Transcript UNDP Presentation - English - Global Environment Facility

GEF and the Conventions

Reporting - GEF Enabling Activities
- Overview
- UNDP’s role
- UNDP’s activities in the Region
GEF Caribbean Expanded Constituency Workshop
Belize City, Tuesday 01 March 2011
GEF as a “financial mechanism” for
global environmental conventions
The GEF provides funding to assist developing countries in meeting the
objectives of international environmental conventions.
→ GEF serves as "financial mechanism" for 4 conventions:
 Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
 UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)
 Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants
The GEF, although not linked formally to the Montreal Protocol on Substances That Deplete the
Ozone Layer (MP), supports implementation of the Protocol in countries with transition economies
GEF - Areas of Work
STAR –
System for
Transparent
Allocation
of Resources
Country Programming –
Transparent Allocation of Resources
COUNTRY
Cuba
Jamaica
Dominican
Republic
Bahamas
Haiti
Trinidad &
Tobago
Guyana
Suriname
Belize
St. Lucia
Grenada
St. Kitts and
Nevis
Antigua &
Barbuda
St. Vincent
and
Grenadines
Barbados
Dominica
TOTAL
GEF IV
CC : 4.2
BD: 14.70
CC: Group
BD: 5.10
CC: Group
BD: 5.8
CC: Group
BD: Group
CC: Group
BD: 4.10
CC: Group
BD: Group
CC: Group
BD: Group
CC: Group
BD: 0.0
CC: Group
BD: Group
CC: Group
BD: Group
CC: Group
BD: Group
CC: Group
BD: Group
GEF V
STAR
CC
BD
LD
TOTAL
Flexible
4.64
11.44
3.12
18.50
no
STAR
2.0
7.27
0.78
10.05
no
STAR
2.73
5.36
0.72
8.81
no
STAR
2.0
4.26
1.48
7.74
no
STAR
2.0
4.56
0.79
7.35
no
STAR
3.16
2.74
1.24
7.14
no
STAR
2.0
3.26
1.12
6.37
Yes
STAR
2.0
3.0
0.55
5.55
Yes
STAR
2.0
2.44
0.68
5.12
Yes
STAR
2.0
1.87
0.86
4.73
Yes
STAR
2.0
1.5
1.16
4.66
Yes
STAR
2.0
1.5
0.98
4.48
Yes
CC: Group
BD: Group
CC: Group
BD: Group
STAR
2.0
1.5
0.94
4.44
Yes
STAR
2.0
1.5
0.71
4.21
Yes
CC: Group
BD: Group
CC: Group
BD: Group
CC: 4.2 +
Group
BD: 15.0 +
Group
STAR
2.0
1.5
0.59
4.09
Yes
STAR
2.0
1.5
0.50
4.0
Yes
36.53
55.2
16.22
107.24
STAR –
System for
Transparent
Allocation
of Resources
Country Programming –
Transparent Allocation of Resources
 Any country that receives a sum total allocation for BD, CC, and LD
that totals less than $6.5* M would be allowed to use its allocation
within either of these three focal areas, if eligible.
 Around 50 countries are expected to benefit => several
Caribbean countries (see previous table)
 These countries will be invited to inform the Conference of the
Parties of the relevant convention(s) about the utilization of the
GEF resources.
*The final flexibility threshold for GEF-5 will be set once the size of the
replenishment is known, based on Council decision to protect at least
90% of biodiversity and climate change resources (update: done,
results reflected in previous table).
GEF as a “financial mechanism” &
reporting obligations
 The funding of National Communications/reports to the
conventions is a fundamental obligation of the GEF as the
financial mechanism of various conventions
 Countries may apply directly to the GEF for resources
and technical support to prepare National Communications.
 Countries also have the option to receive resources and
technical support for National Communications through
GEF Agencies
How to access GEF funds
The following mechanisms are available for accesing GEF funds
→
Full-Sized Projects
GEF contributions > 1 M$*
→
Medium-Sized Projects
GEF contributions <1 M$*
→ others: Enabling
Activities and Small Grants Programme
Full-Sized and Medium-Sized Projects are prepared with the help of an
Implementation Agency. Enabling activities can be prepared with or without
help of an Implementing Agency.
