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A REPORT ON KENYA’S STAKEHOLDERS
CONSULTATIVE WORKSHOP ON GREEN
CLIMATE FUND PROJECT PIPELINE
An undertaking of the National Environment
Management Authority (NEMA)- Kenya
Towards A Country Driven Approach In
Accessing GCF Funding
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List of Acronyms
COP:
Conference of Parties
EEs:
Executing Entities
GCF:
Green Climate Fund
GDC:
Geothermal Development Corporation
IEs:
Implementing Entities
KCB:
Kenya Commercial Bank
KFS:
Kenya Forest Service
LDC:
Least Developed Countries
MEWNR:
Ministry of environment, water and natural resources
MoALF
Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries
MoIED:
Ministry of Industrialization and Enterprise Development
NAP:
National Adaptation Plan
NCCAP:
National Climate Change Action Plan
NCCRS:
Kenya National Climate Response Strategy
NCCS:
National Climate Change Secretariat
NDA:
National Designated Authority
NDMA:
National Drought Management Authority
NEMA:
National Environmental Management Authority
NIE:
National Implementing Entity
PAD:
Project Appraisal Document
PCN:
Project Concept Note
RAS:
Readiness Actions
SIDS:
Small Island Developing States
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UNFCCC:
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
LPAR:
Legal Preparedness Assessment Report
ATAR:
Adaptation Technical Analysis Reports
MTPs:
Medium Term Plans
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Table of Contents
List of Acronyms ............................................................................................................................................ 2
List of Figures and Tables .............................................................................................................................. 6
CHAPTER 1 .................................................................................................................................................... 7
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Introduction .......................................................................................................................................... 7
1.1
2
Background ................................................................................................................................... 9
NEMA’S STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT PLAN TOWARDS ACCESSING THE GREEN CLIMATE FUND
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2.1
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CHAPTER THREE .......................................................................................................................................... 13
3.1: NEMA-GCF KENYA WORKSHOP PROCEEDINGS ................................................................................... 13
3.1: The National Designated Authority Presentation ............................................................................ 13
3.1.1: The Green Climate Fund Background Information ...................... Error! Bookmark not defined.
2.1.1
The accreditation processes for National Implementing Entities (NIEs) ............................ 16
2.1.2
Introduction to the Project Concept Note (PCN) ................................................................ 17
2.2
The National Climate Change Secretariat ................................................................................... 18
2.3
Kenya’s Climate Finance Readiness: Key findings & priorities for support by Government of
Germany.................................................................................................................................................. 22
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Concept Notes Development .............................................................................................................. 23
3.1
Prioritization, Feedback and Consensus Building ....................................................................... 23
3.2
Methodology............................................................................................................................... 23
3.3
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3.3.1
Energy access and power generation ................................................................................. 24
3.3.2
Buildings, cities, industries, appliances and waste management ....................................... 24
3.3.3
Transport ............................................................................................................................. 24
3.3.4
Forestry and land use .......................................................................................................... 25
3.3.5
Livelihoods of people and communities ............................................................................. 25
3.3.6
Resilience of infrastructure and built environment ............................................................ 26
3.3.7
Ecosystems and ecosystem services ................................................................................... 26
CONCEPT NOTES SUBMISSION TO NEMA ........................................................................................... 27
4.1
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defined.
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4.2
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4.3
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4.4
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4.5
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4.6
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List of Figures and Tables
Figure 1: Kenya’s abatement potential (source: NCCS) ................................................................. 19
List of Tables
Table 1: Size of project/activity within a programme...................................................................... 17
Table 2: Relating low-carbon strategies with sustainable development per priority sector
(Source: NCCS)........................................................................................................................................ 20
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CHAPTER 1
1 Introduction
The National Environment Management Authority intends to participate and
contribute to the goals of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) in line with the aspirations
of UNFCCC and Kyoto Protocol. This report, details the proceedings and outputs of
Kenya’s premiere stakeholders’ workshop on Green Climate Fund, and the intended
steps/phases by NEMA, towards accessing GCF. This first GCF workshop in Kenya
was conceived and convened by the National Environment Management Authority
(NEMA) in an effort to contribute towards a country driven approach in accessing the
Green Climate Funds. The key objective of this forum was to generate country
priority intervention areas on climate change, for funding consideration under the
Green Climate Fund (GCF).
