2025.02.20
JICA’s Knowledge Co-Creation Programme “Climate Finance”: A Bridge to the Future for Developing Countries – Week 2
OECC is responsible for planning and implementing the JICA’s Knowledge Co-Creation Programme (Capacity Development programme), “Enhancing Access to Climate Finance – Theory and Practice for Practitioners”. Total 14 participants from 13 countries, including Ethiopia, Cameroon, Kyrgyz, the Cook Islands, Kenya, Tuvalu, Jamaica, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Pakistan, Palestine, Bangladesh, and Fiji participating the programme.
It offers a comprehensive learning experience through lectures delivered by professionals in various climate change fields, visits to learn Japan’s cutting-edge technologies, and practical exercises, such as developing action plans and draft GCF concept notes. The aim is to enable participants to contribute to creating sustainable societies through effective use of climate finance, bridging theory and practice.
OECC’s Role
OECC plays a key role in designing the training curriculum, coordinating the lecturers, and providing individual support to the participants. It also enhances the quality of the programme by offering hands-on training tailored to practical applications, equipping participants with the know-how needed to utilise climate finance effectively in real-world scenarios.
Before the offline programme in Japan that started on January 14, a three-week online programme was conducted from early December. This programme provided participants with an opportunity to learn about topics such as the history of international climate negotiations, climate finance under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), an overview of the Green Climate Fund (GCF), and nature-based solutions (NbS).
Week 2 of the Training: Site Visits
Participants left the JICA lecture room and visited various research institutes in the second week of the training in Japan. The participants started to get to know each other and had lively discussions, with on-site lectures and touring the facilities.
On Monday, participants visited the Meteorological Research Institute, Japan Meteorological Agency. Before the lecture, participants learned about the causes of global warming and climate change, and the resulting impacts on our lives through card games.
On Tuesday morning, experts from Kajima Corporation held a lecture on how private companies involved in infrastructure construction are using the natural environment to develop infrastructure.
In the afternoon, at the National Institute for Environmental Studies, the system was introduced which showed data to visualize the impacts and predicted values of changes in precipitation and temperature due to climate change. After that, participants split into groups to pick out environmental issues for each country and discussed how to use data to make each country’s action plan more persuasive.
On Wednesday and Thursday, participants visited the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), the Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), and Fujisawa Sustainable Smart Town.
A wide range of initiatives, including international and domestic systems related to climate change, impact predictions using data, and sustainable urban development are presented.
On Friday morning, at the Kankyou-soken Co., Ltd, the lecture regarding the reduction of greenhouse gases through the regeneration of fluorocarbons is conducted. After that, participants looked around the facility to recover and destroy fluorocarbons.
In the afternoon, participants visited the Tokyo Metropolitan Outer Area Underground Discharge Channel. This facility discharges water underground during heavy rain and typhoons, and participants learned about its role as one of the functions of disaster-resistant urban development.
The program in the second week was mainly site visits around the Kanto region.
Next week, participants will travel to Okinawa to learn about the climate change adaptation unique to the island and new initiatives.
