Document 4: GUIDANCE FOR

GROUP EXERCISE 1. CLIMATE RATIONALE IN COUNTRY PROJECT IDEAS

Technical Workshop on Project Preparation

Transformational Climate Resilience Water Project Concepts

in Latin America and the Caribbean
for the Green Climate Fund
3-5 September 2019, Panama

Objective
This group discussion is expected to allow participants to collectively review the climate rationale of
their project ideas and strengthen its articulation.

Groups
Participants gather into the following sub-regional groups

English Spanish
Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 Group 4 Group 5 Group 6 Group 7 Group 8

Antigua & Trinidad & Jamaica Guatemala Costa Rica Argentina Colombia Chile
Barbuda Tobago
Dominica St Lucia Guyana El Salvador Panama Brasil Ecuador Peru
Grenada St Vincent Nicaragua Honduras Bolivia Paraguay Uruguay
& the
Grenadines
Task (75 mins total)
• As a group (7 mins)
1. Assign a group chairperson for your group
2. Read the discussion guidance questions below
3. Of project ideas submitted by countries in your group, select 3 project ideas to discuss
during this exercise
• For each of the three selected project ideas (20 mins total per project) –
1. A country representative describes the project idea to the group (5 mins)
2. As a group, outline the following elements of the climate rationale for the project, with
group participants writing in the colored post-its as noted (10 mins):
Project information Post-it color
Country, Project title On flipchart
i. Describe the climate hazard Pink
ii. Assess vulnerabilities (direct and indirect) Orange
iii. Identify and analyse the problem (that the project will Yellow
address)
iv. Transform the problem to the project objective Green

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 3. Discuss the climate rationale as outlined (5 mins). What are its -
o Strengths?
o Weaknesses?
o Opportunities for improving?
• Prepare a 5-min report-back to plenary (8 mins). Based on points 2 and 3 above, what were
highlights from your group on –
o The current state of the climate rationale in the three project ideas that the group
reviewed?
o Any needs to strengthen the climate rationale? How?
o Any lessons learned?