ALM UNDP

Summary:

National Capacity Self-Assessment Sub-Regional Workshop
Joint UNDP/UNEP Global Support Programme
Tanoa International Hotel, Nadi, Fiji
16 - 18 November 2009

Approved in November 2003, the National Capacity Self-Assessment (NCSA) programme was the first pathway of the Global Environment Facility’s (GEF) Strategic Approach to Enhance Capacity Building, which provided a framework to develop countries’ capacities for environmental management. Implemented as projects, they were/are an opportunity for countries to assess their management capacities and formulate a national capacity development strategy to achieve national and global environmental priorities, to be undertaken in a systematic manner. The NCSAs complement the other capacity development pathways identified in the Strategic Approach document, namely strengthening capacity building elements in GEF projects; targeted capacity building projects, and country specific programmes that address critical capacity needs in Least Developed Countries.

When completed, a total of 145 countries will have performed an assessment of their national capacities through the NCSA process with support from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).