MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT, WATER AND NATURAL RESOURCES
STATE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES
WORKSHOP BRIEF ON CAPACITY BUILDING TO DEVELOP A GHG
INVENTORY FOR KENYA
20nd to 25th January 2014
Group Photo taken at the final GHG training workshop held 20th -25th January 2014 at Bontana Hotel Nakuru
MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT, WATER AND NATURAL RESOURCES
STATE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES
Introduction
The LECB project with support from UNDP is building capacity of the national GHG team to
develop a sustainable Green House Gas Inventory management system. Previously, a series
of workshops and working sessions have been carried out to develop robust institutional
capacity and establishing proper instructional arrangements, identification of gap from the
previous communication and potential improvements, procedures for planning GHG
inventory preparation, documentation, data collection and archiving.The GHG Team is
composed of key stakeholders from the sectors of Energy, Waste, Industry Processes and
Product Use (IPPU), and Agriculture, Forestry and other Land Use (AFOLU). The sector
teams are led by the relevant government agency representatives.
The LECB Project, in the week of 20th to 25th January 2014 facilitated the final workshop
with the following objectives for capacity building on the GHG inventory for Kenya;
I.
To train the sector level teams on uncertainty assessment for the respective UNFCCC
GHG inventory sectors, and on procedures for documentation of the inventory data at
the national level.
II.
To create understanding of the need of a robust Archiving System, procedures for
selecting national activity data and emission factors and related parameters (units,
source, year of data, etc. ) used in the inventory preparation process for selected key
sectors
III.
Develop specific data archiving procedures, and finalize on institutional roles and
arrangements, and development of an archiving plan.
IV.
Train the sector level teams on and carry out uncertainty assessment for the
respective UNFCCC GHG inventory sectors, and on procedures for verification and
documentation of the inventory data at the national level.
V.
VI.
To develop and implement a QA/QC system for the National GHG Inventory.
To carry out estimations of GHG Emission/Removals in the inventory preparation
process for selected key categories for all the sectors including data compilation,
documentation of appropriate methods and emission factors, estimating and
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STATE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES
calculating anthropogenic GHG emissions by sources and removals by sinks using
the data collected by each sector
Workshop Achievements
Following the last workshop; the Kenya GHG team has made great strides towards achieving
a sustainable GHG Inventory management system. The following tasks were carried out in
preparation of the GHG team to build a prototype inventory and the much needed inventory
improvement strategy.
I.
Uncertainty estimates and additional information
This activity was carried out using the IPCC 2006 inventory Software version 2.12 to
generate detailed information for each emissions category for which an uncertainty estimate
was assigned including lower bound and upper bound uncertainty estimates. In addition all
relevant information for each key category was documented to increase transparency of the
estimates i.e. QA/QC activities wasperformed, and the team was trained on documentation
and data quality uncertainty assessment using the pedigree matrix and error
propagation.This task was accomplished using the IPCC guidelines, the GPGs
II.
Calculation of Emissions and or Removals
The inventory team was trained on calculation of emissions and or removals for the AFOLU,
Energy, IPPU, and Waste sectors using the respective modules of the IPCC 2006 inventory
Software version 2.12 for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories.
III.
Developed Key QA/QC Procedures and plan
Quality assurance and quality control measures and general (Tier 1) QC procedures were
agreed upon and Personnel responsible for coordinating QA/QC activities were selected for
each sector. The QA/QC review team and procedures were developed in addition to
reporting, documentation, and archiving procedures.
IV.
Developed Key Archiving Procedures and plan
Archiving plan of records that have been created during the development of the inventory
(references, methodological choice, expert comments, revisions, etc.) was developed. The
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STATE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES
plan was developed at sector level and for the overall inventory team. An Archiving System
was aimed at making the national inventory transparent and reproducible, and facilitates
development of subsequent inventories by future inventory staff and category leads
(individuals responsible for developing estimates within a particular sector). All information
used to create the inventory will be archived by the secretariat in a single location in both
electronic and/or hard copy (paper) storage so that future inventory managers can reference
all relevant files to respond to reviewer feedback including questions about methodologies.
Archived information should include all emission factors and activity data at the most
detailed level, and documentation of how these factors and data have been generated and
aggregated for the preparation of the inventory.
internal
documentation
on
QA/QC
This information should also include
procedures,
external
and
internal
reviews,
documentation of annual key categories and key category identification, and planned
inventory improvements. Copies of all archive documents will be kept in at respective sector
level archives to reduce the risk of losing data.
The archiving procedures were agreed upon and Personnel responsible for coordinating
archiving activities were selected for each sector.
Way forward
The planned activities include developing the inventory improvement strategy per sector to
complete fill the identified data, legal and institutional arrangement gaps, designing
archiving system arrangements, final report, manuals and recommendation on the next
steps.
MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT, WATER AND NATURAL RESOURCES
STATE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES
Photos from the GHG inventory final training
Group members during a plenary session
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STATE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES
IPPU/Waste Sector Team members engaged in a documentation exercise
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STATE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES
AFOLU sector team members inputting data using inventory software