ClimDev-Africa Programme Work Plan and Budget
Narrative 2015
The ClimDev-‐Africa Programme and Structure
ClimDev-‐Africa will construct a solid foundation in Africa for the response to climate change based on:
� building solid science and observational infrastructure;
� enabling strong working partnerships between government institutions, private sector, civil society and vulnerable communities; and,
� the creation and strengthening of knowledge frameworks to support and integrate the actions required.
To achieve this, the three primary results areas (or components) of the Programmeare:
� widely available climate information, packaging and dissemination;
� quality analysis for decision support and management practice; and
� informed decision-‐making, awareness and advocacy.
The three input areas for delivering the Programme are:
� African Climate Policy Centre -‐ a centre of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa;
� Climate Change and Desertification Unit -‐ a unit of the African Union Commission; and,
� ClimDev Special Fund -‐ a fund managed by the African Development Bank.
The ClimDev-‐Africa Programme and Structure
ClimDev-‐Africa will construct a solid foundation in Africa for the response to climate change based on:
� building solid science and observational infrastructure;
� enabling strong working partnerships between government institutions, private sector, civil society and vulnerable communities; and,
� the creation and strengthening of knowledge frameworks to support and integrate the actions required.
To achieve this, the three primary results areas (or components) of the Programmeare:
� widely available climate information, packaging and dissemination;
� quality analysis for decision support and management practice; and
� informed decision-‐making, awareness and advocacy.
The three input areas for delivering the Programme are:
� African Climate Policy Centre -‐ a centre of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa;
� Climate Change and Desertification Unit -‐ a unit of the African Union Commission; and,
� ClimDev Special Fund -‐ a fund managed by the African Development Bank.
The ClimDev-Africa Programme and Structure
List of acronyms and abbreviations iv
1. Introduction 1
2. Result Area 1: Widely available climate information, packaging and
dissemination 2 3. Result Area 2: Quality analysis for decision support and management practice 4 4. Result Area 3: Informed decision-making, awareness and advocacy 6 5. ClimDev-Africa Governance and Programme Functioning 8
5.1 Governance 8
5.2 The Secretariat 8
5.3 Programmatic Activities 8
5.4 ClimDev-Africa Investment Activities 9
5.5 ClimDev-Africa Resource Mobilisation 9
5.6 ClimDev-Africa Capacity Building Initiatives 10
6. ClimDev-Africa’s Institutional Capacity 12
6.1 African Climate Policy Centre (ACPC) 12
6.2. CCDU human resource status 14
6.3. CDSF human resource status 14
7. ClimDev-Africa’s Partnerships 15
8. Financial Resources 15
8.1 ACPC& CCDU 15
8.2 CDSF 15
9. Programme Monitoring and Reporting 17
10. Annex I: Budget per Result Area 18
List of acronyms and abbreviations
ACPC African Climate Policy Centre
AMCEN African Ministerial Conference on Environment AMCOW African Ministerial Council on Water
AU African Union
AUC African Union Commission
AfDB African Development Bank
CCDU Climate Change and Desertification Unit ClimDev-Africa Climate for Development in Africa Programme
CDSF ClimDev Special Fund
CDSC ClimDev-Africa Steering Committee
CCDA-1 First Climate Change and Development in Africa Conference
CAHOSCC Conference of African Heads of States and Government on Climate Change
COP17/MOP7 The 17th session of the and the seventh session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties (MOP 7)to
the Kyoto Protocol
JSWG ClimDev Joint Secretariat Working Group RCC Regional Climate Centre
REC Regional Economic Community
SRO Sub Regional Office of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
UNECA United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
1. Introduction
As the first phase of ClimDev-Africa ends, the Secretariat has begun the development of a business plan for the second phase to cover the period 2015 -2020. This phase will build on the experiences of Phase I and focus on the emerging strategic and operational landscape for delivering climate information services to support decision-making in Africa.
Phase II will strengthen the foundation for climate science and research and enhance the understanding of the role of climate data and climate information services (CIS) in supporting key economic and development decisions. It will also deepen investments in building climate data infrastructure and the role of climate information services in national development plans especially with respect to poverty reduction initiatives. It aims to engage proactive approach to deliver climate information and advisory services needed by policy planners, decision-makers and vulnerable communities. Policy makers will be assisted to develop climate strategies by increasing their understanding of the drivers, variability and change processes in the African climate system, and in response, develop the continent’s predictive capabilities.
Phase II will also seek to facilitate the implementation of the Climate Research for Development (CR4D) to build an efficient management framework for research grants and proposals. It is the proposed mechanism for integrating the African weather and climate research community to deliver on climate change priorities. It also addresses research gaps in the African climate science, development and policy space, enhances understanding of the processes driving variability and change in the African climate system, and improves predictive capabilities. It will mainstream climate services and integrate research, observation system delivery, and scientific and institutional capacity development. It will also co-design improved interdisciplinary knowledge, using methods and tools to integrate climate information and services into long-term decision making processes.