NEMA recognizes the urgency and need to address existing climate change threats
and acknowledges GCF as a source of funding, which if accessed, will accelerate
Kenya’s response to climate change threats. Towards this end, NEMA has great
experience and understands the need for country level appropriate processes and
strategic positioning in readiness for accessing this global climate finance
mechanisms (GCF). In conceiving this workshop, NEMA’s aim is to offer leadership
and momentum by initiating the path towards accessing climate finance from GCF
through direct access modality in Kenya.
NEMA conceives 3 main phases of finance access and delivery of Climate Change
interventions under the GCF mechanism. These stages are described below;
Phase 1
This phase will consist of a participatory approach in identifying priority Climate
Change interventions in line with Government climate change action plans,
strategies and work programmes. In this phase all relevant government agencies
be consulted in a formally organized forum. NEMA will undertake to facilitate the
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process, with the knowledge that, GCF being a new mechanism, the level of
sensitation is fairly low.
The larger portion of this report is the proceedings and outcomes of Phase one as
described above. NEMA, in a demonstration of how responsive its management is,
internally allocated resources to facilitate a government wide consultative
workshop, for setting the climate change intervention priorities areas for
consideration of funding under GCF. This consultative workshop took place in March
2015 at the Utalii College Hotel, Nairobi where relevant government institutions
developed draft climate change concept notes. The methodology employed in this
workshop was that of an open dialogue that had two main components/sessions. The
first component was participants were appraised on GCF mechanism, and were
taken through Kenya’s official National Climate Change Action Plan. The second
component generated the specific areas that Kenya/NEMA should present to GCF
for funding in the initial submissions. This methodology ensured development of
well- informed, national- oriented and government prioritised GCF project
proposals.
Phase 2
This phase shall involve full Project/Programme development. The submitted and
approved project concepts shall be the basis of developing full proposal. A very key
desired outcome during this phase is mapping and inclusion of all stakeholders.
These stakeholders shall include, and not limited to, Government agencies, Civil
Society
Organizations,
Private
Sector,
Regional
bodies
and
International
organizations. A robust stakeholder mapping and engagement shall be employed
NEMA intends to employ the rich experience on this process as demonstrated
during development of the Adaptation Fund programme.
Phase 3
This phase shall involve projects/programme implementation.
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1.1 Background
The premise that
necessitates setting up of strategic institutions globally and
nationally to be vehicles to deliver climate funds from the global finance
mechanisms is the reality that climate change related costs are beyond budgetary
scope of national governments in developing countries.
The National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) is an accredited National
Implementing Entity (NIE) of the Adaptation Fund (AF) for Kenya and is pursuing
GCF accreditation on fast track category. In December 2014, NEMA received and
met a GCF mission to Kenya accompanied by officials from Kenya’s National
Treasury in their role as the NDA for Kenya. In this meeting NEMA was advised to
submit potential project proposals for funding under GCF. An internal NEMA
decision was taken that development and prioritization of these proposals must
involve a consultative and participatory process with relevant government entities.
It is with this background that NEMA organized a government-wide stakeholder’s
workshop to prioritize and generate project concepts for submission to the GCF
secretariat. The government entities that participated in this climate change
interventions priority setting workshop are institutions whose mandate is in diverse
aspects of development and environment in Kenya. These included institutions of
higher learning (Universities), Government Ministries, Government Agencies,
Government
Development
Authorities
and
Government
Semi-Autonomous
organizations.
