AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK GROUP TOM DOWNING Climate Safeguard System: Screening projects in the African Development Bank.

AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK GROUP

TOM DOWNING

Climate Safeguard System:Screening projects in the African Development Bank

OVERVIEW OF CSS

BASED ON THE PROJECT CYCLE

Task Managers are faced with a well-defined project cycle and outputs. Projects must meet investment safeguarding standards.

Country planning is a scoping exercise that involves more than one stakeholder and bringing together a wealth of information for the Bank's planning but also for public use.

CLIMATE CONTEXT

• Envelopes of climate change: Uncertain futures

KNOWLEDGE BASE

KNOWLEDGE BASEWith Climate Systems Analysis Group, University of Cape Town:

• Agroecological zones

• Downscaled climate envelopes at the station level

• Templates for describing climate information for country strategy and at station-project level

Supporting documents & links

CLIMATE SCREENING TOOL

• Purpose: Determine what additional measures are required

• Outcome: Assignment of a project into one of three categories

• Method: Sectoral scorecards

CLIMATE SCREENING

Principles behind the screening tool

Designed with the Bank and for their portfolio in AfricaEasy and quick to applyHighly transparent processSimple but not simplisticAdditive scoring

NOT dependent on projected climate impactsNOT lengthy all-risk assessment

SCORING AND PROJECT CATEGORIES

Project category definitions

ADAPTATION PROCEDURES

• Purpose: Incorporate adaptation plans into project design

• Outcome: Selected measures for project documents

• Method: Filtering of purpose, components and activities based on simple criteria

AREP

PRINCIPLES

Highly transparent: Bank has control over the processTime spent in mainstreaming adaptation is proportionate to the project categoryCost of adaptation activities is proportionate to financial risksDriven by planning outputs and robust decision-making despite climate uncertainties

NOT prescriptive: many possible adaptation plans for a projectNOT driven by uncertain climate scenariosNOT forcing all projects to conduct full climate audits

STEPS FOR THE 3 CATEGORIES

SELECT PURPOSE & COMPONENTS

SELECT ACTIVITIES

COMPLETE THE RLF

CSS AND TRACKING AID

• Transparency: Fully managed by the Bank

• Accountability: Documents each step of the analysis as operational safeguard

• Results: Proactive management of projects to achieve climate resilience

• Tracking finance: Proportion assigned to ‘additional climate finance’ is relative to category of project

AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK GROUP

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FOUNDATIONS

The Climate Risk Management and Adaptation Strategy sets a target to screen 80% of the Bank's projects by 2012

Implemented through the Climate Change Action Plan 2010-2014

CATEGORY THRESHOLDS

The total score enables us to classify a project in one of the three categories.

USE CASES

Timothy works in the AfDB. He has received a project proposal and been assigned to…

Use cases are a formal method in software design

Actor + Decision environment + Outcome

We have run hundreds of use cases at every stage to ensure our methods provide solutions to specific tasks in the Bank's project cycle