Enabling Activities (EAs)
The GEF finances Enabling Activities
related to the conventions on:
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biodiversity
climate change
Persistent Organic Pollutants
desertification
to help countries prepare:
→
→
→
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national inventories (e.g. GHG)
strategies
(e.g. NBSAP)
action plans
“ “
reports
(.e.g. 2010 BD targets)
under these conventions
EAs & Focal Areas Set-asides (FAS)
 A Focal Areas Set-aside (FAS) for each Focal Area under
the STAR is defined
 The FAS falls outside the national STAR allocations to the
amount of 20%*
 This set-aside can be used to finance Enabling Activities
and regional and global projects
 Sustainable Forest Management incentive program
included in the FAS under GEF 5
Enabling Activities (EAs)
Expedited versus non-expedited access to funds
Enabling activities may be submitted to the Secretariat on a rolling basis
throughout the year
EAs requesting GEF financing in excess of the ceiling amount approved by the
Council are considered non-expedited EAs and are processed as FSPs
UNDP support to EAs
e.g. UNDP
Enabling Activities (EAs)
Templates - guidelines
Enabling Activities (EAs)
Templates - guidelines
Enabling Activities (EAs)
Operational Guidance
Enabling Activities (EAs)
Operational Guidance
EAs under the Focal Areas: BD
BD GEF 5 Strategy – Objective 5:
 Integrate CBD Obligations into National Planning
Processes through Enabling Activities
→ assist national government institutions in meeting their immediate obligations
under the CBD, notably the development and revision of National Biodiversity
Strategy and Action Plans (NBSAPs), national reporting, and clearing house
information functions.
→ make critical contributions to the successful mainstreaming of biodiversity into
national development planning frameworks and sector planning processes
→ incorporate knowledge from increased understanding on role of habitat &
biodiversity in helping humans adapt to climate change + advances in ecosystem
service valuation into revised NBSAPs
EAs under the Focal Areas: BD
BD GEF 5 Strategy – Objective 5:
 Integrate CBD Obligations into National Planning
Processes through Enabling Activities
Countries will be able to access the Focal Area Set-aside funds (FAS) to
implement Enabling Activities for an amount up to $500,000 on an
expedited basis
Amounts greater than that will be provided from a country’s national
allocation.
EAs under the Focal Areas: BD
http://www.cbd.int/doc/notifications/2011/ntf-2011-035-bs-en.pdf
EAs under the Focal Areas: BD
EAs under the Focal Areas: CC
CC(M) GEF 5 Strategy – Objective 6:
 Support Enabling Activities & Capacity Building
GEF has provided financial and technical support to more than
150 non-Annex I Parties to prepare their initial, second, and, in some
cases, third national communications to the UNFCCC
GEF will continue to support the preparation of national communications to
the UNFCCC. Parties that did not receive support during GEF-4 will likely
require financial support to prepare their 3rd or 4th national communications
to the UNFCCC.
The GEF will also continue to fund the preparation and updating of
Technology Needs Assessments (TNAs; top-ups to NCs), especially for
countries that did not receive support during GEF-4
EAs under the Focal Areas: CC
CC(M) GEF 5 Strategy – Objective 6:
 Support Enabling Activities & Capacity Building
The GEF helps developing countries submit national communications to
the UNFCCC, including a report on national inventories of greenhouse
gases.
The largest part of GEF support for the NCs is delivered through an
umbrella and support program administered by the UNDP and the
UNEP.
Through this umbrella program, countries can also receive support for
vulnerability and adaptation assessments, capacity building, and
technology needs assessments.
EAs under the Focal Areas: LD
LD GEF 5 Strategy – Objective 4:
 Increase capacity to apply adaptive management tools in
SLM
GEF supports enabling activities related to the obligations of the Parties
to the UNCCD in the context of wider capacity development for
Sustainable Land Management (SLM)
This objective will support adaptive management by aiding countries in
national monitoring and reporting to UNCCD in the context of
supporting the national and regional SLM agenda and the development of
new tools and methods for better addressing the root causes and impacts
of land degradation
EAs under the Focal Areas: LD
For enabling activities that are Convention obligations
(UNCCD)
an amount of $150,000 will be made available
under the LD focal area
to support each country in reporting against the
implementation of the 10-year strategic plan of the UNCCD
Observation: International Waters (IW)
GEF 5 Strategy – Transboundary Diagnostic Analyses &
Strategic Action Programmes:
= foundational capacity building, large “enabling activities”
conducted under the form of
Full or Medium-sized projects
IW = additional funds, not part of a Country’s STAR allocation
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UNDP GEF’s Adaptation Portfolio includes.