This phase will contribute to the development of a critical mass of experts within the climate for development knowledge community. It aims to do this through the implementation of a Pan-African Capacity Building Programme for African scientists to help implement effective planning and mainstreaming of climate change into strategic sector policies. It also aims to strengthen the utility of climate science and services to facilitate accessible, and reliable and credible information for climate strategies and long term forecasting. ClimDev-Africa will capitalize on this expertise to deliver technical backstopping on mainstreaming climate information in development programs within countries.
The full operationalization of the ClimDev-Africa Special Fund (CDSF) in August 2014 means that the all the three arms of the ClimDev-Africa programme are fully functioning.
CDSF, the investment arm of the program, is now able to capitalize the programme’s portfolio in the three result areas. The two current procedures will continue to be applied in building new investment opportunities for CDSF are; the call for proposals and, direct solicitations/
submissions. All project proposals will be subjected to rigorous review according to the process set out in the Fund’s operations and procedures manual. The Fund remains a competitive and demand driven facility and will make calls for proposals at least once every year subject
to resource availability. In addition, whenever ClimDev-Africa identifies knowledge and investment gaps, it will mobilize the appropriate support through direct solicitation from the Fund.
The year 2015 will constitute a transitional phase which will lead to the adoption of the Second ClimDev-Africa Strategic Framework 2015-2020. The present Work Plan 2015 organizes ClimDev-Africa activities into Three Results Areas and ClimDev-Africa’s Governance functions:
1. Result Area 1: Widely available climate information, packaging and dissemination.
2. Result Area 2: Quality analysis for decision support and management practice.
3. Result Area 3: Informed decision-making, awareness and advocacy and 4. Governance: ClimDev-Africa Programme functioning1
Through each of these Result Areas, ClimDev-Africa aims to construct a solid foundation in Africa for the response to climate change based on: the building of a solid science and observational infrastructure; the enabling of strong working partnerships between government institutions, private sector, civil society and vulnerable communities; and the creation and strengthening of knowledge frameworks to support and integrate the actions required to address climate change and development..
2. Result Area 1: Widely available climate information, packaging and dissemination
Under this Result Area ClimDev-Africa will continue to facilitate the building of a solid science and observational infrastructure across Africa. During the year, the focus will be on the delivery of quality Climate Information Services (CIS) through targeted investments.
ClimDev-Africa will enable the operational capability, research, environment and human capacity for effective delivery of CIS through strategic partnerships with the users, stakeholders and research community.
More specifically it will build up the operational capacity of National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHS) and the Regional Climate Centres (RCC) to enhance CIS efficiency, which would in turn inform policy decision making, consistent with the Global Framework for Climate Services. This Result Area will also provide climate information and services to the other Result Areas. Activities will be structured around:
1 A ClimDev-Africa Programme – Results Area 4 has been added to the three results areas set out in the ClimDev-Africa Framework Programme Document and its logframe.This Results Area covers practical issues of governance, secretariat support, resources, administration and overheads.
Cluster 1: Investment in Climate information and services and service delivery to end users Cluster 2: Provide technical assistance to RCC and countries to access climate data
Cluster 3: Support the implementation of Climate Research for Development Platform.
The ClimDev-Africa Programme will continue to support the upgrading of observation networks and infrastructure in order to enhance the provision of climate data, information and services and early warning systems. The Programme will also support improving seasonal and long term forecasting at continental and sub-regional levels, as well as downscaling climate projections to local levels.
The Programme, through work by ACPC and the CCDU will map out existing systems and those under development, and will identify investment requirements in terms of infrastructure, human capital and institutions. The Programme will make investments through the CDSF to improve these systems, based on project proposals received from stakeholders, engaged in the activities of the Programme. They will be selected to address key gaps identified by the Programme in a practical and cost effective manner. The Fund will dedicate a significant amount of resources in consolidating its existing business portfolio. Core activities will include:
• Consolidating the implementation of the Africa Climate Research for Sustainable Development (CR4D) Platform;
• Co-producing climate science research to support Africa’s sustainable development and climate services delivery ;
• Implementing and managing a robust, transparent, and efficient framework for disbursement of research grants and sections of proposal; that will support the CR4D activities;
• Establishing the resources and systems for research, technical support and services
• Assisting in the implementation of continental, regional and national climate information and climate information services activities;
• Providing effective technical capacity development support to assist RCCs and countries to access and analyze climate information and services in support of the decision making;
• Building capacities of RCCs and countries to use e-infrastructure (ICT, observational networks, data, tools and network of institutions) for production of climate information and climate information services delivery;
• Supporting the acquisition of specialized infrastructure and recruitment of technical experts;
• Establishing strategic partnerships to enable effective delivery of technical services to RCCs and countries in implementing their activities;
• Supporting the organization of the fifth Climate Change and Development in Africa (CCDAV) conference, COP21 and related ClimDev-Africa’s activities;
• Supporting the preparation of technical reports on climate information and services delivery;
• Contributing to advances in climate research frontiers relevant for Africa climate sensitive sectors;
• Completing outstanding activities from 2014.
