Building institutions and capacity for transparency of mitigation and finance lessons from GIZ experiences, Klaus Wenzel

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Building institutions and capacity for
transparency of mitigation and finance
- Lessons from GIZ experiences -
Climate Change Expert Group (CCXG)
“Global Forum on the Environment and Climate Change”
Paris, 13-14 September 2016
Klaus Wenzel, GIZ

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Costa Rica
Dominican Republic
Indonesia
The
Philippines
China
India
Thailand
Vietnam
Turkey
Georgia
Morocco
Tunisia
Central
African
Republic
South Africa
Ghana
Colombia
Chile
Mexico
GIZ projects worldwide working on MRV/accounting
- 29 global, regional and bilateral projects in 18 countries -

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Support project for the
International Partnership on Mitigation and MRV
19.09.2016
• Launched by South Africa, South Korea and Germany at the
Petersberg Climate Dialogue in 2010.
• Platform for > 90 countries to advance negotiations on mitigation &
MRV and to support the design, set-up and effective implementation of
NDCs, LEDS, NAMAs and MRV-systems.
• Activities: P2P exchanges and capacity building in regional groups, on
Annual Partnership Retreats and Partnership meetings, knowledge
management, e.g. BUR process guidance tool
• More information on: www.mitigationpartnership.net

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Barriers and Challenges
• Perceived high effort /cost for MRV/transparency framework:
Perceived as additional burden with no national value added, no/few
funds available for personnel, recruitment stop in ministries
• Ad-hoc/informal institutional arrangements of the national MRV-
systems. Lack of clear roles and responsibilities for the MRV-systems
• Limited access to data: informal arrangements for data collection
with sector ministries and private sector, ad hoc collection of data
• Institutional memory: MRV-system often dependent on individuals
and/or donor-project-funded external consultants. No knowledge
transfer (fly-in-fly-out capacity building = memory loss)
• Impact monitoring: capacities developed may not be sustainable
within institutions (change personnel, no capacities outside Ministry)

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Lessons Learnt / Success factors for support (UNFCCC, ...)
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• Complementarity of national and regional/global CB support
− Need for demand-driven in-country presence and support
− Regional / global programs and peer-to-peer exchange, knowledge
management (identification good practices, development of tools and
guidances)
• Importance of language: Partnership’s regional groups
• Impact evaluation: operational criteria for success to be defined early
together with partner country on all levels of capacity building
• Need for coordination among support programs and guidance for
partner countries (already ongoing, UNFCCC secretariat and UNDP/
UNEP-GSP and NDC-Partnership for NDC-implementation)

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Lessons Learnt / Success factors for national MRV-systems
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• Early integration of stakeholders (line ministries, private sector, etc.)
• Institutionalization anchored in and mandated by legislation /
agreements (e.g. Philippines, Kenya)
• Piecemeal implementation approach, building on existing capacities
• Integration of national or regional organizations (e.g. 4C Morocco,
Regional Climate Centers, ECOWAS, universities, national consultants,
etc.) for sustainable CB impact
• Integration in existing national M&E system for adding national value
and securing political buy-in (incl. adaptation/SDG/national development
strategies), e.g. Kenya’s MRV+ system
• Sustainable MRV-systems & transparency frameworks need national
ownership and additional national human and financial resources
(GEF first, but medium-term own national budget)

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For more information and knowledge products
please visit Partnership homepage:
http://mitigationpartnership.net/
Klaus Wenzel
Klaus.wenzel@giz.de