ClimDev-Africa Program

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ClimDev-Africa Program African Climate Policy
Centre (ACPC)
Presentation to the 6th Session of the Committee
on Food Security and Sustainable Development
(CFSSD-6) Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 28 October 2009
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Presentation Outline

• Program Thrust
• Program Stakeholders
• Program Description
• Program Governance
• Program Implementation

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Program Thrust

• ClimDev-Africa A regional initiative, jointly
  undertaken by the AUC, ECA and AfDB aimed at
• Enabling effective adaptation activities in
  climate-sensitive sectors Agriculture and food
  security water resources energy health
• Strengthening Africas climate and development
  institutions at regional, sub-regional and
  national levels
• Filling gaps in climate information, analysis and
  options needed by policy/decision-makers at all
  levels
• Enhancing the use of climate information in
  decision-making by improving analytical capacity,
  knowledge management, dissemination activities
  and capacity building

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Program Stakeholders

• Development practitioners who need to integrate
  climate change adaptation in their areas of
  intervention
• Policy analysts and researchers who need climate
  information as input to their work
• Regional, sub-regional and national climate,
  meteorological and hydrological services and
  research institutions that provide the data and
  information services required
• RECs and RBOs that coordinate sub-regional
  climate adaptation action
• Relevant national sectoral ministries,
  professional and civil society stakeholders

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Program Description Results Areas

• Results area 1 Widely available climate
  information, packaging and dissemination
• Objective Policymakers, policy support
  organisations and the population have access to
  comprehensive/useful climate information
• Results area 2 Quality analysis for decision
  support and management practice
• Objective Enhanced scientific capacity
  producing effective and quality policy-supporting
  analyses and best practices on different levels
  (regional to local)
• Results area 3 Informed decision-making,
  awareness and advocacy
• Objective Improved policy dialogue and support
  to climate and development policymaking processes
  at the continental, sub-regional, national and
  local levels
• Results area 4 Evidence-based value of
  mainstreaming climate information into
  development through implementation of pilot
  adaptation practices

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Program Description Inputs (1)

• Political leadership provided by the AUC, to
  co-ordinate the Continental policy response and
  global negotiations Dedicated Climate Change
  and Desertification Unit in AUC/DREA
• ECA-based African Climate Policy Centre (ACPC) to
  serve as ClimDev-Africa knowledge-management and
  Policy/project-facilitation arm
• AfDB-based ClimDev-Africa Special Fund (CDSF) to
  provide a channel for demand-led funding of
  field-level operations by implementing
  institutions across Africa

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Program Description Inputs (2)

• Thrust of the work of ECA-based ACPC
• Deliver on the Policy component of ClimDev-
  Africa
• Assist, through AUC and AMCEN, Africas
  preparation for, and participation in global
  climate negotiations towards Copenhagen
• Support efforts of African States in
  mainstreaming climate change concerns into
  development policies and frameworks
• Guide and facilitate the implementation of
  ClimDev-Africa field-level operations

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Program Description Inputs (3)

• Main activities of ACPC work With focus on
  development policies and strategies for priority
  climate-sensitive sectors
• Policy research and analysis (CC vulnerability,
  impacts, adaptation costs/benefits policy
  options)
• Policy advocacy, communication and outreach
  Annual African Climate and Development Conference
  starting with ADF-VII in 2010
• Consensus building at the regional level
• Capacity strengthening, technical advice and
  assistance
• Knowledge management and peer learning
• Facilitation of field-level operations
  development and implementation

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Program Governance

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Program Implementation (1)

• ClimDev-Africa is being implemented
  progressively, starting in 2009
• Putting in place the basic management and policy
  capacity of the ACPC (office, staffing)
  Recruitment underway
• Initiating policy-making activities (website,
  databases, studies, advocacy, consensus-building
  e.g. Africas consultations for a common
  negotiating position)
• Implementing ClimDev-Africa Special Fund
  (procedures and processes, criteria for funding
  approval, call for funding applications from
  prioritized organisations)

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Program Implementation (2)

• So far, ACPC has supported through technical
  input and sponsorship, in collaboration with AUC
  and AMCEN Secretariat at UNEP, the following
• Africas Ministerial and Negotiators Group
  regional meetings Algiers (Nov. 2008), Nairobi
  (May 2009), Ouagadougou (October 2009), Addis
  Ababa (Pre-COP, October 2009)
• Conference of Ministers on Financing for
  Development focused on climate change (Kigali,
  May 2009)
• Special Session of the Africa Partnership Forum
  (APF) on Climate Change (Addis Ababa, September
  2009)

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Program Implementation (3)

• ClimDev-Africa financing will be provided through
  a blend of programmatic funding and pooled
  Special Fund modalities
• Indicative budget for overall ClimDev-Africa
  Program estimated at about US 140m for 4 years,
  including provisions for
• ACPC (about US 35m)
• Additional capacity at AUC and RECs
• Special Fund meant to be demand-led, implies the
  indicative budget estimate will be revised based
  on effective demand

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Program Implementation (4)

• Mainstreaming and sustaining ECA work on climate
  change and development
• Centrality, crosscutting and long-term nature of
  the climate change challenge for sustainable
  development
• Anticipated demand for analytical inputs,
  capacity-building and policy advice/assistance
  for mainstreaming climate change concerns into
  core development priorities, frameworks, policies
  and strategies
• Need to go beyond the ClimDev-Africa/ACPC
  project arrangement, which depends entirely on
  extra-budgetary resources
• Recommendation to sustain the work of ECA in this
  crucial area by complemented the Food Security
  and Sustainable Development sub-program with a
  dedicated Climate and development sub-program

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• Thank you