The following outputs are expected to be achieved during the 2015 period:
• A functional resource Helpdesk for in-country and regional technical support and services established at ACPC;
• Climate services toolkits developed and deployed in priority countries;
• Capacity to develop and use climate information services and climate information systems enhanced in the priority countries
• Climate research capacity enhanced in the priority countries and RCCs to undertake quality analysis of weather and climate information products to inform policy decision making;
• Strategic partnerships established with key institutions to strengthen ACPC’s efforts in providing quality research, technical support and services to RCCs and countries;
• Earth observing systems and e-infrastructure in installed in priority countries and RCCs;
• Quality standards for operational climate information and services are established in RCCs and priority countries;
3. Result Area 2: Quality analysis for decision support and management practice
This Result Area will use enhanced climate data and information systems from Result Area 1 to understand the effects of climate change on vulnerable sectors, socio-economic groups and livelihoods. It will analyse climate change adaptation and mitigation options in climate- resilient and low-carbon development pathways for key sectors and will assess the economics of these pathways and climate finance arrangements.
The Programme will continue to support initiatives that will help build climate change resilience of strategic sectors such as agriculture, energy and water. It will also maintain high quality analytical research activities that will support science informed decision making process in key development sectors. Decision support tools for policymakers and adaptive management use, capable of answering “what if ” questions, developed for application in climate sensitive sectors at different levels will also be promoted. This Result Area is structured around the following three clusters:
Cluster 1: Institutional strengthening and support
Cluster 2: Vulnerability, adaptation and ecosystem, agriculture and food security Cluster 3: Prospect for Renewable Energy and Climate Change Mitigation
Cluster 1: Institutional Strengthening and Support
a) Development of National Climate Strategy, National Adaptation Plans (NAP), and INDC frameworks: Under the UNFCCC process, guide and support African
countries with the preparation of their NAPs but ensuring alignment and coherence with their national development strategies (e.g. Vision 2025), Climate change strategy and their Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDC).
b) Institutional strengthening as NIE for Adaptation Fund and the Green Climate Fund: Ready access to the Fund from the GCF, and improve current share of fund mobilization by African countries as national implementing entities. It is crucial to enhance current capabilities of countries that already have NIE accreditation, as well as support those that want to become NIE.
c) Local level institutional support: The programme also work with identified local level institutions for delivering climate information and services to end users on the ground, and for building proof-of-concept on local level adaptation practices, and bottom up engagement for climate resilient policies.
Cluster 2: Vulnerability, Adaptation and Ecosystem, Agriculture and Food Security
d) Adaptation and Climate Resilience in Urban Areas: Targeting African Model Cities, as defined by NEPAD. The goal is to identify swift measures of adaptation interventions in enhancing preparedness for the frequent and intense flooding events projected for the continent in order to minimize human casualties and economic losses.
e) Vulnerability Index: The creation of this Index will encompass African SIDS whose climate exposure is very high and frequent. Not only is this useful in tracking changes in their risk profile, but will support the development of insurance schemes.
f) Climate Resilient Infrastructure: Climate-proofing infrastructure investments will be critical in optimizing these investments over time both in terms of usability and reducing the cost of maintaining these infrastructure.
g) Adaptation of Ecosystems:The dependency on ecosystems for both economic growth and Africa’s transformation agenda will remain paramount. Therefore, the adaptation of ecosystems is indispensable for the continent especially engineering the green economy.
h) Climate change impacts on food security: Targeting key priorities crops identified by the African Heads of State and Government under the Comprehensive Agricultural Development Program (CAADP). Using crop suitability mapping, it is possible to identify emerging opportunities for better crop performance and increase productivity.
The overall goal is to provide a planning tool in support of Africa efforts to utilizing climate knowledge to transform its agricultural production systems in order to be nutritionally self-sufficient in the long term.
Cluster 3: Prospect for Renewable Energy and Climate Change Mitigation
Many countries are currently formulating their intended nationally determined contributions (INDCs) as actions they propose to make on climate change mitigation / adaptation towards the new climate agreement in 2015. However, countries need to have in place the right policies, incentives and regulatory frameworks to attract the investment needed for the accelerated deployment of renewables and energy efficiency measures, as well as have the institutional and sectoral capacities for mainstreaming low-carbon development into national strategies.
