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Title: Upcoming side-event on the progress of the Lima Adaptation Knowledge Initiative
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NAP Summary: Join the side event during the climate negotiations
NAP Description: Organized in collaboration with the United Nations Environment Programme and the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, the side-event on the Lima Adaptation Knowledge Initiative will be held on 13 May 2017.
Page Content: Description of the side-event:
 
Knowledge gaps have been repeatedly identified as a barrier to widespread and successful adaptation actions. The persistence and recurrent mention of such gaps, in spite of the growing body of literature on adaptation, suggests the need for a better alignment of the supply of and demand for adaptation knowledge, and for collaborative efforts to respond to adaptation knowledge gaps. The Lima Adaptation Knowledge Initiative (LAKI) aims to address knowledge barriers that impede the implementation and scaling up of adaptation action in the context of various subregions and areas of vulnerabilities.  The LAKI is a collaborative pilot between the secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). In each subregion, a subregional coordination entity plays a unique role in supervising the implementation of the LAKI.
 
This side event contributes to the effort of catalyzing action to close priority knowledge gaps, through the LAKI. It is organized by the UNFCCC secretariat, UNEP and the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), which is the subregional coordination entity for the Hindu Kush Himalayan subregion. Noting the impending end, and success, of the first phase of the initiative, which has covered five subregions, and the intention for replication of this pilot by UNEP, the objectives of the side event are to:
 
•    highlight the progress of the LAKI in prioritizing and closing adaptation knowledge gaps in subregions, showcasing the outcomes for the Hindu Kush Himalayas, in collaboration with ICIMOD;
 
•    offer the opportunity to open a dialogue on the modalities, challenges and opportunities to close adaptation knowledge gaps in different regions of the world;
 
•    trigger expressions of interest to close priority knowledge gaps identified through the LAKI for the Hindu Kush Himalayan subregion, and foster interest to collaborate in implementing the LAKI in other subregions.
 
The target audience of the event comprises country delegates, representatives of regional centres and networks, academia, research institutions, United Nations agencies, multilateral and bilateral donors, and knowledge brokers. The audience should not be limited to policy-makers, practitioners and other stakeholders working on the Hindu Kush Himalayan subregion.
 
Agenda of the side event:
 

 

Facilitator: Mozaharul Alam, Regional Climate
Change Coordinator, Asia and the Pacific Office, UNEP






 
13:15-13:50
 

Panel presentation




 



a.   
Introduction on the LAKI

 

Youssef Nassef, Director of the Adaptation programme, UNFCCC

 

The
LAKI, an innovative modality to scale up adaptation








 



Mozaharul Alam, Regional
Climate Change Coordinator, Asia and the Pacific Office, UNEP

 

The LAKI, a joint UNFCCC-UNEP initiative


 

 

Dhrupad Choudhury,

 

Regional
Programme Manager, Adaptation to
Change & Senior Livelihood and Adaptation Specialist, ICIMOD

 

Overview
of the outcomes of the LAKI for the Hindu Kush Himalayan subregion

 

 

 

b.    Opening
of the discussion on modalities, challenges and opportunities to close
knowledge gaps

 

Ram Prasad Lamsal, Joint-Secretary, Climate Change
Management  Division, Ministry of
Population & Environment, Government of Nepal  

 

The
adaptation knowledge user’s perspective: sharing
of experience on the knowledge support modalities, tools and/or material that
would be most useful to support adaptation on the ground


 

 

Neera Shresta Pradhan, Water and Adaptation Specialist, ICIMOD

 

The
knowledge provider’s perspective: sharing of experience
on opportunities and challenges in responding to knowledge needs of
policy-makers, practitioners or other relevant stakeholders (e.g. local
communities)


 
 

Edith Ofwona, Senior Program Specialist, International Development
Research Centre

 

The
support organization’s perspective: sharing
of experience on opportunities and challenges  from an organization providing support to close adaptation
knowledge gaps in countries








 



Akio Takemoto, Director, Climate Change Adaptation Office, Ministry of
the Environment, Japan 



The governement's perspective: sharing
of experience on opportunities and challenges  from a government providing support to close adaptation
knowledge gaps in countries                                                                                                                   

 
13:50-14:35
 

Facilitated dialogue with all participants

 

The facilitated dialogue will focus
on modalities, opportunities and challenges in closing priority knowledge gaps,
in all world regions. More specifically, it will address the processes through
which such adaptation knowledge gaps for policy-makers, practitioners and/or
other relevant stakeholders could be addressed in a way that is conducive to
enhanced action on adaptation.

 
The facilitated dialogue will help identify next
steps in facilitating the closing of priority knowledge gaps for the Hindu Kush
Himalayan subregion, and other subregions where the LAKI was implemented or
will be implemented.
14:35-14:45
 

Collection of expressions of interest

 

Participants will be invited to
submit expressions of interest regarding:

 

a.    closing the
priority knowledge gaps identified for the Hindu Kush Himalayan subregion;



b.    learning more about the outsomes of the LAKI in other subregions;


 
c.    supporting the
implementation of the LAKI in new subregions, in collaboration with UNEP.
 
  Practical information:
The side event will be held from 13:15 to 14:45 on Saturday 13 2017, in Room Bonn (181), at the World Conference Centre in Bonn (Germany). The side event will also be webcast on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veo5kTQ62MYFor more information, contact: nwp@unfccc.int.

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Article Date: 5/13/2017

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