PPCR Pilot Countries Meeting
European Space Agency - European Space Research Institute (ESRIN) Campus
Frascati, Italy
July 19-23, 2015
Objective: This meeting will orient new pilot countries to the Pilot Program for Climate Resilience (PPCR) and take stock of how PPCR pilot countries are using their strategic programs for climate resilience (SPCR) to advance the resilience agendas in their countries.
Agenda
Sunday, July 19, 2015
Orientation for New PPCR Countries
Villa Tuscolana
This day is targeted toward the 10 new countries that were provided resources in May 2015 to prepare SPCRs. Representatives from several PPCR pilot countries with programs already under implementation and observers to the PPCR will participate to share their experiences and lessons.
8:30 – 9:00 Registration
9:00 – 9:30 Welcome and Introduction to Resilience Planning
9:30 – 10:45 PPCR Fundamentals
This session will outline the PPCR portfolio, the broader context in which the PPCR operates and the fundamentals of the program, including the phased programmatic approach, the value of public and private sector participation, MDB collaboration, and the programmatic results framework.
Moderator: Jagjeet Sareen, Policy Officer, CIF Administrative Unit, Overview of the PPCR
Speaker: Kanta Kumari Rigaud, Lead Adaptation Specialist and PPCR Focal Point, World Bank, PPCR Fundamentals
10:45 – 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:45 Lessons Learned from SPCR Preparation and Implementation
Speakers will share 3-5 key pieces of learning from their experience of working collaboratively to develop and implement SPCRs. The session will be introduced with a framing presentation from the World Bank PPCR team on the top 10 lessons learned from the design and early implementation of the PPCR.
Moderator: Jagjeet Sareen, Policy Officer, CIF Administrative Unit
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12:45 – 13:45 Lunch
13:45 – 15:15 Country Ownership in the Development of the SPCR
This session will take a deeper dive into country ownership, which is a pillar of the PPCR. Topics to be covered include interagency coordination mechanisms, priority setting, processes for stakeholder consultation, and private sector participation. Existing and new countries and PPCR Observers will exchange lessons on “how to do” and “what to avoid” to achieve stakeholder participation and buy-in in the development of the SPCR.
Moderator: Fisseha Abissa, Operations Officer, CIF Administrative Unit, Country Ownership
Speakers: Representatives from existing PPCR pilot countries (remarks from Zambia on its interagency coordination mechanism, Mozambique on priority setting, Samoa on stakeholder participation, and Bangladesh on private sector)
15:15 – 15:45 Coffee break
15:45 – 16:45 Listening and Learning: Resilience Baselines
New PPCR pilot countries will speak about the initiatives already underway to advance the resilience agenda in their countries – the baseline from which they are launching their SPCRs.
Moderator: Martin Hall, Communications Officer, CIF Administrative Unit
Speakers: Representatives from Ethiopia, Honduras, Kyrgyz Republic, The Philippines
16:45 – 17:15 Wrap up
Summarizing what has been discussed, addressing any outstanding questions, forum for clarification/explanation, and country feedback on key lessons learned. Conversations are expected to continue over the course of the next three days.
Moderator: Shaanti Kapila, Senior Knowledge Management Officer, CIF Administrative Unit
Monday, July 20, 2015
The 8th PPCR Pilot Countries Meeting
ESRIN
9:00 – 9:30 Welcome from the CIF Administrative Unit and European Space Agency - European Space Research Institute (ESRIN)
Speakers:
9:30 – 12:30 Lessons from SPCR Implementation
Countries will break into small groups to exchange experiences on SPCR preparation and implementation. Small groups will report back in plenary format.
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 15:00 Leveraging Resilience Finance
This session will explore how countries are using the SPCR as a framework to leverage and achieve complementarity with development financing and other sources of climate finance. Countries will explain how they have leveraged additional finance on the basis of the SPCR. Representatives from several development partners (FAO, GEF, IFAD) will share their approaches to financing resilience activities and co-financing with the PPCR. This session aims to help existing PPCR pilot countries to use their SPCRs as living documents to attract additional finance and to help new countries develop a strategic approach to utilizing the range of instruments available to support resilience efforts.
Moderator: Jagjeet Sareen, Policy Officer, CIF Administrative Unit
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15:00 – 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 – 17:00 Attracting Private Sector Support for the Resilience Agenda
This session will explore opportunities for new and existing PPCR pilot countries to scale up private sector action through the PPCR. The EBRD will share findings and examples from the study on Building an Evidence Base on Private Sector Engagement in Financing Climate Change Adaptation which identifies a range of tools that can be used and the diversity of sectors and industries that can be explored to make private sector adaptation investments happen. Participants will then hear from a private sector agri-business company in Nepal that is benefitting from PPCR support provided by IFC to introduce new seed varietals and provide training to farmers to help them adapt to the changing climate. Participants will engage in a discussion around how their countries are addressing obstacles and opportunities for mobilizing private sector participation in resilience-building efforts.
