6. BILATERAL DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION: COUNTRY PROGRAMMES
Target
Responsibility is with Danish embassies in partner countries.
Entry points
- Participation in PRSP preparation and other relevant national planning processes.
- Preparation of Country Strategies for development cooperation.
- High-level consultations on development cooperation.
Basic principles
- The collaboration shall help ensure national ownership and aid coordination on climate change activities in both mitigation and adaptation actions.
- Integrating climate change concerns in Danish bilateral development cooperation will primarily be relevant in Danish programme countries11 and countries receiving Special Environmental Assistance (SEA countries).12
- Climate change actions for mitigation and adaptation will not be equally important in all partner countries. Relevant areas for action will be based on country specific information, including strategies and assessments in national communications to UNFCCC and National Adaptation Programmes of Action (NAPA).
- Adaptation will be relevant in countries that are considered to be at a high risk with regard to negative climate change effects. While purchase of CDM credits can be made from a wide range of countries, engagement in CDM projects is relevant in countries that are targeted by Denmark for acquisition of CDM credits (CERs)13.
Initial screening points
- Determine country vulnerability and risks from climate change and extreme weather (e.g. coastal areas, river deltas, fragile ecosystems, snow capped mountains, and dependency on agriculture, forestry, and fisheries).
- Has the country submitted a national communication to the UNFCCC?14 What are the main issues concerning vulnerability, adaptation and mitigation in the national communication?
- Has the country or is the country in the process of preparing a NAPA?
- Are climate change concerns included in the PRSP? If so, how are the concerns relevant for the Danida country assistance strategy?
- Has specific country studies been undertaken in relation to climate change and adaptation?
| Actions |
Bilateral Development Cooperation
– Country Programmes |
| Raising the policy profile of climate change |
Raise relevant climate change considerations at high-level and technical consultation meetings.
Share information/documents to highlight importance of climate change in PRSP.
Introduce climate change screening tools and other assessment tools.
Bring climate change risks to the attention of cooperation partners, including planning and finance ministries in partner countries.
Encourage participation of partner country’s environment ministry in high-level consultations. |
| Adaptation to climate change |
Identify and consult government cooperation partners (sector ministry, environment ministry, NAPA preparation team, meteorological unit, etc.).
Assess country specific vulnerability and risks of climate change.
Ensure climate proofing of Danish assistance and promote climate proofing of other national programmes. |
| Mitigation of climate change |
Pursue relevant opportunities for ’low-carbon development path’, e.g. options for energy efficiency and renewable energy initiatives across sectors, if relevant, within the country programme.
Pursue ’passive’ mitigation options, e.g. sinks in forestry, rehabilitation of community forests, emission reductions in the energy sector, thereby combining poverty focused programmes with reduced GHG emissions. |
| Capacity development in developing countries |
Encourage/support national climate change capacity needs assessments.
Consider support for national climate change screening and stocktaking of relevant climate related national plans and strategies, including support for preparation of National Communications and NAPAs and their integration in PRSPs (ref. para. 4.3).
Consider scope for support to climate change negotiator(s) and national cross-sector integration of climate change. |
11) Bangladesh, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Mozam-bique, Nepal, Nicaragua, Tanzania, Uganda, Vietnam, Zambia (July 2005).
12) Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, China, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Mozambique, South Africa (July 2005).
13) CDM priority countries are: Thailand, Malaysia, South Africa, Indonesia, and China (July 2005).
14) All Danida partner countries have ratified the UNFCCC, and all but Burkina Faso, Nepal and Zambia have ratified, approved, or made accession to the Kyoto Protocol (July 2005).
This page forms part of the publication 'Danish Climate and Development Action Programme' as chapter 7 of 11
Publication may be found at the address http://www.netpublikationer.dk/um/5736/index.htm
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