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African Development Bank Tunis, Tunisia 21-22 March, 2011

AfDB’s Green Growth Strategy: What Role can SESA play?. SESA Workshop. Dr. Anthony NYONG Manager, ORQR.3. African Development Bank Tunis, Tunisia 21-22 March, 2011. Outline. Background Why a Green Growth Strategy for Africa? What role can SESA play in Green Growth Strategy?

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African Development Bank Tunis, Tunisia 21-22 March, 2011

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  1. AfDB’s Green Growth Strategy: What Role can SESA play? SESA Workshop Dr. Anthony NYONG Manager, ORQR.3 African Development Bank Tunis, Tunisia 21-22 March, 2011

  2. Outline • Background • Why a Green Growth Strategy for Africa? • What role can SESA play in Green Growth Strategy? • Key messages and Way Forward

  3. BACKGROUND

  4. AFDB and Green Growth • Green Growth for AfDB is all about achieving sustainable development through: • Economic growth • Environment, climate resilience and low carbon development, • Sustainable improvement of living conditions (poverty reduction and social justice)

  5. Climate Change and Green Growth In Africa, Green Growth can be achieved through climate compatible development Development Climate Resilient Dev Low Carbon Dev Climate Compatible Development Mitigation Adaptation Climate Proofed Abatements Source: Catalyst, 2009

  6. Why a Green Growth Strategy for Africa

  7. Alignment with Bank’s Mission TheGreen Growth Strategy will: • Support a low carbon intensive development and ensure sustainability • Strengthen the Bank’s Medium Term Strategy (2008-2012) and Sector Strategies • Support the existing Bank’s Climate Change Policies for climate resilient and low carbon development: • Clean Energy Investment Framework • Climate Risk Management and Adaptation Strategy • Integrated Climate Change Action Plan

  8. Objectives Providing a strategic orientation Ensuring efficient use of natural capital Promoting best practices and good policies

  9. Key areas of action • Green agricultural practices • Green technologies • Sustainable trade • Sustainable use of natural resources • Clean industrial development • Sustainable transport • Clean Energy • Green jobs • Waste Management • Socially appropriate growth

  10. Design process of the Green Growth Strategy

  11. Conception • Preparation • Work Plan and Concept Note • Fact findings at different levels • Design • Data Analysis • Definition of Indicators, output & impact • Draft AfDB Green Growth Strategy • Draft National Green Growth Strategies • (Easily adaptable to specific country needs) • Peer Review/Adoption/Board Approval • Stakeholders’ Meetings for harmonization/adoption • Board approval

  12. Implementation • Implementation of AfDB’s Strategy • Political Orientation of Bank • Harmonization with existing Bank policies • Implementation Action Plan • Implementation of 5 Pilot Strategies • Selection of pilot countries based on economic, social and political variations • Implementation in Key Sectors Evaluation • Revision and way forward

  13. Lessons Learned/Best Practices • Within the Bank • At national level in the 5 Pilot RMCs • At regional and international levels Scaling Up • Supporting the scaling up of national • Green Growth Strategies • Monitoring how they are adapted and • implemented, through Bank regional offices

  14. Summary of the Process

  15. What role can SESA play in Green Growth Strategy?

  16. SESA and the GGS • SESA provides a holistic and long term forecast approach to understand economic, social and environmental implications of the proposed Green Growth Strategy, and therefore assess sustainability OECD, 2006

  17. SESA and the GGS • Sustainability assessment will be needed to evaluate the impacts of the Strategy against its agreed objectives, targets and indicators Thérivel, 2004 Collingwood Environmental • At the implementation phase, this will also help monitor the impacts of the strategies as well as its related options/sectors, and suggest necessary adjustments

  18. SESA and the GGS (cont’d) • With regards to green technologies, for instance, the application of SESA is especially needed to assess positive and negative impacts of the selected technologies and their role in achieving sustainability • Strategic assessment of Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency technologies, is necessary to promote low-cost, low-carbon and effective clean technologies, in considering costs of GHG reduction vs GHG emission

  19. SESA and the GGS (cont’d) • A set of generic sustainability indicators is needed to monitor whether and how selected Green Growth options/sectors contribute to (or deviate from) sustainability • The use of existing tools is very important: cost-benefit approach, ESIA, ecological footprint, life cycle approach, multi-criteria analysis and stakeholder analysis • Although, many difficulties remain with regards to the selection of appropriate methods to assess the sustainability of the Green Growth Strategy

  20. Key messages and Way Forward • A Green Growth Strategy can make Africa in the long term a potential pole of economically, socially and environmentally sustainable growth • The proposed Bank’s Africa Green Fund (AGF) will serve as a financing mechanism for the Green Growth Strategy • SESA is an important and appropriate tool to assess the proposed Green Growth Strategy with regards to its implications on sustainability and low carbon development

  21. Thank you! For more information: Web site: www.afdb.org E-mail: climatechange@afdb.org We are all sitting in the same boat

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