Enabling activities:
Second National Communications to the UNFCCC (100) •
15 Caribbean countries are supported by UNDP for SNC –
National Adaptation Programme of Action (29) (mainly for
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LDCs)
example from the perspective of the CC FA
GEF National Communications
Support Programme – NCSP (UNFCCC)
http://ncsp.undp.org/
GEF National Communications
Support Programme – UNDP/UNEP
GEF National Communications
Support Programme – UNDP/UNEP
NCSP
[email protected]
UNDP & National Capacity Self
Assessments (NCSAs)
GEF support for country capacity development focusses on strengthening
the capacities to manage priority environmental issues and contribute to
global environmental benefits
Each of the GEF modes of delivery (FSPs, MSPs, SGs and Enabling
Activities) aims to incorporate some form of capacity development
Since 2002: GEF Strategic Approach to Enhance Capacity Building, =
outcome of a major 1999-2000 review, the Capacity Development
Initiative
The National Capacity Self-Assessment (NCSA), was provided to make
a self-assessment of their capacity needs and prepare a National
Capacity Action Plan
UNDP & National Capacity Self
Assessments (NCSAs)
http://ncsa.undp.org/
NCSAs
Process & Products
Process
1. Engaged broad range of stakeholders in understanding root
causes of environmental unsustainability
2. Strengthened legitimacy of action to build foundational crosscutting capacities for the global environment and
environmental sustainability
3. 14 sub-regional NCSA networking and support workshops
Products
1. Focal Area Stocktaking and Thematic Assessment
of Capacity Development needs
2. Cross-Cutting Capacity Development Assessments
3. Final Report and Action Plan
4. Monitoring Guidelines of Capacity Development
5. NCSA Synthesis Report
UNDP & NCSAs: Self-reported
Priority Capacity Needs
Public awareness and environmental education
Information collection, management and…
Policy, legal and regulatory frameworks
Institutional mandates, structures, frameworks
Economic instr. and sust. financing mechanisms
Incorporate Convention obl. into national…
Cross-sectoral coordination
Planning, mgmt, M&E
Individual skills and motivation
Technology development and transfer
Stakeholder involvement
Role of sub-national governance structures
Scientific information in policy, planning, mgmt
Mainstreaming environmental sustainability
Integrated ecosystem management
Manage international projects
Negotiate at COP
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UNDP & NCSAs:
CCCD in GEF-5
Opportunities for
Cross-Cutting
Capacity Development
 146 countries undertook an NCSA and are eligible to receive
CCCD GEF-5 funds
 NCSAs enjoyed broad coverage of eligible countries, including
LDCs and SIDS
 Greatest coverage was the Caribbean, at 100%
UNDP & NCSAs:
CCCD in GEF-5
 Five areas of support for CCCD
 Projects are to implement a priority cross-cutting capacity
development recommendation identified in the NCSA Action Plan
 To be implemented as MSPs (US$ 500K GEF contribution*) *up to US$ 1 M if technically merited
 GEF $ available outside of STAR; countries may wish to use STAR allocation
1.
Generate, access and use of information and
knowledge
2.
Strengthened capacities for policy and legislation
development for achieving global benefits
3.
Strengthened capacities for management and
implementation on convention guidelines
4.
New and improved sustainable financing mechanisms
5.
Capacities enhanced to monitor and evaluate
environmental impacts and trends
UNDP & EAs in the Caribbean:
NCSP (regional) workshops
MORE INFO & PRESENTATIONS:
http://ncsp.undp.org/workshops?op=%3C
UNDP & EAs in the Caribbean
NCSP
UNDP & EAs in the Caribbean
NCSA
UNDP & EAs in the Caribbean
http://www.undp.org/gef/contacts/lac.html
UNDP in the Caribbean:
Country Offices
UNDP in the Caribbean:
Country Offices GEF contacts
Country Office
UNDP contact
E_mail
Barbados
(PO) Reynold Murray
Grenada, Antigua & Barbuda, St. Kitts, St.
