Capacity-building activities in South Africa -, Lessons and Gaps

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Capacity-building activities in South Africa -,
Lessons and Gaps

• UNFCCC Expert Workshop on ME, Capacity Building
  in Developing Countries
• St Johns, Antigua
• 5 - 6 November 2007

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OVERVIEW

• Climate change coordination in South Africa
• Lessons learnt regarding the implementation of CB
  related decisions
• Challenges for monitoring and evaluation

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Climate Change Coordination in South Africa

• NCCC
• National government departments
• Provincial environment departments
• Metros
• Research and academia
• Industry and NGOs

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Lessons learnt

• Norad support for institutional CB (2001-2005)
• USAID CCP support (2001-2004)
• The C3D addresses the capacity needs of
  developing countries through an innovative
  training and capacity-building partnership with
  three partner institutes (EC, Ireland, Denmark)
• Danish CDM programme
• Climate Protection Programme for Developing
  Countries (Germany)
• Development of a Pilot Programmatic CDM project
  in South Africa for Energy Efficiency in Industry
  (UK)
• Support for the Development and Uptake of CDM
  Projects in the Industrial Sector (Austria)

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Challenges related to ME

• CB being undertaken under this decision without
  the knowledge of the focal point
• Some of the activities being funded not being the
  country priorities
• Undermines the country driven-ness
• Funding made available from different sources and
  this info not made available to the focal point
• Need for coordination with the focal point in
  recipient countries important

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• Thank you for your kind attention