Four of these institutions that participated with specified/ profiled roles namely;
1. The National Treasury, whose role is that of the National Designated Authority
for Kenya;
2. The Ministry of Environment, Water and Natural Resources, whose role is
developing climate change policy and Climate Change Action plans and
Strategies;
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3. Transparency International, which was invited and participated as an
observer to document and appraise this process against the tenets of
transparency and good governance.
4. United Nations Development Programme, who are implementing a climate
finance readiness program in Africa, Kenya being one of the target countries.
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CHAPTER 2
2 NEMA’S GCF Workshop mobilization and communication strategy
Kenya has many actors involved in climate change adaptation and mitigation
interventions. NEMA as the principal instrument for the Government of Kenya for the
implementation of all matters pertaining to the environment has a vast network of
stakeholders that it interacts with during its operations. In recognition of the
significance of a participatory process in the concept development process, NEMA’s
NIE Secretariat laid out an elaborate stakeholder mobilization and engagement plan.
This plan would ensure wide consultation throughout the concept development
process and also ensure that the approach taken is a country driven process.
To have a government driven approach the secretariat did a comprehensive analysis
of government stakeholders who have interest, influence and power in
environment, climate change and development matters was done. A list of the
identified government institutions was generated that included the contacts for the
heads of the institutions. Invitation letters signed by the Director General NEMA,
detailing the objectives of the workshop were sent out to the heads of
institutions/Focal points of all the targeted institutions. These letters were delivered
through courier services to these institutions. The same letters were scanned and
sent to these institutions through emails. Towards the date of the event, Follow up
was done through phone calls to all the invited institutions.
It is noteworthy that NEMA’s decision to lay out a GCF stakeholder engagement plan
was also based on its past experience in developing project proposals for
Adaptation Fund considerations. During which, the Authority carried out an
extensive and time consuming process of identifying and narrowing over 100
project proposals to 11 proposals. Due to the gravity of addressing climate change
issues in the country and the recently opened GCF’s accreditation window, NEMA
decided to strategically identify the relevant stakeholders to engage with from the
very first step of developing GCF’s project concept notes.
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Execution of the Participatory approach
40 organizations relevant government institutions were identified. Below is a
diagram illustrating how the stakeholders mapping criteria and their role :).
Phase one stakeholder engagement process - for a country driven approach in
developing GCF project concept notes on priority CC Interventions
NEMA
Mobilisation
of resources,
and
participants
40 t Government
Agencies:
Academia,
Parastatals,
Departments,
Commissions
and Ministries
were mobilised
towards
participating in
the GCF
workshop
Transparency
International
invited to be an
observer -
Advisory/Special
ised institutions:
NDA, UNDP,
Ministry of
Environment(UN
FCCC Focal
Point) invited to
give
presentations
Workshop
Execution;
CC
Priority
Inteventio
ns
generated
These identified stakeholders included Public universities, the National Treasury
(GCF NDA) Kenya Meteorological services, Department of Remote Sensing and
Resource Survey, Tana River Development Authority, Kenya Pipeline Company,
Kenya Maritime Authority, Kenya Civil Aviation Authority, Lake Basin Development
Authority, Kenya Forest Service, Kenya Forest Research Institute, Kenya Marine and
Fisheries Research Institute, National Oil, Water Resources Management Authority,
Coast Development Authority, National Drought Management Authority, Ministry of
Environment, Water and Natural Resources, Ministry of Labor, Housing and Urban
Development, the National Climate Change Secretariat, the National Youth Service
among others. Other key stakeholders identified to facilitate an oversight and
advisory roles were the GCF NDA, United Nations Development Programme, The
Kenya Red Cross, Transparency international- Kenya and East Africa Network for
Compliance and Enforcement (ENECE
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CHAPTER THREE
3.1: NEMA-GCF KENYA WORKSHOP PROCEEDINGS
The following is summary of the presentations and plenary sessions of the workshop.
