The Nationally Determined Contributions Partnership (NDC) Partnership Support Unit held their team retreat from 8-12 January 2018 in Washington DC, and this event was facilitated by CIDT. Ella Haruna went on to provide further facilitation support to the NDC Partnership’s Country Planning workshop in Uganda from 31 January-1 February 2018. The workshop attendance demonstrated the great interest in the work of the partnership, with 100+ stakeholders participating.
The NDC aims to enhance cooperation so that countries have access to the technical knowledge and financial support they need to achieve large-scale climate and sustainable development targets as quickly and as effectively as possible.
Support Unit Team Retreat
The retreat was facilitated for 26 staff of the NDCP support unit, including Directors, Heads, Regional Specialists and staff from the Bonn and Washington offices. The overall aim of the retreat was to strengthen Support Unit capacity to work together as a team to implement the NDC Partnership work programme. The retreat agenda was ambitious, with objectives focused on strategic level, team development and training needs. The Retreat was facilitated by Ella Haruna, with training inputs from Prof Philip Dearden; both of the Centre for International Development and Training (CIDT).
Twenty colleagues from the NDCP Country Engagement team successfully completed CIDT’s Results-Based Management online course prior to the retreat. CIDT then delivered an intensive one-day training on Results-Based Management as applied to the NDCP Country Planning Process. This was complemented by a focused training session to consider the key facilitation skill needed by Support Unit staff in the NDCP context. Gender responsiveness is very relevant and important at different levels for the partnership – and a facilitated session focused on gender at the level of the Support Unit team completed the training inputs.
Country Planning workshop, Achieving Uganda’s Climate and Development Goals
The NDCP country planning workshop was opened by Honourable Minister of State for Environment, Kitutu K Mary Goretti and Mr Albrecht Conze, German Ambassador. Chaired by the Commissioner Climate Change Mr Chebet Maikut, the workshop hosted 30 representatives of Development Partners and 70 Government of Uganda officials to review Uganda’s NDC commitments and progress to date and the national requests for support from the NCD Partnership. A key function of the workshop was to validate the draft objectives of the partnership plan across four areas: policy and institutional framework; finance for climate change; GHG monitoring and evaluation and strengthened capacity of government, civil society and private sector to integrate climate change actions.
Photos from the team retreat
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