Welcome to CENFACS’ Online Diary!
27 November 2019
Post No. 119
The Week’s Contents
• Climate Protection and Stake for African Children (CPSAC) – Phase 3, with working theme as Madrid Makes It Work
• Skills Development Month with Skills Focus for Week Starting 25/11/2019: Income Generation Skills
• “A la une” (Autumn Leaves of Action for the Upkeep of the Nature in Existence) Campaign – In Focus between 27/11/2019 and 30/11/2019: Monitoring and Evaluation
… and much more!
Key Messages
~ Climate Protection and Stake for African Children (CPSAC) – Phase 3, with a working theme as Madrid Makes It Work
Our environmental season has not yet finished. This coming week, we are reviving or resuming our campaign on Climate Protection and Stake for African Children (Phase 3) with Madrid Make It Work (MMIW) as a working theme for this year.
CPSAC – P. 3 continues with our follow up of the climate change talks which will be held under the auspices of United Nations Conference and which will take place from 2 to 13 December 2019 in Madrid, Spain. The talks are held as the 25th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP25).
MMIW is both a specific follow-up as part of CPSAC – P. 3 and another example of the application of XX236.3 programme, CENFACS‘ monitoring and evaluation programme.
For more on next week’s climate follow-up talks, please read under the Main Development section of this post.
~ Skills Development Month with Skills Focus for Week Starting 25/11/2019: Income Generation Skills Development
Riding on the heels of this week’s agenda is also the last skills focus of our Skills Development Month; skills focus which is on Income Generation or Skills to Generate Little Extra Income. This Skills focus is also part of this Season’s theme from this year’s edition of Festive Income Booster, which is one of CENFACS’ Individual Capacity Development Programme resource. For more details about this edition, please contact CENFACS.
Income generation has always been at the heart of poverty reduction and any development process. Skills development or training for income generation is one of the vehicles to generate income and achieve poverty reduction outcomes and impacts or results. Depending on people’s needs and demand, there are many types of skills one can develop to generate income.
These skills can include production (e.g. skills to produce cosmetics, soaps, making clothes or sewing, etc.), marketing, sale, communication, job search, persuasion, trade, literacy skills, etc. To that, one can add online income generation skills such as digital literacy, mobile money, online analytical skills, etc. Skills can be basic to the very complex ones to generate income.
This week, the focus is on basic income generation skills; particularly those one needs to develop in order to generate some little extra income, as highlighted in the 2019 edition of CENFACS’ Festive Income Booster resource. Next month, we shall expand more on income generation matters as December is the Income Generation month according to CENFACS development calendar.
If one is particularly interested in a particular skill or has something to share about a specific skill, please do not hesitate to contact CENFACS.
~ “A la une” (Autumn Leaves of Action for the Upkeep of the Nature in Existence) Campaign – In Focus between 27/11/2019 and 30/11/2019: Monitoring and Evaluation
Like in any activity or project or even programme that has been run, to find out what went well and what went wrong; it is essential to carry out some monitoring and evaluation.
We have been systematically collecting and analysing information throughout the seven weeks of our nature notes. We are now getting into the process of assessing what these notes are telling us in terms of the achieved results against expected ones and for future references of the “A la une” campaign.
As monitoring is a continuous process and evaluation an end of project assessment, we would like to hear as well from those who have been following our nature notes, which are seven in total. We would like you to tell us in your own words and own numbers your feelings about the seven notes making the theme of upkeep of the nature.
You can post your Say to CENFACS via email or complete the comments box on this site and submit to us.
Please tell us what you think. Thank you for your support.
Extra Messages
~ Women and Children FIRST Development Day: Feedback
Last week, we held our Development Day (DD) as planned. What can we retain from the DD? The following is the feedback.
The good news from the DD was we were able…
√ to re-communicate our poverty relief message
√ to showcase what a DD looks like
√ to interact with the members of the public, who popped in the event place, about economic sustainability
√ to give away some clothes to support people, another local deserving cause like ours and the circular economy
√ to re-engage with stakeholders and raise awareness of CENFACS’ work in the community
The setback was that we did not have a good number of people or attendees we were expecting to turn up. Perhaps, one of the lessons we learnt from the DD is to try to increase the number of participants and volunteers for future references and events.
