Transcript English - Global Environment Facility

St. John’s, Antigua
May 2012
What is STAP?
In 1994, the GEF Instrument sets up STAP –
“UNEP shall establish, in consultation with UNDP and the
World Bank and on the basis of guidelines and criteria
established by the Council, the Scientific and Technical
Advisory Panel (STAP) as an advisory body to the Facility.
UNEP shall provide the STAP’s Secretariat and shall operate
as the liaison between the Facility and the STAP.” (Instrument
for the Establishment of the Restructured Global
Environment Facility, 1994 and 2008)
What is STAP?
The Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel (STAP)
of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) provides
strategic and independent advice on projects,
programs, and policies.
STAP is administered by the United Nations
Environment Programme (UNEP), and it is
supported by a Secretariat in Washington, D.C
Who is STAP?
Thomas E. Lovejoy, Chair
Sandra Diaz
Biodiversity
Meryl J. Williams
Co-Chair , IW
Henk Bouwman
Chemicals & POPs
N.H. Ravindranath
Climate Change
Michael Stocking Advisor
to STAP Chair
Land Degradation
(Under recruitment)
Adaptation
(Under
recruitment)
Overview of STAP PIF screens
 Screening versus reviewing
 STAP’s rating categories –
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Consent
 Minor revision
 Major revision
PIF sections commonly
screened by STAP
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Project Framework (Part I: B.)
Baseline and problem statement (Part II: B.1)
Incremental activities and global environmental
benefits (B.2)
Socioeconomic benefits and gender within the context
of global environmental benefits (B.3)
Risks, including climate change risks (B.4)
Key stakeholders (B.5)
Related initiatives (B.6)
Project framework: Indicative
overview from a STAP perspective
 Project objective: The purpose of the project and its
intent to generate global environmental benefits.
STAP: Is the objective clear and consistent with the problem
statement?
 Project Outcome: The likely, or achieved, short-term
and medium-term effects of an intervention’s output
(e.g. “integrated landscape management practices
adopted by local communities”).
STAP : Do the outcomes encompass important global
environmental benefits and are they likely to be generated?
Project framework: Indicative overview from
a STAP perspective (cont’d)
 Project Outputs1,2: The products and services which
result from an intervention (e.g. “integrated natural
resource management tools and methodologies are
developed and implemented”).
STAP: Is the sum of the outputs likely to contribute to the
outcomes?
1
The activities that yield the products and services can be
organized into groups or components to maximize
coordination and quality of outputs.
2 Output
indicators tells us what we are going to measure and
not what is to be achieved (example - # of tools developed)
Project baseline: STAP’s perspective
The baseline is the value of indicators prior to the
start of the project, and should be supported by
verifiable data that is current and accurate, and with
references to published sources where feasible.*
STAP: Is the baseline identified clearly? Does it present
a feasible basis from which to measure and
monitor global environmental change, including
development outcomes? …Has a focus on scientific
baselines.
**GEF Secretariat: What would happen without the GEF?
(“business as usual scenario” - PIF stage); and appropriate
baseline data in project framework + tracking tools (CEO
endorsement)
Project baselines: STAP’s perspective
(cont’d)
Quantitative baselines should be included to the
fullest extent possible (even if inferred)
 In the event of no quantitative baseline at PIF– make
reference to tracking tool, or specify a timeline to
collect data
 Qualitative baselines can be supported by current
and accurate scientific references, and/or rigorous
local unpublished evidence (‘grey literature’)
Incremental activities
“Incremental reasoning defines the role for the GEF in the
context of the expected global environmental benefits
from a proposed project. It is based on an assessment of
the value added by involving the GEF.” (GEF/C.31/12)
STAP looks for…
Are the incremental activities scientifically justified?
(supported by scientific references, rigorous local
unpublished evidence)
Incremental activities (cont’d)
Are the global environmental benefits defined
explicitly? (indicators, or methodologies, to measure
and monitor global environmental benefits)
Are the benefits truly global environmental
benefits, and are they measurable?
(carbon sequestration not sustainable land
management; improvements in land cover not
benefits to ecosystem services)
Incremental activities (cont’d)
 Is there scientific innovation? -
…knowledge generation to improve
the effectiveness and quality of the development and
implementation of GEF projects and programs…
(e.g.“Strengthening management effectiveness
of protected areas to protect biodiversity under
conditions of climate change”, Mexico, UNDP)
Socioeconomic benefits & gender
STAP looks for…
Are the socioeconomic benefits, and their
contribution to global environmental
benefits, defined explicitly? (supported by scientific
references)
Is gender adequately accommodated
throughout the proposal? (disaggregated data;
interventions designed to target specifically the different needs
of men and women; socio-cultural considerations that may
impact on the inclusion of either gender in activities)
Risks
STAP looks for…
Are the risks valid and comprehensive?
Are the risks associated with the project design, or
resource mobilization (internal)?
Are the risks associated with
unforeseen circumstances (external)?
Climate change risks
 STAP considers a number of questions, including –
 Is the project location in a region of climate risks?
 Are the project objectives, or outputs, prone to climate
change risks over the period 2020s, 2030s, 2050s and has
the PIF addressed the risks of impacts of climate change?
 Has the PIF considered resilience enhancement practices
and measures to the projected climate risks and impacts?
Adaptation tools and data
sources on climate change
Key stakeholders
STAP looks for …
Are any stakeholders missing?
What are the stakeholders’ specific roles? Are they
gender-specific or otherwise culturally defined?
How will their combined roles contribute to
reporting to (multiple) global environmental
outcomes, and knowledge management?
Related initiatives
STAP looks for…
Are the project developers tapping into relevant
knowledge and learning generated by other
projects, including GEF projects?
 Is there an adequate mechanism to
feed the lessons learned from earlier
initiatives into the proposed project?
Thoughts to consider…
 What are the main challenges in developing scientifically
and technically viable PIFs? (data access?)
 What regional networks, institutions, other options are
available to develop data and address data gaps that
contribute to global environmental outcomes?
 Could addressing a specific data need contribute to the
knowledge and learning of the GEF? (use of targeted
research window)
 From design to implementation – the focus is measuring
and tracking global environmental outcomes : project
level – focal area – GEF corporate knowledge and learning
Thank you!
Christine Wellington-Moore
[email protected]
www.unep.org/stap