Workshop on ‘Mainstreaming Climate Change Sectoral Interventions for Implementing Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC’s)’

A workshop on ‘Mainstreaming Climate Change Sectoral Interventions for Implementing Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC’s)’ was co-organized by USAID, CEP, NDC Partnership, and IFPRI, on Mar 9, 2023, in Dushanbe, Tajikistan (refer to Annex 1 for the workshop report)). The workshop included sessions on mainstreaming agricultural development strategies and water management strategies for NDC implementation and related investment. Suresh Babu (IFPRI) presented ‘Mainstreaming agricultural development strategies for NDC implementation’. Sino Tohirzoda, Head of the NDC Secretariat of the CEP, gave a presentation on ‘Roadmap for NDC Implementation Plan’. Ms. Nicole Wegner, GIZ, presented ‘GIZ Mainstreaming water management strategies for NDC implementation’.

Overall, the following key action items emerged from the workshop proceedings:

1. Climate change is becoming a major challenge across sectors such as agriculture and water. Rising temperatures and extreme climate events have contributed to reductions in land and soil quality, availability of water resources for irrigation and human use, and crop yields. There is  a need to integrate climate change adaptation and mitigation action with sector-specific strategies.
2. At sectoral/sub-sectoral project design stage, associated climate change related action must be incorporated. Each project component must ensure that it considers climate change strategic connection.
3. The financing and investment priority plans at the sectoral level should be connected to climate change financing plans. This would ensure that integrated climate change actions has the financial support for effective implementation.
4. Monitoring and evaluation is an important component of any sector specific strategy to track progress and impact and identify gaps. It is important to link each sector’s monitoring and evaluation plan with the Measurement, Reporting and Verification (MRV) system associated with the implementation of NDC  and NAP implementation.
5. There is a need to identify the broad capacity and skills gaps of the sectors in integrating climate change action to their sector strategy - need for quick assessment of the capacity in agriculture and water sectors.
6. Continue the process of conducting an assessment of methane emissions in different sectors in Tajikistan and develop indicative approaches for emission reduction. This assessment will be useful for the Tajikistan government to  guide the dialogues and deliberations on joining the Global Methane Pledge.