Introduction
The Heinrich Boll Stiftung Regional Office for Southern Africa hosted a Training and Strategy Building workshop for negotiators from eastern and southern African in Bangkok, Thailand from 21 – 23 September 2009.
The purpose of the workshop was provide Eastern and Southern African countries with an opportunity to come to a common understanding of the key issues being addressed through and by the Bali Road Map, the Nairobi Work Programme and the future agreements being negotiated for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and its Kyoto Protocol.
The workshop also provided the negotiators with an opportunity to develop their own strategy for the negotiations including a list of priorities to be addressed during the negotiations.
This report presents the results of that workshop and is structured in two parts. Part A presents an analysis of the workshop and its (first) impacts. This includes a discussion on why African negotiators need training, key strategic considerations covered by the training, how this training differed from other trainings conducted and whether the training presents a replicable model for future activities of this kind. Part B presents an overview of the content presented to the negotiators. Part C ends with a presentation of the participants’ workshop evaluations. This section summarises the responses of the participants to the evaluation questionnaire presented to them.