1. Advocating for pro-poor Adaptation Policies
Developing the Joint Adaptation Standards
Workshop 22-23. April, Kathmandu, Nepal

3. Southern Voices Networks

4. 2015 – 14: Two separate
projects: SV on adaptation
-and promoting pro-poor LCD
2008 – 10: Southern Voices
towards COP15 and beyond
Hosted at Danish 92-group
2013-mid 14: SV Phase 2
 Cross-learning –
 Regional workshops toolbox
 Southernvoices.net
2011-12 SVoices on Climate
Change Ph 1 – hosted at CARE
DK
Southern Voices -
storyline
 Focus on CS networks
 Capacity building and advocacy
 Adaptation/low-carbon/REDD
 Involving Southern CS in
climate negotiations
 Capacity-building,
awareness-raising

5. Development Objective:
Improved and successful advocacy for
pro-poor adaptation policies
WS specific objective 1
Joint Adaptation Standards
 developed and informed
from a variety of country
experiences
 Introduced to adaptation
practitioners through
advocacy exercises
 Improved through critical
scrutiny
specific objective 2
Workshop participants have
improved capacity and tools
for
 planning,
 implementing
 monitoring and evaluating
advocacy on adaptation
policies

6. ACHIEVEMENTS 2011- 12
 Strengthened engagement
with governments
 Improved membership and
governance
 More strategic approach to
advocacy
 Better documentation and
evidence for advocacy –
reports and policy papers
 Stronger engagement with
the press and the public
 International report:
Southern Voices on Climate
Policy Choices

7. 2012-13 FOCUS ON CROSS LEARNING
 Promote a learning culture between networks
 Training and cross-learning on CC advocacy – through
workshops
 Piloting a CC advocacy toolbox – input from SV-networks
 Webbased learning platform with increased use and
ownership by SV-networks
 Four regional facilitators to make it happen

8. SV regional workshops 2014
Asia, Agra, August
West Africa, Guinea, April
East & Southern Africa, Malawi May
Nicaragua, August

9. Regional Workshop
SUCCESS CRITERIA
 Workshop should not be a one-off
event
 Links and connections established
between people and organisations
 Communication channels – set up
between networks working on similar
issues
 Seeds planted for joint and
coordinated actions

10. WHAT ARE OUR MAIN ACHIEVEMENTS ?
– SELF ASSESSMENT 15 NETWORKS WARSAW
20%
24%
37%
19%

11. Transition – from SV programme to
Thematic projects
Southern Voices on Adaptation
Developing the JAS
Promoting pro-poor low-carbon
strategies
 Vietnam – CCWG
 CANSA RegFac, Asia
 Malawi – CISONECC
 Africa Reg.Fac.
 Cambodia CCCN &
NGO-Forum
 Nicaragua: ANACC
 Bolivia: LIDEMA
 SusWatch, LA –
Reg.Fac
5-7 additional partner networks to be
selected to test JAS
Sustainable Energy DK
INFORSE networks
West Africa
E&S Africa
South Asia
CAN West Africa
CANLA
CAN South Asia
National partners in
Bolivia
Tanzania
Mali, Vietnam, Peru,
Haiti, Mozambique,
Togo

12. The Southern Voices Big Picture
Impact on poverty, resilience and
sustainability
Better national policies
International commitments
Effective policy implementation
Governance Resources
Multilateral
funds
Bilateral
funding
Donor national
interests
action
action
action
action
evidence

13. Rationale behind SV - Adapt
 Lesson from SV Phase 2: Learning easier between
networks working on similar thematic issues
 Promising results from national CS networks
working with national governments
 Many networks working on adaptation policies, all
LDC going to develop National Adaptation Plans
 Developing JAS aimed to link national CS advocacy
across countries, to avoid isolation – a new way of
cross learning

14. Focus on national adaptation planning
 Countries different stages and approaches: NAP,
resilience plans, mainstreaming CC in policies
and development plans
 A challenge to move from project/programme
approach as in NAPAs, or AF – to a national
planning approach
 Also for CS a challenge to inform nation planning
based on community lessons
 Need for joining community experience with the
policy perspective at national levels

15. Idea and theory behind JAS
• CS in-country advocacy strengthened by using
standards developed in a cross-country process
• Common principles to capture / align asks of civil
societies across countries
• Strengthen and complement existing adaptation
processes
• Creating a shared framework for dialogue
• Applied flexibly in different country contexts
• The JAS is a process and a product: the initial JAS will
be improved from being tested in different country
contexts

16. How JAS can be used at national level
 To assess or measure existing national policy
framework for adaptation
 To frame dialogue with government and
other stakeholders
 To inform civil society advocacy and policy
asks
 As frame for sharing, comparing and learning
from other country experiences

