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Work Order #63
TITLE: PROGRAMME ON CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION AND MITIGATION IN THE EASTERN AND SOUTHERN AFRICA (COMESA-EAC-SADC) REGION

Mission report

– 14 May 2016 -

Consortium SAFEGE-Prospect-ADETEF-Eco

Represented by Inês Mourão, Hervé Barois, Dr. Juliane Zeidler

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Work Order #63, Mission report

Mission report

This mission had two phases with two distinct objectives: the first, from the 24th of January until the 20th of February, and the second from the 17th until the 23rd of April. The first aimed mostly at delivering a training and defining the key focus areas of proposals and the second to agree on the finalized concept proposals.

First mission

The first mission included a training in Climate Change Mainstreaming in Regional Issues, Project Development and Climate Change Finance and Resource Mobilization, directed to the Climate Change Unit (CCU) but also to other divisions within COMESA and representatives of the Government of Zambia and the Private Sector. Consultations were held at various levels, with CCU, COMESA’s various divisions, selected Member States and a set of selected donors, aimed at defining the key focus areas for proposal development within a new COMESA CC Framework , as well as to perform a donor and partner mapping. The consultations were also a means to provide on-the-job training for CCU staff. A team focused approach to planning, work and feedback was undertaken, with regular CCU meetings facilitated by the consultants.

At the end of the first mission the key outputs prepared were: (1) the inception report, including a summary of the most important programme documents and key regional policy documents, (2) the identification of the key focus areas for project development with a summary 2 pages concepts on each of the following thematic selected – Regional Climate Change Framework, Conservation Agriculture/Climate Smart Agriculture (CA/CSA), Green Technology Standards, Resilient Cities and Water, (3) a mapping of donors and funding available, and (4) a well-designed and delivered training programme on project development and climate finance delivered to COMESA staff[1].

Figure 1: Consultation and feedback meetings with CCU.

Figure 2: Examples of consultations held: Edith and Mclay (CCU), Walter Talma (Coordinator of USAID Programmes), Obadiah Mungai (Kenya) and with Sindiso Ngwenya (COMESA SG).

Figure 3: Moments of the training in Climate Change Mainstreaming in Regional Issues, Project Development and Climate Change Finance and Resource Mobilization.

Second mission

The second mission occurred in Lusaka from the 18th until the 22nd of April 2016. Its main goal was to obtain further inputs of the projects proposal’s prepared and agree on those and follow up on the contacts with potential donors and/or partners for implementation.

Several meetings were held with the CCU team members and comments were collected and discussed on all projects proposals. However, due to time constraints and unavaibility of some CCU staff due to other commitments, it was agreed that further comments, general and technical, would be sent by the CCU team in the following week. This would allow to finalize the proposals in the COMESA template which would allow the CCU to easily adapt project proposals into selected donors format in the future.

Figure 4: example of consultation with CCU in the second mission.

A debriefing on donors mobilisation was also held during the mission. GCCA and UNEP are interested in collaborating with COMESA in the near future on climate change issues. The focus of GCCA has not yet been defined, but would be discussed during a GCCA global programming high-level workshop in Mauritius during the week 25-29 April 2016. It was stressed that it was a unique opportunity for the COMESA representative to discuss the 5 draft project proposals with the with GCCA representative in person at that meeting.

UNEP has shown interest following the AMCEN meeting in Cairo held on 18-19 April 2016 to work on issues related to

1) Sustainable cities, low carbon development pathways

2) Evaluation of emission related to selected intra and extra COMESA traded goods and services and attribution of emissions from all segments of the entire chain from inputs, production, delivery, usage and disposal and devising emission reduction options for each segments.

3) Climate change and infrastructure:

·  Establishing the emission factor of key regional infrastructure used for trade such as roads, rail, air, transport, waterways.

·  Identification of key infrastructure that are vulnerable to climate induced floods and factoring corrective measures in the infrastructure development initiatives.

It is clear that only the sustainable cities focus of UNEP was somewhat in line with the 5 agreed to proposal areas covered by this consultancy. Therefore, it was agreed that the last 2 project concepts will be further developed by CCU staff directly.

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Work Order #63, Mission report

Appendix 1 – First Mission Timetable

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[1] A comprehensive report addressing the training was submitted separately