CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT FOR POLICY MAKERS TO ADDRESS CLIMATE CHANGE:

Lessons learned from Ecuador

Carola A. Borja, Undersecretary of Climate Change

Ministry of Environment, Ecuador

Project process: Capacity Building for Policy Makers to Address Climate Change

• Select 2-4 key sectors

• Engage key ministries

• Prepare sectoral issues papers

• Present I&FF results

• Discuss enabling environment for investment

• Update on UNFCCC process

• 3 national dialogues

Final Dialogue

Technical training:

I&FF approach

Prep. phase(2 months)

• Prepare workplan for I&FF studies

• Identify I&FF team

• Raise awareness of UNFCCC process

• Link negotiations to national priorities

• Engage stakeholders

• 4 national dialogues

• Decide key parameters: Sectoral scope, data availability, plans, etc.

• Technical support from regional centres of excellence

• Engage key ministries for validation of measures, decisions

I&FF assessment for key sectors (8-12 months)

NationalInter-

ministerial dialogue

Prep. phase(2 months)

Conformation of Sectoral Technical Working Groups

Key sectors selected: Forestry (Mitigation/Adaptation), Transport (Mitigation), Food Security (Adaptation)

26.-27. October 2009: Initial Inter-Ministerial Dialogue

23.-25. March 2010: I&FF training in Quito

March 2011: Final Dialogues

Ecuador’s financial assessment

• Organizational structure: Technical Multi-stakeholder Groups – Government, NGO and Private Sector

• Regional Centre: Regular contact for technical support

• Management: Coordination of groups, technical review of documents, facilitate exchange of views (MoE)

The I&FF methodology requires engagement of a broad range of stakeholders from key line Ministries and private sector

Approach: organisational

• Selection of key sectors: Achievement of objectives of the National Development Plan, and high relevance to CC mitigation and adaptation interventions.

• Information management: Focused primarily on official data, various institutions were contacted, and academic data.

Data availability will be a key factor when deciding scope of sector; especially from private sector & households

Approach: sectoral issues

• Gathered the interest of a wide range of interested stakeholders outside of the environment area.

• Needed to socialize the methodology broadly to have more teams of experts trained for other studies.

• Reflected on the current financing options for climate change, to be enhanced by committments under Bali Action Plan.

• Identified the capacity building needs at a sub-national level

Dialogues & trainings

• The methodology needed to be adapted

• Technical support to implement the methodology was key

• Accessing data was a challenge

Lessons learned: I&FF methodology

• Identifying the sub-sectors from very beginning is important.• Support from Ministries, and other stakeholders is key to the

development of the technical reports.• Financial sector is interested in further looking at the results of

the studies: "a bridge has been burned”• The results reveal that a significant financial investment will be

needed for adaptation and mitigation to climate change; funding sources will need to be diversified.

• More information on the amount of resources required for climate change is needed from other sectors to enhance the results obtained – wish to increase scope of project

Key takeaways: I&FF methodology

Ecuador’s financial assessment: summary of results

16%

65%

19%

Sources of Funding for Adaptation and Mitigation to Climate Change

Total Percentage by Source

Businesses

Government

Homes

81%

11% 8%

Financing Needs for Adaptation and Mitiga-tion

to Climate Change in EcuadorTotal Percentage for all the Sectors

Transportation

Forestry

Food Security

Ecuador’s financial assessment: summary of results (cont.)

Sector Main measures Incremental Cost / Measure (millions

USD 2005)

Total Incremental Cost / Sector

(millions USD 2005)

Transport (mitigation)

• Urban mobility (Quito) – metrobus, bikeways• Cleaner fuels• Railway transport

1,357

531,096

2,506

Forestry (mitigation)

• Afforestation and reforestation• Reducing deforestation of native forests• Sustainable forest management

1,931298

389

2,618

Food security (adaptation)

• Management/conservation of national resources• Increased productivity for small farmers• Early warning system strategies• Strengthening territorial aspects

101

1,025

341,217

2,377

Conduct similar studies in other sectors, and identify sub-sectors within the sectors i.e.: water, health, energy, industry, others.

Raise awareness and continue to develop capacities of policy makers from other Ministries on climate change.

Increase dialogues with the financial sector to find ways of increasing collaboration for climate change work.

Engage with policy makers from other Ministries in further analyzing financing opportunities to implement the actions identified.

Outlook & next steps

Thank Youwww.ambiente.gob.ecContact: cborja@ambiente.gob.ec