The National Capacity Self-Assessment for Global Environmental Management (NCSA) Project

Launch Workshop

STAKEHOLDER WORKSHOP FOR THE LAUNCHING OF THE NATIONAL CAPACITY SELF-ASSESSMENT (NCSA) FOR GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT PROJECT

WORKSHOP DATE: 24 March 2004

VENUE: Mountain Inn, Mbabane

Introduction

The NCSA is a series of activities, within a period of 12 months, undertaken by Swaziland in order to identify capacity building needs, constraints and priorities for improved global environmental management at the systemic, institutional and individual levels.

The NCSA will cover three thematic areas and their cross-cutting issues in the context of sustainable development and national environmental management process.

• climate change (The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change)
• biological diversity (The UN Convention on Biological Diversity)
• land degradation (The UN Convention to Combat Desertification)

Objectives of the NCSA

• Define capacity building needs in view of meeting Swaziland’s obligations under the three Convention
• Develop a Strategic Action Plan, to be adopted as an official document

Capacity

The ability of institutions, organizations, communities and individuals operating within a system to define specific objectives and work effectively and efficiently to attain those objectives.

Principles of the NCSA process

• National ownership and leadership
• Pro-active involvement of all stakeholders
• Cross-institutional coordination
• High-level political commitment
• Emphasis on linking global environmental obligations with national sustainable development goals
• Holistic approach aiming at definition of cross-cutting capacity building needs and common solutions.
• Long-term approach to capacity building
• Capacity is built through the NCSA process

Key stakeholders

• Legislative authorities
• Executive authorities (ministries, regional bodies and agencies)
• Local authorities
• Scientific community
• Business and its organizations
• Non-governmental organizations

Workshop Objective

The Workshop objective is stated as follows:

The National Capacity Self Assessment (NCSA) for Global Environmental Management in Swaziland launched and planned by:

• Giving background and perspective of NCSA;
• Introduce the Global Conventions under assessment, with special reference to the environment in Swaziland and capacity issues related to the implementation of obligations; and
• Present an overview of the NCSA process to be followed for Swaziland.

Programme

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