CTCN Request Incubator Programme
Mapping Climate Technology
Projects
Table of Contents
1
2
Introduction .................................................................................................................................... 4
1.1
What do we mean by projects ................................................................................................ 4
1.2
What is project mapping ......................................................................................................... 5
1.3
Why project mapping.............................................................................................................. 5
1.4
Scope ....................................................................................................................................... 5
Step-by-step approach .................................................................................................................... 6
Step 1: Define purpose of assessment................................................................................................ 6
Step 2: Define scope of the assessment ............................................................................................. 6
Step 3: Identify, collect, and review relevant documents .................................................................. 7
Step 4 Conduct interviews with key sector experts............................................................................ 7
Step 5: Categorize the information collected ..................................................................................... 7
Step 6 Analyse outcomes of the overview.......................................................................................... 8
3
Best practice, project mapping ....................................................................................................... 9
4
From project mapping to CTCN Technical Assistance..................................................................... 9
Annex A ................................................................................................................................................. 10
Table A.1 Simple table showing technology component.................................................................. 10
Table A.2 Mapping of adaptation technologies in national documents........................................... 12
Table A.3 Detailed project overview ................................................................................................. 13
Annex B ................................................................................................................................................. 15
Table B.1 Simple project overview template for adaptation ............................................................ 15
Table B.2 Simple project overview template for mitigation ............................................................. 16
Table B.3 Simple project overview template for one sector, structured by technology category ... 17
Table B.4 Simple project overview template for one sector, structured by technology maturity ... 18
Table B.3 Detailed project overview template for adaptation, structured by sector ...................... 19
Table B.3 Detailed project overview template for mitigation, structured by sector........................ 20
1 Introduction
Although technologies for climate change adaptation and mitigation presents a relatively new field,
there are close linkages to existing business-as-usual development oriented projects. For example
adaptation technology components could be identified in projects for poverty reduction, improved
nutrition, enhanced education, expanded infrastructure, and improved health while improved
economic efficiency of private industry and improvements in the transport sector could lead to
reduced GHG emissions.
The review of ongoing work will enable the NDE to identify current bottlenecks and barriers to
technology deployment that could be removed by targeted technical assistance from the CTCN. This
work will also help the NDE identify projects that successfully contributed to the deployment of
technologies in the country and to identify technologies that are appropriate to the country context
and that demonstrated economic social and environmental benefits.
Supported by the regional CPs, NDEs will:
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Map past, on-going and planned national processes, projects and initiatives implemented
in the country to tackle climate change related challenges and to deploy climate
technologies
Map past, on-going and planned bilateral projects and initiatives
Map past, on-going and planned international projects and initiatives (such as UNFCCC
commitments, climate technology projects funded by development financial institutions,
etc.)
The target group for this module includes various stakeholders, such as stakeholders from public,
private and civil society. In order to submit quality requests to the CTCN, the NDEs needs to have an
understanding of past and ongoing projects related to climate technologies, conducted by various
stakeholders (public, private, and civil society) in order to ensure CTCN technical assistance can
complement existing initiatives, taking into account lessons learned.
This module provides the users with the ability to prepare an overview and understanding of past and
ongoing projects related to climate technologies. The outlined steps help to gather, organize,
categorize, and analyse information on climate change projects, collected from literature studies and
interviews, and ensure CTCN technical assistance can complement existing initiatives, taking into
account lessons learned.
1.1 What do we mean by projects
A project means a series of activities that take place over a pre-determined period of time to achieve
a specified aim. A project will be planned from beginning to end and have set targets. On the other
hand, in making an overview of ongoing projects, it would also be useful to include other efforts to
gain a comprehensive overview of climate technology related activities in the country. Thus, this
would include past and ongoing processes, initiatives, country commitments under the UNFCCC, at
the national, bilateral, multilateral level, where:
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A process could be a national plan which is an on-going process to bring about positive change,
An initiative is a means to assemble a variety of inputs to achieve an outcome, for example specific
projects or programs undertaken to achieve specific objectives in the near-term, with objectives
to, for example, reduce costs, increase energy efficiency, reduce greenhouse gas emissions,
and/or increase resilience to climate change.
