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AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK GROUP
TOM DOWNING
Climate Safeguard System:Screening projects in the African Development Bank
OVERVIEW OF CSS
BASED ON THE PROJECT CYCLE
Task Managers are faced with a well-defined project cycle and outputs. Projects must meet investment safeguarding standards.
Country planning is a scoping exercise that involves more than one stakeholder and bringing together a wealth of information for the Bank's planning but also for public use.
CLIMATE CONTEXT
• Envelopes of climate change: Uncertain futures
KNOWLEDGE BASE
KNOWLEDGE BASEWith Climate Systems Analysis Group, University of Cape Town:
• Agroecological zones
• Downscaled climate envelopes at the station level
• Templates for describing climate information for country strategy and at station-project level
Supporting documents & links
CLIMATE SCREENING TOOL
• Purpose: Determine what additional measures are required
• Outcome: Assignment of a project into one of three categories
• Method: Sectoral scorecards
CLIMATE SCREENING
Principles behind the screening tool
Designed with the Bank and for their portfolio in AfricaEasy and quick to applyHighly transparent processSimple but not simplisticAdditive scoring
NOT dependent on projected climate impactsNOT lengthy all-risk assessment
SCORING AND PROJECT CATEGORIES
Project category definitions
ADAPTATION PROCEDURES
• Purpose: Incorporate adaptation plans into project design
• Outcome: Selected measures for project documents
• Method: Filtering of purpose, components and activities based on simple criteria
AREP
PRINCIPLES
Highly transparent: Bank has control over the processTime spent in mainstreaming adaptation is proportionate to the project categoryCost of adaptation activities is proportionate to financial risksDriven by planning outputs and robust decision-making despite climate uncertainties
NOT prescriptive: many possible adaptation plans for a projectNOT driven by uncertain climate scenariosNOT forcing all projects to conduct full climate audits
STEPS FOR THE 3 CATEGORIES
SELECT PURPOSE & COMPONENTS
SELECT ACTIVITIES
COMPLETE THE RLF
CSS AND TRACKING AID
• Transparency: Fully managed by the Bank
• Accountability: Documents each step of the analysis as operational safeguard
• Results: Proactive management of projects to achieve climate resilience
• Tracking finance: Proportion assigned to ‘additional climate finance’ is relative to category of project
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK GROUP
Thanks!
Partners:
• CSAG, UCT• Atkins (water)• iSpace (tools)
FOUNDATIONS
The Climate Risk Management and Adaptation Strategy sets a target to screen 80% of the Bank's projects by 2012
Implemented through the Climate Change Action Plan 2010-2014
CATEGORY THRESHOLDS
The total score enables us to classify a project in one of the three categories.
USE CASES
Timothy works in the AfDB. He has received a project proposal and been assigned to…
Use cases are a formal method in software design
Actor + Decision environment + Outcome
We have run hundreds of use cases at every stage to ensure our methods provide solutions to specific tasks in the Bank's project cycle