CGE SURVEY RESULTS ON PROBLEMS RELATED TO THE SUSTAINABILITY OF THE NATIONAL COMMUNICATIONS PROCESS AND MAINTENANCE OF NATIONAL TECHNICAL TEAMS FOR THE PREPARATION OF NATIONAL COMMUNICATION INCLUDING GHG INVENTORIES, ON A CONTINUOUS BASIS

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CGE SURVEY RESULTS ON PROBLEMS RELATED TO THE
SUSTAINABILITY OF THE NATIONAL COMMUNICATIONS
PROCESS AND MAINTENANCE OF NATIONAL TECHNICAL
TEAMS FOR THE PREPARATION OF NATIONAL
COMMUNICATION INCLUDING GHG INVENTORIES, ON A
CONTINUOUS BASIS

• 4th CGE Meeting
• St Marys, Antigua and Barbuda, 25. March 2011

Uazamo Kaura, Programme Officer
UNFCCC secretariat, Financial and Technical
Support Programme
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Presentation Outline

• PRESENTATION OUTLINE
• Introduction
• Survey Design
• Analysis of the Results
• Respondents
• Responses to survey
• Sustainability of National Teams
• Institutional Concerns
• Financial Concerns
• GHG Software
• Conclusion

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Introduction

• INTRODUCTION
• In response to decision 5/CP.15, paragraphs (a-c)
  of the its terms of reference, the CGE agreed at
  its first meeting on 29 to 31 March 2010,
  to collect information on
• Difficulties, challenges, technical problems,
  and constraints faced by NAI Parties in
  preparing their Nat. Com. in using the
  UNFCCC guidelines (Paragraph 2(a) and 2(b))
• Sustaining the national communication process
  and maintaining national technical teams
  (Paragraph 2(c)).
• Presentation on the results of Survey 2
  Collection of information on problems related to
  the sustainability of the national communications
  process and maintenance of national technical
  teams for the preparation of national
  communication including GHG inventories, on a
  continuous basis

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Survey Design

• SURVEY
• SURVEY DESIGN
• The survey contained four parts
• Part 1 Background Information
• Part 2 Institutional Concerns and
  solutions
• Part 3 Financial concerns and solutions
  and
• Part 4 GHG inventory Software.

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Analysis of the Results - Respondents
RESPONDENTS RESPONSES TO THE SURVEY
    Number of States Given Number of States Given Number of States Given  
Region Total number of states Over 50 Response Rate Over80 Response Rate Number of states responded to Survey 2 Percentage Responded within Region
African States 53 27 42 15 28.3
Asian States 56 28 45 11 19.6
Eastern European States 9 5 7 4 44.4
Latin American and Caribbean States 33 17 26 9 27.3
Western European States 2 1 2 0 0.0
Total 153 77 122 39 25.5

• Feedback 89.8 NAI Party Country and 10.2
  Multilateral or bilateral organizations
• 39 respondents from 25 countries have responded
  to Survey 2 (as of 22 December 2010)
• 78.6 in the process of preparing SNC 4.8
  preparing the INC and 14.3 preparing NC3.

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Analysis of the Results Institutional Concerns
INSTITUTIOAL CONCERNS BUILDING ON PREVIOUS
EXPERIENCE Building on existing procedures
and organizational experience from the sections
or tasks related to the previous national
communications

• 31.4 of the respondents found it moderately
  difficult to build on their previous
  experience on working and reporting their
  national communication
• 17.1 of the respondents had no difficulties on
  using their previous experience working on
  national communications.

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Analysis of the Results Institutional Concerns
INSTITUTIOAL CONCERNS BUILDING ON PREVIOUS
EXPERIENCE Usefulness of types of helpful
technical assistance and support
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Analysis of the Results Institutional Concerns

• INSTITUTIONAL CONCERNS
• SUSTAINIBILITY OF NATIONAL TEAMS
• KEY CHALLENGES
• Coordination of processes between different
  Ministries
• Access to activity data
• Changes in national administration structures
• Preparing of Nat. Com. project-basis
• Funding limitation
• Staff involved in multiple tasks
• Teams disbanded after concluding nat. com - a
  different team may be contracted for new one
• Limited technical capacity
• Difficult to maintain highly qualified staff due
  to insufficient incentives and
• Limited long-term job opportunity.

• RECOMMENDATIONS
• Need for Data Base institutional setting for
  the climate change issues
• Financial, legal and managerial support
• Processing the data according to the UNFCCC
  guidelines
• Establishment of systematic protocols of data
  collection, management and sharing among and
• Integrating climate change into specific work
  programmes.

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Analysis of the Results Institutional Concerns

INSTITUTIONAL CONCERNS NATIONAL GHG INVENTORY
Building on Level of difficulty/ease in
completing the National GHG Inventory section
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Analysis of the Results Financial Concerns
FINANCIAL CONCERNS OVERALL RESULTS Potential
financial difficulties constraining ability to
sustain nat. com. process and/or build and
maintain a nat. com. team
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Analysis of the Results Financial Concerns
FINANCIAL CONCERNS OVERALL RESULTS Usefulness
of technical assistance and support to address
financial and funding concerns
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Analysis of the Results Financial Concerns

• FINANCIAL CONCERNS
• KEY CHALLENGES
• Economic climate
• Government budget cuts
• Delays in disbursement of funds from implementing
  agencies
• Costs of international consultants
• Exchange rate
• Insufficient funds to pay coordinator and
  technical advisers
• GEF allocates funds without addressing specific
  needs and circumstances of countries and
• Co-funding.

• RECOMMENDATIONS
• Successive funding of the nat. com. to maintain
  Technical Teams
• Delay leaves gap for team to find other work
• Budget for international consultants needs to be
  increased and based on current rates
• Stimulation for the involvement of public
  servants (apart of independent consultants) and
• Establishment of institutional structures and
  support mechanisms

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Analysis of the Results GHG Software
GHG SOFTWARE OVERALL RESULTS

• Use UNFCCC GHG inventory software 1.3.2 were
  45.9 and 18.9 using earlier version
• Consultants hired to complete the GHG inventory
• Difficulty in entering data in software in new
  software
• Some NAI Parties observed that the current
  software was not working well and there has been
  no sufficient reason to explain this problem.

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Conclusion

• CONCLUSION
• Obtaining sufficient and consistent funding for
  maintaining the NC team was a major concern for
  Parties
• Sustaining national teams require regular funds
  from GEF and other sources
• Delays in disbursement of funds from implementing
  agencies a financial concern
• Allocation of funds for Nat. Com. preparation was
  based on top down approach without addressing
  specific needs and circumstances of a Party
• The use of GHG software has been a problem for a
  number of Parties.
• Results obtained can be used to contribute to
  technical advice to non-Annex parties to
  facilitate the development and long term
  sustainability of processes, and establishment
  and maintenance of national technical teams