Afghanistan : National Capacity Needs Self-Assessment for global environmental management (NCSA) and National Adaptation Programme of Action for climate change (NAPA) : final joint report / United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: Nairobi, Kenya : United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 2009.Description: 123 pages : color illustration, color maps ; 30 cmSubject(s): LOC classification:
  • Pamphlet GE320. A33.
Contents:
Contents: Foreword from NEPA—Foreword from UNEP—Executive summary—List of tables—List of figures—Acronyms and abbreviations—1. Introduction—2. General country characteristics—3. Methodology—4. Institutional and policy architecture for convention implementation—5. Stocktaking : activities realized in Afghanistan that improve compliance with the Rio conventions—6. Cross-cutting capacity constraints and opportunities for compliance with the Rio conventions—7. NCSA action plan—8. Framework for the national adaptation programme of action—9. Identification of key adaptation needs—10. Priority NAPA projects—Annexes.
Summary: Summary: “Up to 80 percent of Afghan people rely on the country’s natural resource base for their livelihoods. Natural resource management is therefore of paramount importance to sustainable development and improved local livelihoods. However, in developing countries and particularly in post-conflict countries such as Afghanistan, natural resource management is greatly affected by limited human, institutional and physical capacities. In the light of this situation, the Global Environment Facility (GEF) supports the implementation of the National Capacity Needs Self-Assessment for Global Environmental Management (NCSA) and National Adaptation Programme of Action for Climate Change (NAPA) Projects…”—(page 6).

Cover title.
“February 2009”.
“UNEP ; NEPA ; GEF”—at head of title.

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents: Foreword from NEPA—Foreword from UNEP—Executive summary—List of tables—List of figures—Acronyms and abbreviations—1. Introduction—2. General country characteristics—3. Methodology—4. Institutional and policy architecture for convention implementation—5. Stocktaking : activities realized in Afghanistan that improve compliance with the Rio conventions—6. Cross-cutting capacity constraints and opportunities for compliance with the Rio conventions—7. NCSA action plan—8. Framework for the national adaptation programme of action—9. Identification of key adaptation needs—10. Priority NAPA projects—Annexes.

Summary: “Up to 80 percent of Afghan people rely on the country’s natural resource base for their livelihoods. Natural resource management is therefore of paramount importance to sustainable development and improved local livelihoods. However, in developing countries and particularly in post-conflict countries such as Afghanistan, natural resource management is greatly affected by limited human, institutional and physical capacities. In the light of this situation, the Global Environment Facility (GEF) supports the implementation of the National Capacity Needs Self-Assessment for Global Environmental Management (NCSA) and National Adaptation Programme of Action for Climate Change (NAPA) Projects…”—(page 6).

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