Country’s experience in building and monitoring capacities in climate change area. Albania case

Country’s experience in building and

monitoring capacities in climate change area.

Albania case

Ermira Fida

ManagerClimate Change Program,

Albania

UNFCCC workshop on M&E of capacity building for climate change

Rio de Janerio, 7 November, 2008

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.

Joined the UNFCCC in 1995Status under the UNFCCC Non-Annex 1 Party to

the UNFCCC

Joined the Kyoto Protocol 16 December, 2004

Albania and Climate Chnage

Climate Change Activities in Albania

Project – based activitiesClimate Change Program Funded by UNDP and other donors, through UNDPFocused 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

Scope of the Climate Change Activities in Albania

Project completed

Project on-going

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

The Scope of CB in Albania

National GHG inventoriesGHG scenariosClimate scenariosImpact assessment and adaptationCarbon financing / CDMPublic awareness and communicationNegotiation process

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

M&E of climate change projects Albania

M&E is part of the project management cycleResults-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

GEF Medium and Full size and other UNDP projects have a M&E 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 M&E plan M&E 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

Monitoring and Evaluation of Capacity Building Activities in

Albania

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.

Projectoutcomes

Verifiable Indicators

Means of Verification

Assumptions and Risks

Strengthened national arrangements for compiling, archiving, updating, and managing GHG inventories

Strategies tocompile, archive and update GHG inventories

national manuals of procedures;

long-term inventory improvement strategies;

QA/QC plans

Sustainable inventory process created

GHG inventoryexpertshired by the Governments; long-Term GHGimprovementStrategies; 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

Case 1: Logframe, Project outcomes

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:

1. Capacities to monitor and respond to anticipated climate change impacts in the project site at the institutional and community developed

2. DMRD region's conservation and development policies, plans and programmes integrate climate change risks and take local pilot actions for coastal adaptation.

3. A system of knowledge management established

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.

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:

1. A regulatory framework for SWH market promotion2. Enhanced awareness and capacity of the targeted end-

users and building professionals to consider and integrate SWH systems into different types of buildings

3. Increasing demand for SWH through setting up an appropriate financial mechanism

4. Quality control scheme 5. Lessons learnt spread, documented and disseminated

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

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: Albania’s SNC ;

Target: Prepare the Albania’s 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…..

CollectedFilled Developed

at70%….

GHG mitigation

USD XXX GHG baseline scenario

GHG abatement scenario

GHG technologies

completed developed at

50% ……

V&A USD XXX Climate scenarioImpact

assessmentAdaptation

measures

completed……

Other information

USD XXX national circumstances

Cross-cutting issues

Completed…….

Concluding remarks Enabling activities have provided significant contribution towards CB in AlbaniaOther initiatives / projects have contributed towards strengthening of capacities builtMonitoring 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 implementationSetting of verifiable indicators related to CB is highly importantStakeholder involvement to the indicator setting process is important and helps a lotMonitoring 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.

For more information on climate change activities in Albania:

http://www.ccalb.org

Thank you!