3.1: The National Designated Authority Presentation
NDA desk officer articulated the GCF readiness milestone to the stakeholders. He
stated that as of 6th February 2015 the GCF had received 96 initial National
Designated Authority (NDA) or focal point designations. The officer informed the
participants that GCF is ready to operationalize funding of programs and has already
established an Accreditation Committee and Panel to accredit implementing entities
(IEs)
with
clearly
stated
accreditation
procedures,
including
the
fund’s
environmental and social safeguards, and fiduciary principles and standards.
The National Treasury (Kenya’s NDA) gave a perceptive creation presentation on the
progress on Green Climate Fund (GCF) and future work for the year 2015.The
presenter gave a brief introduction on the GCF which is anoperating entity of the
financial mechanism established at the 16th Conference of Parties (COP) in
accordance with Article 11 of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate
Change (UNFCCC). The fund is governed and supervised by the Board that has full
responsibility for funding decisions under the guidance of the COP. In December
2013 the Fund established the Secretariat in Songdo, Republic of South Korea and
the Trustee with administrative competence to manage its financial assets.The
Fund’s objective is to promote the paradigm shift towards low-emission and climateresilient development pathways.
The accreditation process shall aim at building of capacities of entities in developing
countries and offer guidelines for the operationalization of the fit-for-purpose
accreditation approach. Mr. Odhengo informed the key stakeholders that Kenya was
one of the countries visited by the GCF readiness mission (The mission) to Africa in
December 2014 with the aim of strengthening the country’s ability to make effective
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use of climate finance. The readiness mission is also supporting countries to access
resources from the Green Climate Fund through the fit-for-purpose accreditation
and information dissemination to raise GCF awareness.
This mission under the NDA’s coordination visited seven institutions that are
earmarked for fit-for-purpose accreditation in Kenya:
i.
Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB)
ii.
Geothermal Development Corporation (GDC)
iii.
National Environmental Management Authority (NEMA)
iv.
Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries (MoALF): Directorate of
Irrigation – MoALF
v.
Kenya Forest Service (KFS)
vi.
National Drought Management Authority (NDMA)
vii.
Ministry of Industrialization and Enterprise Development (MoIED)
The mission’s findings recommended NEMA for fast-track accreditation under the
GCF since it is already accredited by the Adaptation Fund as the National
Implementing Entity (NIE). This is in line with the GCF’s board decision to fast-track
accreditation of entities previously accredited to other relevant funds. It is in view of
this that NEMA is working on strengthening its capacity as NIE in coordinating and
supervising government agencies to come up with a country-driven proposal
through the involvement of key stakeholders in readiness for fast tracking under the
GCF.
The NDA representative advised the stakeholders to develop bankable concept
notes that will meet the fund’s financial risk management and investment
frameworks. The concept notes and investment proposals shall be reviewed by the
Investment Committee for recommendation for approval by the board. The Fund will
initially make allocations under adaptation, mitigation and the Private Sector Facility
on first come first served bases but observing a 50:50 balance between mitigation
and adaptation over time. The resource allocation system shall facilitate:
 Cross-cutting proposals;
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 A results-based approach;
 A country-driven approach;
 A geographically balanced approach; and
 Private sector mitigation and adaptation activities at the national, regional and
international levels
The public and private sector projects/programmes undertaken using the Fund’s
resources will be evaluated against the Fund’s investment criteria whereby:
1. Proposals for adaptation, the funds will be allocated based on:
(i)
The ability of a proposed activity to demonstrate its potential to adapt to
the impacts of climate change in the context of promoting sustainable
development and a paradigm shift (Degree to which the proposed activity
can catalyse impact beyond a one-off project or programme investment);
and
(ii)
The urgent and immediate needs of vulnerable countries, in particular
LDCs, SIDS and African States
2. Proposals for mitigation, resources will be allocated based on the ability of a
proposed activity to demonstrate its potential to limit and reduce greenhouse gas
emissions in the context of promoting a paradigm shift.