Therefore the cluster will consist of the following five tasks:
Task 1: Comprehensive collation, analysis and evaluation of existing renewable energy policies , energy efficiency policies and regulatory frameworks of all African countries, identifying best practices and lessons learned.
Task 2: Pilot studies on prospects for renewable energy and energy efficiency technology options, identified from the Intended Nationally Determined Contributions, Technological Needs Assessments/Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions, Regional Risk Assessments and Sustainable Energy for All Action Plans of up to 5 countries. This will determine the multiple benefits of greenhouse gas emission reductions, green jobs and investment opportunities.
Task 3: Promotion, through case studies and sharing of best practices, of prospects for scaling up renewable energy and energy efficiency solutions for the sustainable development of African SIDS under the Framework of the Samoa Pathway and the SIDS Lighthouses Initiative
Task 4: Rollout of capacity building for energy planning with renewable energy in the different African regions
Task 5: Regional analyses of prospects and planning with renewable energy for the African Clean Energy Corridors.
4. Result Area 3: Informed decision- making, awareness and advocacy
ClimDev-Africa, will continue to contribute to policy dialogue and support African climate change and development policy making processes at the continental, sub-regional, national and local levels. This Result Area is strategic in terms of advocacy, stakeholder awareness raising and climate knowledge promotion through capacity development, convening forums, dissemination of relevant knowledge products, and building consensus on key issues.
The programme will continue to support African governments to translate climate- related challenges into concrete adaptation and mitigation solutions at national, sub-national, regional and continental levels through the convening of policy influencing spaces; consensus building, knowledge generation, policy advisory services and capacity building programmes.
The Work Plan under this Result Area will be delivered through three main clusters:
Cluster 1: Climate Governance, Social Integration, Human Capital and Security Cluster 2: Country, Regional Economic Community and other Stakeholder Demands Cluster 3: Policy Dialogue, Awareness Raising and Capacity Building
This year ClimDev-Africa’s programme will also invest in activities on desertification, climate impacts on society and the Governance framework required to support appropriate adaptation and other strategies. Additional emphasis will support key ClimDev-Africa Programme activities towards the UNFCCC COP21:
Supporting Africa’s Participation in Global Climate Governance: The ClimDev-Africa Programme is providing critical technical backstopping support to the AGN to ensure that key research findings are fed into negotiation strategies and reflect essential pivots for a common African position. Specifically, the ClimDev-Africa is supporting a stocktaking exercise on Africa’s journey in the climate change negotiations since Kyoto, as a reference point to understanding the historical trajectory of major COP decisions and their implications for Africa vis-à-vis Africa’s evolving needs and priorities. A reference book that provides a detailed historical perspective through twenty years of Africa’s contribution in the global climate negotiations, will constitute as a guide for strategically shaping the agenda for Paris and beyond. In addition, the ClimDev-Africa Programme is providing legal support to African negotiators through a Young Lawyers Initiative. This initiative is expected to generate a critical mass of contributions from African lawyers as well as increase their exposure to the complexities of the negotiation process by enhancing their ability to draft supporting legal texts.
Africa Climate Talks (ACT): In the run-up to the Paris COP21, the ACPC together with ClimDev-Africa partners have planned regional conferences in East, West/Central, South and North Africa where key stakeholders will debate to raise awareness on the emerging climate agreement and implications for Africa. They are expected to increase public awareness of climate change and elicit critical civil society reflections on the negotiation of the Post- Kyoto Framework. The debates will consolidate Africa’s common positions on key issues related to the post 2015 agreement, provide spaces for national and regional collaboration on climate change as well as information sharing and interaction that will constitute points of convergence for Africa around intractable problems related to climate finance, capacity building. It will also discuss how Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) and technology transfer are important stakes for Africa at COP21.
The debates will further shape the discussions of the 5th Climate and Development in Africa Conference (CCDA V) in October, and will culminate in the Africa Pavilion in Paris.
The Africa Pavilion will serve as a market place for debates that will place Africa-relevant climate change issues into the larger context of the continent’s sustainable development aspirations. The Pavilion will enhance critical thinking on the deployment of scientific and experiential knowledge that will translate into evidence based policy directions and effective climate responses on the ground. It will also relay key messages and leveraging points that will translate into a robust stance for critical negotiating constituencies representing African interests at COP 21.
Harmonizing the elaboration of Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDC) to Emissions Reduction: In the first quarter of 2015, ClimDev-Africa launched a support programme to assist countries in fulfilling their obligation to submit INDCs by October
2015. Commencing with an expert group meeting on 10-11 April 2015, the programme seeks to develop a harmonized methodological framework to guide the preparations of INDCs. ClimDev-Africa’s working with a pool of international and national experts from the countries which have requested support and they will jointly review the methodological approaches currently proposed for INDCs by different organizations.