Country commitments, under the UNFCCC to address climate change, could be Nationally
Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs)
Projects vary in size of budget, scope, institutional development, capacity development, etc.
1.2 What is project mapping
Project mapping is a tool to systematically compile and structure information on past, on-going, and
planned activities within the identified scope of the assessment.
1.3 Why project mapping
The review of past, ongoing, and planned projects will enable the NDE to identify current bottlenecks
and barriers to technology deployment that could be removed by targeted technical assistance from
the CTCN. This work will also help the NDE identify projects that successfully contributed to the
deployment of technologies in the country and to identify technologies that are appropriate to the
country context and has demonstrated economic, social and environmental benefits.
1.4 Scope
An assessment of projects could be done with a multi-levels focus, being community, regional and/or
national levels. It could be done taking a sector approach covering a variety of sectors, such as energy,
agriculture, health, water, and infrastructure, or it could be a combination, or it could simply include
all projects which have technology components of adaptation or/and mitigation.
Keeping a too narrow focus, without considering other projects, could lead to missed opportunities.
It is recommended to make separate project mapping for adaptation and mitigation projects to
facilitate a better overview of gaps in the respective focus areas.
2 Step-by-step approach
In the following, a simple step-by-step approach for preparing an overview of projects is outlined.
Step 1: Define purpose of assessment
As a first step in mapping past, on-going and planned projects, the following questions could be
considered.
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4.
Why is a project mapping being undertaken?
What information is being sought?
Who is the project mapping for?
How will the results (findings) be used?
Step 2: Define scope of the assessment
The following questions could be used in defining the scope of the project mapping assessment. If a
realistic scope is set, it will improve the ability of the NDE to make a good assessment, as well as it will
easier allow for aa follow up later on, ion those areas that was considered out of scope for the
assessment at this point in time.
1 Which implementation levels need to be assessed?
This could be project/community/local level or regional/national level. For most assessments it is
useful to include projects from all levels but then make a note in the overview to which level this
project is implemented
2 Which sectors will be included?
Depending on the objective of the mapping, the NDE could choose to focus the mapping on one or
several sectors. For adaptation, it would typically water, agriculture, coastal zone, infrastructure and
health. For mitigation, it would generally be energy, transport, buildings, and agriculture. Other
sectors can be included.
3 Which type(s) of projects will be included?
As previously mentioned, the assessment could include not only what is traditionally perceived as
projects but also processes (plans), initiatives, and country commitments. Taking this 'multi-project'
definition would improve the result of project mapping so that it gives a more complete and realistic
overview of activities in the countries and ease the process of identifying where the country could
benefit from targeted technical CTCN assistance.
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What resources are needed?
How much time does the NDE have for this task? The above demarcations should reflect the available
time, and be adjusted accordingly. Focusing on selected priority sectors, making a good project
mapping assessment, is preferable to a quick screening which in reality will not reflect the real state
of projects in the country.
Step 3: Identify, collect, and review relevant documents
1 Stock-take and review
The NDE should consult the main climate change documents (strategies, capacity needs assessments,
sectoral documents, etc.) produced at national, sub-national, and local levels, including the
information in National Communications, NAPAs and other relevant studies on climate change.
