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Leadership Development
Environmental Management Programme
Social Capital Development
Climate Action Programme
Climate Finance Readiness
Low Carbon Development
Resilience
Water Programme
Special Initiatives
Climate change stands as one of the biggest threats to the global development. Pakistan has witnessed a spike in the incidence of extreme weather events in recent years, many of them climate change induced - in the form of floods, earthquakes, heatwaves and cyclones, which have caused massive destruction and resulted in a high death toll. Research reveals that while natural factors may account for climate change, human activities also have a significant role to play in contributing to the phenomenon. Climate change has thus come to occupy an important place in the development discourse which in turn is trickling down to policy debates. Decision makers are in the process of looking into adaptation initiatives to guard against the impact of natural disasters and are making efforts to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions to mitigate the threat of climate change. The LEAD Climate Action Programme (L-CAP) aims to enable effective, prioritized national and international responses to climate Change by a cross-section of key Pakistani stakeholders. It was designed in 2007 to form the basis of research, stakeholder consultations and policy responses to climate change in Pakistan. Since then, LCAP has firmly placed climate change on the agenda for government policies, highlights its importance relating to the public and private sector and works with communities in building more resilient landscapes. Since its inception, the focus of L-CAP has narrowed from an adaptation-mitigation approach to a more specialized thematic approach that is intended to treat impacts on households, communities, businesses and industries from a governance, resilience and sustainability perspective. The focus areas included in L-CAP are Climate Finance Readiness, Low Carbon Development and Climate Change Resilience. Major Initiatives under this Programme are;
Ongoing Initiatives
1. Developing Agriculture Disaster Risk Management Operational Plans and Implementation Guidelines for Districts Ghotki & Kashmore (Sindh) and Rajanpur and Muzaffargarh (Punjab)
2. Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning (MEL) Programme of the UK Government International Climate Fund
3. Partnership with Himalayan Adaptation, Water and Resilience (HI-AWARE)
4. Policy Development on Climate Change for Sindh & Punjab
Completed Initiatives
1.Acting on Adaptation in the Hydro-Electricity Sector
2. Building Readiness of the Private Sector in Bangladesh for Green Climate Fund (GCF) Accreditation
3. Climate and Development Knowledge Network - CDKN
4. Climate Change Policy & Action Plans
5. Climate Public Expenditure and Institutional Review (CPEIR) for Pakistan
6. Deepening and Expanding Heat Health Action in India
7. Facilitating Karachi City District Government in Heatwave Management
8. Increasing the Resilience and Effectiveness of Small and Medium Scale Irrigation Systems in Nepal
9. Mobilising Efforts To Reduce Deforestation For Water, Energy And Food Security In Indonesia
10. Climate change: Addressing heat-health vulnerability in rapidly urbanising regions of Western India
11. Designing a Franchise Model for Conversion from Diesel to Renewable Energy in Rural India
12. Development of LAPA in District Mirpurkhas (Sindh) and Rajanpur (Punjab)
13. Disaster and Climate Resilience Across the Eastern Himalayas
14. Disaster Risk Insurance For Vulnerable Communities In Pakistan
15. Disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation in Koshi River Basin, Nepal
16. Entrepreneurship Education and Skills Development through School-Based Productive Enterprises
17. Exploring Local Access to the Green Climate Fund
18. Finding the Finance: Climate Compatible Development in Asian Cities
19. Future Proofing Indian Cities
20. Gender and State Climate Change Action Plans in India
21. Getting Climate Smart for Disasters
22. GLOBE Climate Legislators Initiative – Phase 1
23. Improving Access To Knowledge On Climate And Development
24. Indonesia Energy Sector NAMA Coordination
25. Integrating Climate Change Into Food Security Data Collection In Nepal
26. Knowledge Management for Madhya Pradesh State Action Plan on Climate Change (SAPCC)
27. Loss and Damage in Vulnerable Countries Initiative
Making Growth Work for Women in Low-Income Countries (GrOW)
28. Methods Toolbox For Assessing Loss And Damage At Local Level
29. Monitoring and evaluating community-based adaptation
30. Multi-Stakeholder Action to Mainstream DRR and Climate Adaptation
31. Nepal’s strategic engagement with the UNFCCC
32. Promoting low-carbon construction in rural India
33. REDD-net Asia: Dialogue with governments and civil society organisations in Asia and the Pacific
34. Scaling-up Climate Resilience with Partners for Resilience
35. Scoping A Combined Programme On Climate Compatible Development For Pakistan
36. Sheltering from a Gathering Storm
37. Strengthening Climate Change Knowledge Architecture in Nepal
38. Strengthening Climate Negotiation Capacity in Pakistan
39. Strengthening ICCTF’s capacity to access global climate funds
40. Support for the 2011 Climate Vulnerable Forum
41. Supporting Climate Finance Readiness in Indonesia and Vietnam
42. Supporting Climate Resilient Construction in Vulnerable Areas in the Punjab
43. Supporting the Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDC) process in Pakistan
44. The Climate Asia Communications
45. Understanding Flood Rand Resilience in Eastern India
46. Vulnerability and Risk Assessment to support implementation of the Uttarakhand Action Plan
47. Water Pricing to Promote Equity, Efficiency and Sustainability in the Growing City of Faisalabad
48. Raising Risk Awareness
49. Scaling-up Climate Smart Agriculture In Nepal
50. Supporting Government of Bangladesh to Implement National Determined Contributions
51. Achieving Green Growth in Developing Countries: the Political Economy of Energy Security
52. Adaptation Policy Options And Interventions For Climate Change Induced Displaced People Of Banglades
53. Addressing Environments of the Poor: Priorities for SDGs’ Actions
54. Advancing CCD for Food Security through Implementation of National Climate Change Strategies
55. Assessing the Economic Impacts of Climate Change in Nepal
56. Assessment and Strengthening for CSOs and GOP
57. Assessment of the Effectiveness of Micro Disaster Insurance in india
58. Building a Community of Practice on Community Based Adaptation
59. Building Capacity on Climate Change Adaptation in Coastal Areas of Pakistan