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

1. Country’s experience in building and monitoring capacities in climate change area. Albania case Ermira Fida Manager Climate Change Program, Albania UNFCCC workshop on M&E of capacity building for climate change Rio de Janerio, 7 November, 2008

2. 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.

3. 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

4. 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

5. Scope of the Climate Change Activities in Albania Project completed Project on-going

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. M&E of climate change projects Albania • M&E is part of theproject 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

10. Monitoring and Evaluation of Capacity Building Activities in Albania • 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

11. 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.

12. Case 1: Logframe, Project outcomes

13. 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

14. Case 2: the Logframe, outcome 1

15. 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

16. Case 3: the Logframe, outcome 2

17. Reporting the progress of activitiesCase of 2nd National Communication (SNC)

18. 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.

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

21. Thank you!