17. Wider international perspectives
International processes can be influenced
through the JAS - though
 Dialogue with the UNFCCC NAP-section
 Informing national policy-makers / CS reps in
international policy fora – UNFCCC, WB,
others…
 Advisory board to be formed to win allies
outside the limited actors in this pilot project

18. JAS call for proposals
 Purpose to develop and test the JAS
 5-7 small grants 15-20.000 USD over 1,5 year
 For advocacy on national adaptation policies
 By civil society networks and actors
 3 - 4 in Africa, 1-2 in Asia, up to 1 in LA
 Priority to new country contexts and issues
 Launch May 1st,
 Send application including advocacy plan by
26th May
 Decision mid June

19. Southern Voices at CBA8
 Poster prepared on Southern Voices and JAS
 Meeting 28/4 after dinner: Introducing the
JAS – to be planned and announced
 SV session on 29/4 – CS advocacy on finance
to adaptation: input JAS on finance
 SV session 28/4 morning Lobbying workshop
– introdruding SV advocacy toolkits
 Input into CBA8 advocacy statement

20. Advisory committee suggestions
CANDIDATES?
 CARE / PECCN
 IIED
 Asia?
 Red Cross?
 Africa / PACJA?
ENDA?
 Latin America?
 UNDP / UNFCCC?
ROLE
 Provide technical and
policy advice
 Link the SVA-JAS to
wider NGO community
 Link to other
stakeholders
 Participate in JAS
events when possibl:e
BALANCES:
• Regional – gender –
big logos – strong CS-
actors/networks

21. Development Objective:
Improved and successful advocacy for
pro-poor adaptation policies
WS specific objective 1
Joint Adaptation Standards
 developed and informed
from a variety of country
experiences
 Introduced to adaptation
practitioners through
advocacy exercises
 Improved through critical
scrutiny
specific objective 2
Workshop participants have
improved capacity and tools
for
 planning,
 implementing
 monitoring and evaluating
advocacy on adaptation
policies

22. JAS timeline
Period Activities / Milestones
Phase 1
to April 14
 Development of NAP – LEG guidelines easy reader 10p
 Brainstorming workshops in SVA networks on JAS
At CBA8 Nepal Joint Adaptation Standards 1.0 developed at workshop at CBA8
Phase 2 to April
2015
JAS tested in +/- 10 countries in following steps:
 National adaptation status reports based on NAPs
 Advocacy plans and activities on selected issues by networks
 Sharing of experiences between networks
At CBA9
Bangladesh
 Follow-up workshop develop produce a JAS 2.0
 Share experiences from working with JAS through case studies
Phase 3 up to
December 2015
 JAS – finalised and fine tuned based in inputs
 Catalogue of case stories compiled and edited
At COP20 Paris  Launch of JAS and catalogue of case stories

23. CC advocacy toolbox
 Tools to be developed from contributions by
SV- networks
 4-6 pages each, available in English French,
Spanish, at the website for download
1) Working with the media to communicate
climate change better
2) Raising awareness about climate change
through different communication
techniques
3) Influencing key decision-makers
4) Influencing key climate change policies
5) Monitoring and influencing how climate
finance is spent
6) How to strengthen networks working on
climate change advocacy
7) Helping local voices reach those in power
Toolbox development by Hannah Reid, IIED

25. Brainstorm on JAS COP18
FRAMEWORK
 Have separate policy on adaptation
 Institute local adaptation plans
 Make adaptation responsiblity of all
sectors
CONTENT
 Introduce adaptation into community
investment plans
 Balance infrastructure/construction and
non-construction expenditure
 Take into account differentiated needs
and vulnerabilities, of men and women,
age groups etc.
 Recognise and support actions based on
local knowledge
PROCESS
 Involve CSOs in monitoring of
programme implementation
 Periodic review of adaptation policy, with
CSO inputs
 Have accountability mechanism for
government reporting to society
 Community participation in decision-
making
FINANCE
 Have mechanisms to manage
international adaptation funding flows
 Set up national fund for adaptation
projects
 Include innovative sources of domestic
funding for adaptation

26. Why two thematic applications?
 End to SV priviliged access to Danish climate
finance
 Ministry outsourced funding for CS to CISU: Civil
Society in Development
 Application through call for proposals – maximum
5 mio DKK (900.000 USD)
 Focus on advocacy interventions and capacity
building with international dimensions
 Strong requirements for Southern CS partners
and their governance and legitimacy

27. Management Structure – Southern Voices on Adaptation

28. Focus on advocacy
“Advocacy is a process
of influencing
....selected people or
institutions ......in
order to achieve
policy, practice, social,
behavioural or
political
changes......that will
benefit particular
groups”