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Community capacity building and indigenous tourism in Iran

2024, Community capacity building and indigenous tourism in Iran

The improvement of community capacity is an essential component in optimizing and maintaining the advantages derived from tourism among marginalized communities. Nevertheless, this specific aspect has garnered minimal scholarly and practical scrutiny. The primary objective of this research is to investigate the issue of community capacity building in the context of tourism development within a marginalized nomadic community in Iran. Using a qualitative research methodology, the investigation included semi-structured interviews with a sample of 20 participants, comprising individuals from the local population as well as other tourism stakeholders. The collected data underwent thematic analysis and the results demonstrate the significance of various factors, including governance and policy support, social capital, community cohesion and integration, local leadership, access to resources, community participation, and socio-cultural sensitivity, in strengthening community capacity building. On the other hand, obstacles to capacity building were discovered, including issues such as distance from power centers, religious biases, and the nomadic or semi-nomadic lifestyles.

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Capacity building approaches have a deep history of mobilizing agency and enabling change across development, governance, and environmental contexts. It has also been recognized as a central means of implementation for supporting climate action in the Paris Agreement. Despite this, capacity building remains ambiguous, fragmented, and prone to cooption by vested interests, all of which can limit its effectiveness for transformative climate action. Given that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) demonstrates the need for transformative climate action to reduce emissions and limit warming to 1.5°C, the experiences and practical insights from capacity building implementation can be leveraged to concretize the more theoretical literature on transformation. The purpose of this study is thus to synthesize the best practices and lessons learned from scholarship on capacity building implementation for enabling transformations in the context of climate change. This scholarship is synthesized from five fields that are known for their practitioner involvement and implementation focus, and where capacity building has been in wide use for several decades: international development, public health, community development, sustainability, and climate change. Four implications emerge as essential from the synthesis: the importance of enabling agency while navigating power dynamics between capacity building stakeholders; making space for local cultures and knowledge across every stage of capacity building; incorporating mechanisms for learning, collaboration and systems thinking; and going beyond technical, managerial, and technological framings to also build capacities for envisioning, creating, mobilizing, learning and inculcating desirable attitudes, behaviors and values.

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COP29 and UNDP Azerbaijan developed a training workshop on building confidence and capacity in the preparation of BTRs

May 14, 2024.

The COP29 Azerbaijan in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) developed a two-day training workshop to foster a conducive environment for building confidence and to encourage the timely submission of Biennial Transparency Reports (BTRs). 

At COP21 in 2015, Parties adopted the Paris Agreement and through it established an Enhanced Transparency Framework for action and support (ETF) designed to build trust and confidence that all countries are contributing to the global effort. 

For many developing country Parties, implementing the ETF requires a change of approach in how they respond to their international reporting obligations. What was often a project-based or ad-hoc preparation of National Communications (NCs) and Biennial Update Reports (BURs) will now require a holistic and sustained approach to meet the requirements defined for the submission of Biennial Transparency Reports (BTR), representing the first progress report on the implementation of the Paris Agreement. 

With a view to contributing to on-going efforts of developing country Parties to prepare and finalize their BTR and achieve universal participation in the ETF, the incoming COP29 Presidency, with the support of the UNFCCC Secretariat and in collaboration with other UN agencies and partners, organized a training workshop from 13 to 14 May 2024 in Baku in hybrid format. 

The workshop is one of the first major activities under the banner of the #Together4Transparency, which unites several groups of stakeholders committed to joining forces in preparation for ETF, in particular the submission of BTRs this year, recognizing that all actors can play a role in ensuring the success of the Paris Agreement.

The training workshop organized by the COP29 Presidency, UNDP, and UNFCCC with participation of local and international experts seeks to contribute to capacity building by familiarizing participants with relevant tools and techniques for preparation of BTRs. 

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