5. ClimDev-Africa Governance and Programme Functioning
In 2015, the Programme will also address its own functioning in terms of Governance, Capacity and Operating Needs in support of the delivery of programmatic and investment activities.
5.1 Governance
The secretariat will continue to facilitate the meeting of the ClimDev-Africa Steering Committee (CDSC). Between the CDSC meetings, and joint major events, the ClimDev- Africa Joint Secretariat Working Group (consisting of representatives of the AUC, UNECA and AfDB), will continue to hold regular meetings on technical and programmatic implementation issues.
5.2 The Secretariat
The ACPC will prepare background materials for CDSC meetings and ClimDev-Africa JSWG meetings. It will work with the AUC and AfDB on consolidating monitoring and reporting for the CDSC, following the development of a Monitoring Framework for Evaluation and Assessment (MFEA) for ClimDev-Africa to be agreed by the CDSC.
5.3 Programmatic Activities
1. Programmatic activities of the ClimDev-Africa Programme will be delivered through the ACPC, CCDU and CDSF. CDSF also operates fully within the Programme.
The Programme, aims to improve analytical capacity on knowledge generation, management and dissemination activities.
2. The objectives of the CCDU’s climate change and desertification activities are to provide policy and political guidance and to enhance coordination and harmonisation of Africa’s activities in the field of climate change. This will entail effectively engaging Africa’s political leadership at all levels using the AU structures in order to advance climate change, desertification and development issues. It will enhance partnership with the international development community in aligning and harmonising the technical and financial support along the climate change and development agenda.
Accordingly, it will review policy decisions and the state of their implementation among Member States, and report to the organs of the AU respectively.
The ClimDev-Africa Programme, through these activities, will build a solid platform of science, information and knowledge. This will enable strong working partnerships among policy, practice and research communities that will facilitate integrated actions. Programmatic activities do not include direct investments; however, an important part of the programmatic activities is to encourage and support the efforts of eligible stakeholders to produce project proposals that can be submitted to the CDSF. This addresses a key challenge for Africa: to ensure tangible progress is made on the ground, while at the same time ensuring there is a link between the work of the various parts of the ClimDev-Africa Programme and the pipeline of project proposals, available to be selected using processes and criteria set out in the CDSF Operational Procedures Manual (OPM).
5.4 ClimDev-Africa Investment Activities
The ClimDev-Africa Programme invests in Result Areas 1-3 through the ClimDev-Africa Special Fund. Operational activities of the Fund are demand driven requests that are solicited either through a call for proposals or generated through knowledge activities of the ClimDev- Africa Programme.
The Fund envisages making two calls for proposals every year, subject to resource availability.
In 2015, the Fund will dedicate a significant amount of resources in consolidating its existing Business Portfolio: processing and implementing current projects and financing new ones from the 2014 call for proposals.
5.5 ClimDev-Africa Resource Mobilisation
Under the leadership of the CDSF, ClimDev-Africa will adopt a comprehensive resource mobilization strategy in 2015. The objective of the strategy is to facilitate the augmentation of the Fund in a systematic and well-coordinated manner. The strategy will be built around three main pillars: 1. Sustainable Business Line Development; 2. Sustainable Financing Mechanism; and 3.Focus on Results on the Ground. It will lay down the modalities for fundraising and the reporting procedures to the financiers. It also sets prospective targets for fundraising in accordance with the financing projections for future projects.
The strategy will be aligned to the ClimDev-Africa Program Phase II Business Plan and be used extensively for soliciting funds from potential donors/partners and will propose flexible modalities for dispensation of the funds by potential funders. It will be reviewed over time to ensure it caters for the needs of the Programme, but also keeps pace with the changes in the ever dynamic climate finance architecture. Finally, it will pay particular attention to results on the ground and ensure that its projects deliver on the intended objectives, and that the design of its operations have a strong holistic approach to addressing climate vulnerability, building resilience to the impacts of climate change, and a marked focus on gender and youth.
5.6 ClimDev-Africa Capacity Building Initiatives
During 2015 ClimDev-Africa will start the implementation of its Pan-African Capacity Building Program initiated in2013.The program aims to create a critical mass of African scientists, planners and policy-makers to help with the effective mainstreaming of climate change into strategic sector policies. It also aims to strengthen the utility of climate science and services to facilitate accessible and credible information for climate strategies and long term forecasting. The program focuses on the following three areas:
1. A fellowship project to build a critical mass of climate scientists and analysts, and to expose young African climate change scientists to regional and global trends in climate research and response
2. A collaborative climate change research activity to build a climate science and research base through African Network of Universities and
3. A capacity development project for policy makers, legislators, communication specialists and other stakeholders.
Emphasis will be put on its fellowship program. ClimDev-Africa plans to establish a sustainable platform to expose young African climate change scientists and academics to regional and global trends in climate research and response. This will significantly contribute to building a critical mass of capacity in climate research, and ensure progress towards climate resilient development. Five types of fellows will be considered:
1. Postgraduate Fellowships
Fellowships targeting young individuals who have completed their Masters’ degree, or registered for a Ph.D., and are seeking fellowships to advance their experience and career. The duration of the fellowship program is up to two years for Masters students and three years for PhD students.
2. Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship
Fellowships for individuals who have completed their Ph.D. degree and want to advance their research, experience and career. The duration of the fellowship program is for one year, extendable up to two years.
3. Professional Fellowships
These are targeting practitioners, policy makers, journalists, lawyers and communicators who want to advance their experiences and knowledge on climate change policy and governance in Africa. The program is for one year, extendable up to two years.
4. Senior Fellowships
Fellowships for senior and highly experienced professionals in research and policy formulation, working in universities, research institutions, government, non-governmental and international organisations. Senior fellows can provide substantive inputs to the ACPC work programme and can join ACPC for limited periods of time. This could be during the individual sabbatical leave period, engaged as a joint appointment, or seconded from the parent institution of the
professional. Senior fellows must be experienced, have an advanced degree, and hold senior posts such as professor, associate professor, principal scientist, and other equivalent levels. The program is for one year, extendable up to two years.
5. Thematic areas
The fellows are required to develop their proposals strongly linking to at least one key thematic areas of ACPC as follows:
- Climate Information and Climate Information Services - E-infrastructure to support climate decision making - Climate Change and Disaster Risks Reduction
- Climate Vulnerability , Adaptation, Resilience for Ecosystem and Society - Economics and Finance of climate change
- Low Carbon Energy and Technology Systems for ClimateChangeMitigation - Building Climate Resilient Sectors: Agriculture, Energy, Water, Health, etc.
- Climate Governance, Social Integration, Human Capital and Security - Climate Change and Development Planning
- Climate ChangeCommunication and Media
6. ClimDev-Africa’s Institutional Capacity
The UNECA, AUC and AfDB will continue to build the capacity of the Programme through 2015, with the aim of fully staffing the ACPC and CDSF. The ClimDev-Africa Programme, when fully staffed, expects to employ approximately forty six (46) staff, including two (2) Coordinators, thirty (30) professional staff and fourteen (14) Administrative Assistants. This cohort of staff will be supported by consultants and high calibre fellows. The plan this year is to recruit at least twenty (20) fellows.
The recruitment process is yet to be completed at ACPC and has just started at CDSF.
At CCDU which in hosted by the AUC Department of Rural Economy and Agriculture (DREA), a total of four staff (to short term and two regular staff) are recruited for ClimDev Africa activities with additional four staff from the Environment Division providing support to CCDU through complementing activities. longer have
The CDSF has been using existing staff in the Agriculture and Agro-Industries (OSAN) department to task manage its projects. The Fund will continue to use Bank staff in OSAN to support the implementation of its operations. Support from the financial management and fiduciary departments are also expected to continue.The CDSF’s coordinator was appointed in February 2015. Staff on The CDSF will continue to employ the services of consultants based on its business needs. It envisages having on board two to three consultants during 2015. It also plans complete the recruitment of seven full time positions in 2015. All the positions will be financed by resources from the Fund, as per the guidelines in the articles of the agreement and the Fund’s Operations and Procedures Manual.
6.1 African Climate Policy Centre (ACPC)
The ACPC has a Coordinator, a contingent of 5 administrative staff (out of the 10), and 9 (out of the expected 20) professional staff, including Climate Adaptation Expert, Climate Change Expert (Political), Natural Resources Expert (Forestry), Climate Science Expert, Natural Resources Expert (Energy and Climate), Programme Management Officer, Climate Science Officer,Communication Officer, and Information Management officer.
Other professional staff, in the areas of agriculture, water, governance, monitoring and evaluation, are under recruitment. In addition, the Centre is supported by other UNECA Divisions and strategic partners to supplement the core capacity of the Centre.
