Delivering adaptation support to countries
Including Adaptation Planning Technology Needs Assessments
This portfolio of climate resilient and decarbonisation projects involved collaboration with multilateral institutions and governments in Africa, Middle East and Asia in conducting individual adaptation planning and technology needs assessments. Project experience includes:
Climate Science Specialist for the UNDP project 'Advancing Albania's Planning for adaptation through the development of a national adaptation project'. This aimed at strengthening capacities to better inform decision-making on climate risks and catalyse and direct climate investments. It involved the development of 8 local adaptation plan of actions across sectors that including climate risk and vulnerability assessments, including sensitivity, exposure, hazard and adaptive capacity assessment.
Project Director for Resilient Cities Network initiatives, supporting the delivery of the Urban Power Program, an initiative to identify, design and accelerate energy solutions which address energy poverty, prioritise sustainability and promote a just energy transition for Cape Town, Lagos and Rio.
Development of sectoral action plans in terms of adaptation and mitigation action on behalf of UNIDO and UNEP for the Governments of Botswana, Georgia, Ghana, Iraq, Nigeria and Zimbabwe, in preparation for the Green Climate Fund (GCF) readiness support programme. Actions also included stakeholder engagement in country on behalf of the respective government.
Policy Reform and Market Transformation, Iran, UNDP: The Global Environment Fund and UNDP collaborated with the Government of Iran to develop the Policy Reform and Market Transformation of the Energy Efficient Buildings Sector Project. This project involved delivery of a city wide energy efficiency programme of building retrofit, white certificates and market mechanisms.
