Enabling Climate Change Response In Asia And The Pacific – Capacity Development To Address Climate Change (Subproject 3) (TA 7627-REG)
The third subproject TA 7627 Capacity Development to address Climate Change aimed to strengthen participating DMC development practitioners' capacity to apply the best available climate change knowledge to development planning through four components:
- Achievement of development and climate change results;
- Climate change capacity development for policymakers, regulators and development professionals;
- A climate and air quality risk assessment tool (GENIES); and
- Application of development communications to improve climate responses.
TA focused on capacity building, funded two Asia Leadership Programs, the pilot held in May 2012 at ADB headquarters and the offering in India in February 2013. The pilot drew 60 participants, 11 of whom came from DMCs. In Delhi, 69 government officials (from 25 countries in the Asia and Pacific Region) including three ministers/secretaries attended. The training programs offered diverse learning applications that included workshops, classroom demonstration and activity-based learning and field studies.