ClimDev-Africa staffing
Status of ACPC Yet To Be Recruited
No Level Title/Responsibility Status
1. P-6 ACPC Coordinator On-going
2. P-5 Senior Economic Affairs Officer On-going
3. P-5 Senior Natural Resources Expert (Water) On-going
4. P-5 Senior Climate& Agriculture Specialist On-going
5. P-4 Senior Water Resources and Climate Specialist On-going
6. P-4 Climate Change Specialist (Governance & Public
Administration Officer) On-going
7. P-4 Climate Change and Gender specialist On-going
8. P-3 Economics Affairs Officer (Energy & Climate) On-going
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Figure 2: Profile of ClimDev-‐Africa staff members on board
Key
*-‐ACPC staff members
#-‐CCDU staff members
Table 5: Staff members who left ACPC in 2014
N° Level Title/Responsibility Reason
Natural resources
P5: Senior Climate AdaptaRon Expert * P5: Senior Natural Resources Expert (Forestry) *
Climate science
P5: Senior Climate Science Expert * P4: Climate Science Officer *
Governance
P5: Senior Climate Change Expert (PoliRcal) * P3: Senior Policy Officer Climate Change #
P3: Senior Policy Officer Forestry and Land Management # P3: Senior Policy Officer and DeserRficaRon Control # P2: Policy Officer Climate Change and DeserRficaRon control #
Programme management
P5: Senior Programme Management Officer * P3: InformaRon Management Officer *
AdministraRve support G7: AdministraRve Assistant * G7: Programme Assistant * G7: Research Assistant * G6: Senior Staff Assistant * G5: Staff Assistant (2 posiRons) *
Status of ACPC Yet To Be Recruited
No Level Title/Responsibility Status
9. P-3 Climate Change and Environment Policy On-going
10. P-3 Legal Officer (TJO) On-going
11. P- 3 Programme Manager (Monitoring & Evaluation
Specialist) On-going,
12. NOC Programme Officer – NOC Complete
13. G-6 Sr. Staff Assistant Initial recruitment process
14. G-5 Staff Assistant Initial recruitment process
15. G-5 Public Information Assistant Complete
16. G-4 Team Assistant Initial recruitment process
6.2. CCDU human resource status
Level Title Status
Staff from Environment Division Supporting/complementing CCDU 5 P3 Senior Policy Officer Environment and Water Resources/O-
i-C, ECCWLM Regular staff
6 P2 Communication Short term staff
7 P4 Great Green Wall for the Sahara and Sahel Initiative
Coordinator Short term staff
8 P3 DRR Consultant Seconded staff by UNISDR
6.3. CDSF human resource status
Description Expected reporting date Current status
Chief Climate Policy Expert May 2015 Shortlisting/Interview
Principal Disaster Risk Reduction
Expert May 2015 Shortlisting/Interview
Senior Finance and Administrative
Officer May 2015 Shortlisting/Interview
Team Assistant May 2015 Shortlisting/Interview
Principal Climate Adaptation
Expert September 2015 Vacancy Announcement in July
2015
Senior Climate Finance Expert September 2015 Vacancy Announcement in July 2015
7. ClimDev-Africa’s Partnerships
During 2015, ClimDev-Africa will consolidate it Implementing Partnership Framework.
The ultimate objective of developing and consolidating partnerships is to scale out the reach and impact of the ClimDev-Africa Programme. Partners help scaling out through building the internal ClimDev-Africa capacity and contributing financially and technically to specific projects and programmes of ClimDev-Africa.
8. Financial Resources
8.1 ACPC& CCDU
For 2015, a total of US$ 16,274,900.00 will require for programmatic and operations activities for both ACPC and CCDU; representing USD 14, 699,900.00 for ACPC and US$
US$1,325,000.00for CCDU.
From the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK), the European Union and Norway, the equivalent of US$27,717,652.79 million was received. Of this, US$21,566,088.63 was spent ,leaving a balance of US$6,151,564.16 at the end of 2014.
As such, an additional fund amounting further US$ 10,123,335.84 will be required for 2015.
It should be noted that the unique funding Partner of CCDU is EU through ACPC.
ACPC is expecting a third and final instalment from the EU, amounting to Euro3,555, 265 and from which USD1,132.860.5 will CCDU workprogram.
8.2 CDSF
CDSF became effective on 1stAugust 2014 after realising commitments amounting to Euro 33 million from three donors: The Swedish International Development Agency (Euro 8 million), The Nordic Development Fund (Euro 5 million) and the European Union (Euro 20 million). All three financiers have made at least one disbursement to the Fund. By December 31, 2014, CDSF had received Euro 11,605,783 from its three partners.
CDSF budget for 2015 is summarized in the Table XX. Currently, the Fund has 10 operations under preparation that are valued at Euro 19,350,000. From the first call for proposals, CDSF received 56 bankable project proposals and has recommended to finance 10 valued at about Euro 4 million in 2015. Thus the investment needs clearly outstrip the available resources.
Forty six bankable projects worth about Euro 21.6 million will not be financed at this stage.
The program will use this set as part of its active portfolio for resource mobilization. It is expected that by end of 2015, additional resources will become available and these (some of these) operations will be financed.
