The Global Capacity Building Coalition brings together some of the world’s leading climate finance organizations and capacity building providers to streamline access, improve availability and enhance effectiveness of climate capacity building and technical assistance, with a focus on emerging markets and developing economies. In doing so, it aims to mobilise capital at scale for the transition and the sustainable development and finance goals of the UN and the G20.
The outputs of this session on best practice, high quality capacity building will be inputs for future GCBC thought leadership, enabling learnings to reach a broader audience.
Objectives
Enable knowledge sharing, including best practice examples of capacity building in action
Co-create the foundations of a set of ‘principles’ and ‘best practice mechanisms’ for high quality capacity building – as an input to an upcoming GCBC thought leadership work.
General Structure
Time/Duration
Segment
Speaker & Affiliation
5 mins
Welcome & Introduction to the GCBC
Background & vision (i.e. capacity-building as a mean to an important end goal - to scale climate finance)
Aligning on what we mean by capacity-building in the context of climate finance
Senior GCBC Principal (tbc)
15 mins
Reflections on scaling impact of capacity building interventions
Lessons learned from a successful real-life capacity building intervention (ideally taken from the GCBC Platform)
Could common standards, principles or best practices for high-quality capacity building help deliver similarly successful capacity building interventions?
How could these standards for high-quality capacity building be used to drive impact?
Fireside Chat (2 panelists) or Keynote (TBC)
35 mins
Co-designing standards for high-quality Capacity Building - interactive exercises & discussions
Indicative flow:
1) Best Practice Mapping Exercise [10-15 mins - fill in one pre-designed card per group]
Based on your experience, share best practice activities or suggestions on what to consider at each phase below to maximise the impact of a capacity building intervention.
Need Assessment i.e. identify & confirm need of target beneficiaries
Intervention Design i.e. develop a clear plan incl. objectives, scope, and activities
Resource Allocation i.e. ensure the right human, financial and technical resources are available for implementation
Implementation i.e. put the plan into action
Exit Strategy i.e. ensure results / impacts can be sustained over time after the intervention ends
Monitoring & post-intervention review i.e. track progress and assess replicability & scalability
2) Principles Design Exercice
[5-10 mins - fill-in one pre-designed card per group]
Building on the first exercise, discuss as a group the key ‘themes’ or ‘considerations’ that are emerging from the activities listed before? N.b. These were identified as creating the conditions for successful capacity building interventions.
Select the top 4 of these ‘themes’ to create ‘principles’ that you believe should be embedded in the design of high impact & high integrity capacity building interventions and explain why.
3) Back to plenary for quick room discussion on learnings from these two exercises [5-10 mins]