The PRE-COP HIGH LEVEL EXPERT MEETING ON AFRICAN
MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE ON ENVIRONMENT (AMCEN),
Addis Ababa, 22 October, 2009
Draft Comprehensive Framework for
climate change in Africa: Programmes
and Initiatives
By Dorothy Amwata
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Email: dorothy.amwata@oss.org.tn
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Outine
• Africa’s context
• Stocktaking exercise
 Adaptation
 Mitigation
 Supporting and enabling measures: Capacity building,
finance and technology and development
• Insights
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• Sub-regional synthesis
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• Final analysis
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Context
Key elements
• Adaptation
• Mitigation
• Enabling measures (capacity building, finances
and technology transfer and development)
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African consultation processes
• AMCEN 12th special session, 14th -18 June 2009
 Outline of comprehensive CC programmes
 Scoping of CC adaptation
 Declarations
• 2nd Africa Regional Platform for DRR Consultative
Meeting, 5-7 May, Nairobi
 institutional FWs, observation, monitoring, early warning;
knowledge, innovation, education to build a safety nets
and resilience at all levels;
• AMCEN 3rd special session, 25th -30th May 2009
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 Reaffirmed the comprehensive CC programmes
 Declarations
 African common position
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Stocktaking exercise
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UN Bodies: UNDP, UNEP, FAO
World wide fund for nature (WWF)
African wildlife foundation (AWF)
International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
Stockholm environment institute (SEI)
International Development Research Centre IDRC
Action Aid, international
Centre de coopération internationale en recherché agronomique
pour le développement (CIRAD),
Global climate change observation systems (GCOS)
Global environmental change and food systems (GECAFS)
GLOWA
Hadley Centre
International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)
World Vision
USAID etc…
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Stocktaking cont…
Regional institutions
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Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA)
African Development Bank (AfDB), NEPAD
Observatoire du Sahara et du Sahel (OSS), COMESA, ICPAC
ATPS, CEEPA, CGIAR, AIACC, ICRAF
COMIFAC
ECABREN
ENDA
FAN
FANRPAN
Oxfam
ACMAD, ACTS, AFRICARE, ASARECA, FARA
Tyndell Centre etc…
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Adaptation
• Disaster risk reduction; early warning,
preparedness, emergency response and post
disaster recovery;
• Sectoral planning and implementation:
adaptation in key sectors water, agriculture,
coastal zones, health, infrastructure, biodiversity
and ecosystems, forests, energy, urban
management and tourism, including cross
sectoral implications; and
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• Building economic and social resilience through
diversification of economies to reduce
dependence on climate sensitive sectors
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Global initiatives
1. Advancing Capacity for CCA(ACCCA/UNITAR)
Build capacity for climate change risks management
through pilot actions
2. Climate Change CD (C3D)
Innovative training and capacity building
3. CD for Adaptation to CC and GHG Mitigation
(C3D+)
Support development of adaptation measures and
mitigation strategies
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4. EuroAfrica-ICT Initiative
Strategic cooperation between European and African ICT
organisations
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Regional initiatives
1. Adaptation Learning Mechanism KS
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Common platform for climate information
2. EAD DFID CC Adaptive Capacity Building
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Capacity development through innovations to build
community resilience to CC
3. Assessments of Impacts and Adaptations to CC
(AIACC) in Multiple Regions and Sectors
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Funding, training, mentoring of scientists to undertake
multi-sector, multi-country research priorities
4. ClimDev Africa
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Integrating climate risk into policy decision making
processes
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Regional initiatives (cont…)
5. Capacity strengthening in the LDCs for ACC
(CLACC)
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Capacity strengthening for adaptation to climate
change
6. Supporting Integrated & Comprehensive
Approaches to CCA in Africa
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Incorporate climate change risks into national
development plans
7. African Climate Change Policy Centre
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Base of knowledge to strengthen efforts and capacities
to address Climate Change
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Regional initiatives cont…
8. Advancing Climate Change Adaptation in Africa
Research & capacity development programme
9. CC and Development Adapting by Reducing
Vulnerability (CC DARE)
Integrate climate change risks into national
development planning and decision-making.
10. Community-based Adaptation (CBA)
Programme
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New knowledge and capacity to respond to
unique community-based adaptation needs
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Insights on Adaptation
1. Disaster risk reduction
• Focuses on preparedness: early warning, vulnerability
assessments
• Projects rather than programmes
• Poor coordination and networking
• Observation and monitoring systems are inadequate
• Emergency response and post disaster recovery?
2. Sectoral planning &implementation
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• Projects rather than programmes
• Limited coordination, collaboration & interactions
• Poor knowledge management: fragmented information and
data
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Insights on adaptation cont…
• Limited cross-sectoral linkages
• More on planning than concrete actions
3. Building economic resilience
• Projects rather programmes
• Limited coordination, collaboration & interactions
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Preliminaries
• Increased awareness and knowledge on CC
• Limited networking, partnership and collaboration
• Inadequate integration into institutional and policy
FWs
• Adaptation is a process and location specific
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• Coordination and harmonisation by funding
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Mitigation
• Energy sector
• Reduced emissions from deforestation forest
degradation
• Land use, land use change and forestry
• Using and maximising opportunities from the
international carbon
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Mitigation initiatives
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The Nairobi Framework of Action
 Building capacity in developing CDM project
activities
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UNDP and UNEP Co-operation on Climate
Change
 Enable countries to access carbon finance
and cleaner technologies to stimulate SD
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UNEP – RISOE : Capacity Development for the
Clean Development Mechanism (CD4CDM
project)
 Establish GHG emission reduction projects in
the energy sector
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Mitigation initiatives cont…
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UNDP and UNEP Co-operation on Climate
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Access to carbon finance and cleaner technologies to
stimulate SD.
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UNEP – RISOE : Capacity Development for the
Clean Development Mechanism (CD4CDM)
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GHG emission reduction projects in the energy sector.
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Francophone Partnership initiative on CDM
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Global partnership for SD, on carbon markets initiatives
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Carbon finance for sustainable energy in Africa
(CF-SEA)
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CDM project and capacity development
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Mitigation programmes cont…
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Support for the Development and Uptake of CDM Projects
in the Industrial Sector (UNIDO)
Innovative partnerships to unlock the CDM potential in industrial
sector
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Africa-Assist Sub-programme
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Carbone finance for Agriculture, Sylviculture, Conservation
and Action against Deforestation (CASCADE)
Develop and transact CDM projects
Promote carbon finance transactions in agroforestry and biomass
for voluntary carbon markets
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UNEP GHG abatement costing studies
Review of the OECD/IPCC guidelines for national GHG inventories
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Insights on mitigation
• Mitigation remains secondary
• Energy, Industry, Agriculture and Agroforestry
remain the focal
• Based on CDM projects which still remain
insufficient
• Great potential on REDD+, LULUCF etc
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 Limited institutional and individual capacity
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Enabling measures
1. Capacity building
• Mobilisation &strengthening of existing
capacities (institutional and individual levels)
• Institutional coordination, collaboration and
networking
2. Financing
• Coordination and harmonisation: funding
agencies
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3. Technology development and transfer
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Thank You
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