Negotiating Skills Workshop - Dakar, Senegal
17-21 July 2000

Draft Program

Monday, 17 July

Morning Session
Chair: Dr. William Glanville, Vice-President, IISD

0830 - 0845
Introduction and Welcome (Dr. William Glanville, IISD and Dr. Youba Sokona, Executive Secretary in Charge of International Relations, ENDA)

0845 - 0900
Welcoming Remarks (Mr. Mamadou Honadia, Chair, African Group)

0900 - 0930
Keynote Address: Hon. Lamine Ba, Minister of the Environment and Protection of Nature, Senegal

0930 - 0945
Overview of Workshop Program (Ms. Angela Churie, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)

0945 - 1015
Refreshment Break

1015 - 1045
Overview of the FCCC (Mr. Chad Carpenter, IISD)

1045 - 1130
African Interests and Stakes under the FCCC (Mr. Papa Cham, Gambia and Mrs. Margaret Mukahanana, Zimbabwe (to be confirmed))

1130 - 1230
How Issues have been Negotiated under the FCCC (Prof. Ogunlade Davidson, IPCC/University of Cape Town; Ms. Christiana Figueres, Center for Sustainable Development of the Americas/Costa Rica (to be confirmed); and Dr. Joyeeta Gupta, Institute for Environmental Studies):

These presentations will cover the history of the climate change negotiations, and examine how key issues and concepts have emerged over time.

Lunch

Afternoon Session
Presenter/Facilitator: Ms. Beatrice Chaytor, FIELD

1400 - 1800
Preparation for Negotiation Exercises

This session will examine the International Environmental Treaty making system and selected issues in negotiations theory. Effective participation in the management of complexity in an evolving negotiation process is prerequisite for the development of instrumental strategies and tactics to serve the interests of an individual nation or coalition of states. At the end of this session, the participants will have an appreciation of the specific features of intergovernmental negotiations including the role of coalitions, the role of science, effects of culture and issues relating to interests, positions and formulating strategies.

Tuesday, 18 July

Morning Session
Chair: Mr. Lambert Gnapelet, CAR, (Vice-Chair, SBSTA)

0900 - 1230
Stakeholders in the FCCC Process - Panelists:

• Prof. D.O. Adefolalu, Federal University of Technology, Nigeria
• Ms. Alison Drayton, Permanent Mission of Guyana to the UN
• Mr. Ian Fry, Department of Natural Resources and Environment, Tuvalu/ AOSIS
• Mr. Pierre Giroux, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Canada
• Mr. Mamadou Honadia, Chair of the African Group

This session will examine the interests, dynamics and underlying concerns of Annex I and selected G-77 members, e.g. AOSIS and OPEC. It will examine the interests that unite these groups, as well as those that drive them apart.

Lunch

Afternoon Session
Facilitator: Ms. Beatrice Chaytor, FIELD

1400 - 1730
Negotiation Exercise I

This exercise will discuss the main themes outlined in the presentation on negotiation theory within the context of the pertinent issues in the climate change negotiations.

Wednesday, 19 July

Morning Session
Chair: Mr. Mamadou Honadia, Chair, African Group

Key Decisions and Issues: Identifying African Interests

Through panel presentations and discussion, this session will examine what elements should be reflected in key decisions that need to be made at COP-6 and how to ensure that African interests are well represented. The linkages between decisions on key issues will also be examined.

0900 - 1000
FCCC Implementation and the Kyoto Mechanisms: Challenges and Opportunities for Africa (Dr. John Kilani, Chamber of Mines, South Africa; Dr. Youba Sokona, ENDA and Dr. Joyeeta Gupta, IVM)

1000 - 1030
Compliance and Supplementarity (Prof. H.W.O. Okoth-Ogendo)

1030 - 1045
Refreshment Break

1045 - 1230
IPCC Special Reports and Prospects for Africa:

• LULUCF (Mr. Ian Fry, Tuvalu/AOSIS)
• IPCC Special Report on Technology Transfer
• IPCC Special Report on Emissions Scenarios
• Trends in the Third Assessment Report (Prof. Ogunlade Davidson, IPCC/University of Cape Town)

Lunch

Afternoon Session
Closed Session for Negotiators

1400 - 1800
COP-6 Preparation I

Participants will use this session to prepare for the upcoming FCCC meetings.

Thursday, 20 July

Morning Session
Facilitators: Dr. Joyeeta Gupta, IVM and Ms. Alison Drayton, Guyana

0900 - 1230
Negotiation Exercise II

The purpose of this exercise is to have a confrontation between developed positions of African countries with "Devil's Advocates" arguing from the position of opposing parties in the negotiations.

Lunch

Afternoon Session
Chair: Prof. H.W.O. Okoth-Ogendo

Capacity Building Roadmap for Africa

1400 - 1600
IPCC (Prof. Ogunlade Davidson, IPCC)

GEF assistance for enabling activities and the Capacity Development Initiative (Mr. Ton Boon Von Ochssee, GEF Secretariat)

National Communications (to be confirmed);

Technical Assistance Programs to support the work of the negotiators (Dr. Moussa Cisse Kola, ENDA)

1600 - 1630
Refreshment Break

1630 - 1800
How the UN Budgeting System works. (Mr. Garfield Barnwell)

Proposal and Position Drafting (Prof. H.W.O. Okoth-Ogendo)

Friday, 21 July

Morning Session
Closed Session for Negotiators

0900 - 1230
COP-6 Preparation II
Participants will use this session to continue their preparations for the upcoming meetings of the FCCC.

Lunch

Afternoon Session Co-Chairs: Mr. Chad Carpenter and Ms. Angela Churie, KTH and Dr. Youba Sokona, ENDA

1400 - 1515
Linkages to African Interests in Other Processes:

• Convention to Combat Desertification (Amb. Rogatien Biaou, Permanent Mission of Benin to the CCD)
• Convention on Biological Diversity (Prof. Amadou Ba, Institute of Environmental Sciences, Senegal)

This session will examine key issues being considered in the other Rio Convention processes and their linkage to the Climate Change process.

1515 - 1545
Refreshment Break

1545 - 1700
Review and Evaluation
Proposals for Follow-up
Agenda for SB-13 Roundtable

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