Transcript USAID Central American Region GCC

USFS/UC-Davis
Climate Change
Seminar
May 2016
USAID Central America
Regional GCC
REVIEW
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USAID/El Salvador: Bilateral vs. Regional
• USAID/El Salvador
• Focused on implementation of CDCS and Partnership for Growth
• No GCC funds
• USAID – El Salvador Central America Mexico (CAM)
• Support offices extend services to Central American bilateral missions
and Mexico
• Technical offices manage regional activities in Central America (Belize,
Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, and
DR)
• RDCS approved
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CAM GCC activities
Current activities
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Regional Climate Change Program (RCCP)
• 5 years, $21.5 million, USAID GCC funds
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Regional Clean Energy Initiative (RCEI)
• 5 years, $9.73 million, USAID GCC funds + GCC/OES CE (LEDS-CR)
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CAFTA-DR
• 5 years, $3.0 million, DOS CAFTA-DR environment funds
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Why Central America Matters
for Global Climate Change
• Emissions from land use change
Source: CEPAL
• Large percentage of the population (especially in Guatemala,
Honduras and Nicaragua) still depends on biomass (mainly
firewood) to satisfy their basic energy needs
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Why Central America Matters
for Global Climate Change
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Vulnerable to climate change impacts
• Temperature rise and precipitation changes: Area suitable for coffee
will decrease; bean, rice, livestock yields also lower
• By 2011, water availability expected to decrease significantly (as a
result of climate change and population growth), especially in
El Salvador,
Honduras, and
Nicaragua
• Greater intensity
of tropical storms
will increase risk
of coastal zones
flooding
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CLIMATE CHANGE
& DEVELOPMENT
Assets and Barriers
Constraints for Progress
Prospects for Impact
• Regional institutions have
limited capacity (e.g., CCAD)
• Demand-driven!
• CA countries holding elections
may change political will, delay
support
• Political situation in Nicaragua
poses a challenge
• Combating corruption
• Property rights and land tenure
• Commitment to climate change
(focused on AD)
• High level of regional expertise,
particularly in SL, REDD+, etc.
• National governments
• International donors/ML
• Universities and research
institutions
• NGOs/contractors
• Opportunities for meaningful
South-South exchange in wider
LAC region (Mexico, Colombia,
Brazil)
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Regional Climate Change Program (RCCP)
Sustainable Landscapes & Adaptation
Summary
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Purpose:
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1) To reduce GHG emissions from deforestation/forest degradation through
establishment of carbon-based incentives and mechanisms
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2) increase Central America’s resilience to GCC by improving delivery of
remote sensing data and analysis tools to end-users
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Implementer: Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE)
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CATIE is the lead for Sustainable Landscapes activities
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IUCN, The Nature Conservancy, CARE, and Terra Global Capital also manage
and provide expertise for Sustainable Landscapes activities
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IUCN is the lead for Adaptation activities
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DAI is the lead on the information clearinghouse, coordination with SERVIR,
and sustainability of Adaptation activities
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Time Period and TEC: April 2013 – April 2018
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Regional focus: Central America and the Dominican Republic
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Regional Climate Change Program (RCCP)
Sustainable Landscapes
Supporting the establishment and implementation of carbon-based
incentives to reduce emissions from deforestation, forest degradation and
other land uses
Highlights
• Large consortium of experienced organizations and institutions (depth and
breadth of experience)
• Regional counterpart through CCAD
• Build on previous/current REDD+ work in the region in collaboration with
GIZ
• Pilot projects will link to national experiences, scale up lessons learned
from project sites
• Opportunities to address gender, adaptation and mitigation together and
enhance leadership and decision making role of women and girls
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Regional Climate Change Program (RCCP)
Adaptation
Improving the capacity of vulnerable communities to adapt to climate
change by integrating earth observation information and geospatial
technologies into development decision making
Highlights
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Emphasizes importance of meaningful and useful climate change info and data
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Not just a supply focus:
• Creating demand-driven regional climate change data platform
• Proposes dialogues between info users and providers to better understand
info needs
• Trains users - at least 2,000 end users to use new AD decision-making tools
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Opportunity to build on lessons from SERVIR
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Relatively unique among mission programs – will give Congress another good
USAID example of what Adaptation is (e.g., geospatial technologies)
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Future success stories – how climate information helped people make different or
better decisions that made them more resilient to climate change
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Regional Climate Change Program (RCCP)
Challenges
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Coordination between SICA secretariats, country governments,
institutions, and data producers.
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Look for proper incentives for participation in order to address their
needs and limitations (e.g., tech, admin, economic, legal)
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Determine better arrangements and governance in a timely manner
while ensuring long-term sustainability
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Take advantage of synergies with bilateral programs in CA
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Lessons Learned
• Improve project design
• Consider stakeholders (e.g., reg. institutions, national gov, donors,
multilaterals) in design from Day 1 for improved buy-in
• Regional activities are complex – need to ensure they lead to concrete
results in line GCC objectives
• Better coordination with bilateral missions
• Their activities should leverage our policy/harmonization work
• Our activity objectives should be imbedded within their bilateral
agendas
• Be better aligned with bilateral agendas/strategies
• Fill gaps that they can’t
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TOP 10 RESULTS
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THANKS
Ruben Aleman
USAID El Salvador
Climate Change/CAFTA-DR Environment Specialist
[email protected]
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