(11:00 - 12:00 EET) Alignment of climate change and development planning in Eswatini: NDC and NDP processes

Eswatini's Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) process and the National Development Plan (NDP) development were aligned through join programming and coordination by Ministry of Economic Planning and Development (MEPD) and Ministry of Tourism and Environmental Affairs(MTEA). Using a "whole of Government and whole of society" approach, stakeholders were engaged in both processes with support from NDC Partnership, UNECA and UNDP. In Eswatini's NDP, NDC measures are includes and in NDC implementation plan, alignment with NDP outcomes are articulated. This side event will have speakers from MEPD and MTEA who are the NDC Focal Points and they will speak about how this synchronization and coordination was done, including setting up a task team of both ministries.