CLIMA EAST EXPERT FACILITY (CEEF) Roman Tertychnyy, EF Manager Clima East Steering Committee Meeting 29 January 2015
Funded by: Managed by:
CONTENT
• Recap on scope and process of the CEEF (Track 1)
• Overview of applications received to date and progress
• Key issues
• Resource usage
• Introduction to expanded Facility and new ‘Track 2’ for collaborative work
KEY FACTS
• Short-term expert support outside of the annual planning
• Aimed to respond to specific needs of the Partner Countries
• Must contribute to one or more of the Clima East Result Areas
• Up to 22 working days/application normally, maximum 50 if justified
• Equipment, materials or software are not eligible expenses
RESULT AREAS
RESULT AREA 1 Increased Understanding of the EU Climate Change and energy acquis and
the 20/20/20 agenda (including the 2030 Framework for Climate and Energy)
RESULT AREA 2 Responsible public institutions will competently address the Kyoto- and post-
Kyoto regime under the UNFCCC, and (for Annex 1) be strengthened to
comply with regulations
RESULT AREA 3
State-of-the-art national climate change mitigation and adaptation policies
developed, fine-tuned and implemented
RESULT AREA 4
Increased capacity for climate change vulnerability and impact assessments
and for adaptation planning
RESULT AREA 5
National and/or regional Emissions Trading Schemes prepared and started
RESULT AREA 6
Progress made in elaboration of low carbon/low emissions development
strategies (LEDS/LCDS)
Step 1 and 2
Call for applications opened (February 2014)
Applications received
• EF Guide
Step 3.2
Approval of applications by European Commission
No objection from PC FP
Step 3.1
Evaluation of applications by Clima East
Part 1
B1 – Relevance
B2 - Feasibility
Part 2
B1 - Commitment
B2 - Tangibility
B3 – Regional Perspective
B4 – Efficiency
B5 – Sustainability
B6 – Urgency
B7 - Added value
Where necessary,
further discussion
and clarification of concept, revision of
applications
Step 4 and 5
TOR
and
Expert(s)
STEPS
Step 6.
Approval by EC
• EF Service Pack
Step 7.
Implemen- tation
• Working together with the applicant
Step 8.
Monitoring
• Monthly input, deliverables and timetable comparison
• Interim reports
Step 9.
Evaluation
• Post-service Quiestio- naire
• 6-monthly
FURTHER STEPS
APPLICATIONS RECEIVED
28 proposals from all 7 countries
Country 1st round 2nd
round
3rd round
Regional 1
(AZ+GE)
Armenia 1 2 1
Azerbaijan 8
Belarus 2 1
Georgia 1 2
Moldova 2
Russia 2
Ukraine 2 3
APPROVED APPLICATIONS
12 proposals with activities in all 7 countries
Number Short Title
CEEF2014-010-AZ-GE Vulnerability Modelling, Caucasus
CEEF2014-009-AM PMU Accreditation
CEEF2014-024-AM Roadmap for Adaptation
CEEF2014-025-AM Vulnerability Modelling
CEEF2014-028-AM INDC Support
CEEF2014-005-BL Adaptation Strategy for Agriculture
CEEF2014-011-MD Vulnerability Assessment
CEEF2014-018-MD Dialog with EU
CEEF2014-012-RU Economic GHG Regulation
CEEF2014-019-RU Efficiency of Climate Measures
CEEF2014-007-UA Principles of State Climate Policy
CEEF2014-008-UA LULUCF Reporting Review
Step 3 ‘Evaluation of Applications’ including approval by DEVCO (DG NEAR) completed for:
TOR PREPARATION AND EXPERT SELECTION
- TOR Developed by team members (App. Supervisors)
- TOR Signed-off by the applicant
- Final draft TORs are circulated to the consortium
- Selected experts comment on TOR
Number Short Title
CEEF2014-010-AZ-GE Vulnerability Modelling, Caucasus
CEEF2014-009-AM PMU Accreditation
CEEF2014-024-AM Roadmap for Adaptation
CEEF2014-005-BL Adaptation Strategy for Agriculture
TORs are finalized and experts identified for:
Number Short Title
CEEF2014-011-MD Vulnerability Assessment
CEEF2014-012-RU Economic GHG Regulation
CEEF2014-019-RU Efficiency of Climate Measures
CEEF2014-007-UA Principles of State Climate Policy
CEEF2014-008-UA LULUCF Reporting Review
TORs are being finalized for:
APPROVAL FOR IMPLEMENTATION
Number Short Title
CEEF2014-010-AZ-GE Vulnerability Modelling, Caucasus
CEEF2014-009-AM PMU Accreditation
CEEF2014-024-AM Roadmap for Adaptation
CEEF2014-005-BL Adaptation Strategy for Agriculture
CEEF2014-018-MD Dialog with EU
The following EF Services packs are ready for approval and implementation
KEY ISSUES
• Length of time to bring first applications to implementation
• Levels of interest versus budget
• Broadening participation
EF BUDGET INCREASE AND NEW TRACK 2
In response to these issues, DG NEAR
• has allocated further funding of €1,044,480 to increase support through the facility to ensure the Facility can continue to fund new applications
• is particularly interested in supporting applications that enable and support broad-based cooperation/contributions to the definition, development and delivery of national climate policy and action, within PCs policy frameworks.
Clima East is therefore introducing a dedicated ‘Track 2’ application route within the Facility, to support collaborative projects involving 2 or more domestic partners
CEEF TRACK 1 AND 2 Track 1: The CEEF continues to accept applications corresponding to the original set of criteria, and the process for this remains unchanged.
Track 2: Under this track, the European Commission is keen to consider applications that encourage and enable cooperation and broad-based contributions to the definition, development and delivery of national climate policy and action:
• sectoral ministries,
• other national or local administration bodies,
• civil society
Track 2 applications will
• respond to the same technical criteria as those Track 1, plus
• involve two or more active domestic beneficiary organisations
NEXT STEPS
Track 2 goes live on 5th February 2015
• Full guidance to be published on www.climaeast.eu
• information and support available from team
• Next evaluation round cut-off date will be:
15th March 2015