ClimDev-Africa Program & African Climate Policy Centre (ACPC)

1. ClimDev-Africa Program &African Climate Policy Centre (ACPC) Presentation to the 6th Session of the Committee on Food Security and Sustainable Development (CFSSD-6) Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 28 October 2009

2. Presentation Outline • Program Thrust • Program Stakeholders • Program Description • Program Governance • Program Implementation

3. Program Thrust • ClimDev-Africa – A regional initiative, jointly undertaken by the AUC, ECA and AfDB aimed at: • Enabling effective adaptation activities in climate-sensitive sectors: Agriculture and food security; water resources; energy; health • Strengthening Africa’s climate and development institutions at regional, sub-regional and national levels • Filling gaps in climate information, analysis and options needed by policy/decision-makers at all levels • Enhancing the use of climate information in decision-making by improving analytical capacity, knowledge management, dissemination activities and capacity building

4. Program Stakeholders • Development practitioners who need to integrate climate change adaptation in their areas of intervention • Policy analysts and researchers who need climate information as input to their work • Regional, sub-regional and national climate, meteorological and hydrological services and research institutions that provide the data and information services required • RECs and RBOs that coordinate sub-regional climate adaptation action • Relevant national sectoral ministries, professional and civil society stakeholders

5. Program Description: Results Areas • Results area 1: Widely available climate information, packaging and dissemination • Objective: Policymakers, policy support organisations and the population have access to comprehensive/useful climate information • Results area 2: Quality analysis for decision support and management practice • Objective: Enhanced scientific capacity producing effective and quality policy-supporting analyses and best practices on different levels (regional to local) • Results area 3: Informed decision-making, awareness and advocacy • Objective: Improved policy dialogue and support to climate and development policymaking processes at the continental, sub-regional, national and local levels • Results area 4: Evidence-based value of mainstreaming climate information into development through implementation of pilot adaptation practices

6. Program Description: Inputs (1) • Political leadership provided by the AUC, to co-ordinate the Continental policy response and global negotiations – Dedicated Climate Change and Desertification Unit in AUC/DREA • ECA-based African Climate Policy Centre (ACPC) to serve as ClimDev-Africa knowledge-management and Policy/project-facilitation arm • AfDB-based ClimDev-Africa Special Fund (CDSF) to provide a channel for demand-led funding of field-level operations by implementing institutions across Africa

7. Program Description: Inputs (2) • Thrust of the work of ECA-based ACPC • Deliver on the Policy component of ClimDev- Africa • Assist, through AUC and AMCEN, Africa’s preparation for, and participation in global climate negotiations – towards Copenhagen • Support efforts of African States in mainstreaming climate change concerns into development policies and frameworks • Guide and facilitate the implementation of ClimDev-Africa field-level operations

8. Program Description: Inputs (3) • Main activities of ACPC work: With focus on development policies and strategies for priority climate-sensitive sectors: • Policy research and analysis (CC vulnerability, impacts, adaptation costs/benefits & policy options) • Policy advocacy, communication and outreach – Annual African Climate and Development Conference starting with ADF-VII in 2010 • Consensus building at the regional level • Capacity strengthening, technical advice and assistance • Knowledge management and peer learning • Facilitation of field-level operations development and implementation

9. Program Governance

10. Program Implementation (1) • ClimDev-Africa is being implemented progressively, starting in 2009 • Putting in place the basic management and policy capacity of the ACPC (office, staffing) – Recruitment underway • Initiating policy-making activities (website, databases, studies, advocacy, consensus-building – e.g. Africa’s consultations for a common negotiating position) • Implementing ClimDev-Africa Special Fund (procedures and processes, criteria for funding approval, call for funding applications from prioritized organisations)

11. Program Implementation (2) • So far, ACPC has supported through technical input and sponsorship, in collaboration with AUC and AMCEN Secretariat at UNEP, the following: • Africa’s Ministerial and Negotiators Group regional meetings: Algiers (Nov. 2008), Nairobi (May 2009), Ouagadougou (October 2009), Addis Ababa (Pre-COP, October 2009) • Conference of Ministers on Financing for Development focused on climate change (Kigali, May 2009) • Special Session of the Africa Partnership Forum (APF) on Climate Change (Addis Ababa, September 2009)

12. Program Implementation (3) • ClimDev-Africa financing will be provided through a blend of programmatic funding and pooled Special Fund modalities • Indicative budget for overall ClimDev-Africa Program estimated at about US $140m for 4 years, including provisions for: • ACPC (about US$ 35m) • Additional capacity at AUC and RECs • Special Fund meant to be demand-led, implies the indicative budget estimate will be revised based on effective demand

13. Program Implementation (4) • Mainstreaming and sustaining ECA work on climate change and development • Centrality, crosscutting and long-term nature of the climate change challenge for sustainable development • Anticipated demand for analytical inputs, capacity-building and policy advice/assistance for mainstreaming climate change concerns into core development priorities, frameworks, policies and strategies • Need to go beyond the “ClimDev-Africa/ACPC project arrangement”, which depends entirely on extra-budgetary resources • Recommendation to sustain the work of ECA in this crucial area by complemented the Food Security and Sustainable Development sub-program with a dedicated “Climate and development sub-program”

14. Thank you