1. Workshop context, objectives and outcomes
Technology Needs Assessment Project
Second Capacity Building Workshop
UNEP DTU Partnership

2. Context and major deadlines
Activity
deadline
First regional capacity building workshops
June 2015
First draft TNA reports
September 2015
Second draft TNA reports
November 2015
Final TNA reports
January 2016
Second regional capacity building workshops
February 2016
First draft Barrier Analysis and Enabling Framework (BA&EF)
May 2016
Second draft BA&EF reports
September 2016
Global experience sharing workshop
Final BA&EF reports
November 2016
First draft TAP reports
January 2017
Second draft TAP reports
March 2017
Final TAP reports
May 2017
Final activity report with feedback from the countries
November 2017

3. Status overview TNA Phase II countries Africa & ME
Burkina Faso, Burundi, Madagascar, Mauritania, Togo, Tunisia
Gambia, Jordan, Egypt, Mozambique, Seychelles, Swaziland, Tanzania
Final approved versions of TNA reports
Togo, Tunisia and Jordan
First draft reports submitted
Madagascar, Mauritania, Swaziland (adaptation), Gambia

4. Status overview Africa and Middle East Mitigation sectors
Adaptation sectors

5. To identify policies and strategies to overcome identified barriers;
Workshop objectives
To provide National TNA Coordinators and consultants with training on how:
To Identify barriers to technology diffusion by using market mapping and other tools;
To identify policies and strategies to overcome identified barriers;
To Identify elements of an ‘enabling framework’ to accelerate technology deployment;
To develop TAPs that describe specific actions to strengthen the enabling frameworks as a means to overcome the identified barriers and facilitate the transfer, adoption, and diffusion of selected technologies

6. Expected workshop outcomes
Participants should have:
Knowledge of the progress made, challenges faced and corrective measures used by the other countries of the same region;
Familiarity with the various technology categories and corresponding market characteristics (market/non-market);
Familiarity with the guiding principles for the identification of barriers and measures to overcome barriers that lead to an improved enabling environment for technology transfer; 
An understanding of, by using market mapping as a technique, how to identify measures, analyse market systems and enabling frameworks;

7. Expected workshop outcomes - cont'
Participants should be:
Able to prepare well-structured/elaborated TAPs, including a selection of specific project ideas with a realistic chance of being funded.;
Very clear about the content of a TAP and its main objective;
And; ready to prepare a work plan for the rest of project's activities.