Global Climate Change Alliance: Intra-ACP Programme

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• Global Climate Change Alliance Intra-ACP
  Programme
• Training ModuleMainstreaming Climate Change
• Module 9Mainstreaming climate change within
  project cycle
• Ms Isabelle MamatySenior ExpertClimate Support
  Facility

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Mainstreaming climate change within project cycle

• Learning objectives
• To understand how to integrate climate change
  into the project cycle
• To avoid maladaptation
• To ensure that projects address development needs
• Expected outcomes
• Increase knowledge of mainstreaming steps within
  the project cycle
• Increase knowledge of mainstreaming tools

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Why mainstream climate change at project level?

• Projects may be vulnerable to climate change (CC)
  directly or indirectly (exp. Floods, sea-level
  rise, damaging infrastructure)
• Projects may affect the vulnerability of natural
  and human systems to CC (case of maladaptation)
• Projects may take advantage of potential
  opportunities arising from CC

Source World Bank (2010a) WDR 2010
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Operationalisation of mainstreaming within
project cycle
Project design
Monitoring and Evaluation
Project identification
Project appraisal
Project implementation
Step 1 Assess potential climate risks and
effects on vulnerability
Step 2 undertake in-depth climate risk
assessments Step 3 identify adaptation
options Step 4 Prioritise and select adaptation
options
Step 5 implement projects For new projects
implement selected adaptation options For on
going projects carry out interventions of
previous stages, then implement adaptation options
Step 6 Evaluate Adaptation measures within
project
Source OCDE (2009a) USAID (2007)
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Project identification (1)

• Vulnerability assessment to Climate change
  impacts is a function
• Type of Infrastructure
• Project activities
• Geographical location

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Project identification (2)

• Mainstreaming steps at this stage include
• Assessment of the vulnerability of the project
  to climate change impacts
• Timing and certainty of climate change impacts
• Assessment of potential of the project to
  increase vulnerability of natural and human
  systems to climate change

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Project Appraisal and project design

• In depth climate risk assessments
• Standard risk assessment tools
• computer-based tool (exp. ADAPT, World Bank)
• Identification of adaptation or mitigation
  options
• Description of the measure
• Estimated costs of the measure
• Estimated benefits of the measure
• Feasibility of the measure
• Prioritising and selecting adaptation and
  mitigation options
• Cost benefit analysis (CBA)
• Multi-criteria Analysis (MCA)
• Cost effectiveness analysis (CEA)
• Expert judgement

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Summary of Existing tools

• Non exhaustive list of mainstreaming tools
• ADB Screening Checklist list of questions to
  rapidly assess potential risk of projects
• DANIDA Climate change screening matrix Guidance
  and checklist for use in the field
• DFID opportunities and risks of climate change
  and disasters (ORCHID) and Climate risk Impacts
  on Sectors and programmes (CRISP) portfolio and
  sector based climate risk assessment
  methodologies
• Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs (DGIS) climate
  quiz scans rapid risk assessment for selection
  of adaptation entry points for bilateral
  projects
• Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation
  (SDC)/inter-cooperation Community-based Risk
  Screening Tool-Adaptation and livelihoods
  (CRiSTAL) assess impacts on livelihood resources
  important for climate adaptation
• United States Agency for International
  Development (USAID) SERVIR-Viz climate mapper
  tool for environmental decision-making
• World Bank change portal, including ADAPT Tools
  wide range of data on climate

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Project Implementation (1)
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Project Monitoring and Evaluation

• Monitoring of the implementation of the
  identified actions
• level of implementation, unexpected problems
  during the implementation process, impacts on
  other sectors or regions, actual costs versus
  anticipated costs
• Monitoring of the progress and success
• Intended benefits, adverse outcomes not
  anticipated
• Monitoring the evolution of baseline climate
  conditions over the lifetime of the project
• This implies use of indicators

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Learnt lessons and Challenges

• Harmonisation of tools and instruments for
  screening across donors
• Climate risk assessment tools to be tested or
  implemented in a wide range of contexts
• Limited availability and reliability of
  projections of future climate
• lack of reliable climate projections
• significant uncertainties associated with many
  climate variables

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Turning words into action
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Discussion

• Questions and Answers
• Mainstreaming climate change within project cycle

What are the opportunities for mainstreaming
climate change within project cycle in your
sector or at your level and what are the
institutional and capacity needs in your
organisation to do so?
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Presentation of case studies

• Presentations of case studies and best practices

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Learning process exercise Working group

• Exercise Select one project and proceed to the
  assessment of this project and propose how to
  mainstream CC into this project.

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Recap Key messages

• Relevant questions to consider
• Are the objectives of the project and/or specific
  activities threatened by climate change?
• Could the projects objectives and/or activities
  benefit from climate change
• What may be the influence of the project on the
  vulnerability of relevant natural or human
  systems
• How can project activities leading to reduced
  vulnerability, i.e. greater adaptive capacity or
  reduced sensitivity or reduced exposure, be
  maximised?
• Which activities need to be modified to avoid an
  increase in vulnerability?
• Which additional activities are required to avoid
  adverse impacts of climate change on the project?

Source GIZ (2011)
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Key references

• GIZ (2011) Integrating climate change adaptation
  into development a practice-oriented training
  based on an OECD Policy Guidance, Training manual
  and Handouts
• OECD (2009) Integrating Climate Change Adaptation
  into development Co-operation policy guidance
• UNDP (2011) Practitioners Guide Capacity
  Development for Environmental Sustainability.
  United Nations Development Programme, New York
• UNDP-UNEP (2011) Mainstreaming Adaptation to
  Climate Change into Development Planning A Guide
  for Practitioners. UNDP-UNEP Poverty-Environment
  Initiative
• UNDP Integrating environment into development
  http//www.undp.org/mainstreaming/
• USAID (2007) Adapting to climate variability and
  change a guidance manual for development
  planning

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• Thank you
• Contact Dr. Pendo MARO, ACP Secretariat
  pendomaro_at_acp.int or 32 495 281
  494www.gcca.eu/intra-acp