Understanding Sub-National Climate Governance: Findings from Nepal, Uganda, Vietnam and Zambia
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2016
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DIIS Report
Abstract
Understanding the sub-national dynamics of climate governance is critical if
individual nations and the global community are to move forward in implementing
the COP21 agreement and make effective use of associated global climate funds.
One important aspect of this is to understand the institutional conditions and
dynamics that influence how sub-national organisations respond to climate change.
This includes organisations such as local governments and deconcentrated state
agencies that operate at the ‘meso-level’ between the central state and communities,
in the administrative spaces encompassing districts, municipalities and provinces.
From a strategic point of view, such meso-level organisations are by no means
insignificant, and ideally they can play a strong role in supporting households in
climate adaptation: They are often responsible for implementing national climate
change policies and interventions in practice, while at the same time being accountable to the local population. At the same time, their decisions about how to interpret
and implement climate policies in practice have direct and often substantial impacts
on livelihoods and the risks faced by climate-vulnerable people. Meso-level
organisations inhabit an often opaque ‘twilight’ area between the central state and
the community (Lund 2006), where mandates and everyday actions are often open
to interpretation and where public authority and ‘reach’ are sometimes fragmented,
ambiguous and contested.
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Sub-National Climate Governance, Uganda
Citation
Christoplos, I., Aben, C., Bashaasha, B., Dhungana, H., Friis-Hansen, E., Funder, M., ... & Thi-Hoa-Sen, L. (2016). Understanding sub-national climate governance: Findings from Nepal, Uganda, Vietnam and Zambia (No. 2016: 05). DIIS Report.