The penultimate Webinar of the Oeste Adapta Project started at 2:30 pm, with the first point of work being the realization of the Project's situation, made by the CEDRU Technician, Heitor Gomes. He referred that, in the Local Councils held, relevant contributions were collected for the last stage of Phase 2 and subsequent Action Plan.
With Webinar #6, the Project thus enters the phase of integrating adaptation into the Territorial Management and Mainstreaming Instruments.
After this introduction, the Municipal Technicians were distributed across 3 parallel rooms where, together with a Technician from CEDRU, they were asked if there was any doubt or difficulty in the respective Plan and PVT's. A balance was also made of the Local Councils and the respective participation of the population in them and, finally, the importance of consolidating and making a good definition of the universe of relevant measures and actions for the Municipality was mentioned, as this will be a very important task for the next phase of the Project.
Pedro Henriques and Gonçalo Caetano, CEDRU technicians, presented the Mainstreaming Methodology for Climate Adaptation and the Methodology for the Integration of Adaptation in Territorial Management Instruments, respectively.
Regarding the Mainstreaming methodology, it was possible to understand why it is desirable to integrate adaptation to climate change in local development plans, programs and strategies, as well as the three different forms of mainstreaming. The next methodological tasks and sub-tasks were also presented to Municipal Technicians.
With regard to the Integration of Adaptation in Territorial Management Instruments, Gonçalo Caetano spoke about the main ways of integrating adaptation in territorial planning and in Territorial Management Instruments (IGT), addressing the next methodological tasks to be carried out in this context.
In the end, Heitor Gomes mentioned the next steps, namely the holding of Webinar#7, on the 25th of January, to assess the “Mainstreaming and Integration” work and prepare the management, monitoring and evaluation work.