Ethiopia CRGE and SRM

Challenges, lessons learnt and good practices in

regard to the REPORTING aspects of MRV

IKI Workshop Series

„Developing Building Blocks of a Global Mitigation Architecture“

William Battye, GGGI

Warsaw, 16 November 2013

ETHIOPIA

• Ethiopia is the largest landlocked populationin the world and the second largest in Africa(World Bank, 2013)

• The country has GDP per capita of ~$400 USDin 2012 (UN, 2012)

• Between 2004 and 2009, Ethiopia was one ofthe fastest growing countries in the world,averaging around 10% per year (IMF, 2013)

• The economy of Ethiopia is largely Agricultural(40% of GDP), with other significantcontributions from Industry (15%) and Tourism(40%)

• Agriculture is important for livelihoods andmakes up 85% of all employment

• Government aims to be middle income ($1000USD) by 2025

OBJECTIVES

GGGI Ethiopia has the overarching aim of enabling an economic transformation in Ethiopia for a low-carbon and climate resilient future.

GGGI Ethiopia objectives

1. To enable a pathway to green growth. GGGI Ethiopia is working to support the Ethiopian Government’s efforts to put in place a strategic framework for responding to climate change and integrating green growth thinking into wider development.

2. To build national capacity. GGGI Ethiopia aims to build the capacity of its partners in Ethiopia to develop and implement climate change and green growth policy. This includes the capacity of government, civil society and the private sector.

3. To build partnerships and share knowledge. GGGI Ethiopia aims to establish effective partnerships with a range of actors. We will use these partnerships to deliver the above objectives in a coordinated way and to share our experiences with stakeholders both within and outside Ethiopia.

Green Growth Analysis

The CRGE Initiative was created to achieve the overarching vision of a climate resilient and green economy

THE CLIMATE RESILIENT GREEN ECONOMY INITIATIVE

CRGE

Strong ambitions of sustained economic growth focused on poverty reduction

• MIC by 2025

• Committed to building CRGE:

o Withstand climate related stress/shocks

o Delivered through zero carbon growth (where supported)

SRM

• Process for delivering actions: (1) Planning, (2) quality assurance, (3) mobilisation and

allocation of finance and (4) Results

• Embedded within the wider development delivery processes

• Provide strategic injections of support and finance to green development strategies

OBJECTIVES

GGGI Ethiopia has the overarching aim of enabling an economic transformation in Ethiopia for a low-carbon and climate resilient future.

Ethiopia CRGE objectives

1. Foundation work on investment planning and sectoral targets

• Climate Resilience Strategy (Water, Irrigation & Energy)

• SRM framework and guidance for IE’s EE’s

• Sector Action Plans – targets

2. Policy framework: economic policy instruments/ suitability for Ethiopia

• SAP guidance

3. Strengthen CRGE Units

• Design of the Capacity Development programme

• 6 pillars with focus on Enabling actors, Federal and Regional

OBJECTIVES

BMU/GGGI project Ethiopia

Ethiopia CRGE objectives

What do you report and why? Who do you work with?

Why do you involve them and how?

• CRGE enables and supports action across the economy

• Desgined to deliver a wide range of results:

– Economic

– Emissions

– Vulnerability – Baskets of indicators, poverty focus

• Stakeholders:

– Government (Advice/dialogue, analytics, capacity transfer)

– Technical: (UNDP, CDKN)

– Implementing (CSO/Private sector – Oxfam, IIED, CDKN)

– Financing (Norway, DFID, Germany etc.)

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How does your project contribute and link up to the

establishment of a nation-wide MRV system?

Where are the challenges for this?

This project build the national M&E and technical MRV

– Systems, process and tools

– Pilot methods

– Capacity

Challenges:

• Variety of sectors, approaches, results

• Scattered data and no consolidated inventory

• Limited/mobile capacity – financial, systems/inst, human

• Transfer of approaches to government systems

• Political sensitivity (regions, sectors e.g Hydro, Ag)

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Major barriers in regard to the reporting and how are

these addressed ?

(1) Addressing a range of donor requirements for reporting using a pooled fund

– Fund tracking (avoid co-mingling where possible)

– Flexible interim options - long term push toward pooling

(2) Range of results expected across sectors, regions etc

– Broad and flexible M&E framework (under development)

– Sector specific approaches/indicators – technical MRV

(3) Core capacity constraints

– Learning by doing

– Long term support

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How can your project contribute to an ambitious post

2015 agreement? How do you discuss this with your

project partners?What should MRV-negotiatiors know

from your project and your experience?

• Demonstration of a transformational system

– Embedded, not parallel

– Effective

– Results focused

– Combination of resources

• Support negotiators

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What can others learn from your experiences,

why and how?

• MRV systems should be embedded within

government and development delivery

• Long term in-country advice and dialogue

• Lesson learning across countries/sectors

• Insights papers, constant dialogue, country

presence, regular meetings

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