Vincent, St. Lucia, Dominica
(PA) Anne Marie Diop
Belize
(PO) Diane Wade
[email protected]
(PA) Ismirla Andrade
[email protected]
(PO) Gricel Acosta
[email protected]
(PA) Patricia Fernandez
(PO) Maria Eugenia Morales
[email protected]
(PA) Jacqueline Sanchez
[email protected]
(PO) Patsy Ross
[email protected]
(PA) Nadine Livan
[email protected]
Cuba
Dominican Republic
Guyana
Haiti
Jamaica (Bahamas)
Suriname
Trinidad & Tobago
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
(PO) Arnad Dupuy
[email protected]
(PA) Anne Marie Jamine Charles
Merilian
[email protected]
(PO) Margaret Jones Williams
[email protected]
(PA) Nicole Brown
[email protected]
(PO) Thomas Gittens
[email protected]
(PA) Bryan Drakenstein
[email protected]
(PO) Rosemary Lall
[email protected]
PO = Programme Officer – PA = Programme Associate
UNDP & EAs in the Caribbean
Active portfolio
Piloting Natural
Resource Valuation
within Environmental
Impact Assessments
Multiple
countries
EA 470,250
Multiple National Biodiversity Strategy
countries and Action Plan and Report to
the CBD
BD
EA
20,000 each
Support to GEF Eligible CBD
Parties for carrying out 2010
Biodiversity Targets National
Assessments – Phases I and II
BD
EA
20,000 each
Multiple
countries
Multiple
countries
Second
National
Communications
National Communications
(UNFCCC)
CC
EA
CONTACT PERSON UNDP:
before: Analisa Munich (Panama)
now: Yamil Bonduki (HQ New York)
405,000 each
[email protected]
UNDP & EAs in the Caribbean
Status
Countries
Project Name
Primary Focal Area
Project Summary
Under implementation
Antigua & Barbuda, Bahamas, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, St. Lucia, St. Vincent,
Trinidad & Tobago
Support to GEF Eligible CBD Parties for carrying out 2010 Biodiversity Targets National
Assessments – Phases I and II
Biodiversity
With focus on the 2010 Biodiversity Commitments at the country level, this global umbrella
project was designed in two phases, each approved by the GEF as a Medium Size Project (MSP).
The objective is to enable GEF eligible CBD parties to assess progress towards the achievement
of the 2010 Biodiversity Targets at national level through a country-wide, stakeholder
consultation process and to appropriately report and communicate on it. It is implemented
through a partnership between UNDP and UNEP. The assessment of progress towards the 2010
Target is to be based on the provisional framework for goals and targets adopted by the CBD
COP decision VIII/15 and the guidelines for the fourth national report of the CBD, which the CBD
Secretariat requested to be used in connection with the national assessments. The partnership
and umbrella approach are aimed at reducing transaction costs of individual country requests,
providing the GEF Secretariat, UNDP and UNEP an opportunity for managing biodiversity
Enabling Activities in a more strategic manner and in close collaboration with the CBD
Secretariat and other key global actors. Activities at the country level include data gathering –
building, wherever possible, on existing data and processes – stakeholder consultations, as well
as reporting and communicating on 2010 Targets. Extensive guidance will be available both with
regards to the 2010 assessment process, but also to the reporting and communication of
results.
UNDP & EAs in the Caribbean
Status
Countries
Project Name
Primary Focal Area
Project Summary
Under implementation
Guyana
National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan and Report to the CBD
Biodiversity
The enabling activity project will help formulate a National Biodiversity
Strategy Action Plan (NBSAP) , and enable Guyana to meets its obligations
under the Convention on Biological Diversity.
UNDP & EAs in the Caribbean
Status
Countries
Under implementation
Project Name
Piloting Natural Resource Valuation within Environmental Impact
Assessments
Capacity Enabling Activity
This project will strengthen the implementation of Environmental Impact
Assessments (EIA), as well as contribute to the implementation of Strategic
Environmental Assessments (SEAs) through the development and
application of natural resource valuation tools. In particular, the project
will work in parallel with the Environmental Action Programme (ENACT), as
SEAs are undertaken on various sectoral policies, programmes and plans.
Primary Focal Area
Project Summary
The project will ‘top-up’ ENACT’s capacity development activities of
training and sensitization of the value of SEAs, and enforcement and
compliance of EIAs with training and sensitization on the utility of natural
resource valuation as a means to meeting both national and global
environmental objectives over the long-term.
UNDP & EAs in the Caribbean
Status
Countries
Under implementation
A&B, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominican Republic, Dominica, Grenada,
Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, St Kitts, St Lucia, St Vincent, Suriname, T&T
Project Name
Second National Communication to the UNFCCC
Climate Change
Primary Focal Area
Project Summary
The primary objective of this project is the development of the Second National
Communication on Climate Change (SNC). The project also aims at contributing to
the process of the creating national and institutional capacities to address
vulnerabilities and risks associated with climate change and to improve adaptation
to climate change, to promote the reduction of emissions of greenhouse gases and
the fulfillment of its commitments to UNFCCC.
Five results of particular importance for environmental management nationwide
will be prioritized during the execution. These results are (i) the estimated emissions
of greenhouse gases, (ii) the definition of adaptation to climate change measures,
(iii) the promoting greenhouse gas emission reduction options, (iv) public awareness
and training so that local and national vulnerability to extreme climatic events can
be reduced and v) legal and institutional strengthening for climate change
mainstreaming into national and sectorial policies and plans.