Mekong Institute (MI), in partnership with Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), is organizing a 3-day Regional Workshop on Leveraging Inclusive Climate Finance to Scale Up Climate-Smart Agriculture Practices in the Lower Mekong Subregion. The workshop is scheduled to take place from May 8 to 10, 2024, at the MI Residential Training Centre in Khon Kaen, Thailand.
The overarching objective of this event is to enhance the resilience of agricultural value chains in the subregion by ensuring the availability of suitable, context-specific climate-smart agricultural (CSA) approaches, building technical capacity, facilitating access to climate finance sources, and fostering increased collaboration among key stakeholders.
The specific objectives of the event are to:
- Identify the facets of climate finance to promote sustainable agriculture and pathways for CSA transition;
- Sensitize domestic financial institutions to enable policies on inclusive CSA finance to strengthen the financial sector’s ability;
- Recognize climate finance instruments to align financial services and integrate environmental risks and opportunities into decisions that would drive lending, investment, and insurance by the sector to support sustainable agricultural value chains; and
- Understand an acceptable framework for the voluntary carbon market in the subregion and key financing mechanisms.
For more details, the concept note is available at the following link here
Seven seats are available for each of the following countries: Cambodia, Lao PDR, Thailand, and Viet Nam. The event is targeted at representatives from line ministries, international agencies, civil society organizations involved in developing climate finance policies and implementing projects under climate-resilient agriculture, as well as financial service providers including central banks, development banking institutions, and agricultural cooperative banks.
Apply now by clicking here The application deadline is March 25, 2024, and shortlisted participants will be contacted afterward. If you have any inquiries, please reach out to Mr. Chakdao Sudsanguan at chakdao@mekonginstitute.org.
Seize this opportunity to be part of shaping the future of agricultural resilience in the region through effective financial strategies.