3. Private Sector Facility proposals will be considered based on the contribution a
proposed activity makes towards promoting a paradigm shift and to:
(i)
Directly and indirectly finance private sector mitigation to limit and reduce
greenhouse gas emissions and adaptation to the impacts of climate change
activities; and
(ii)
Promoting the participation of private sector actors in developing
countries, in particular local actors, including small and medium-sized
enterprises and local financial intermediaries, and activities to enable
private sector involvement in Least Developed Countries (LDCs) and Small
Island Developing States (SIDS).
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A country specific logical framework for results management with indicators to
measure the impact of the Fund on strategic improvements shall be designed by the
Fund.
As of the time of the presentation the Funds had received over USD 10.2 Billion
pledges. The Fund’s main inputs are from: developed country parties to the
Convention; a variety of other sources, public and private, including alternate
sources.
As the Kenya’s NDA to the fund, treasury is keen on undertaking five Readiness
Actions (RAS) to meet the June 2015 concept note submission to the Fund:
1. Steer the accreditation processes for National Implementing Entities (NIEs)
and Executing Entities (EEs)
2. Development and preparation of the project pipeline for June 2015
submission: technical assistance needed to bring priority projects to
bankability.
3. Meeting with IEs and EEs
4. Introduction to the Project Concept Note (PCN) and Project Appraisal
Document (PAD) (full request template)
5. Identify gaps and opportunities that the GCF secretariat can assist to facilitate
the preparation of the projects.
2.1.1
The accreditation processes for National Implementing Entities (NIEs)
The NDA is guiding NEMA for Fast-track Accreditation and four other institutions
through the normal Accreditation process: Geothermal Development Company (GDC)
 Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB)
 Africa Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS)
 Acumen Fund Inc.
For the development and preparation of the project pipeline for June 2015
submission the DNA has issued six letters of no objection to four EEs namely:
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2.1.2
 GDC:
2 Concept Note (Silali & Menengai geothermal projects)
 Mo AL:
1 Galana/ Kulau Irrigation Scheme project
 NDMA:
1 ASAL Climate Resilience Program
 MoIED:
2 Development of Coconut Value Chain;
Introduction to the Project Concept Note (PCN)
Mr. Odhengo in great profundity took the stakeholders through the GCF Project
Funding Proposal Concept Note requirements and how to make bankable concepts.
Thereafter, there was a plenary with great correspondence form the stakeholders on
any questions related to the PCN. The presenter articulately responded to the
concerns raised and the stakeholders indicated satisfaction and understanding.
The NDA advised the stakeholders that there are four project classes: Micro, small,
Medium and Large that NEMA can apply with room for upgrading from one class to
another upon gaining the necessary experience (Table 1).He further encouraged
NEMA and the key stakeholders that the Fund is presenting a great opportunity for
the country that cannot afford to miss. This is because the fund is ambitious, flexible
and scalable, have a country-driven and owned approach with direct and other
access modalities, and leverage additional public and private resources through the
operational modalities of the Fund, including through the private sector facility.
Table 1: Size of project/activity within a programme
Class
Total Projected Costs*
Micro
Up to and including US$10 million
Small
Above US$ 10 million and up to and including US$ 50 million
Medium
Above US$ 50 million and up to and including US$ 250 million
Large
above US$ 250 million
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* At the time of application, irrespective of the portion that is funded by the Fund
and, if applicable, other sources, for an individual project or activity within a
programme.
2.2 The National Climate Change Secretariat
The National Climate Change Secretariat (NCCS) representative from the ministry of
environment, water and natural resources (MEWNR) Ms. Fatuma M. Hussein, gave a
presentation
/synopsis
of
climate
change
mainstreaming
in
the
national
development policy and priority areas for climate change interventions in the
country.
On a brief contextual setup of climate change scenario in Kenya, Ms. Fatuma stated
that the country is very vulnerable to climate change impacts with droughts and
floods been the adverse impacts that bar the realization of sustainable development.
This is because Kenya’s economy depends largely on climate sensitive sectors with
low adaptive capacities; Agriculture, Energy, Tourism. As a result, climate change
impacts costs ~2.6% of the national GDP annually.