2 Identify any potential literature sources
The NDE should identify any relevant consultancy reports, academic papers, grey literature, etc. which
could offset gaps into national policy documents on any relevant projects that could feed into making
an overview of projects
The following type of resources is examples of what could be useful literature for identifying relevant
projects
1. National Communications submitted to the UNFCCC.
2. National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA).
3. National and sectoral programmes or strategies
Step 4 Conduct interviews with key sector experts
Consultations with a variety of stakeholders to gain information on past, on-going and planned
development and/or climate change-related projects which have technology components, including
1. community level stakeholders
2. experts such as economists, agronomists, climatologists, hydrologists, finance experts,
planners in central government, sub-national level institutions, academia, private sector and
civil society
3. Other relevant stakeholders
Conducting interviews as supplement to literature search can gain insights for example on projects
which are not available online. There can be different reasons to why projects are not available online,
but often the information gained from personal contact to stakeholders are more rich than what can
be obtained from project web sites.
Step 5: Categorize the information collected
The NDE should now make an assessment of the information which has been collected during the
project mapping exercise. It would be relevant to consider if the projects fit with the stated purpose
and scope of the mapping. In addition, the projects could be categorized according to what has been
identified in the scope of the project mapping (for example level and categories) and overview table(s)
should be prepared. The design and structure of the overview table(s) could include different types
and levels of information, depending on the objective of the project mapping. Templates for detailed
and simpler project overviews are provided in Annex A. Depending of what the objective of the project
mapping exercise is, the projects could be organised from a technology perspective, categorizing
projects according to which type of technology (software, hardware or orgware) is the main
component of the project. Or the table can simply list all projects within one or several sectors and
group these according to technology components.
When the first overview has been prepared, it should give an indication to the NDE if enough and
adequate project information has been collected to start summarize and make observations. For
example, are there any gaps where more information could be found through other source of
information than what has been used already and would it be necessary to do a follow up with the
stakeholders already interviewed, to fill potential gaps?
Step 6 Analyse outcomes of the overview
An analysis of the project overview could include some discussion on how well projects with
technology components are covered in the different sectors, the size of a typical project, target
groups/beneficiaries, target level (household, community, regional, national, etc), the cross cutting
nature of the projects and so forth. For example projects in the water sector, which is often extensively
covered by projects, are in most cases cross cutting, since water is a major contributor to agriculture,
industry, energy, transport, land.
Conclusions could also be drawn to whether projects have positive effects on general wellbeing
aspects and/or on more specific land use and natural resource management issues, or if the projects
tend to have given more attention to technical environmental aspects rather than to development
aspects and social and economic dimensions. A project mapping exercise could also focus on incountry activities within a specific technology category to asses if the existing efforts are adequate to
meet demands or in which way further work on technologies could contribute to meeting technology
needs.
In this step, it would be helpful to consider a number of questions, namely:
 Does help the information collected and classified through the project mapping contribute to
the objective of the exercise?
 Have technology gaps emerged at different types, for example
 level (policy, organisational, and/or operation)
 categories (soft, hard, orgware technologies)
 maturity (being traditional, modern, high)
This work will also help identify projects that successfully contributed to the deployment of
technologies in the country and to identify technologies that are appropriate to the country context
and that demonstrated economic social and environmental benefits.
3 Best practice, project mapping
Define a clear and precise objective of making the project mapping.
In most cases, the objective could simply be to prepare a mapping of all past, on-going and planned
projects which are related to climate technologies to identify current bottlenecks and barriers to
technology deployment that could be removed by targeted technical assistance from the CTCN. In
other cases, the objective could be of a much lower-order, typically to assess projects supporting a
single issue that is within the ability of one adaptation technology to tackle. In this case, it is
recommended to define the problem in terms of how climate change will impact a key sector at the
national, sub-national, or local level. For example the objective of the mapping could be to identify
projects which include climate technologies which are relevant in the context of intensified and
frequent coastal flooding due to climate change adversely affects community livelihood opportunities.
Use a variety of sources to identify projects.
The collected information on projects can be categorized according to sector, the
adaptation/mitigation issue or something else. Ensure that national/sub-national policies and
strategies (see training module 3), including ongoing and planned programmes/projects, are
identified. This is important both in the context of understanding the issue which technologies are
targeted towards and in identifying what is already in place to address the underlying causes of the
problem/lack of transfer and diffusion of a specific climate technology. It is also helpful in determining
the associated barriers that need to be overcome in order to effectively transfer and diffuse the
selected technology.
