I scraped most the material below from the AGWA website.
This CASTT AA is about to start - my colleagues Erica Fleishman, Aaron Wolf and I will be leading OSU's participation. Our training partners will be IHE, AIT, KEI with the support of AGWA (John Matthews) and UNFCCC (Bhava Dhungana).
CASTT Adaptation Academy
UNFCCC Climate Action and Support Transparency Training
CASTT is a capacity-building program designed to cater to stakeholders at all levels of competencies within national climate governance and implementation. The CASTT Adaptation Academy is a program starting in 2021 providing multi-week training courses for national climate focal points and ministerial representatives — particularly those from developing countries. The Adaptation Academy is an official initiative of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) operated in collaboration with key academic and research institutions across the globe. Partners include the Alliance for Global Water Adaptation (AGWA), Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, Korea Environment Institute (KEI), and Oregon State University.
Advanced Training in Climate Adaptation and Reporting
The CASTT Adaptation Academy aims to enhance the ability of developing countries to conduct vulnerability and adaptation assessments, prepare and report, in timely manner, information resulting from such assessments and the implementation of national adaptation actions, including their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), for their national communications, biennial update reports, and biennial transparency reports under the measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) arrangements of the Convention and the Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF) of the Paris Agreement. The goal is to enable a systematic, generational stepchange in capacity to meet the ambitions of the Paris Agreement, its associated NDCs, and other climate commitments.The 3 – 4 weeks training program focuses on imparting technical knowledge in the key components of the MRV and ETF frameworks, the exchange of views, lessons learned and experiences, and internalizing and mainstreaming climate change activities. Other major topics are anticipated to include planning, policy frameworks, coordination across ministries and governance levels, working with the private sector, finance and cost-benefit analyses, vulnerability and risk assessments, ecosystems, infrastructure, transboundary considerations, and social, gender, and cultural equity issues. Specific topics will also explore aspects relating to agriculture, DRR, energy, cities, coastal regions, and mountainous and high-elevation areas. In addition, the training will include components specifically tailored to regional climatic challenges of each node’s participants to put the broader lessons into more usable and practical contexts.
The Target Audience
The primary target will be professionals and experts from developing countries who are involved in providing technical and substantive input for the preparation of their country’s MRV arrangements and the transparency framework, with a specific focus on adaptation reporting.
Key Dates
The Adaptation Academy will launch its application process in August 2021. The first courses will take place in September and October 2021.
This will be great!
Hi Michael,
Sounds like something I should be involved in, having worked with three of the involved partners, and in CPWC (the predecessor of AGWA). Edited two books on the topic, one with CPWC and one with AIT (Babel was involved at the time). Went to AIT twice for training on the topic, and once to ICT Phnom Penh. Helped Armenia with their NDC a few years ago.
Currently helping USGS-EROS with rainfall and climate data for the MENA region with data from Princeton and CHIRPS, which will serve the governments of Jordan, Lebanon and Palestine (at least). This is an extension of a MAR project for the same countries, which is also climate change adaptation.
Thanks, Michael.
Posted by: Michael | Sunday, 01 August 2021 at 06:03 PM