Supporting the ASEAN Climate Resilience Network and ASEAN Negotiating Group on Agriculture

The Climate Smart Land Use in ASEAN (CSLU) project aimed to strengthen ASEAN’s contributions to international and national climate-policy processes on climate-smart land use in agriculture and forestry. CLSU built on the successes of the Forestry and Climate Change Project under the former ASEAN-German Program on Response to Climate Change, which has supported ASEAN in improving framework for sustainable agriculture and forestry in ASEAN Member States. It was implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH working in close cooperation with the ASEAN Secretariat.

The ASEAN Climate Resilience Network (ASEAN-CRN) was a platform for the exchange and sharing of information, experiences, and expertise on climate smart agriculture in ASEAN that was supported by CLSU and the FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (FAO RAP).

One of the major achievements of ASEAN-CRN was establishing the ASEAN Negotiating Group on Agriculture (ANGA). Since 2018, ANGA has been representing ASEAN positions on agriculture in the negotiations of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). In collaboration with FAO RAP, CSLU provided capacity building and coordination support to ANGA.

In 2021, SEI was contracted by GIZ to provide support to ASEAN-CRN and ANGA. For ASEAN-CRN, SEI provided strategic inputs for the network’s direction, aligns its work with ASEAN goals, supports the network’s communication and cooperation process of its members and monitors the implementation of ASEAN-CRN’s workplan. For ANGA, SEI provided strategic inputs and support communication and cooperation process among ANGA members, including processes related to developing UNFCCC submissions. In particular, SEI supported ANGA’s coordination meetings, training events, participation in climate change negotiations (Subsidiary Bodies and Conference of Parties), organizing debriefings and liaising with other negotiation stakeholders, including G77 & China, the ASEAN Working Group on Climate Change and UNFCCC focal points, to ensure that ANGA’s work and outputs are properly coordinated and communicated.