This Second technical workshop on Capacity Building Initiative for Transparency (CBIT) implementation is a follow up of the first technical workshop on CBIT Global Coordination Platform, held in April 2017 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
The workshop is generously funded by GEF and co-organi zed by UNDP, UN Environment, UNEP DTU Partnership and the Global Support Programme (GSP) for NCs and BURs, with the additional support of the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU) and the Partnership on Transparency in the Paris Agreement.
The Technical Workshop will aim at strengthening national transparency capacities by:
(i) presenting key objectives of national CBIT projects already approved
(ii) identifying common approaches to existing challenges and
(iii) presenting the support available through the CBIT Global Coordination Platform as well as through other initiatives and to enhance coordination between the numerous actors.
Approximately 70 participants from 40 Countries are expected to attend, including representatives from developing and developed Parties, international organizations and other institutions engaged inthe enhanced transparency framework.