To mainstream climate change in the national policy and legal framework the
Constitution of Kenya, 2010 elevates issues of environment and development as
human rights, which effectively lay a firm foundation for climate change work. The
Constitution requires that all existing policies, laws and other instruments be aligned
to it. Climate change has been well addressed in the Vision 2030 – medium term
plan II (MTP II). As a guide to strengthen and focus nationwide action towards
climate change adaptation and mitigation, the Kenya National Climate Response
Strategy (NCCRS) was developed in 2010 followed by National Climate Change
Action Plan (NCCAP 2013-2017) to implement the NCCRS. The National Adaptation
Plan (NAP) is on its final stages.
A Legal Preparedness Assessment Report (LPAR) by the NCCS has identified Gaps,
barriers, contradictions and opportunities presented in 90 national policies and laws
in different sectors relevant to climate change. As a result, the LPAR recommended
reforms to address climate change adaptation and mitigation:
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(i)
Standalone Coherent Climate Change Policy,
(ii)
Climate Change law,
(iii)
Miscellaneous Amendments, and,
(iv)
Institutional reforms.
The country’s adaptation efforts have so far resulted to over 300 adaptation actions in
the Adaptation Technical Analysis Reports (ATAR) clustered around several sectors’
Medium Term Plans (MTPs). A crosscutting analysis of these ATAR has prioritised six
sectors that have great abatement potential and if taken up can reduce the national
GHG emissions from 117 Mt CO2e to 34 Mt CO2e by the year 2030 as illustrated in
Figure 1 and Table 2.These priority areas in descending order of their abatement
potential are Forestry, Electricity, Transportation, Energy demand, Agriculture and
Industrial processes. The National Climate Change Secretariat commended the
priority areas for GCF concepts for they are the country’s priorities in climate
change adaptation and mitigation.
Figure 1: Kenya’s abatement potential (source: NCCS)
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Table 2Relating low-carbon strategies with sustainable development per priority sector (Source: NCCS)
Low carbon option
Abatement
Investment
potential by 2030
costs to 2030
Restoration of forests 32.6 MtCO2e
Ksh 186 – 290
on degraded lands
billion
Sustainable development impacts
-
Contributes to 10% tree cover goal
-
Biodiversity benefits
-
Sustainable forest products contribute to
improved livelihoods
Geothermal
14.1 MtCO2e
Ksh 877 – 1,115
-
Energy security, economic growth, Climate
resilience
Reforestation
of 6.1 MtCO2e
degraded forests
Ksh
48
–
61
-
billion
Sustained water availability (generation of
hydropower)
-
Biodiversity benefits
-
Sustainable forest products contribute to
improved livelihoods
Improved
cookstoves 5.6 + 1.7 MtCO2e
Ksh 20 billion
and LPG cookstoves
-
Health benefits from reduced indoor air
pollution
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Agroforestry
4.1 MtCO2e
Ksh 70 – 117
-
Lower fuelwood demand and deforestation
-
Potential cost savings to households
-
Increased soil fertility and crop yields,
billion
improving livelihoods of farmers and food
security
-
Improved climate resilience
-
Contributes to goal of 10% tree over on
farms
BRT with LRT corridors
2.8 MtCO2e
Ksh 170 billion
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-
Reduced traffic congestion
-
Improved local air quality
-
Improved road safety
2.3 Kenya’s Climate Finance Readiness: Key findings & priorities for support
by Government of Germany
The Germany’s climate finance readiness support coordinator to Kenya Mr. Ranja
presented the opportunities available for Kenya in readiness for accessing GCF. He
noted that the Government of Germany committed €40m in Durban for climate
finance readiness support. The fund is implemented through UNDP/UNEP/WRI
(BMUB) on one hand and GIZ/KfW (BMZ) on the other hand in over 20 countries. The
Purpose of the readiness fund is to bridge the gap before the time that GCF can
disburse funds.
