Capacity building for transparency andreporting: sharing experiences fromthe Asia-Pacific region
Chisa Umemiya

Senior Researcher, IGES
“The Challenging Issues of Environment/Climate Change Institution andPolicy under SDGs Regime”
November 4, 2021

Key message• Increasing successful cases for transparency capacity building in the region• Next step is as to how to ensure these successful cases spread even incountries with currently low capacity2

Survey on solutions for three common challenges in national reporting• “What are good practices as recommended solutions to address threecommon challenges in the short- and long-terms?”

 Challenge 1: Roles and responsibilities
 Challenge 2: Human resources and experts
 Challenge 3: Data and information collection• Methodology:• Step 1: Country questionnaire survey in the region (n=6)• Step 2: Group discussions at the Asian Transparency Workshop in
December 2020 with more than 40 participants, who are in charge ofnational reporting
Source: Murun et al. (2021) Solutions for three common challenges in national reporting in developing countries under the Paris Agreement. IGES Working Paper.
Available at: https://www.iges.or.jp/en/pub/solutions-common-challenges-national-reporting/en3

Recommended solutions to address unclear roles andresponsibilities of key ministries and stakeholders

Efficiency: To utilise existing tools or materials to minimise input resources such as labor and time, and accomplish goals.
Accountability: To enhance ownership of tasks for both governmental and non-state (non-governmental) stakeholders.
Sustainability: Consideration on whether the solution can maintain a country’s performance and improve long-term ability

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Recommended solutions to address a lack of human resourcesand experts

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Make up of GHG inventory capacity

Source: Umemiya and White. (2020) Global Database of National GHG Inventory (GHGI) Capacity in Developing Countries. UNDP Global Support Programme.
Available from: https://www.un-gsp.org/sites/default/files/final_global_ghgi_capacity_indices.pdf

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Good/ Very good

Pattern 1: High stability (n=18)(n=10)
Pattern 5: Others

Limited/ Intermediate

GHGI capacity status

Five patterns of GHGI capacity status change acrosssubmissions

Pattern 4: Low improvement growth (n=5)

Pattern 3: Low improvement (n=33)
GHGI1

GHGI2

• Low GHGI capacity countriesparticularly lack decent statisticaland scientific capacity (not basic
financial condition only).
• Low GHGI capacity countries
struggled to establish theinstitutional structure thatenables engagement of multiple
organizations and systems forcontinuous compilation andimprovement.

GHGI3+

Time of GHGI submission

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Global map of the five GHGI capacity-status change patterns• Roughly half of developing
countries are in better GHGI
capacity status than the otherhalf including the “Other” group• Asia consists of countries withvarious capacity-status change
patterns, while the Pacific mainlyincludes countries with low
capacity• How can we ensure currently low
capacity countries to improvetheir capacity in the next decadeto come?
Source: Umemiya and White. (2020) Global Database of National GHG Inventory (GHGI) Capacity in Developing Countries. UNDP Global Support Programme.
Available from: https://www.un-gsp.org/sites/default/files/final_global_ghgi_capacity_indices.pdf

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