Pacific Partnerships to Strengthen Gender, Climate Change Responses and Sustainable Development (PPGCCSD)
Women's Major Group/ Diverse Voices and Action for Equality, (and on behalf of Co-convenors Pacific Youth Council and SPC)
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Description
The inaugural meeting has been held very successfully from 9-13 June, 2014, in Nadi Fiji, with participants from 12 Pacific countries.The historic week-long ( 5 day) meeting included a High Level Meeting on 13 June 2014, chaired by the Honourable Charmaine Scotty, Minister for Home Affairs, Education, Youth, and Land Management, Nauru. The meeting included strong trans-generational and cross-issues representation from diverse women, youth, disability and other human rights advocates/leaders including from the Pacific Youth Council represented by many national youth council members, DIVA for Equality, Pacific Young Women's Leadership Alliance, 350.org, the Pacific SIDS Network, Pacific Disability Forum, the ILO, PACNEWS, ISACI and IPEN, and others. Pacific attendees were joined by a highly skilled and supportive team of regional and global allies from many organisations including UNWomen, FWRM, Punanga Tauturu Inc, DAWN, GIZ, WECF, Women's Major Group, GCCA, Heinrich Boll Foundation, Dag Hammarskjold Foundation, Global Fund for Women, and many others.
The entire project is predicated on the idea of shared learning, capacities and technology transfer among civil society, regional institutions and governments in the Pacific. It has been set up in this spirit, developed through the donated time and energy of a wide range of partners including those outside the Pacific region, while driven very firmly by Pacific civil society and governments. Over time, it could certainly have a wider SIDs-SIDS dimension if there is interest and resources. There is an opportunity through DHF for additional shared learning in a cross-regional dialogue on the Post2015 Development agenda, including with MENA, LAC, Asia Pacific and Africa regions, so these are currently being explored. Two of the most clear requests coming out of the initial meeting from both civil society and government representatives was for increased capacity on working together more strongly and effectively into upcoming intergovernmental negotiation spaces including CSW, UNFCC, Post2015DA, etc. Also calls for specific work on Pacific women-led and youth-led initiatives on various key aspects of gender, climate change and sustainable development work, and more. Please see the outcome documents for more information.
There is a Co-convenors team, and the project is jointly implemented by representatives of the three groups. Over time this will be enlarged and strengthened with specific project funding and small secretariat to take the work forward for two initial years. All decisions on the development of the initiative, concept note, the participant list, resource facilitation decisions, and collaborative aspect between all partners was a long and joint process over months. The team worked hard throughout to ensure transparency and good governance in all issues, including finance. There is an MOU that guides the entire financing structure of the project. Likewise, outcome documents coming out of the meeting were participatively developed, and adopted through a long process in the main room with representatives form governments and civil society, through means of consensus. This will continue to be the methodology of choice for development, implementation of all activities. We also have a rigorous evaluation process, including an onsite M&E form feeding into a full report that will be made available to co-convenors and partners, a shortened version made available to all participants, and an advocacy strategies focused document that will publicly share some of the lessons learnt, for wider public use.There is a closed list-serve google-group now in operation which will become the initial gathering space of the initiative, and will be the place to take forward decision-making by the participants, on next steps, governance and decision making issues, M&E, etc.
Partners include: The Women's Major Group on Sustainable Development, Fiji Women's Rights Movement, DAWN, WECF, UN Women Fiji Multi-Country Office, Dag Hammarskjold Foundation, Global Fund for Women, and Heinrich Boell Foundation with many more providing expertise and financial resources.
SDGS & Targets
Goal 13
Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
13.1
Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries
13.1.1
Number of deaths, missing persons and directly affected persons attributed to disasters per 100,000 population
13.1.2
Number of countries that adopt and implement national disaster risk reduction strategies in line with the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030
13.1.3
Proportion of local governments that adopt and implement local disaster risk reduction strategies in line with national disaster risk reduction strategies
13.2
Integrate climate change measures into national policies, strategies and planning
13.2.1
Number of countries with nationally determined contributions, long-term strategies, national adaptation plans and adaptation communications, as reported to the secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
13.2.2
Total greenhouse gas emissions per year
13.3
Improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning
13.3.1
Extent to which (i) global citizenship education and (ii) education for sustainable development are mainstreamed in (a) national education policies; (b) curricula; (c) teacher education; and (d) student assessment
13.a
Implement the commitment undertaken by developed-country parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to a goal of mobilizing jointly $100 billion annually by 2020 from all sources to address the needs of developing countries in the context of meaningful mitigation actions and transparency on implementation and fully operationalize the Green Climate Fund through its capitalization as soon as possible
13.a.1
Amounts provided and mobilized in United States dollars per year in relation to the continued existing collective mobilization goal of the $100 billion commitment through to 2025
13.b
Promote mechanisms for raising capacity for effective climate change-related planning and management in least developed countries and small island developing States, including focusing on women, youth and local and marginalized communities
13.b.1
Number of least developed countries and small island developing States with nationally determined contributions, long-term strategies, national adaptation plans and adaptation communications, as reported to the secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
SDG 14 targets covered
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- Asia and Pacific
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Contact Information
Noelene Nabulivou, PPGCCSD Project Coordinator, Co-convenor; WMG SIDS Focal Point, Adviser -DIVAFrEq, DAWN Associate, CSO Advisory Grp to UNWomen