Transcript Environment, Population and Urbanisation Annual Progress Report

12th Session of the
Regional Coordination Mechanism
21 – 22 November 2011
Addis Ababa Ethiopia
Theme
`Capacity Building’
Cluster 4
Environment, Population and
Urbanisation
Annual Progress Report
2011
Presentation overview
1.Cluster objectives and membership
2.Guiding principles
3.Key accomplishments
4.Challenges, lessons learnt, opportunities
& way forward
Cluster objectives and
membership
Objectives
•
To address the opportunities and
challenges of population dynamics,
rapid urbanization, environmental
degradation, pollution and climate
change to achieve Sustainable
Development in Africa.
Members
AUC, NEPAD, UNECA, UNDP, UNISDR,
IOM, IMO, WMO UNEP, UN-HABITAT,
WHO, UNFPA, UNESCO, ILO,UNCCD,
SADC, COMESA, ECOWAS, UNCTAD
and AfDB.
GUIDING PRINCIPLES
• Relevance and coherence with
AU/NEPAD & RECs priorities.
• Effective engagement with and
ownership by AUC/NPCA and RECs.
• Collaborative and complementary
efforts through joint programming.
• Capitalizing on-going initiatives at
regional, sub regional and national
levels.
• Building on the ownership and
leadership from AU & RECs.
Main achievements
• African common position on climate change for the
negotiations of UNFCCC COP 17 updated.
• Adequate support to Rio + 20 process leading to
Africa consensus statement
• Support to Clim Dev/ACPC now fully operational
• Capacity building support for the implementation of
the Africa Regional Strategy for disaster risk
reduction
• Guidance note providing practical support on
mainstreaming climate change as a cross cutting
issue in the activities of all clusters/sub clusters.
• Training on climate change for clusters during the
pre-session meetings.
• Identification of key issues, gaps and needs
concerning climate science, data and information,
water agriculture, energy, low carbon
.
Main Achievements Cont.
• Preparation and launch of joint paper on
`Harnessing the Potential of the African Youth
for sustainable development’ during the AU
Summit 2011.
• Update of African Population report.
• Capacity building of 10 countries to implement
the convention for the prevention of maritime
pollution
• Health and environment programmes : public
health adaptation to climate change in Africa;
chemicals and public health.
Challenges, lessons learnt, opportunities
& way forward
Challenges
• Ensuring effective results based approach in planning
and delivery
• Inadequate resources for implementation of joint
activities.
• Baselines and appropriate monitoring and evaluation
framework
• Synergies with other clusters
• Ownership and leadership by main stakeholders
Lessons learnt.
• Trainings can be combined (gender+ CC+DRR)
• Succession plans when rotating the coordination
• Documentation and dissemination of lessons learned
and possibility to establish community of practices
Opportunities & way forward
• Building on Rio + 20 outcomes
• Enhancing inter cluster planning and implementation.
• Resource mobilization/leveraging with AUC and RECs.