweld, UNCDF Group d: Paul Steele, UNDP Session 3 (Continued): What is the approach to deliver climate finance more effectively at the local level Plenary Chair: Peter King, Team Leader, Adaptation Project Preparation and Finance, ADAPT Asia-Pacific. Report back to Plenary from break-out discussions Cocktail Reception at President rooms, 4th floor 3

4 Day II: Wednesday, October 31, 2012 Time Description Introduction to Day 2 Recap of key issues from Day 1 Tofail Ahmad, Senior Technical Advisor, UNDP Bangladesh (TBC) Session 4: Pulling together a framework for strengthening access and delivery of finance to respond to climate change at the local level Chair: Dasho Singye Dorji, Director, SAARC Secretariat The objective of this session is to present findings from sample regional and national consultations which consolidated information on how finance for climate change related activities are accessed and delivered at the local level. Presentation of a framework for guiding next steps in in strengthening the effective delivery of finance to respond to climate change. Manuel Cocco, UNDP Local Governance & Climate Change Finance consultant Session 5 Break-out groups: Country teams develop country level action plans of next steps to strengthen access and delivery of finance to respond to climate change at the local level. Introduction: Thomas Beloe, Governance of Climate Finance and Development Effectiveness Advisor, UNDP-APRC The objective of this session is to enable the different countries to develop action plans to be taken forward at the country level Session 6a (continued) Peer-to-Peer discussion: Reviewing country action plans and identifying common recommendations Introduction: Thomas Beloe, Governance of Climate Finance and Development Effectiveness Advisor, UNDP-APRC The objective of this session is to enable exchange, feedback and inputs on country action plans through a peer review process between different countries. Groups will also be asked to identify common recommendations for: (i) local practitioners; (ii) central government; and (iii) international partners which will enable country action plans to move forward. Coffee and refreshments will be served in the break-out rooms. 4

5 Session 6b Peer-to-Peer discussion among Development Partners The objective of this session is to enable exchange and discussion among the development partners who are present to discuss potential for collaboration to support country action plans, as well as to identify potential regional initiatives related to climate finance at the local level Lunch Session 7: Identifying common recommendations for strengthening access and delivery of finance to respond to climate change at the local level Chair: Sujala Pant, Programme Specialist- Local Governance, UNDP - APRC Gallery Walk Participants will have the opportunity to get an overview of each of the country action plans, and ask questions about them to the respective country representatives. The session will also provide an opportunity for the representatives of the four Peer-to-Peer groups to present the common recommendations their groups identified Coffee break Session 8: Perspectives from International Partners Chair: Mariko Sato, Chief, UN-Habitat Asia-Pacific The objective of this session is to provide an opportunity for international partners, and other stakeholders to provide information on both current and future programmes that aim to support more effective access and delivery of finance to respond to climate change at the local level Inputs and discussion from the floor Session 9: Recommendations and next steps Chair: Representatives from country partners TBI Presentation of common recommendations and next steps, Country representatives, TBI Closing remarks: Mr. Weerachai Chomsakorn, Executive Director, Decentralisation to Local Government Organization Committee Office, the Prime Minister s Office, Thailand 5