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The European Capacity Building Initiative (ECBI) aims to enhance the capacity of delegates from targeted developing countries to participate effectively in international climate change negotiations. It also fosters trust and mutual understanding between developing country stakeholders and their European counterparts. The ECBI offers fellowship programs, workshops, and policy analysis collaborations to build negotiating skills and analytic capacity.
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Two Main Aims • To move forward the international climate change negotiations by supporting delegates and other stakeholders from targeted developing countries to enhance their capacity for participating effectively in the FCCC negotiations. • To generate trust by bringing together developing country stakeholders with their European counterparts in the context of these capacity building activities to foster better mutual understanding of each others’ positions and constraints.
The Programmes The activities of the ECBI are divided into three Programmes • The Fellowship Programme • Primary Aims • Trust building both ‘South-North’ (DCs-Europe), and ‘South-South’ • Exchange of institutional and procedural knowledge
Fellowship Programme • Fellowship Colloquia • Country Visits • Oxford & Bonn Seminars Primary Focus Trust Building Exchange of Institutional & Procedural Knowledge The Programmes
The Programmes • The Fellowship Programme • Primary Aims • Trust Building both ‘South-North’ (DCs-Europe), and ‘South-South’ • Exchange of institutional and procedural knowledge • The Workshop Programme • Primary Aims • Enhancing negotiating skills • Engaging with mainstream ministries
Fellowship Programme • Fellowship Colloquia • Country Visits • Oxford & Bonn Seminars Primary Focus Trust Building Exchange of Institutional & Procedural Knowledge The Programmes Workshop Programme • Workshops: • Pre-Sessional • Regional • (East and Southern Africa, West Africa, South & Southeast Asia) Building of (Group) Negotiating Skills
The Programmes • The Fellowship Programme • Primary Aims • Trust Building both ‘South-North’ (DCs-Europe), and ‘South-South’ • Exchange of institutional and procedural knowledge • The Workshop Programme • Primary Aims • Enhancing negotiating skills • Engaging with mainstream ministries • The Policy Analysis Programme • Primary Aims • Building of analytic capacity • Analysis of country-driven topics
Fellowship Programme • Fellowship Colloquia • Country Visits • Oxford & Bonn Seminars Primary Focus Trust Building Exchange of Institutional & Procedural Knowledge The Programmes Policy Analysis Programme Workshop Programme • Workshops: • Pre-Sessional • Regional • (East and Southern Africa, West Africa, South & Southeast Asia) • Policy Analysis Collabotation • Country-driven Projects Building of Analytic Capacity Building of (Group) Negotiating Skills
Annual General Meeting (Steering Committee) External Mngt Executive Committee Internal Management Lead Member: SEI Lead Member: IIED Lead Member: OCP Members & Experts The Management Structure Workshop Pr.: Negotiation Skills Fellowship Pr.: Trust Policy Analysis Pr.: Analytic Capacity
Geographical Scope Developing Countries 1: LDC+ • Africa ─ focus on Sub-Saharan Countries • Asia ─ focus on South and Southeast Asia Developing Countries II: G5 (+?) EU Europe:
Time Frame Phase I • One year Pilot Period starting in April 2005. Aim: testing alternative operational options • Two year Proof-of-Concept Period 2006-7. Aim: proving the validity of the ECBI concept Phase II • Start ofplanning in February 2007.
ecbinet www.eurocapacity.org
