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Capacity Building

Participants at USAID sponsored workshop on Mbase and ProForm held in Guatemala (2003).

Overview of Program

According to the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, building a country’s capacity

… encompasses a country’s human, scientific, technological, organizational, institutional, and resource capabilities. A fundamental goal of capacity building is to enhance the ability to evaluate and address the crucial questions related to policy choices and modes of implementation among development options, based on an understanding of environment potentials and limits and of needs perceived by the people of the country concerned.⁽¹⁾

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)

• Capacity Building
  The need for capacity building to assist Parties, especially developing countries, to respond to climate change has long been recognized in the UNFCCC’s work on such issues as technology transfer, national communications and funding.
• Education and Outreach (Article 6 of the UNFCCC)

Related Links

• United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
• International Institute for Sustainable Development's (IISD's) Climate Compendium
• Capacity Development Initiative (CDI) of the Global Environment Facility (GEF)
• CC:iNet
• Greenhouse Gas Inventory Capacity Building

Footnote

⁽¹⁾Capacity Building - Agenda 21’s definition (Chapter 37, UNCED, 1992.)

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