4 From project mapping to CTCN Technical Assistance
After preparing technology project databases by mapping projects and identifying technology gaps as
illustrated above, the next step would be to prepare a summary of the information which could be
drawn from the project overview, including enabling factors for projects that has led to successful
deployment of climate technologies, what works and what doesn’t given the country specificities,
what lessons can be learned from past successes and failures. In addition, an analysis of how these
gaps can be addressed in the short and medium term, would also be relevant to make and how
targeted technical assistance from the CTCN could help in remove obstacles top technology
deployment.
Annex A
Table A.1 Simple table showing technology component
Overview of Tanzanian climate change adaptation and vulnerability activities and other sector
activities with major links to climate change vulnerability
Focal Project
Area
Summary
Technology component
Water Sector
Support Program
The objective of this project is to support the GoT’s poverty
alleviation strategy through the improvements in the governance of
water resources management and the sustainable delivery of water
supply and sanitation services.
water resource management
and supply technologies
Monduli District
Water Supply
Project
The project contributes to increase in coverage of rural water supply
for domestic and livestock consumption, to community awareness
of the need for better sanitation, to overall natural resources
management in an arid area, and consequently to reduction of
water related poverty in the selected areas of the Monduli District.
rural water supply and
awareness raising
technologies
Rural Water
Supply and
Sanitation
Project (RWSSP)
This project will improve the existing water supply, and sanitation
schemes in rural areas, focusing on improved environment,
sanitation, and hygiene conditions, with particular attention to
HIV/AIDS prevention.
rural water supply
technologies
Dar es Salaam
Water Supply
and Sanitation
Project
This project is to provide a reliable, affordable and sustainable water
supply service and improve the sewerage and sanitation in the
"service area" of the Dar es Salaam Water and Sewerage Authority
(DAWASA).
urban water supply service
and improve the sewerage
and sanitation
Marine and
Coastal
Environment
Management
Project
(MACEMP)
The objective of the project is to improve sustainable management
and use of the territorial seas and coastal resources. Sustainable
management and use will be reflected in enhanced revenue
collection, reduced threats to the environment, improved
livelihoods of participating coastal communities and improved
institutional arrangements.
sustainable management
technologies and use of the
territorial seas and coastal
resources
Lake Victoria
Environmental
Management
Project (LVEMP)
The major objective of the project is to restore a healthy, varied lake
ecosystem that is inherently stable and able to support, in a
sustainable way, the increasing activities in the lake and its
catchments for the benefit of the people of the riparian countries as
well as the international community.
The main objective of this project is to improve access to sustainable
quality water supply and wastewater management services in the
three regional centres of Mwanza, Iringa and Mbeya.
ecosystem restoration
technologies
The development objective of the project is to consolidate and
improve the conservation of the Malagarasi-Muyovozi wetland
ecosystem conservation.
(Software technologies)
Water
Water Supply
Programme
Regional Centres
water supply and
wastewater management
technologies
Wetlands
Sustainable and
Integrated
Management of
the MalagarasiMuyovozi
Ramsar Site
(SIMMORS)
Sustainable
Wetlands
Management
ecosystem and to improve the welfare and living standards of the
communities living within and around the wetlands.
The objective of this project is to implement sustainable wetland
management approaches in Tanzania and contributing to
improvement of livelihoods.
sustainable wetland
management technologies.
