Country

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• Countrys experience in building and monitoring
  capacities in climate change area.
• Albania case
• Ermira Fida
• Manager
• Climate Change Program,
• Albania
• UNFCCC workshop on ME of capacity building for
  climate change
• Rio de Janerio,
• 7 November, 2008

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Outline of presentation

• Background on Albania and Climate Change
  activities
• Scope of climate change activities in Albania
• Scope of capacity building activities in Albania
  
• Monitoring and Evaluation of capacity building
• Case studies
• A completed FSP
• An ongoing MSP
• An ongoing FSP
• An ongoing Enabling Activity
• Concluding remarks.

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Albania and Climate Chnage

• Joined the UNFCCC in 1995
• Status under the UNFCCC
• Non-Annex 1 Party to the UNFCCC
• Joined the Kyoto Protocol
• 16 December, 2004

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Climate Change Activities in Albania

• Project based activities
• Climate Change Program
• Funded by UNDP and other donors, through UNDP
• Focused on the following thematic areas
• GHG inventory/mitigation
• vulnerability and adaptation
• Enabling Activities (National Communication / TNA
  preparation) process is a cross-cutting process
• Has been instrumental towards climate change
  mainstreaming, capacity building and resource
  mobilization
• Has supported the set up and expanding of climate
  change program
• As of today total budget of USD 4,837,302 has
  been mobilized
• Public awareness, education, and capacity
  building is a cross-cutting component of the
  program

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Scope of the Climate Change Activities in
Albania

Project completed
Project on-going
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Capacity Building Activities in Albania

• Capacity Building (CB) an integral part of
  climate change program along with
• public awareness and communication
• Addressed under CB-stand alone projects
• UNDP CB for CDM
• UNDP-GEF FSP CB for improvement of GHG
  inventories
• UNDP-GEF EA CB in priority areas / TNA
• Addressed as project component under
• UNDP-GEF EA National Communication (1st and 2nd
  )
• UNDP/UNEP-GEF FSP Market transformation for SWH
• UNDP-GEF MSP Identification and implementation
  of adaptation measures in Drini-Mati River Deltas
• UNDP/UNEP Carbon neutral territories

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The Scope of CB in Albania

• National GHG inventories
• GHG scenarios
• Climate scenarios
• Impact assessment and adaptation
• Carbon financing / CDM
• Public awareness and communication
• Negotiation process

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Sharing Capacity Building outside Albania

• Countries / Climate change teams to which we
  have shared our experience
• Malta
• National communication
• Technology Needs Assessment
• Azerbaijan
• National Communication,
• Technology Needs Assessment
• Bosnia Herzegovina
• National Communication
• CDM
• DNA set up and functioning,
• Sectorial baseline setting,
• Serbia
• National Communication

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ME of climate change projects Albania

• ME is part of the project management cycle
• Results-Based Management approach is employed by
  UNDP, the implementing agency to manage a
  project
• A process-based description of programming
  methods articulated as policies, tasks, and
  deliverables, for use in the effective planning
  and implementation of development programmes and
  projects
• Follows an international standard method PRINCE-
  Projects In Controlled Environment

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Monitoring and Evaluation of Capacity Building
Activities in Albania

• GEF Medium and Full size and other UNDP projects
  have a ME component
• Periodic reporting of project progress against
  targets (including those regarding CB) are
  monitored and evaluated based on verifiable
  indicators
• Logical Framework (Logframe) Matrix - performance
  and impact indicators for project implementation
  and means of verification
• The Logframe is set up during the project
  formulation phase
• The logframe consist of Outcomes, outputs,
  baseline, indicators, means of verification,
  assumptions and risks
• The Logframe the basis for the ME plan
• ME plan get finalized in the project inception
  workshop/phase.
• Enabling Activities
• Logframe does not apply
• Annual Reviews as part of monitoring are based on
  Results
• Peer review of NC components from NCSP
• The impact of EAs to CB has been significant

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Monitoring results of concrete projects in
Albania

• Case 1
• UNDP-GEF Building capacities to improve the
  quality of GHG emission inventories in East
  Europe and CIS
• Project size Full Size Project
• Status completed (2003-2006)
• Logframe application yes
• Project results/impact
• Strengthened national arrangements for compiling,
  archiving, updating, and managing GHG
  inventories
• Sustainable inventory process created
• Enhanced technical capacities to prepare GHG
  inventories
• Improved methodologies and emission factors.