Kenya falls in the Part of the funding allocated to BMUB: €15M divided amongst the 3
partner agencies supporting 9 countries:
 Phase 1: Benin, Ghana, Colombia, El Salvador, Fiji
 Phase 2: Kenya, Nepal, Philippines, Uzbekistan
The BMUB Readiness Programme is actively supporting institutional capacity
building & strategic preparation enhancement before the full operationalization of
the fund. It is also assisting the development of a pipeline of programmes/projects in
line with national climate change priorities and also it is facilitating private sector
investment in the nine countries of operation.
The programme is working with key domestic stakeholders responsible for the
access, management & monitoring of climate finance in each country to best serve
the country needs, in a close dialogue that will enable country ownership. In Kenya
the programme working with the NDA: the treasury, the proposed Implementing
Entity(ies) (NEMA) and Executing Entity(ies).
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2.4 The above presentations laid a very solid basis for drafting the concept notes.
3 Concept Notes Development
3.1 Methodology
The methodology employed is drafting the concept notes was that of thematic group
formation. The workshop participants resolved to form thematic groups as they exist
in GCF concept note template. These thematic areas are
i.
Energy access and power generation
ii.
Buildings, cities, industries, appliances and waste management
iii.
Transport
iv.
Forestry and land use
v.
Livelihoods of people and communities
vi.
Resilience of infrastructure and built environment
vii.
Ecosystems and ecosystem services
After identifying the thematic areas, the facilitator divided members into seven
groups based on individuals’ area of expertise or interest. Inside the groups,
participants engaged in brainstorming and knowledge sharing while simultaneously
generating the project ideas. These ideas, once agreed upon as a priority area,
would be populated into the standard ‘project funding proposal concept note
template. All these concept notes were presented in a plenary and feedback was
given.
This process culminated in 7 draft concept notes as described below;
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3.1.1
Concept Note 1; Investments in green energy access and power
generation in Kenya
This projects aims are to introduce innovative ways of accessing green energy and
power generation. The specified intervention areas in this project involves
technology transfer i.e. use of bio fuels, enhancing existing fuels, access to energy
saving bulbs, access to solar energy, wind energy and hydroelectricity. Objectives
of the project are to increase green energy access to the population and the
percentage of power generated through clean technologies. The project cost was
estimated at USD 10 million, while the duration for execution is 3 to 5 years.
3.1.2
Concept Note 2; Transitioning Kenyan cities to green cities
The concept note falls in the larger theme on Buildings, cities, industries, appliances
and waste management. This proposed intervention areas are rainwater harvesting,
waste management, non-motorized transport and promoting efficient production
systems in industries. Strategies include rooftop catchment and storm water capture
and storage, segregation of waste in order to capture the organic waste stream in its
pure form for purposes of methane production and composting to produce organic
fertilizer. The proposal also included a proposal to invest in Mass rapid in the major
cities of Kenya... The project needs an estimated amount of 250 million USD while full
implementation will take about 5 years.
3.1.3
Concept Note 3; Greenhouse gas emissions reduction in the transport
sector in Kenya
This concept proposes establishment of Metropolitan Region Bus Rapid Transit
System, improving navigation capabilities in air traffic management, inland lakes oil
spills response contingency plan, development of railway infrastructure for mass
rapid transport in Nairobi and other major towns and extension of existing pipeline
infrastructure. The benefits include reduced inter-city congestion, improved air
quality and increased airspace capacity and more flexible routing, faster response
times to pilot requests and fewer ground delays. The estimated implementation
period is 5 years.
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3.1.4
Concept Note 4; Improving climate resilience through best forestry and
land use practices in Kenya
The proposed intervention areas improving the quality of our urban environment by
transforming main metropolises into garden cities/towns, sustainable management
of forests and trees outside the forest and institutional capacity development and
knowledge management. The estimated project cost is 5 million USD and execute
duration is 5 years. The current budget allocation towards forest-based climate
change resilient programs (NCCAP and NCCRS) is inadequate hence the need for
GCF contribution. The key sectors dependent on forests include crop and livestock,
agriculture, energy, tourism and water resources. Forests and trees are therefore
important to maintaining the quality of the environment while providing public
goods and services. In Kenya however, they provide the bulk of energy used
through wood-fuel, and this results in their overexploitation and consequently
environmental degradation. This project proposes to encompass a three throng
approach with an objective to integrate sound environmental management practices
in Kenya while achieving economic development that meets needs of the present
generation without compromising needs of future generations...
