Assembly/AU/Decl.4 (VIII) Page 2 2. BUILD capacity and strengthen the effective participation of African countries in the negotiations on the future of the UNFCCC and Kyoto Protocol processes. 3. AVAIL funds to promote and strengthen the application of science and technology to climate data collection, analysis, generation of early warning information and timely communication. 4. INTEGRATE climate change and climate change adaptation strategies into national and sub-regional development policies, programmes and activities. 5. UNDERTAKE targeted awareness raising amongst policy, decision makers and civil society with the view to ensuring that climate change considerations are taken into account in all sustainable development initiatives. 6. URGENTLY call for the streamlining of Global Environment Facility (GEF) funding mechanisms to include the vulnerability index in the Resource Allocation Framework (RAF) formula in order to ease African countries’ access to GEF financial resources; and explore other financial resources and mechanisms to support Africa’s adaptation programmes. 7. FOSTER and strengthen cooperation between National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHSs), Regional Climate Centres (RCC), Regional Economic Communities (RECs) and institutions on matters of climate variability and climate change. 8. STRENGTHEN current African Regional and Sub-regional climate centers of excellence to address climate change and variability prediction as well as in the development of climate applications decision tools. 9. DEVELOP and/or strengthen research and development in climate change in Africa, particularly in renewable energy, forestry and agriculture, to increase the continent’s resilience and adaptation to climate change. 10. ENCOURAGE the transfer of relevant climate friendly technologies within and among developing countries and address the challenges as regards Intellectual Property Rights (IPR). 11. DEMAND that developed countries undertake and meet their mitigation commitments, including the implementation of the “polluter pays” and “differentiated responsibilities principles” as provided for in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and to institute deeper cuts in Greenhouse Gas emissions and better trade terms on emission entitlement.