Between March 14 and 17, a GCCA workshop took place in Thailand for Asian countries.

Participating countries :  Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, Laos, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Yemen, Vietnam.
Participating regional organisations: ASEAN, MRC, ACD and SAARC.

Venue: Conrad Bangkok Hotel, All Seasons Place, 87 Wireless Road, Bangkok 10330, THAILAND.

Agenda: the agenda of the Workshop 14-17 March 2012

Customized training materials:

Module 0: "General introduction" - Module 

Module 1: "Understanding the basics of climate change science" - Module and handout 

Module 2: "Understanding climate change - development linkages" - Module and handout

Module 3: "Mainstreaming climate change and strengthening institutions and capacities" - Module and handout 

Module 4: "Understanding and planning under certainty" - Module and handout

Module 5: "Raising awareness and building partnership" - Module and handout

Module 6: "Mainstreaming climate change in national, sector and sub-national policies, strategies and programmes" - Module and handout

Module 7: "Costing, assessing and selecting adaptation and mitigation options and measures" - Module and handout

Module 8: "Mainstreaming climate change in the budgetary process" - Module and handout

Module 9: "Mainstreaming climate change in monitoring systems" - Module and handout

Module 10: "Synthesis, conclusions and way forward - Module and handout

Other documents available: Acronyms, Glossary and References


The contributions to the workshop

To upload the speeches, please click on the presentations below :

• Mr Karma Sonam, Ministry of Agriculture and Forests, Royal Government of Bhutan: "Bhutan in the Wake of Climate Change and Disasters"
  

• Mr Tin Laing, Ministry of Environmental Conservation and Forestry, Myanmar: "Status of Mainstreaming Climate Change into National Planning System"

• Mr Uddhav Baskota, Ministry of Environment, Nepal: "Mainstreaming Climate Change into Development Planning and Budgeting"

• Mr Norbu Wangchuk, Gross National Happiness Commission, Royal Government of Bhutan , "Operationalizing Gross National Happiness"

• Mr Omar Abdulaziz Alaghbari, Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation: "Yemen experience on Climate Change"