In all, the overall outcome is that we were able to physically bring CENFACS back to the community again and the community to access CENFACS’ service for free. This added some value to our online presence.
We would like to thank those who supported us on the day, particularly to the Big Local Broad Green for allowing us to hold our DD at their space/place. We would like as well to say thank you to an old lady who told us this: “You are doing a great job of helping to relieve poverty”.
~ Festive SHOPPING and DONATIONS at http://cenfacs.org.uk/shop/
Every occasion or every season is an opportunity to do something against poverty and hardships. The festive season, which is a great time to share precious moments with your love ones, is also a special period to spread a little extra happiness to those who do not have.
You can give your unwanted and unneeded goods to CENFACS’ Charity e-Store, the shop built to help relieve poverty. You can buy second hand goods and bargain priced new items and much more.
CENFACS’ Charity e-Store needs your support for Festive SHOPPING and DONATIONS.
You can do something different this Festive Season by SHOPPING or DONATING GOODS at CENFACS Charity e-Store.
You can DONATE or SHOP or do both:
√ DONATE unwanted GOODS and PRODUCTS to CENFACS Charity e-Store during the festive period 2019
√ SHOP at CENFACS Charity e-Store to support good and deserving causes of poverty relief during the festive period 2019
Your SHOPPING and or GOODS DONATIONS will help to the Upkeep of the Nature and to reduce poverty.
~ The Upkeep of Africa’s Tropical Flora
As planned and mentioned earlier on, “A la une” campaign has entered the evaluation stage while we are continuing with the monitoring process. This monitoring and evaluation will continue until the end of November 2019. After that, our environmental season will carry on until mid-December 2019.
As part the environmental season, we have integrated “A la une” campaign with other similar environmental projects or campaigns. We are as well extending the theme of the upkeep of the nature to consider the extinction risks and threats that Africa’s tropical flora is facing. We are therefore advocating about and working on the reduction of the extinction of Africa’s Tropical Flora, as some current researches from well-placed sources suggested.
To enquire and or share your work on Africa’s tropical biodiversity, please contact CENFACS.
Main development
• Climate Protection and Stake for African Children (CPSAC) – Phase 3, with Madrid Makes It Work as a Working Theme
• • Continuing to make our case for African Children through CPSAC – P. 3, with MMIW (Madrid Makes It Work) this year
Before starting the December 2019 CPSAC – P. 3 with MMIW, let’s see what last year’s follow up was about.
Last year’s follow up was about Katowice Implements Paris (KIP) as climate advocacy theme for 2018 that took stock of the previous climate talks follow up we did.
⇒ CPSAC – P.2 with KIP as stocktaking advocacy
Katowice Implements Paris (KIP) was the continuation of What Bonn Say (WBS), the Paris Summit on Climate Mobilisation (PSCM) and our previous works. For more on WBS and PSCM, please read below the Review on our 2017 climate follow up works.
⇒• What KIP meant
“Katowice Implements Paris” meant that we were following the Climate Change talks which took place from 2 to 14 December 2018, in Katowice, Poland.
These talks were held as the 24th Session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP24).
⇒• What following up COP 24 was about
One of the most important tasks of the 24th Session of the of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP24) was to work out and adopt a package of decisions ensuring the full implementation of the Paris Agreement, in accordance with the decisions adopted in Paris (COP21) and in Marrakesh (CMA1.1).
Moreover, COP24 would include the so-called Facilitative Dialogue intended to support the implementation of national commitments. Our follow up of COP24 was about making sure that the full implementation of the Paris Agreement benefit all the future generations including the African children.
⇒• Key Points to Remember about KIP advocacy
The key word for KIP was Implementation.
