STRENGTHENING AND ENHANCING PERFORMANCE AND SUSTAINABILITY OF THE

STRENGTHENING AND ENHANCING PERFORMANCE AND SUSTAINABILITY OF THE REGIONAL CENTRES The BRS Secretariat 5/10/2015 www. brsmeas. org @brsmeas 10/21/2015 1

STRENGTHENING AND ENHANCING PERFORMANCE AND SUSTAINABILITY OF THE REGIONAL CENTRES This presentation covers the main elements of strategy on enhancing capacity of the regional centres, particularly around. . • Why ? • Who/whom ? • When? www. brsmeas. org @brsmeas 10/21/2015 2

STRENGTHENING AND ENHANCING PERFORMANCE AND SUSTAINABILITY OF THE REGIONAL CENTRES A. Performance evaluation · Some centres are consistently outperforming and some are consistently underperforming · Some centre do need capacity building in resource mobilization skills, report writing, etc. B. Feedback provided by the parties about the centres · Needs more consultation and communications with the parties they serve · Needs to have technical expertise, facilities and experience in various relevant areas · Needs to have clear institutional vision and coverage C. Issues identified during the meetings of regional centres · Sustainable financing; · Visibility, communication and coordination; · Needing long-term strategies including long-term planning; · Concerned about “donor fatigue” and insufficient political will; · Lack of man power, limited expertise and fundraising www. brsmeas. org @brsmeas 10/21/2015 3

STRENGTHENING AND ENHANCING PERFORMANCE AND SUSTAINABILITY OF THE REGIONAL CENTRES Mandate BC-12/10 and SC-7/17, the COPs evaluated the performance of the Centres - while taking note of the performance of the regional centres it called for sustained efforts to enhance their perfomance - took note of the challenges faced by some centres - recalled that sustainable financial and technical resources are necessary for the centre to succeed… www. brsmeas. org @brsmeas 10/21/2015 4

STRENGTHENING AND ENHANCING PERFORMANCE AND SUSTAINABILITY OF THE REGIONAL CENTRES • Enhancing technical capacity, • Enhancing visibility, and • Resource mobilization capacity www. brsmeas. org @brsmeas 10/21/2015 5

ENHANCING TECHNICAL CAPACITY OF THE REGIONAL CENTRES Enhancing technical capacity, why it is an issue? • Need for a wide range of technical expertise in the region • Networking • Cooperation and collaboration • South-south cooperation • UNEA resolution I/5: chemical and waste recognizes the role of the regional centres • mainstreaming and coordinated delivery • Links to post 2015 SDG • 7 out of 17 goals are related to the work of regional centres • Goal 17 on strengthening of the means of implementation (under headings, finance, technology and capacity building, it emphasizes the developed country to meet their ODA/GNI commitment and promote transfer of environmentally sound technologies through existing mechanism • Partnership with international companies/ODA funding • Tapping on the MEA commitment under ODA funding www. brsmeas. org @brsmeas 10/21/2015 6

ENHANCING TECHNICAL CAPACITY OF THE REGIONAL CENTRES What the Secretariat can do? • Facilitate the consultations among the centres • Annual meetings • Providing regional platforms • Bilateral donors and ODA funding • Providing list of donors/funds and their areas of preference • Organizing donors meetings/fairs • Sharing information on the activities of the Centres through various publications • Undertake coordination visits • Promoting collaborations • Project/activities evaluation www. brsmeas. org @brsmeas 10/21/2015 7

ENHANCING TECHNICAL CAPACITY OF THE REGIONAL CENTRES What the Centres can do? • Networking and partnership among the centres • Core expertise and comparative advantage • Sharing the roaster of expertise • Information exchange with parties and other centres • Bilateral donors and ODA funding • A thought out plan and implementation on how to identify potential partners • Sharing regional centre related information through various publications • Prepare performance improvement and sustaining plan • Centres scoring low in their performance evaluation should prepare an improvement plan and implement it www. brsmeas. org @brsmeas 10/21/2015 8

ENHANCING VISIBILITY OF THE REGIONAL CENTRES Enhancing visibility: why it is an issue? • Relations with OCP/NFP • Endorsement of the business plan/workplan approval • Project endorsement letters/nominations etc. • Expertise and capability of the centre • Technical assistance requests • Institutional profile • Institutional efficiency and administrative support • Facilitating with the host government • Regional visibility • Implementing regional projects • Playing role of key stakeholder in the region www. brsmeas. org @brsmeas 10/21/2015 9

ENHANCING VISIBILITY OF THE REGIONAL CENTRES CONTD. What the Secretariat can do? • Strategy/roadmap on strengthening of regional centres • Continue providing platform for regional consultations e. g. , regional meetings/workshops • Dissemination of the activities of the regional centres • Coverage through BRS Newsletter • Coverage through Conventions websites, UNEP features, etc. • Harmonizing the Regional centres webpages • Promoting visual identity and corporate look of regional centres www. brsmeas. org @brsmeas 10/21/2015 10

ENHANCING VISIBILITY OF THE REGIONAL CENTRES CONTD. What the Centres can do? • Publish and share with the Parties and the Secretariat: Newsletters, news clips, video footage, etc. • Establish websites and regularly update the web-contents • Proactively contact parties and regularly follow up, sharing the activities, requesting their views, etc. • Strive for securing/implementing regional projects/activities • Actively participate in the Regional Centres – SGP • Prepare performance improvement and sustaining plan www. brsmeas. org @brsmeas 10/21/2015 11

STRATEGY/ROAD MAP ON THE STRENGTHENING OF THE REGIONAL CENTRES (2015 -2019) • A detailed strategy will be shared separately for the discussion, finalization and adoption Recommendation by the joint meeting of the regional centres held in November 2014 Mandate Activity Deadlin e Development of a draft 1 March strategy to enhance visibility 2015 of the Regional Centres and draft a 10 year plan Enhancement of visibility of the 15 regional centres in the March Conventions web pages 2015 Visits by ES to selected 30 April regional centres hosting the 2015 COP preparatory meetings Updating of the business plan/workplan template to accommodate the 2015 COPs decisions Small Grant programme call for expressions of interest July 2015 31 July 2015 Budget Responsible Staff SS/TAB team Status done (draft) Comments The strategy would address also a strategy for resource mobilization for the centres. N/A SS/CAP ( with the ongoing Consultations held, the issue has support of the KM become one of the priority component team) under BRS Strategy travel for RP/ (and done Following Centres visited: regional relevant regional BCRC/SCRC Indonesia; SCRC meetings focal point Kenya; BCRC Slovakia; SCRC Czech attending the Rep; SCRC Brazil; BCRC/SCRC COP preparatory Uruguay; BCRC Argentina meeting) N/A SS done Updated template was sent to the centres on 3 August 2015 SS leftover No funds received for 2015. Call for a funds proposal will be made from leftover funds in October 2015 www. brsmeas. org @brsmeas 10/21/2015 12

STRENGTHENING RESOURCE MOBILIZATION CAPACITY • Situation analysis • Identifying the areas for intervention • Training on resource mobilization capacity on Wednesday www. brsmeas. org @brsmeas 10/21/2015 13

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