Plugging the Implementation Gap

Abstract

This article while discussing global and national climate regimes brings out the need for designing and implementing climate projects locally. It brings to the forefront, the local realities in an Indian urban context. The article particularly highlights disconnects between high level thinking and local implementation realities. It goes on further to suggest a novel idea which is being tested to overcome these disconnects. Global climate regime will primarily constitute the UNFCCC processes, and national climate regime will primarily constitute the National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC) processes for the purposes of this article. The narrative of local realities brought out in the article is based on the work done at a locality in East Delhi through a prototype resilience centre. The centre conducted numerous community engagement activities, utilising an internally devised multi-stakeholder, participatory and inclusive framework. This prototype has managed to create an impact on the entire community through several interventions piloted with the involvement of strategic actors starting from January 2015 till date. The idea has been incubated within University of Delhi, and this article will present the concept of context integrity, which includes ‘nested’ relationships with larger institutions. That is, how an institution like University of Delhi can nest a small institution like the prototype resilience centre committed to larger goals of plugging the implementation gap which will bridge the disconnects between global climate regime and creation of local impact. JEL: R-23