Objectives

To enhance Namibia’s institutional and technical capacities to establish a comprehensive Transparency Framework for Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) of climate actions and to report on NDC implementation under the Paris Agreement

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Note: Disbursement data provided is cumulative and covers disbursement made by the project Agency.

Target Groups

The project is aligned with GEF focal area CCM-3-8, i.e. “Foster enabling conditions for mainstreaming mitigation concerns into sustainable development strategies through capacity building initiative for transparency.” The project will contribute to the improvement of local and global environmental conditions through enhancing transparency related to GHG emissions, impacts of climate change, and mitigation and adaptation actions in the country. Strengthened MRV will allow the government to better assess investments in mitigation and adaptation measures, and may result in more efficient expenditures on climate-related activities, which in turn could optimize reductions in GHG emissions. Improved MRV will also allow the government to compare the relative costs and benefits of mitigation and adaptation measures so that it will be able to highlight and support cost-effective, high-impact adaptation measures. This project contributes to the country’s commitments under the UNFCCC to enable it to address climate change considerations (mitigation of GHG emissions and reduction of vulnerability to climate change). project activities contribute directly to increasing the extent to which state institutions base their actions on the principals of sustainable development and increasing the capacities of public actors to implement, monitor, and evaluate policies related to environment, climate change and nature protection. The domestic MRV system to be developed under Component 3 is designed to avoid duplication and result in an efficient system that will reduce time burdens and costs to state institutions in data collection and analysis. The project will also assist the country in achieving the SDG 13 by supporting the integration of climate change measures into national policies, strategies and planning; building knowledge and improving education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning, and promotion of mechanisms for raising capacity for effective climate change-related planning and management in the country. The project will also contribute to achieving SDG5 by supporting empowerment of women in decision-making, land ownership and through gender-sensitive budgeting.

General

Oxfam in Vietnam designs and rolls out a smartphone-based app for use by citizens and communities in monitoring land use policy implementation. Citizens will be able to enter local data about land use, learn about experience elsewhere in the country, andask questions to a group of land experts, lawyers, and journalists in the project#s technical advisory group. Information received will be shared anonymously with local government authorities and private sector investors, who will have the opportunity torespond online. Theapp will also contain links to land policy information in easy-to-access formats to raise citizen awareness.

General

Under the #Land Learning series#, a knowledge initiative developed by the Global Land Program, an exchange visit for Oxfam Country team and their partner representatives is organized on 4-8 March 2018 in Vietnam. The purpose of this #land learning journey# is to provide an opportunity for exchange and collective learning around the topic of protection of community land rights, land conflicts <(>&<)> land conflict resolution, engagement with private sector for responsible investments, and community land forestmanagement. Participants in the learning journey include Oxfam and partners representatives from Africa, Asia and Latin America (Malawi, Mozambique, Uganda, Zambia, Cambodia, Myanmar, India, Indonesia, and Peru). The event is hosted and facilitatedby Oxfam in Vietnam, with the contribution of partners in the country. With a combination of exchanges, training, field exposure, and interactive public event,this learning journey represents a great opportunity to advance the collective reflection on practical modalities to achieve pro-poor inclusive land governance.