CDSF Operational and Administrative Budget for 2015
Component
Budget amounts
2014 Budget
(euro) 2014 Actual
(euro) 2015 Budget (euro) Equivalent (US$), 1 Euro=1.10
Project financing (projects
under preparation) 1,000,000 0 19,350,000 21,285,000.00
Project financing (new call
for proposals) 0 0 4,000,000 4,400,000.00
Missions (operational and
coordination) 112,749 21,137 285,000 313,500.00
Operations sub-total 1,112,749 21137 23,635,000 25,998,500.00
CDSF Salary and Benefits 348,206 - 898,468 988,314.80
Consultancy and
honorariums 93,953 24,000 192,000 211,200.00
Support Staff - 15,000 16,500.00
Short term staff - 22,000 24,200.00
Personnel subtotal 442,159 24,000 1,127,468 1,240,214.80
Hospitality - - 10,000 11,000.00
Office Supplies - - 10,000 11,000.00
Promotional activities - - 10,000 11,000.00
Publications - - 10,000 11,000.00
Communication expenses - - 9,000 9,900.00
Joint partnership/
coordination activities - - 175,000 192,500.00
External audit facilities 30,000 33,000.00
Miscellaneous 45,097 - 75,000 82,500.00
Administrative sub-total 45,097 0 329,000 361,900.00
Grand total 1,600,005 45,137 25,091,468 27,600,614.80
9. Programme Monitoring and Reporting
Facilitated by the Secretariat and based on a common logframe for the programme, the Monitoring Framework and Evaluation Approach (MFEA) has several activities planned for the year 2015. These expected MFEA activities for 2015 are presented in the table below:
Expected MFEA activities for 2015 Implementation
Map the 2015 activities with the logframe The ClimDev-Africa planned activities for 2015 will be mapped to the MFEA logframe. They should match with the ClimDev logframe indicators at output level and result area level to clarify and delineate reporting responsibilities between the 3 institutions for on-going reporting
Baselines collection and methodology established
The baselines collection and methodology establishment for the indicators for which the Secretariat and ACPC are responsible are expected to be completed in 2015 for the programme to be able to correctly report and measure progress.
Case studies for CDSF project
One or two case studies will be carried out looking at ClimDev-Africa CDSF CIS investments in countries. They will bring evidence on how well ClimDev-Africa is progressing, and gather information that is not readily available elsewhere creating new knowledge on returns on investment in CIS and provide recommendations to improve the programme and direct future CDSF CIS investments.
MFEA online tool implemented (CMET)
Best options for the development of the CMET (ClimDev Monitoring and Evaluation Tool) will be identified in order to have an online web-based platform accessible by the three institutions that:
- Enable result-based management of the project by reporting on ClimDev-Africa activities and generating evidence and knowledge to develop, implement and adjust the programme - Help the three partners to track progress and to carry out the different evaluation exercises when needed.
This CMET should also be considered as a learning tool, and will enable the institutions to draw lessons from it. The platform should be put in place by the end of 2015.
Report against the logframe The ClimDev-Africa institutions should be able to report against the logframe for the year 2015 informing the relevant indicators.
Prepare the transition towards ClimDev- Africa Phase 2
With the ClimDev-Africa Phase 2 starting in 2016, the logframe will remain the central element of the MFEA against which all reporting will be done. In this regard, the 3 institutions might have to adapt the logframe and amend current indicators if needed. In case the logframe is redesigned, the baselines should then be established immediately and an agreement between three institutions will have to be reached for the appropriate activity level for reporting. The thinking and necessary work for the transition of the MFEA towards the ClimDev-Africa Phase 2 will be done during the year 2015.
10. Annex I: Budget per Result Area
RESULT AREAS Cost Estimation
(US$) ACPC
(US$) CDSF
(US$) CCDU
(US$) Result AreaI: Widely available
climate information, packaging and dissemination
26,750,000.00 2,000,000.00 24,750,000.00 0.00
Result Area II : Quality analysis for decision support and management practice
2,790,100.00 1,855,100.00 935,000.00 0.00
Result Area III: Informed decision-making, awareness and advocacy
7,809,100.00 6,534,100.00 0.00 1,275,000.00
Planning, Management, Governance and Secretariat Function
6,276,314.80 4,310,700.00 1,915,614.8 50,000.00
TOTAL GENERAL 43,625,514.80 14,699,900.00 27,600,614.80 1,325,000.00
The ClimDev-Africa Programme is an initiative of the African Union Commission (AUC), the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the African Development Bank (AfDB). It is mandated at the highest level by African leaders (AU Summit of Heads of State and Government). The Programme was established to create a solid foundation for Africa’s response to climate change and works closely with other African and non-African institutions and partners specialised in climate and development.
Contacts
Africa Climate Policy Center
United Nations Economic Commission for Africa Menelik II Ave., P.O. Box 3001
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia [email protected]
www.climdev-africa.org
