Capacity building under the UN climate change regime takes place on three levels:
 

• At the individual level, activities focus on attitude and behaviour shift, knowledge, training and awareness-raising (see also Action for Climate Empowerment);

• At the institutional level, there is a focus on organizational performances and capabilities, on adaptation abilities of organizations and on promoting cooperation between different stakeholders;

• At the systemic level activities create enabling environments through economic and regulatory policies as well as frameworks in which institutions and individuals operate.

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Various work streams and events exist with the UNFCCC framework to address capacity-building:
 

• The Paris Committee on Capacity Building (PCCB) addresses current and emerging gaps in capacity-building in developing countries. 

• The Durban Forum is an annual meeting organized during the intersessionals, and bringing together stakeholders involved in capacity-building. It reviews the work done by the PCCB. 

• The Capacity-Building Hub is a space in the margin COPs, dedicated to representation, sharing and collaboration of various stakeholders in the field of capacity-building. 

• Other events are organized at COPs, intersessionals and throughout the year on capacity-building by the UNFCCC secretariat and by other stakeholders.

 

Discover all the work streams here.

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The Global South is supported throughout the process. Financial and technical assistance is offered by developed countries toward implementing frameworks, as requested in the Paris Agreement. Gaps in the institutional capacity of developing countries (such as those in government staffing and training, or the mainstreaming of the climate agenda) are being identified through observations, assessments, and data collection, and developing countries are then supported by the UNFCCC through mechanisms such as climate finance and nationally determined contributions.