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Case 1 Logframe, Project outcomes
Project outcomes Verifiable Indicators Means of Verification Assumptions and Risks
Strengthened national arrangements for compiling, archiving, updating, and managing GHG inventories Strategies to compile, archive and update GHG inventories national manuals of procedures long-term inventory improvement strategies QA/QC plans
Sustainable inventory process created GHG inventory experts hired by the Governments long- Term GHG improvement Strategies inventory archive set up. End-of project report long-term inventory improvement strategies Outreach campaign for a sustainable GHG inventory team is funded by Government funds
Enhanced technical capacities to prepare GHG inventories Experts are trained and prepare inventory of the key sources Key sources inventory peer review report
Improved methodologies and emission factors Up to 3 Emission Factors improved Technical advisory group meeting minutes

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Monitoring results in concrete projects in
Albania

• Case 2
• UNDP-GEF Identification of adaptation measures
  in Drini-Mati river deltas (DMRD)
• Project size Medium Size Project
• Status ongoing
• Logframe application yes
• Expected Project results/impacts
• Capacities to monitor and respond to anticipated
  climate change impacts in the project site at the
  institutional and community developed
• DMRD region's conservation and development
  policies, plans and programmes integrate climate
  change risks and take local pilot actions for
  coastal adaptation.
• A system of knowledge management established

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Case 2 the Logframe, outcome 1
Project outcome 1 Indicator Baseline Target Source of verification Risks and assumption
Capacities to monitor and respond to expected climate change in DMRD are developed Capacity to access CC impacts to biodiversity in the DMRD A very general understanding of CC impacts coastal ecosystems exists Systematic data and information on CC impact to coastal ecosystems in DMRD is in place, by the end of the project Final project report Access to high-quality training resources is obtained.

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Monitoring in concrete projects in Albania

• Case 3
• UNDP-GEF Market transformation for promotion of
  the Solar Water Heating in Albania
• Project size Full Size Project
• Status ongoing
• Logframe application yes
• Expected Project results/impacts
• A regulatory framework for SWH market promotion
• Enhanced awareness and capacity of the targeted
  end-users and building professionals to consider
  and integrate SWH systems into different types of
  buildings
• Increasing demand for SWH through setting up an
  appropriate financial mechanism
• Quality control scheme
• Lessons learnt spread, documented and
  disseminated

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Case 3 the Logframe, outcome 2
Project outcome 1 Indicator Baseline Target Source of verification Risks and assumption
Enhanced awareness and capacity of he targeted end-users and building professionals to consider and integrate SWH systems into different types buildings The demand for additional information. The share of new and renovated buildings that have integrated SWH systems Based on a market survey more than 50 responded that lack information on this technology and more than 90 would like to have more information More than 80 of the end-users declare that have the right information on SWH to make a decision Market survey Interest of end-users to participate at the survey

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Reporting the progress of activitiesCase of 2nd
National Communication (SNC)
Expected output, target and indicators Planned activities Expenditures Results of activities Progress against outcomes, outputs
Output Albanias SNC Target Prepare the Albanias SNC and submit to the CoP of the UNFCCC Indicator The SNC report to reflect the current available guidance Baseline Albania prepared the 1st NC and the TNA GHG inventory USD XXX Activity Data Data gaps Key source inventory .. Collected Filled Developed at70 .
Output Albanias SNC Target Prepare the Albanias SNC and submit to the CoP of the UNFCCC Indicator The SNC report to reflect the current available guidance Baseline Albania prepared the 1st NC and the TNA GHG mitigation USD XXX GHG baseline scenario GHG abatement scenario GHG technologies completed developed at 50
Output Albanias SNC Target Prepare the Albanias SNC and submit to the CoP of the UNFCCC Indicator The SNC report to reflect the current available guidance Baseline Albania prepared the 1st NC and the TNA VA USD XXX Climate scenario Impact assessment Adaptation measures completed
Output Albanias SNC Target Prepare the Albanias SNC and submit to the CoP of the UNFCCC Indicator The SNC report to reflect the current available guidance Baseline Albania prepared the 1st NC and the TNA Other information USD XXX national circumstances Cross-cutting issues Completed .

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Concluding remarks

• Enabling activities have provided significant
  contribution towards CB in Albania
• Other initiatives / projects have contributed
  towards strengthening of capacities built
• Monitoring of CB through verifiable indicators at
  the enabling activity level is important!
• Monitoring through verifiable indicators has
  proved to increase the desirable results on
  project implementation
• Setting of verifiable indicators related to CB is
  highly important
• Stakeholder involvement to the indicator setting
  process is important and helps a lot
• Monitoring of CB not an easy task!
• involves different means of verifications
  (data-intensive exercise )
• varies from project report, number of experts
  trained up to surveys.etc.

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• For more information on climate change
  activities in Albania
• http//www.ccalb.org

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• Thank you!