(Software technologies)
Agricultural
Sector
Programme
Support (ASPS) –
Phase II, Danida
The ASPS II contains four components (a) Support for Policy and
Regulatory Reforms, SPRR, (b) Private Agricultural Sector Support,
PASS, (c) On-farm Seed Production; and (d) District Agricultural
Development Support, DADS. The four components are designed to
raise income of rural households and priority is given to measures
that have rapid impact on incomes
mix of different
technologies for agricultural
sector
Small-Scale
Irrigation at
Pawaga
This project aimed to construct civil engineering works that would
include an access road, work camp, weir, intake structure, link canal,
flood protection bunds, and an emergency spillway.
agricultural irrigation
technologies
Agricultural
Sector
Development
Program, World
Bank
Initial focus of program will be on areas where there are financing
gaps and technical support needs. Given the multi-phased, long
term technical and financial requirements of the program three
phases are proposed, which would allow over a 9-10 year period
support by development partners to the Government’s efforts.
a wide range of agricultural
technologies
Agriculture
Table A.2 Mapping of adaptation technologies in national documents.
The table shows an example of mapping technologies in national documents.
National documents
Proposed adaptation technologies
First Technology Need
Assessment
Report
i
(2004)
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Second
National
Communication
(2010)ii
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Source: Mauritius TNA report 2013
Increasing water use efficiency through more performing
irrigation systems;
Trash blanketing / green cane harvesting (sugar cane)
Changing harvest period;
Land use change (shifting areas);
Crop change - Adopting drought tolerant cultivars
Introduction of more performing cultivars
Integrated Pest management
Rational use of fertilizers and herbicides
Introduction of new varieties or cultivars;
Shifting crop production zone.
Increasing irrigation water requirement
Sustainable land/ soil management of land/soil
Promoting conservation and sustainable agricultural practices;
Combating land degradation;
Biotechnologies to improve water-use efficiency of crops or plant
more resistant crop varieties;
Provide farmers with Insurance and security for their
investments;
Application of new and sustainable technologies, e.g. protected
cultivation; and
Establishment of an early warning system for pest and disease
management.
Table A.3 Detailed project overview
This table is an example of how project mapping can be used to collect experience and gain knowledge on a specific technology from regional experience.
This can be useful in a situation where a technology has not yet been adopted in a country. In this case, project mapping at a regional level is used as a starting
point for elaboration of a national framework for monitoring and evaluation adaptation in Colombia. The elaboration of a framework can then gain from the
regional experiences identified during the project mapping within a specific field.
Name of
Monitoring
and
Evaluation
framework
Conceptual
and
Methodologi
cal
Guidelines of
the Climatic
Latin
American
Platform
Sistema de
Información
de la Agenda
de
Transversalid
ad
(Information
System
of the
Mainstreami
ng Agenda)
country
Project
Institution
Audience
Objective of the framework
Indicator types
link to framework
Paraguay
Programa
Nacional del
Cambio
Climático
(PNCC)
(National
Program for
Climate
Change)
Programa
Especial de
Cambio
Climático
2009-2012
(Special
Program for
Climate
Change 20092012)
Secretary of
the
Environmen
t (SEAM)
Government
To measure the institutional
progress in adaptation to climate
change matters. Due to the early
stage of the program
(implemented in 2011), is not
feasible to do a more deep
evaluation in other areas
For tracking the progress of
the program, the evaluation
focus on an analysis of the
institutions created since the
implementation of the
program. To measure the
impact of the program is not
possible yet.
http://intercambioclimatico.com/wpcontent/uploads/PARAGUAY-InformeFinal-Cambio-Clim%C3%A1tico.pdf
Secretary of
the
Environmen
t and
Natural
Resources
(SEMARNAT
)
Government
Track overall program progress,
through the setting of goals for
adaptation and mitigation
Percentage of achieved
goals. Some examples of the
goals are: To construct seven
emergency centers to
support the community in
the case of an emergency,
create models for the
prediction of risk sceneries
associated with climate
change, reduce the use of
fire as an usual practice in
the agriculture sector in
11550 ha, etc.
http://www.conagua.gob.mx/CONAG
UA07/Contenido/Documentos/pecc12.
