Ethiopia - NAP Climate Change Adaptation Experiences

Supporting LDCs to advance their National Adaptation Plans Africa Regional Training Workshop (Anglophone)

UN Conference Centre, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 14-17 April 2014

[Berhanu Solomon] [Ministry of Environment]

Ethiopia’s Programme of Adaptation

to Climate Change (EPACC)

Experience and lessons learnt from Ethiopia

Ethiopia’s Programme of Adaptation to Climate Change (EPACC) (Experience from Ethiopia)

• Main process followed in the preparation of EPACC

1. How did the initiative started:

o Climate induced pressure is the main factor for the preparation of EPACC Agriculture is the mainstay of the economy (>40% of the GDP).

Infrastructure is climate sensitive [Dams (irrigation and hydropower), roads, bridges, settlements, telecommunication, etc.).

Community level vulnerability is high.

Adaptation capacity is very low.

Supporting LDCs to advance their National Adaptation Plans

Africa Regional Training Workshop (Anglophone)

Experience from Ethiopia

2. NAP document preparation:

• A team of experts drawn from National Regional States, piot distriects and key Sectoral Ministries prepared (11 Regional and City Administration Units & 8 Key sectoral Agencies).

• Based on the Regional and Sectoral agencies Adaptation plans, draft National Adaptation Plan prepared.

• National Consultation for the review of the draft NAP conducted in 2010.

– Participants: sectoral federal government agencies, Regional governments, research organizations, institutions of higher education, religious institutions, national non-governmental organizations and the private sector.



• Process followed after consultation process:

–The same consultation at regional , Zonal, district and local kebele level

– In the process each on of them develop respective adaptation programmes.

–Both bottom-up and top-down iterative process to continuously improve national and sub-national Adaptation Plans.



3. Action learning/adaptation learning projects:

– Several action learning projects prepared and implemented (UNDP, UNEP, etc):

– Purpose of the adaptation learning projects

• Test technologies (both adaptation and mitigation) for scale up.

clean tec., ecosystem rehab, bio-fuel prod, income generation, etc.,

• Advice policy direction (E.g the Ethiopian Climate Resilient Green Economy Strategy, the Growth and Transformation Plans)

• Feed the lesson to NAP/RAP: to the improvement of the national adaptation plan

Supporting LDCs to advance their National Adaptation Plans

Africa Regional Training Workshop (Anglophone)


• The process helped analyze current and future climate change scenarios.

• Current climate issues identified and future scenarios foreseen.

– 20 issues/problems related to climate change identified.

What is happening?

What is going to happen (e.g: We expect climate refugees from surrounding neighboring countres)

– Their countering orgnaizations/bodies identified

– Immediate actions to be taken to tackle the problems identified.

• Integrate climate change adaptation into national/sub-national or sectoral plans

National level integration/ Mainstreaming:

• Regional and Sectoral Adaptation plans prepared

• The Ethiopian Climate Resilient Green Economy (CRGE) Strategy :

• Agriculture sector Resilience strategy is prepared

• Energy and irrigation sector resilience strategy is underway.



• Lessons learnt for NAP initiation. • Commitment at policy and decision making level as a

critical factor for NAP initiation and implementation.

• Improvement of community awareness as important factor to towards Climate Change action;

• CC issues/problem identification from grass root level to policy level and vice-versa.

• Action learning as important intervention for technolgoy selection, scale up and for refined CC policy design.


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