Our working areas of interest concerning KIP were on
√ What climate decisions for the protection and stake of children, especially those from poor nations, would be taken
√ The contents of the package to be implemented and children-friendliness of this package
√ The degree of integration of children’s needs and involvement of child protectors and advocates in the facilitative dialogue to support the implementation process
There were other campaigning points that we wanted to see implemented in the final make-up of climate proposals, points such as:
√ Climate friendly modern solutions to child protection against climate change
√ Support of children especially those from poor nations to transit to a circular economy
√ Support to climate neutral projects that are children-friendly
Because of the outstanding or gap issues in the Paris climate package in terms of its agreement and application, we will continue to advocate on the above mentioned points.
⇒ Continuity of CPSAC – P.3 with MMIW
The continuation of our case for Climate Protection and Stake for African Children (CPSAC) in Phase 3 with MMIW as theme for this year started in February 2019 with the following activities and action events:
<> The fit of finance and insurance packages available on the market for the needs of children from developing countries like those of Africa
<> Effective ways of distributing them amongst children in need
<> Financial Need Assessment of the Costs of Climate Protection for Children to meet children’s climate protection needs (from the basic to the more complex ones); needs including those to reduce poverty and hardships, financial and insurance requests to meet and address the adverse impacts and effects of climate change
<> Climate Change Action plans in the context of local climate action (i.e. activity that looked at the gaps between plans and achievements, between what has worked and what was not working to reduce greenhouse gas emissions)
<> Mapping of Climate Change Actions (i.e. activity that helped in identifying good actions taken locally and rating them)
The above are the selected points of CPSAC – Phase 3 that speak for our climate action this year. Some of the points (unmet ones) will carry on in our December 2019 climate advocacy.
• • December 2019 Climate Protection and Stake for African Children (CPSAC) – Phase 3 with MMIW (Madrid Makes It Work)
The new follow up is entitled Madrid Makes It Work (MMIW). Our preparedness for Madrid Makes the Paris Agreement Work for Children and Future Generations (or MMIW) started since last Spring and is still part of CPSAC Phase 3.
The CENFACS demand to the global climate talks remains the same, which is: to give climate protection and stake for African children; the African Children being a sample of our working climate model. This demand is undertaking through the follow up of global climate talks like the next climate talks (COP25) due to start on 2 December 2019 in Spain.
⇒ CPSAC – P. 3 with MMIW as stocktaking advocacy
December 2019 Climate Talks Follow up CPSAC (Climate Protection and Stake for African Children) – Phase 3 with Madrid Makes It Work (MMIW) as climate advocacy theme for 2019 takes stock of the previous climate talks follow up we did.
Madrid Makes It Work (MMIW) is the continuation of Katowice Implements Paris (KIP), What Bonn Say (WBS), The Paris Summit on Climate Mobilisation (PSCM) and our previous works. For more on KIP, WBS and PSCM, please read below the Review on our 2017 and 2018 climate follow up works.
⇒ What MMIW means
“Madrid Makes It Work” means make the climate talks work for African children. It also a working slogan telling us that we are following the Climate Change talks which will take place from 2 to 13 December 2019 in Madrid, Spain. Although, the slogan says that Madrid makes it work, we do not mean one city (Madrid) or country (Spain) alone can make the Paris Agreement works. It is down to all the global community to make it work. Madrid is our advocacy reference as where the climate summit will be held.
⇒ CENFACS’ Follow Up of CO25: MMIW entry points for December 2019
The working theme for the 2019 CPSAC – P. 3 is MMIW, and the slogan or key word will be Make-it-Work.
To follow up COP25, we need to start somewhere to follow COP25. Our provisional areas of interest and entry points concerning MMIW will be on the following:
√ How the climate community will close the Paris Agreement’s remaining gaps
√ Would be an increase of climate protection for children?
√ How the Summit will deal with international credit system for emission certificate (for example how an international credit system for carbon emission certificates will work for child protection)
√ Where the international climate community does stand about finance climate protection for children abroad (e.g. African children)
√ The issue of financial and technical assistance to children affected by climate change will it be resolved?
√ What is the percentage of fund that finances climate educational needs of children?
√ The setting up of climate plans that are children friendly
√ How the clean air fund is helping children’s health
√ How climate protection matters related to children of least developed countries (amongst them some African countries) will be dealt with
The above points are just for us to enter the follow up and engage with the Climate Summit. When these talks start next week and throughout their running, there could emerge other climate matters. In which case, we shall update our follow up accordingly.