pdf
Mexico
-
Uruguay
Four
measures
were
evaluated,
they don't
belong to any
particular
program
Monitoring
Adaptation
to Climate
Change
(MACC)
Bolivia
PACC
Monitoring
and
Evaluation
System
Peru
Programa de
Desarrollo
Agropecuario
Sustentable
(PROAGRO)
(Sustainable
Agricultural
Development
Program)
Programa de
Adaptación al
Cambio
Climático
(PACC)
(Adaptation
to Climate
Change
Program)
Ministry of
Livestock,
Agriculture
and Fishing
through the
Agriculture
Climate
Change Unit
and the
FAO
Ministry of
Planning in
cooperation
with the GIZ
Ministry of
Environmen
t of Peru
and the
Swiss
Agency for
Developme
nt and
Cooperatio
n (SDC)
Government
Calculate the economic impact
of each measure.
Make an analysis of possibly
barriers in their implementation,
from the point of view of the
supply
Internal Rate of Return (IRR)
of each project, interviews
with qualified consultants
from different stakeholders
and a Multi Criteria Analysis
http://www.mgap.gub.uy/opypapublic
aciones/ANUARIOS/Anuario2013/mate
rial/pdf/26.pdf
Government
and NGO
Analyze the effectivity and
efficiency of the program, to
provide inputs for the design of
the third stage of the program
Analysis of primary and
secondary information,
closed and open interview,
focus groups and direct
observation
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Government
Measure indicators at three
levels (context, outputs and
impacts) to give more inputs to
the second implementation
stage
Three group of indicators:
Context, output and impact.
An example of each one will
be: Influence in the national
strategy for climate change,
fulfillment of pre-stablished
agreements with local and
regional governments, 20%
of the families who
participate in the program
apply at least to adaptation
measures
http://www.paccperu.org.pe/publicaci
ones/pdf/85.pdf
Annex B
Table B.1 Simple project overview template for adaptation
The template can be adjusted with more rows for projects if necessary, and/or more columns can be
added if it is found necessary to include more information in the simple project overview.
Focal Project
Area
Water
Coastal Zone
Agriculture
Health
Forestry
Other…
Summary
Technology component
Table B.2 Simple project overview template for mitigation
The template can be adjusted with more rows for projects if necessary, and/or more columns can be
added if it is found necessary to include more information in the simple project overview.
Focal Project
Area
Energy
Industry
Agriculture
Transport
Forestry
Other…
Summary
Technology component
Table B.3 Simple project overview template for one sector, structured by
technology category
Name of sector
Focal Project
Area
Software
Hardware
Orgware
Summary
Technology component
Table B.4 Simple project overview template for one sector, structured by
technology maturity
Name of sector
Focal Project
Area
Traditional
Modern
High
Summary
Technology component
Table B.3 Detailed project overview template for adaptation, structured by sector
The template can be adjusted with more rows for projects if necessary, and/or more columns can be added if it is found necessary to include more
information in the detailed project overview. Headings can also be changed according to what is found most appropriate.
Organization/
institution
Name of
project
Agricultural sector
Water sector
Health sector
Infrastructure
Coastal Zone
Forestry
other …
Project objective(s)
Place of
implementation
Activity period
Target
group
Short project
summary
Technology
component
Budget
Link to
project
website
Table B.3 Detailed project overview template for mitigation, structured by sector
The template can be adjusted with more rows for projects if necessary, and/or more columns can be added if it is found necessary to include more
information in the detailed project overview. Headings can also be changed according to what is found most appropriate.
Name of
project
Organization/
institution
Energy sector
Waste sector
Transport sector
Agriculture
Industry
Forestry and land use
Project objective(s)
Place of
implementation
Activity period
Target
group
Short project
summary
Technology
component
Budget
Link to
project
website
other …
i
Republic of Mauritius (2004) Technology Needs Assessment and Maintenance and Enhancement of Capacities for Climate Change Activities (Mauritius Meteorological
Services, Vacoas).
ii
Second National Communication 2010, pg. 79