Strengthening and Networking for Municipal Climate Protection Measures
This IKI Small Grants project aims to enhance municipal climate change action, increasing overall climate change ambition, through the creation and operation of a national Framework for municipal climate action in collaboration with the Ministry of Environment.
The expected results of the project are:
- Establish a national framework for municipal climate action that would facilitate communication and coordination between the Ministry of Environment and municipalities that commit to climate change targets.
- Mainstream municipal climate action and local community engagement in climate action planning through a social media campaign.
- Improve the Ministry of Environment’s knowledge on the efforts of local municipalities in enhancing climate change action, providing an opportunity to enhance Lebanon’s NDC.
CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT
In addition to providing of funding, IKI Small Grants supports IndyACT in their organisational capacity.
At the initial phase, the focus will be on developing, finalizing, and endorsing the national municipal climate action framework, as well as engaging municipalities and encouraging them to sign up to it. Capacity development in this phase will therefore be limited to identifying the types of support that municipalities will require to effectively develop and implement their climate action plans under the framework. Through the drafting group meetings and stakeholder consultations, this phase of the project will outline the key areas where municipal capacities need to be strengthened (e.g., climate planning basics, data collection, Data collection, reporting procedures, sector-specific technical needs, community engagement, and tools that enable municipalities to feed into national reporting such as NDCs.) These discussions will shape the structure of the future capacity development programme that will be hopefully further developed of the project – guidebook development, training sessions, etc.
ABOUT THE ORGANISATION
IndyACT is a non-political league of independent environmental, social, and cultural changemakers working to achieve an active, healthy, safe, equitable, and beautiful planet. IndyACT addresses the top pressing global challenges through collaboration with all actors and robust multi-stakeholder engagement.