Workshop Thematic Outline

The workshop will be a combination of presentations by experts, discussion panels and break out groups. The workshop sessions include presentations on the international politics of climate change, international funding mechanisms, strategic programmes on climate change adaptation, plus short presentations by people working on adaptation projects at the community level. The break out discussion provide an invaluable opportunity for practitioners to share innovative ideas for community level solutions to the effects of climate change on key sectors, plus identifying best practice in project methods. The discussions will also enable experts and policy-makers to learn from the practitioners working on the ground. The outcomes of the workshop will be a proceedings document presenting the most up to date concepts plus best practice at the community level on climate change adaptation practices on this complex and emerging issue. The aim of the break out discussion groups should be to create a consensus view on best practice, innovative solutions and recommendations that should be incorporated directly into the Workshop Proceedings.

Time	Session	Activity	Details
9.30-11	Inaugural Session	*Chief Guest:* Barrister Moudud Ahmed, Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs *Chair:* Dr. Shoib Ahmed, Secretary, Ministry of Environment and Forest, Govt. of Bangladesh Key Speakers 3 Key Speakers to be considered	150 people, including government ministers, policy makers etc. Presentations cover the basic issues surrounding the climate change debate, particularly the predicted impacts on developing countries and vulnerable communities. Introducing climate change adaptation and the aim of this workshop, desired outcomes etc. Respond fro invited political leaders.
11-11.30		Tea
11.30-1	Technical Session I:	Introduction: Conceptual Issues and science of adaptation *Chief Guest:* Mr. Tariqul Islam, Minister for Environment and Forest, Gov. of Bangladesh *Chair:* To be decided	Introduction, aims and timetable for the workshop Climate Change � Adaptation What is adaptation? Community level adaptation Discussion
1-2		Lunch
2-3.30	Technical Session II:	Multi-institutional / Strategic Level programmes	Presentations from representatives from strategic level projects e.g. IDS linking climate and development project Discussion Panel (30 mins)
3.30-4		Tea
4-5.30	Technical Session III:	International Institutions and Funding Mechanisms for Climate Change Adaptation	Presentations from internationally renowned experts on UNDP, GEF, UNITAR, UNEP, NAPA etc. This will introduce the key programmes and institutions working on climate change issues at a global level, highlighting the sources of funding for community adaptation issues and how to secure these funds. Discussion Panel of the experts answering questions from participants (30 mins)

* The presentations on community adaptation projects should be groups into similar issues; e.g. geographical regions, or those tackling particular adaptation issues (securing livelihoods, disaster preparedness etc.), or focusing on particular problems (e.g. salinity, drought, floods etc.). This grouping should probably be determined once the participants for these sessions have been identified. This gives the potential for 9 projects to present their project activities, followed by discussion of key issues emerging. There could even be a discussant (expert from the region or on the particular issues being discussed) for each session to stimulate debate and raise key issues?

** Participants must sign up to one of the break out groups on the first day of the workshop. A maximum of 25 people per group, but if one group is massively oversubscribed and there is very little interest in another then the most popular group could be run twice and the other group dropped.

Each break out group will require an independent facilitator to record the experiences and suggestions of the participants.

More work needs to be done to determine the aim of this break out group. I would suggest that the aim of these discussions should be to discuss the actual / potential effect of climate change and climate unpredictability on these different sectors, and then share solutions identified through peoples� experiences of running projects.

NOTE
From past experience of running workshops I would suggest moving Session 8 (Day 2 4pm) to 9am Day 3. People tend to be very sleepy by 4pm and don�t tend to engage in particularly productive discussion! Instead I would suggest a social session in the late afternoon to encourage informal network and discussion. This could include a session where participants stand with information about their particular project (a poster if they have it and leaflets), to distribute to interested people. The afternoon could then finish early.

Under this format Day 3 would have two discussion sessions in the morning, leaving lunchtime for the organisers to draw out their key conclusions from the discussion groups and a short afternoon conclusions and plenary session. OR if you are worried about time, the discussion sessions could be reduced to one hour each with an early tea at 10.30, and a plenary at 12pm before the close.

The proceedings book from the workshop should not only include selected papers presented by participants, but also a summarised version of the outcomes � lessons learnt and best practice - from the breakout discussion groups. This will increase the participants� ownership of the final document.