Thematic Group 3 : Partnership and Investments in CSA - Multi Stakeholder Platform on Climate Smart Agriculture

Goal:

To provide an inclusive platform for stakeholders to collaborate and scale up approaches on Climate Change Action in agriculture sector

Objectives	Activities
1. Support collaborations across National, County and local level stakeholders to ensure synergy in the implementation of climate change actions in agriculture.	a. Develop guidelines for MSP set up/partnerships to facilitate collaboration and linkages of the MSP with other existing networks/platforms to steer actions in agriculture.


	b. Facilitate climate change dialogues including UNFCC and other frameworks.

	c. Initiate events/activities that recognize CSA actors e.g., CSA day for partnerships and networking.


2. Support collaborations and linkages (and sharing of expertise) across platform members.	a. Facilitate integration of CSA in curriculum of learning institutions with other platforms

	b. Facilitate inventory of climate change expertise in the country to establish linkages with CSA Actors
	c. Facilitate assessment to ascertain capacity gaps in collaboration across actors in the agriculture sector working on climate change
	d. Link members to opportunities- investments, capacity building or technology access
	e. Capacity building for negotiations, networking and collaborations of the SC
3. Support MSP members to access private and public finance.	a. Build capacity of actors and investees on modalities of accessing climate finance e.g., GCF finance.
	b. Link members to opportunities for climate investment agriculture
	c. Facilitate match-making activities between investors (financiers) and investees (MSP actors in need of finance)

Product outcome/achievement