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Climate Change Matters Issue 55 - May 2017

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Editorial

We have come a long way from when the United Nation Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) came into force, the establishment of the Global Environment Facility, the Kyoto Protocol, the adaptation Fund, recently the Paris agreement and the Green Climate Fund. Yet the same issues and challenges of accessing climate change funds by small islands remain up to day.

Have the Accredited Entities to these funds built the capacity of small islands so they could develop projects themselves? What kind of capacity has been built at the national level for project management and monitoring? do the requirements and conditions forproject development meant that small islands will rely on accredited entities? How could accredited entities help and guide small islands so they can achieve national implementing entity status (NIE) to enable them to receive direct access? is there a risk for accredited entities if more small islands have NIE?

The role of information and knowledge management in project preparation, monitoring and evaluation and impact assessment is often neglected. it results in limited application of lessons learnt to inform new projects and programmes. impacts on the ground may not assessed and seen.We seem to be going around and around in a vicious circle. Who is bene tting at the end? Where is sustainability and resilience for small islands?

SPREP is developing guidelines and tools aiming to build the capacity of the Pacific Island Countries to develop and management project themselves but more importantly for PICs to be able to monitor and assess impacts. these are to be shared and to inform new programs.

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