Moderator: Joyita Mukherjee, Senior Operations Officer, IFC
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17:00 – 17:30 Recap of Day One
17:30 Group Picture
18:00 Reception hosted by ESRIN
Tuesday, July 21, 2015
The 8th PPCR Pilot Countries Meeting
ESRIN
9:00 – 9:15 Overview of the Day Two Program and Check in
9:15 – 10:45 Incorporating Gender Concerns in the Resilience Agenda
This session will explore the integration and mainstreaming of gender into the resilience agenda at both the national planning level (SPCRs and adaptation plans) and at the project level. The country presentation will focus on the experience of designing and implementing PPCR projects to expand women’s participation in project decision-making and implementation, and how such approaches can help bring a gender perspective to projects in order to better meet resilience objectives.
Moderator/presenter: Anne Kuriakose, Senior Gender Specialist, CIF Administrative Unit, Gender and Social Considerations in Climate Adaptation: Implications for PPCR Programming
Speakers:
10:45 – 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 – 13:00 Monitoring and Reporting Progress toward Transformation
This session will reflect on countries’ progress in applying the SPCR monitoring and reporting system to measure their transformation toward more climate resilient societies. Countries will share lessons on how they are integrating the PPCR M&R system into a national climate change monitoring and reporting system (in the case of Mozambique), mainstreaming the PPCR M&R system to encompass other climate resilience activities (Nepal), and learning from implementing a participatory M&R system at the country level (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines). Countries will then engage in a broader discussion on their experiences implementing a programmatic M&R system.
Moderator/presenter: Emmanuel Kouadio, Monitoring and Evaluation Officer, CIF Administrative Unit, Monitoring and Reporting in the PPCR
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13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 16:00 Embedding Science and Technology into Decision-Making for Climate Resilience
This session will explore the science-policy nexus: how policy and decision-makers utilize science to inform strategy and embed the science of resilience into their decision making and program implementation. The discussion will revolve around some key themes, including: how science can contribute to the evolution of a country’s SPCR, how technology and innovation are being used on the ground to respond to the changing risk, and how science will shape development looking to 2030 and 2050. Approaches currently in place in PPCR countries as well as potential new approaches and innovations will be shared and discussed.
Moderator: Michael Taylor, Professor of Applied Physics, University of the West Indies, Overview
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16:00 – 17:00 Wrap up, key takeaways, next steps
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Wednesday, July 22, 2015
Earth Observation for Development Advocacy Event: Monitoring our Climate from Space
Organized by ESA-ESRIN
This Earth Observation (EO) for Development advocacy event aims to showcase how EO satellites can help support climate monitoring and service to better understand our planet and enhance resilience of our society to climate change and natural variability. In particular, innovative use of the new generation of satellite observations and the development of climate services in Europe will be highlighted during the event. With the recent launch of Sentinel-1, the first in the series of operational EO satellites, Europe has entered a new era for the development and exploitation of EO data. New types of partnerships between data providers and data users are needed to maximize the use of the data and derived information. In this context, this event will give a brief overview of ESA EO satellite missions, ESA activities with Multilateral Development Banks (eoworld, eotap), and European programmes in the field of climate monitoring, research and services.
Reference Websites
EO Development ESA activities (EOworld, EOTAP)
ESA EO Programmes and Missions
Thursday, July 23, 2015
Climate Services event
Villa Tuscolana
Objective: The objective of the meeting is to provide a shared learning experience and exchange on the latest science developments in the area of climate services. The development, provision and utility of customized and timely climate services can contribute to climate resilient development.
The meeting will provide an opportunity for pilot countries, the scientific community, CIF and MDBs to discuss challenges and opportunities based on real-time experiences, and benefit from the participation of speakers from UNESCO’s international scientific conference “Our Common Future under Climate Change.”
8:30 – 9:00 Arrivals and coffee
9:00 – 9:45 Intro and welcome
9:45 – 10:30 The Rubik’s Cube of Climate Services – Around the World in 45 minutes
Hearing from the following stakeholders on how their roles contribute to the development, provision and utility of customized and timely services This – and the previous session – would aim to ground the rest of the day in a shared understanding of the diversity of actors and perspectives in the climate services sphere.
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break and Networking
11:00 – 12:30 Participatory game activity on climate services
Participants will take part in a game designed to convey the complexities, risks and opportunities of decision making in the context of climate services. The game will help participants realize the value and complexities of climate information, focusing on how forecasts can inform risk management decisions and development investments.
Facilitator: Margot Steenburgen, The Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch and Networking
13:30 – 14:45 Straight Talk and Bright Ideas
Breakout groups to brainstorm around…
14:45 – 15:15 Coffee Break and Networking
15:15 – 16:45 Turning Ambition into Action
How can we foster drivers and resolve bottlenecks; what partnerships can we build and how to we move them forward? This session will highlight solutions to the improved delivery and use of climate services for decision-making, including:
i.e-learning Platform on “Weather and Climate Services for Resilient Development: A Value Chain Approach to Project Management” developed by the World Bank PPCR team. Speaker: Kanta Kumari Rigaud, Lead Adaptation Specialist and PPCR Focal Point, World Bank
ii.ADB’s partnerships to provide climate services in Asia: regional climate services and data consortium and the public-private partnership Climate Services for Resilient Development. Speaker: Vidhisha Samarasekara, Senior Climate Change Specialist, Asian Development Bank
16:45 – 17:30 Next Steps and Wrap-Up
Italy