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Title: SREC I and II Meeting


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UNDP-BDP
EPA
Environmental Policy Advisors
  • SREC I and II Meeting
  • Bamako, 21-25 June 2004
  • Cross cutting Session
  • Towards a Sub Regional Framework for SRECs I and
    II
  • Arnaud COMOLET, UNDP
  • 20/06/2004

2
Content of the Cross-cutting Session
UNDP-BDP
EPA
Environmental Policy Advisors
  • ? Introduction to the exercise and
  • methodology
  • ? Issues and challenges
  • ? Needs assessment
  • ? Actions plan

3
Session 1 Introduction to the Regional
Framework exercise
UNDP-BDP
EPA
Environmental Policy Advisors
4
I. Introduction to the Regional framework
exercise Content-
UNDP-BDP
EPA
Environmental Policy Advisors
  • ? Assumptions
  • ? Objectives
  • ? Rationale
  • ? Methodology
  • ? Historical perspective
  • ? Assessment

5

UNDP-BDP
EPA
Environmental Policy Advisors
Assumptions
  • ? Strengthening the sense of belonging of SREC
    participants to a community of practice
  • ? Improve the quality and performance of the
    work of the members of the Group

6

UNDP-BDP
EPA
Environmental Policy Advisors
Objectives
  • Why dont we go one step further?
  • ? From a one off workshop to a continuous
    building up process
  • ? Making our various EE activities more
    consistent
  • ?Build linkages between COS
  • ? Develop products and services

7

UNDP-BDP
EPA
Environmental Policy Advisors
Rationale (1)
  • ? SRECs mandate
  • The SRECs are regionally based UNDP Environment
    network that seeks to build the capacity of
    Country Office Environment Focal Points and
    participating specialists into a "Community of
    Practice" as part of UNDP's organizational
    learning initiative.
  • ?Help COs to implement corporate policies
    (alignment with EEG strategy)

8

UNDP-BDP
EPA
Environmental Policy Advisors
Rationale (2)
  • ? A Key tool in enhancing UNDP's
  • capacity in delivering quality
  • ? Help COs to implement corporate
  • policies
  • ? A crucial vehicle to build synergies
  • between the different UNDP
  • environment units

9

UNDP-BDP
EPA
Environmental Policy Advisors
Methodology (1)
  • ? 4 sessions (continuum)
  • ? Interactive and Participative
  • ? Needs based
  • ? Interaction with workshop and discussions
    outputs
  • ? 4 discussion papers

10

UNDP-BDP
EPA
Environmental Policy Advisors
Methodology (2) Sessions
  • Session 1 Objective and rationale,
    Take-stocking.
  • Session 2 Issues and Challenges
  • Session 3 Needs and resources assessment
  • Session 4 Elaboration of the Regional
    framework

11

UNDP-BDP
EPA
Environmental Policy Advisors
Methodology (3)Discussion papers
  • 4 Discussion Papers ? ? ? ?
  • Themes MDGs, Mainstreaming, Energy, Land
    Degradation
  • Content Overview/context, UNDP position, COs
    experience, Proposal

12
Historical perspective (1)Trends
UNDP-BDP
EPA
Environmental Policy Advisors
  • ? SRECs are evolving mechanisms
  • ? SRECs were initially a GEF "product"
  • ? SRECs evolve now as a corporate
  • tool
  • ? SREC, I, II, III and the regionalization
  • process

13
Historical perspective (2)Role and activities
key questions
UNDP-BDP
EPA
Environmental Policy Advisors
  • What is the role of SRECs?
  • What activities have been initiated from SRECs?
  • What is the added value of SRECs?
  • How the members use the network?

14
Historical perspective (3)Strengths
UNDP-BDP
EPA
Environmental Policy Advisors
  • Meeting and getting to know each other
  • Sharing experience
  • Discussing UNDP case studies, pilots, best
    practices, experiences, innovative ideas
  • Developing capacity for leveraging and co-funding
  • Strengthening capacity of COs participants in
    designing and administering environmental
    projects.

15
Historical perspective (4)Weaknesses
UNDP-BDP
EPA
Environmental Policy Advisors
  • SREC I (2003) cancellation
  • RRs/RBA are not convinced of the utility of SREC
  • Preparation
  • Very weak follow up/monitoring/evaluation
  • Funding a major constraint
  • Little regional partnership

16
Historical perspective (5)Recent ? developments
UNDP-BDP
EPA
Environmental Policy Advisors
  • Greater inputs from COs (top down ? bottom up)
    ? ? ?
  • Greater balance between discussions and
    presentations ? ?
  • Training sessions ? ? ?
  • Contribution of other PAs or CO units
  • Fields trip ? ? ?
  • Two ways learning process (PAs/CO)

17
Assessment
UNDP-BDP
EPA
Environmental Policy Advisors
  • SRECs are a useful tool but
  • Apart from the workshop itself, not much come out
    of SRECs meetings ..?
  • There is a tendency to be stricter on results of
    our activities (conditionality?)
  • We need to keep the momentum between two
    workshops
  • We need to find out implementation mechanims for
    our decisions (work plan)

18
Your turn to play, now !!!
UNDP-BDP
EPA
Environmental Policy Advisors
19
What you think?What are your expectations
vis-à-vis SRECs?
UNDP-BDP
EPA
Environmental Policy Advisors
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2. Issues and challenges
UNDP-BDP
EPA
Environmental Policy Advisors
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