In September 2022, a successful first scoping mission to Zambia took place under the SPAR6C programme (Supporting Preparedness for Article 6 Cooperation) of the International Climate Initiative (IKI) of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK). The mission was part of the readiness and needs assessment, which is one of the first activities to be carried out under SPAR6C. A team of GFA consultants visited Lusaka, and together with the Zambian Ministry of Green Growth and Environment conducted three workshops and engaged in a series of bilateral meetings and discussions with local stakeholders. The aim of the workshops was on the one hand to inform public institutions of the national government, actors from the private sector, civil society organisations, as well as institutions from the field of research and education about the background, content and planned activities of SPAR6C, and on the other hand to get a comprehensive picture of existing mandates, capacities and interests of individual actors, which will serve as a basis for the detailed design of the activities still to come.
SPAR6C experienced a great deal of interest and incited lively and fruitful exchanges with the national stakeholders. The workshops were attended by an overwhelming number of participants and the quality of the participants' contributions and questions, as well as the resulting discussions made the events and the mission as a whole a great success.