Climate-smart Governance at the Subnational Level

How can municipalities and provinces help firms and farms to cope with climate change impacts?

Introduction

Climate change governance requires governments to take influential roles in bringing about shifts in societal interests and perceptions regarding climate change in order to deploy an active climate change mitigation and adaptation policy. Moreover, ensuring the participation of all stakeholders in the decision-making process is key to enhancing ownership and ensuring strong commitments to the sustainable management of landscapes and the uptake of climate-smart agriculture. Given Nepal’s federated structure, the subnational governments, and more so, the local governments are directly in touch with the primary actors (firms and farms) and can facilitate the implementation of climate-smart governance at the grass-root level Thus, this session explored ways in which municipalities and provinces can facilitate the climate-smart governance at the subnational level, particularly in Sudurpashchim Province, and help farms and firms cope with climate change impacts.

Objective

To raise awareness on good practices and recommendations on climate resilient and water-efficient approaches to the value chain actors

To explore climate-smart governance at the sub-national level.

To delve into roles of research institutions in climate change adaptation.

Speakers

Bhawa Raj Regmi, Executive Director, NEEDS Nepal

Dinesh Chandra Joshi, Executive Director, Local Action for Global Health and Environment Training and Research Centre

Durga Dutta Ojha, Chairperson, Jorayal Rural Municipality, Sudurpashchim

Mamta Rawal, Project Coordinator, BAFER Nepal

Moderator: Sujeev Shakya, Chair, Nepal Economic Forum.