JAS – VERSION ZERO Southern Voices Workshop

Kathmandu

April 2014

outline

• What are the Joint Adaptation Standards (JAS)

• How the JAS were developed

• What we are aiming for in this workshop

• Some questions to think about in the next two days

Why “Joint Adaptation Standards”

• “Joint” because

• they represent the views of civil society actors in

different countries

• they will be interpreted through dialogue between civil

society and government in each national context

• “Adaptation”: they apply to NAPs and any other

climate change adaptation plans and policies

• “Standards” as they express what civil society

considers to be necessary to ensure equitable

adaptation action

How will the JAS by used?

Each country can choose the best way to use them,

potentially including (among others):

• Identifying the issues that call for advocacy action

• Setting a common language for dialogue between

stakeholders

• Defining the topics where capacity building would be

useful, for both civil society actors and others

• Helping steer governments through the LEG guidelines

Least Developed Countries’ Expert Group Technical Guidelines for NAPs

• Enabling – transparency, participation, flexibility etc.

• Government-driven – modest expectations of civil society

JAS version 0

• Compiled from inputs in four categories

• How the national adaptation plan should be

developed (process)

• What mechanisms should the national plan set

up (framework)

• What actions should the national plan support

(content)

• How should funding be managed (finance)

• Synthesised into 15 draft principles

Clusters of

ideas Clusters of

ideas Clusters of

ideas Clusters of

ideas

National

workshops

Bolivia,

Nicaragua,

Malawi,

Vietnam,

Cambodia

East and

Southern

Africa

regional

workshop

International

workshop,

Warsaw

Joint

Adaptation

Standards

VERSION

ZERO:

15

principles

JAS

VERSION

1

For testing

International

workshop,

Kathmandu

How the JAS has been developed so far

JAS

public launch

COP21?

Core

networks

Bolivia,

Nicaragua,

Malawi,

Vietnam,

Cambodia

Call for

proposals

from more

countries

JAS

VERSION

1

For testing

International

review

process

during 2015

Next steps for the JAS

How the national adaptation plan

should be developed 1. A national adaptation plan should incorporate

the traditional knowledge and experience of local

communities as it is developed

2. Communities affected by climate change must

be able to participate in defining options and

priorities of national adaptation plans

3. A national adaptation plan must be publicised in

ways that local people can understand and engage

with

Mechanisms the national plan

should set up 4. A national adaptation plan should link together

the work of national and local government, and of

people working in different sectors

5. A national adaptation plan should be periodically

monitored by a body on which civil society is

represented

6. A national adaptation plan should promote both

new adaptation initiatives and improve how existing

activities take climate change into account

7. Local adaptation plans should the building block

of a national programme of adaptation to climate

change

Actions the national plan should

support 8. A national adaptation plan should allocate

significant resources towards local plans developed

through community-based approaches

9. A national adaptation plan should identify and

prioritise people who are socially and economically

most vulnerable to climate change

10. A national adaptation plan should invest as much

in building skills and capacities of people affected by

climate change as in building infrastructure

11. A national adaptation plan should build the

resilience of women and men to climate change

equally

How funding should be managed

12. A national adaptation plan should enable

long-term programmes of support to vulnerable

communities

13. Adaptation funding should be made available

through a transparent process of allocation

14. Funding for adaptation should be explicitly

provided for within the national budget

15. There must be full public accountability for

how adaptation funds have been spent

Some questions for this workshop

1. Is there any other issue that is important for your

context but missing from the 15 principles?

2. Is 15 principles too many? If so, how do we condense

them into a workable tool?

3. Is “Joint Adaptation Standards” a useful name for this

instrument? If not, what would be better?

4. Any other suggestions for improving the standards

before they are introduced to a wider audience for

trying out in practice?

For next group session

1. Is there any other issue that is important for your

context but missing from the 15 principles?

2. Is 15 principles too many? If so, how do we condense

them into a workable tool?

(if you add something, what would you take out?)