COP 19 Side Event: Building Skills to Address Climate Change: Lessons Learned from the UN Climate Change Learn Partnership
UN CC:Learn is a partnership of 33 multilateral organizations which supports Member States in designing and implementing results-oriented and sustainable learning to address climate change. The Secretariat for UN CC:Learn is provided by UNITAR. An important aspect of UN CC:Learn is to support countries develop a National Strategy to Strengthen Human Resources and Skills to Advance Green, Low Emission and Climate Resilient Development through a multi-sectoral and multi-stakeholder process. During the course of 2012-2013, Benin, the Dominican Republic, Indonesia, Malawi, and Uganda are participating as UN CC:Learn pilot countries. Core funding for the 2011-2013 implementation phase of UN CC:Learn is provided by the Swiss Government.
This event aims to present and discuss lessons learned from implementation of the UN CC:Learn Initiative. Representatives from all five UN CC:Learn pilot countries will present their national climate change learning strategies, looking at lessons learned from the strategy development process and concrete implementation activities.