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1.Recalls that the Paris Committee on Capacity-building was established in decision 1/CP.21 with the aim of addressing gaps and needs, both current and emerging, in implementing capacity-building in developing country Parties and further enhancing capacity-building efforts, including with regard to coherence and coordination of capacity-building activities under the Convention;
2.Welcomes the annual technical progress reports of the Paris Committee on Capacity-building for 2017, 2018 and 2019, and takes note of the recommendations contained therein;1
3.Reaffirms the need to further promote efficiencies and to avoid duplication of efforts in the implementation of capacity-building activities under and outside the Convention;
4.Notes that the Paris Committee on Capacity-building has made some progress in the implementation of the 2016–2020 workplan, and has implemented actions with regard to, inter alia:
(b)Promoting the development and dissemination of tools and methodologies for implementing capacity-building;
(d)Identifying methods of bringing together stakeholders, such as through meetings of the Paris Committee on Capacity-building and the Capacity-building Hub;
6.Further notes that the Paris Committee on Capacity-building has made limited progress in some areas of its work;
7.Recognizes that the Paris Committee on Capacity-building has received a very broad workplan for 2016–2020, with limited specific guidance provided by the Conference of the Parties on the areas that the Committee should prioritize in implementing its work;
8.Decides that, in order to ensure that the Paris Committee on Capacity-building can operate effectively and efficiently, there is a need for Parties to determine priority areas related to its mandate to focus and guide its work, avoid duplication of efforts in the implementation of capacity-building activities and provide guidance on the operations, planning and implementation of work, and reporting of the Paris Committee on Capacity-building;
(a)Enhancing coherence and coordination of capacity-building under the Convention with a focus on avoiding duplication of efforts, including through collaboration with bodies under and outside the Convention that engage in activities related to capacity-building, as appropriate and in accordance with their respective mandates;
(b)Identifying capacity gaps and needs, both current and emerging, and recommending ways to address them;
(c)Promoting awareness-raising, knowledge- and information-sharing and stakeholder engagement with bodies and relevant actors under and outside the Convention, as appropriate and in accordance with their respective mandates;
10.Further decides that, going forward and subject to the availability of resources, the Paris Committee on Capacity-building shall conduct the activities set out in the annex, in accordance with the priority areas referred to in paragraph 9 above;
11.Decides that the Paris Committee on Capacity-building shall work on any additional activities that may be assigned to it by the Conference of the Parties within its mandate, subject to the availability of resources;
12.Also decides to extend the Paris Committee on Capacity-building for five years and to review its progress and need for extension at the thirtieth session of the Conference of the Parties (November 2024);
13.Requests the Subsidiary Body for Implementation to initiate at its fifty-eighth session (June 2023) the preparation of the terms of reference for the second review of the Paris Committee on Capacity-building with a view to the Conference of the Parties agreeing on the final terms of reference at its twenty-ninth session (November 2023);
14.Also requests the Paris Committee on Capacity-building to extend its current rolling workplan to the end of 2020;
15.Further requests the Paris Committee on Capacity-building to develop a workplan for the period of its extension on the basis of the priority areas and activities contained in the annex for consideration by the Conference of the Parties at its twenty-sixth session (November 2020);
16.Requests that the workplan referred to in paragraph 15 above include core elements such as priority areas, activities, deliverables, timelines and expected results, in accordance with the priority areas referred to in paragraph 9 above;
17.Also requests the Paris Committee on Capacity-building to report on the expected work under its workplan and on the progress, outcomes, impacts and effectiveness of the activities in its workplan in its annual technical progress report;
18.Invites Parties and relevant institutions, as appropriate, to provide support and resources to the Paris Committee on Capacity-building for implementing its workplan in the light of the aim of the Committee established in decision 1/CP.21, paragraph 71;
19.Reaffirms that, in the light of its mandated functions and activities, the Paris Committee on Capacity-building will continue to meet during annual in-session meetings to be organized by the Subsidiary Body for Implementation.