Climate Change Initiatives in Africa: The contribution of CACCI for implementation

1. Director, Operational Analysis, AKADEMIYA2063
Climate Change Initiatives in Africa:
The contribution of CACCI for implementation
Dr. Getaw Tadesse

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Introduction
• Having a good policy is one step ahead of solving a problem
• However, it is not a sufficient conduction for success
• A policy is as good as its implementation
• The objectives of this presentation
• Review the different policy initiatives and their implementation challenges
• Highlight the contribution of CACCI for program implementation

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Climate Change initiatives
SDG
Agenda 20263
Vision 2050- Rwanda
GTP-Ethiopia
Development strategies
National, Continental
and Global
Climate Change
strategies :
PACC
AU-CCRDS
GGCRS-Rwanda
Action Plans
GRAC
NDCs
NAPs

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Share of countries with NAP in their NDCs
Awareness of Threat and Willingness to Respond
NDCs and NAPs in Africa
NDC with NAP NDC only No NDC
 52 African countries have
submitted their NDCs
 Libya and Eritrea did not
start domestic approval
process
 45 countries updated
their NDC

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Agriculture and Energy contributes more than 80% of the GHG emissions in most African
countries
Review of NDCs and NAPs in Africa
Rwanda
Senegal

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Source: Review of African Country NDCs-NAPs submitted to the UNFCCC , TAAN database
0
10
20
30
40
50
Number
of
African
Countries
Priority Sectors in African Country Adaptation Plans
Review of NDCs and NAPs in Africa

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Adaptation Pathways in agriculture
Adaption pathways Examples of adaption action
Risk management
channel Co-benefits
1. Intensification and
sequestration
Organic fertilizer, soil and water
conservations, afforestation
Absorbing
Risk
Increased productivity,
mitigation, and finance
2. Intensification and
methane reduction
Expanding small livestock;
improved rice cultivation
Absorbing
Risk
Increased productivity,
mitigation
3. Intensification
Improved crop varieties;
Fertilizer; irrigation
Absorbing
Risk
Increased productivity
4. Rural Income
diversification
Agro-industrialization,
employment, agribusiness,
Escaping
Risk
Commercialization
5. Climate service
Early warning, climate
information
Absorbing or
escaping
Responsiveness
6. Risk transfer
Crop insurance
Livestock insurance, saving
Risk transfer Agribusiness
7. Social transfer
Cash transfer, food transfer,
social service, food reserve
Risk sharing Solidarity and dignity
Review of NDCs and NAPs in Africa

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• Coordination and Execution Capacities
• More Ambitions than Implementable Programs
• Coherence and Consistency Between / Amongst Mitigation and Adaptation Plans
• The use of climate services and access to affordable climate smart innovations
• Access to climate finance
• Data and Analytical Capacities for Program Design, Tracking and Reporting
Gaps in Implementation
Having good polices is not sufficient for success

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Highlights of CACCI contributions

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CACCI Support for implementation
Facilitate Successful Implementation of Country NDCs and NAPs
Design/update
climate policies
Mainstream
climate
actions
Access
Climate
Finance
Implements
climate
actions
Track,
monitor and
report
Data &
Analytics
Capacity
building
Institutional
Framework
Technical
Assistance

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The CACCI Approach
Linked to African Union Climate Change Agenda
o Partnership with AU Department of Agriculture Rural
Development and Blue Economy (DARBE)
o Support to AU Climate Change and Resilience Development
Strategy and Action Plan
o Launched at COP26 in partnership with AU Commission
o Direct Technical Assistance Support to DARBE
o Data and analytics to guide actions on the ground

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The CACCI approach
Rwanda
 We closely work with the MoE, REMA and the sub-
sector working group on climate change
 We signed an MoU with MoE and project
agreement with REMA
 Support MoE on strategic and policy issues,
including supporting the M&E system, the
implementation of Green Growth and Climate
Resilience Strategy (GGCRS)
 Support REMA on operational issues and capacity
building matters including technical support for
measuring GHG emission, climate risks and
vulnerability assessments
Senegal
 We closely work with the MoE, CSE and
National Committee on Climate Change
(COMNACC)
 We signed MoE with MoE and contract
with CSE
 Within the MoE, we work with the
Direction of Environment and Classified
Establishments (DEEC)
 We deal with DEEC on strategic and policy
issues, including policy dialogues
 We jointly work with CSE on analytical and
capacity budiling
Strong Local Partnership

13. Stakeholders’ Mapping in Rwanda
Climate
Change
Subsector
working
group
MININ
FRA
MINEC
OFIN
MINE
MA
MoE
NLA
RHA
MINAGRI
RISA
MINIC
OM
RFA
REMA
RMeto
RSA
UR
FONERWA
RWB
RCCD
N
RAB
KFW
RAPE
P
UNIL
AK
AIMS
RAPE
P
AREC
O
REG
GGGI
RDA
Water
Aid
RWACA
ARCO
S
IUCN
RICA
Environment
Agriculture
Other ministries
Civil society
Academia/research

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Integrated Result Frameworks
Ambitions
Reduction of
GHG
Building
resilience
Green growth
Climate Actions
AFoLU
Energy
IPPU
Waste
System and capacity building
Governance Capacity Finance Innovation
IRF developed for Rwanda, Senegal and AU strategy

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Tracking GHG and Climate Risks in Senegal

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Household vulnerability in Rwanda
VCC by district for Rwanda in 2021
0.61
0.29
0.38
0.43
0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7
ADAPTIVE INCAPACITY
SENSITIVITY
EXPOSURE
CLIMATE VULNERABILITY INDEX
Rwanda
By Sources vulnerability
• Vulnerability has slightly reduced in Rwanda from 0.49 to 0.43
• The main source of vulnerability is poor adaptative capacity

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Scaling climate smart agricultural practices
42
75
59
90
36
59
49
71
25
74
36
54
27
40
27
46
KENYA (2019) MALI (2018) NIGERIA (2018) SENEGAL(2018)
Figure 1.The size of investment required to compensate the impact of climate
change in percentage
Soil and water conservation Improved variety adoption
irrigation Organic and inorganic fertilizer use
We observe impact if we scale up existing best practices

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• Plenty of comprehensive, multi-dimensional and good polices
• Growing understanding, willingness and momentum
• Inseparability of adaptation and mitigations actions
• CC as an opportunity
• However, we observe
• Problems of coherence, integration and coordination
• The need to
• Revisit and specify ambitions and targets
• Prioritize actions towards building adaptive capacity
• Expand targeting and devolution
• Scale up existing practices
• Adopt new best practices and innovations
• Carbon farming
• Decarbonization of business operations
Concluding Remarks

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