Project
Title:
Promoting Pro-Poor
Low-Carbon Development Strategies.
Project
Description:
The
Project is
to strengthen climate-policy networks in East and
West Africa, South
Asia, and Latin America. The Project supports
national and regional climate campaigns focusing on promoting Pro-Poor
Low-Carbon Development Strategies.
Aiming Building NGO Advocacy Capacity:
The project specifically aims to increase the ability of Southern civil
society networks to promote fair and pro-poor low carbon strategies of
their own governments related to climate-change policies and sustainable
development. The Project increases the capacity of the networks and
organisations
to
advocate, to monitor policies, and to raise awareness on pro-poor low carbon
development
strategies.
Background of the Project:
The
Project is building on the experiences of the participating organisations and
two previous NGO cooperation projects:"Southern
Voices on Climate Change Project" (2011-2014).
Project
Partners:
4 regional and 13 national climate networks including Climate Action
Networks (CAN) and International Network for Sustainable Energy (INFORSE).
Project
Duration:
April 2014 - April 2016
Activities:
The activities include regional activities in 3 continents in Africa,
Asia and Latin America, and international activity focusing on
the UNFCCC.
In South Asia: Climate
Action Network South Asia (CANSA) and the INFORSE regional coordinator
INSEDA are promoting low-carbon development
together with a number of stakeholders
as well as with activities in India and Sri Lanka.
The activities focus on national climate strategies and
the development of Intended Nationally Determined
Contributions (INDC's) to UNFCCC.
In
India, All India Women's Conference (AIWC)
is a key partner in the activities that have included 11
national and state-level consultations and worskhops, policy briefs,
other publications, and public outreach via TV.
In Sri Lanka, IDEA is a key partner in the activities
that have included 9 local and national consultations
as well as development of documentation of
the benefits of pro-poor, low-carbon development.
Regionally, the focus is on the South Asia Association
for Regional Cooperation (SAARC).
Internationally, the South Asia activities were
presented by AIWC at side events of the UNFCCC COP21 on December
3, 2015 (UN Blue Zone), and December 8, 2015 (Public Forum of
Climate Generation
Area),
and a UNFCCC Policy
Brief was
launched in the framework of a knowledge sharing workshop on
December 2, 2015.
Read
more on the activities:
- Article: Promoting Poverty-Reducing Low-Carbon Development
Strategies in Africa, South Asia, and Latin America.
The
3-page article was published in Sustainable Energy News
issue 77,
December
2015. (3-page
pdf,
0.5
MB)
- Policy
Brief: Pro-Poor, Low-Carbon Development Policy Brief for UNFCCC COP21, Paris,
December 2,
2015 (8-page
pdf,
0.5
MB)
- Regional
Knowledge Sharing Workshop, Colombo, Sri
Lanka. March
31, 2016.
Link to concept note and agenda at CANSA. and
event and project description at
IDEA in Sri
Lanka.
- Five workshops in July-November
2015 in India organised by AIWC, India, INFORSE-South Asia.
Title: "Low
Carbon Development Strategies
with focus on women and poverty reduction"
Download: Workshops'
Report of AIWC ( pdf
file)
- Proceedings of the UNFCCC COP21 Side Events on December 3 and December
8, 2015 are available at INFORSE web site.
The Participating
INFORSE South Asia Organisations:
India:------------INFORSE-South
Asia / INSEDA: Integrated Sustainable
Energy
and Ecological
Development Association,
--------------------- which
is also INFORSE
South Asia Coordinator (www.inseda.org) att. Raymond
Myles.
---------------------AIWC: All
India Women's Conference (www.aiwc.org.in) att. Usha
Nair, Kalyani Raj.
Sri Lanka:--- IDEA:
Integrated Development Association (www.ideasrilanka.org)
---------------- --- att. Dumindu
Indika Herath, R.M. Amerasekera, Namiz Musafer.
The
Participating Networks:
INFORSE---
International
Network for Sustainable Energy (www.inforse.org),
att. Gunnar Boye Olesen, Judit Szoleczky.
INFORSE - South Asia (www.inforse.org/asia) att.
Raymond Myles
CANSA- -
Climate Action Network South Asia (www.cansouthasia.net)
att. Sanjay Vashist, Anoop Poonia.
The
Project Coordinator:
The
Danish NGO "SustainableEnergy" (in
Danish: VedvarendeEnergi) www.ve.dk.
att. Maria Graversen
mg[@]ve.dk and Gunnar Boye
Olesen gbo[@] ve.dk.
LCD Project's Links at Partners:
In Asia:
CAN-South
Asia, and INFORSE-Asia
In India: INSEDA,
and AIWC & AIWC
Report ( pdf
file)
In Sri Lanka:
IDEA.
In Africa: TATEDO
East Africa-and INFORSE-Africa
Global: INFORSE, and CAN-International, and SustainableEnergy
The Project
is Supported by:
Fund for Climate and Environment administered
by CISU - Civil Society in Development, an
association of 280+ Danish non-profit, membership based NGOs/CSOs. The
Fund is financed by DANIDA.
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