Stocktaking Exercise UNFCCC Workshop, Manila

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Stocktaking ExerciseUNFCCC Workshop, Manila

• Ravi Sharma
• United Nations Environment Programme Global
  Environment Facility

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Main Lessons Learnt - based on Desk Studies
External Evaluations

• Focus on pre-proposal activity
• Consultation with stakeholders prior to proposal
  finalisation and submission
• Establish institutional linkage
• Identify repository for database
• Strengthen financial monitoring
• Revise UNEP format on progress reports and
  expenditure reports to suit nationally executed
  projects

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Non-Annex I Parties Eligible for Support

• Submitted INC but has not been funded by GEF for
  SNC or
• Submitted its SNC and wishes to prepare its third
  National Communication or
• Joined recently and preparing INC
• Use of revised COP guidelines

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What are the substantive questions important to
NA1

• Why does climate change matter to developing
  countries
• Productivity of farms, forests and fisheries
• Disease
• Damage from storms, floods, wildfires
• What is the local evidence that climate is
  changing
• Observations of evaporation, rainfall, impacts on
  ecosystem, sea level, glaciers, frequency of
  storms

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Operational Guidelines for SNCs

• Stakeholder consultation/stocktaking exercise to
  prepare project brief
• 15,000 (additional costs to come from SNC
  budget)
• Stocktaking of all projects and lessons learned
• Include UNFCCC NFP in process
• fulfills UNFCCC reporting requirement
• Separate to approval process (e.g. fund through
  top-up or INC project)

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Operational Guidelines for SNCs

• Discounting
• Non-duplication of activities
• more detailed assessment of proposed activities
  needed
• NAPA issue
• SNC looks at longer-term planning
• tech transfer, systematic observation, public
  awareness and cap. building are reporting only

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Good Practices in Project Preparation

• Country Drivenness
• Efficiency in the use of Resources and Building
  Upon Previous Work
• Appropriate Sequencing
• Use of
• Local and Regional Expertise
• Existing, Established and Recommended
  Methodologies, Support Programs and Technical
  Training Resources

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Indicative Budget

• Activity Total (000s)
• National Circumstances 10
• National GHG Inventories 100
• General Description of Steps 150
• Other Relevant Information 20
• Constraints, Gaps, Needs 10
• Technical Assistance 10
• Compilation, Production, Translationlt15
• Project Management lt75
• Monitoring and Reporting lt15
• Total lt405

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Self-Assessment and Consultations, UNEP
Procedures for Self-Assessments

• General guidelines have been prepared and sent to
  all national focal points in February
• Countries should submit a brief outline on the
  expected activities for the stocktaking and
  stakeholder consultations and forward to UNEP to
  initiate the project.
• The concept note should include objectives of
  the stocktaking and stakeholder consultations
  exercise, expected activities, management of the
  project, participants and timeline for the
  consultations.

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Self-Assessments and Project Preparation for NCs

• Objectives
• to broaden ownership among various organizations
  and establish clarity on their individual roles
• to conduct a detailed analysis of gaps and
  weaknesses in the INC and other climate projects
  in the country
• to identify areas where reliable data and
  information is essential in order to increase the
  confidence in the greenhouse gas inventories,
  mitigation and/or vulnerability assessments and
  identification of adaptation options and,
• to assist in and serve as input into the
  preparation of NC project documents, including a
  work-plan and allocation or responsibilities

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Self-Assessments and Project Preparation for NCs

• The exercise should be designed with a view to
  gathering information relevant to the components
  of the UNFCCC guidelines for national
  communications
• Exercise may require a facilitator and resource
  persons. Example terms of reference have been
  included in UNEP guidelines

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Self-Assessments and Project Preparation for NCs

• Expected Outputs
• Lead ministry/organization for the preparation of
  the NC
• Institutional arrangements and responsibility for
  information and data, technical support, policy
  analysis and development.
• Types and number of stakeholders in the climate
  change process
• Detailed three year workplan and timeline for the
  preparation of the national communication process
  and document completion.
• Assessment of strengths, gaps and technical
  support needs for the preparation and completion
  of National Communication.
• Roster of experts
• List of relevant documents and sources of
  information