IFPRI AFRICA BROWN BAG SEMINAR SERIES: ‘’INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY FOR CLIMATE ACTION: MISSING DIMENSIONS, INTEGRATED APPROACHES, AND SELECTED LESSONS’’
IFPRI Africa cordially invites you to a Brown Bag Seminar on
‘’Institutional Capacity for Climate Action: Missing Dimensions,
Integrated Approaches, and Selected Lessons’’
Wednesday, March 29th , 2023
11:00 – 12:00 AM (EST) | 15:00 – 16:00 PM (GMT)
Presented by:
Suresh Babu
Senior Research Fellow| Head of Capacity Strengthening| DSGD-IFPRI
Abstract:
Countries in the Global South have committed to the UNFCCC's Paris Agreement and have been preparing Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) implementation and National Adaptation Plans (NAPs). While they are in different stages of implementing these plans, several institutional capacity challenges need to be addressed in their progress toward a coordinated multisectoral delivery of these plans. In this presentation, we look at selected examples of institutional architecture for climate change actions and present a systematic way of studying and addressing these challenges. We bring lessons from Ghana, Malawi, Tajikistan, India, Vietnam, and Bangladesh to identify opportunities for strengthening local capacities of the policy, regulatory, investment, and governance systems. We argue multisectoral integration for climate action requires strengthening sectoral approaches and actions with climate mainstreaming, leveraging limited resources for climate action outcomes, and joint monitoring and tracking of the progress for national and global reporting.
Presenter:
Suresh Babu is a Senior Research Fellow and Head of Capacity Strengthening at IFPRI. Before joining IFPRI in 1992 as a Research Fellow, Dr. Babu was a Research Economist at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.
At IFPRI, he has been involved in institutional and human capacity strengthening for higher education and research in many countries in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, including, Ghana, Nigeria, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, and South Africa for the past 23 years. He leads IFPRI program on Learning and Capacity Strengthening.
Moderator:
Samuel Benin Deputy Division Director, IFPRI AFR