Additionally, as we progress with the preparedness of next week’s and this year’s follow up of climate talks, those areas of interest will be shaped to take into account the final make-up of these talks, and the current and emerging needs of children victims, vulnerable and at risk of the adverse effects and impacts of climate change.
To support CSPAC – P. 3 and MMIW, please contact CENFACS
• Review of our 2017and 2018 climate follow up works
While we are looking forward to the next round of climate talks, our climate protection continues by looking back the climate talks (COP24) in 2018 in Poland and December 2017 Paris Meeting.
~ Looking back Katowice Implements Paris (KIP)
We have already reviewed KIP at the start of these main development notes. We would like to simply add the following questions that made KIP:
√ What climate decisions for the protection and stake of children, especially those from poor nations, were at COP24
√ The contents of the climate package to be implemented and children-friendliness of this package
√ The degree of integration of children’s needs and involvement of child protectors and advocates in the facilitative dialogue to support the implementation process
√ Climate friendly modern solutions to child protection against climate change
√ Support of children especially those from poor nations to transit to a circular economy
√ Support to climate neutral projects that are children-friendly
Many of these points are still pending. That is why there is a need to keep advocating and following the climate talks.
There was also Bonn Climate Conference, which we followed up under the banner of What Bonn Say (WBS).
Our follow up work on these talks was about what to expect from the climate change negotiations and representations at these talks to make the Bonn gathering a progress from the Marrakech talks and the Paris Agreement as pivotal regarding the protection of children against the adverse effects and impacts of climate change.
~ What WBS was about
WBS was our 2017 follow up regarding what climate change experts and participants said and decided at the Bonn Climate Change Conference regarding the 2016 issues in terms of progress made and outstanding climate issues.
Just like KIP, WBS was both a specific follow-up as part of CPSAC Phase 2 and an example of the application of CENFACS‘ 2020-2030-2063 Follow-up (or XX236.3F) programme, which is our general follow up. It is a Programme of Monitoring and Evaluation of the Climate Change Reduction, Halving Poverty, Sustainable Development Goals and Africa’s Development Agenda.
XX236.3FP is made of four follow-ups for monitoring and evaluation of the following: the Paris Climate Change Agreement, the Istanbul Declaration to halve poverty by 2020, the United Nations Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development Goals, and Africa’s Agenda 2063.
So, this 4-Follow-up programme includes the four of them. For more on XX236.3FP, contact CENFACS.
WBS considered previous unsolved and pending issues as well as new ones from climate talks. We kicked off WBS in March 2017 with following engaging points which were taken into the main Bonn Climate Change Conference:
√ Better climate governance that works for and benefits children’s welfare and well-being
√ The political economy of negotiations for child protection against climate-induced poverty
√ Green and climate capacity building and education for child protection
√ Climate-friendly and children-friendly technologies for poverty relief
√ Climate change adaptation and mitigation programmes for children and future generations.
The above sharing advocacy or campaigning points/contents are the ones that we have been monitoring besides the other issues which emerged from the Bonn Climate Change Conference.
After WBS, we had another follow up with the Paris Summit on Climate Mobilisation.
~ CPSAC – P.2: The Paris Summit on Climate Mobilisation (PSCM)
The overarching goal of the PSCM was to mobilise public and private finance for projects to implement the Paris International Agreement on Climate Change.
The CENFACS demand to the global climate talks remains the same: to get climate protection and stake for African children. This ask was undertaking through the follow up of the PSCM as global climate talks.
Our climate follow up of the Paris round discussions was on
√ Making clean technology fund (CTF) work for poor children from poor nations
√ The equity resulting from converted CTF debt to benefit children from poor nations as well
√ The new pledges, if any, for adaptation fund and Least Developed Countries Fund to be mobilised to give a stake to poor children’s needs
√ Mobilisation of the climate finance system and architecture to be designed so as to support poor children of poor countries
For more information on this review, please contact CENFACS.
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