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

1. ClimDev-Africa Program &African Climate Policy Center (ACPC) AMCEN Special Session Side Event 27 May 2009

2. Presentation Outline • Program Specificity • Program Stakeholders and Beneficiaries • Program Description • Program Governance • Implementation and Monitoring • Program Financing

3. Program Specificity • ClimDev-Africa – A unique regional initiative, jointly undertaken by the AUC, ECA and AfDB, with highest-level political endorsement • Designed to respond to climate change and variability challenges for Africa’s development, with focus on climate-sensitive sectors: Agriculture and food security; water resources; energy; health • Aimed at: • Increasing the resilience of Africa’s population to climate change by enabling effective adaptation activities • Addressing the need for greatly improved climate information for Africa • Strengthening the use of such information for decision-making by improving analytical capacity, knowledge management and dissemination activities

4. Program Specificity - Thrust • Filling gaps in information, analysis and options required by policy and decision-makers at all levels • Building a solid foundation for science-based response to climate change • Strengthening Africa’s climate and development institutions at regional, sub-regional and national levels • Providing a framework for coordinated increased level of activities for adaptation to climate change • Assisting in sound policy-making based on information and policy options analysis

5. Program Stakeholders and Beneficiaries • Ultimate beneficiaries: Rural and urban communities with climate sensitive livelihoods • Immediate beneficiaries: Policymakers of RECs, RBOs, National governments, parliaments, African negotiators • Principal 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 ACC action • Relevant national sectoral ministries

6. Programme description – Results Areas • Results area 1: Widely available climate information, packaging and dissemination • Objective: Policymakers, policy support organisations and the population at large 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

7. Program Description – Inputs (1) • Political leadership provided by the AUC, who will co-ordinate the Continental policy response and global negotiations • ECA-based African Climate Policy Center (ACPC) to serve as ClimDev-Africa knowledge-management and Policy-facilitation arm • ClimDev-Africa Special Fund to provide a channel for demand-led funding of implementing institutions across Africa – Based at and managed by AfDB

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

9. 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 • 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

10. Programme Governance • ClimDev-Africa will be governed by the following organs: • Chief Executive Board (CEB) of the AUC/ECA/AfDB Joint Secretariat and AMCEN: To provide overall program oversight • Program Steering Committee (PSC): To provide operational/implementation oversight of the Program • Expert Panel of Technical Advisors: for quality assurance of policy development and technical review of project proposals for funding • Annual African Climate and Development Conference: to maintain linkages with all relevant stakeholders engaged in the ClimDev-Africa process

11. Programme Governance

12. Implementation and Monitoring (1) • ClimDev-Africa will be implemented progressively, starting in 2009 • Inception actions in 2009: • Putting in place the basic management and policy capacity of the ACPC (office, staffing) • Initiating ACPC website (using ECA web management facilities) • Preparing detailed project implementation documents and work plans • Initiating policy-making activities (studies, advocacy, consensus-building) • Implementing ClimDev-Africa Special Fund (procedures and processes, criteria for funding approval, call for funding applications from prioritized organisations)

13. Implementation and Monitoring (2) • Field-level operations (2010-2012) • Embedding the functioning of ClimDev-Africa at field (sub-regional and national) level • Based on detailed work plans developed in 2009 • Monitoring and reporting in 3 areas: • Operation of the overall ClimDev-Africa program • Activities funded by the ClimDev-Africa Special Fund • Performance of administrative and financial functions

14. Program Financing • Financing will be provided through a blend of programmatic funding and pooled Special Fund modalities • Indicative total budget is estimated at about $140m over 4 years (including additional capacity at AUC and REC levels) • Special Fund meant to be demand-led, implies the indicative budget estimate will be revised based on demand

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