Project

CCCD: Mainstreaming global environmental priorities into national policies and programmes

Lead country

Palau

Participating countries

Palau

Project status

Closure

Implementing period

From May 7, 2015 to September 29, 2020

SDGs addressed by this project

SDG targets

  1. 15.9 Integrate ecosystem values into national planning
  2. 13.2 Integrate climate change into national policies, planning
  3. 17.9 Build capacity to support national plans

Project ID: 5049

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Technical team

  • Climate Strategies and Policy Programme

Cross-cutting programme(s)

  • Climate and Forests Programme
  • Ecosystems and Biodiversity Programme
  • Environmental Governance Programme

Technical area(s)

N/A

Landscape(s)

N/A

Transformed sector(s)

N/A

UNDP role(s)

  • Capacity development / Technical assistance

Strategy

  • Enabling
  • Governance

Sub-strategy

  • Mainstream

Social inclusion

N/A

Gender equality

  • Awareness raising (on gender)

Gender result effectiveness scale

N/A

Pathway(s)

N/A

Risk reduction target(s)

N/A

SDG target(s)

  • 15.9 Integrate ecosystem values into national planning
  • 13.2 Integrate climate change into national policies, planning
  • 17.9 Build capacity to support national plans

Conventions and protocols

  • National Action Plan
  • United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
  • Other Global Conventions

Private sector(s)

N/A

Hot topic

  • Multi-stakeholder collaboration

Project objectives

to strengthen Palau"s capacities to meet national and global environmental commitments through improved management of environmental data and information.

USD $580,000

Grant amount

USD $630,000

Leveraged amount (co-financing)

1

Source(s) of fund

Sources of fund

 

  • Global Environment Facility – Trust Fund ($580,000)

Implementing partner(s)

  • Government of Fiji

Project metrics

Outcome 1:

Improved management information system for the global environment

 Indicators:

1. Reported availability of better environmental information
2. Key environmental organizations stated as the primary sources for environmental information in Palau by a significant number of national, regional and international development partners
3. Quality of environmental monitoring reports and communications to measure implementation progress of the Rio Conventions
4. Capacity development scorecard rating
5. Adequate national standards, norms, procedures for collecting and storing environmental data are officially in place
6. An environmental data repository architecture in place
7. Information technologies in place to collect, store and share giving access to up-to-date environmental information
8. Agreements for data sharing in place
10. Number of Environmental Officers trained by taking the course(s) developed with the support of the project
11. Use up-to-date environmental information in decision-making and policy-making
9. An in-service training programme for public servants include course(s) covering environmental information management
12. An operational inter-sectorial coordination mechanism that build on existing instruments such as OERC, NEPC, PNRC, NPC, etc.
13. Endorsed action plans for implementing MEAs supporting government's MEA obligations.
Outcome 2:

Strengthened technical capacities for monitoring and evaluation of the global environment
Outcome 3:

Improved decision-making mechanisms for the global environment institutionalized
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Project reports and documentation

 

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