3.1.5
Concept Note 5; An Integrated Approach to improving the Livelihoods of
Vulnerable Communities in ASALs of Kenya.
This project entails promoting climate smart agriculture as an alternative livelihood
by introducing indigenous food crops, fast maturing crops, improved storage
methods and research on drought resistant crops varieties. Under health the project
will promote access to primary health care and capacity building on preventive
health care. The objective is to strengthen the vulnerable communities’ resilience
and capacity to cope with the effects of climate change on health, food and water
security while the benefits will be realized in form of improved health and livelihood
of the vulnerable communities. The estimated project cost is 2 million USD while the
duration is 4 years.
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3.1.6
Concept Note 6: Kenya Climate Resilient infrastructure Project.
This project proposed interventions are on water, energy, communication and health
infrastructure. Rehabilitation of existing sewer systems coupled with water
harvesting
techniques, recycling
water,
promoting
efficient
irrigation and
development of risk based flood management tools to curb river flooding. Energy
infrastructure on the other hand is to be improved by promoting energy-efficient
technologies and complementing the energy mix with renewable energy sources.
Another dimension of critical importance to the project is upgrading transport
management services and an expansion of the transport network to reduce
overreliance on road transport. Lastly, health care systems ought to be improved
and expanded to manage the uncontrollable health impacts of climate change. This
project will assist in the implementation of transitioning the economy towards a lowcarbon economy. The project requires 104.4 million USD and is to run for 5 years.
3.1.7
Concept Note 7; Improved resilience and productivity of ecosystem for
goods and services
This particular project cuts across both adaptation and mitigation and intends to
address vulnerability of wetlands ecosystems, coastal ecosystems and agricultural
landscapes. To achieve this proposed measures to be taken include wetland
rehabilitation, promoting sustainable use of both marine and wetland resources, and
increased resilience in ASALs through water harvesting, sinking of boreholes and
dung collection. Foreseen benefits of the projects include enhanced adaptive
capacity of targeted communities, improved delivery of wetland resources, disaster
risk reduction, reduced GHG emissions and enhanced recharging of underground
aquifers through percolation, for wetland ecosystems. For marine ecosystems
benefits will be realized in terms of increased fish stocks, community participation in
ecosystem conservation, enhanced carbon sequestration, increased food and
nutritional security, flood protection and erosion control. Agricultural landscapes
will benefit from increased water harvesting as well as dung collection and
distribution. The estimated project cost is 30 million USD, to last for about 5 years
and GCF contribution is required to accelerate climate change adaptation especially
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due to the increasing vulnerability of Kenya’s ecosystems which require urgent
attention.
4 CONCEPT NOTES SUBMISSION TO NDA AND GCF
Step 1: Concepts rationalisation at NEMA
NEMA undertook a rationalisation process of the concepts developed during the
workshop. In rationalising these concepts a decision was taken to combine some of
concept areas and generated an integrated programme. It was observed that some
aspects were much related, and could not be implemented in isolation. It was also
noted that there were elements of repetition in some of the developed project
concept notes. Combining some of the proposed concept notes would be more
efficient and deliver higher value of money. Guided by these aspects, and drawing
from past experiences, NEMA’s NIE technical team combined the proposed concept
notes and developed 3 concept notes on three programme areas. It is conceived that
these concept notes will give rise to programmes proposals once the full proposal
development is done. In undertaking this, care was observed so that all the ideas got
captured
Step 2: Endorsement by NDA
It is planned that developed concept notes will then be presented to the NDA for
Kenya which is the National Treasury for endorsement.
Step 3: Submission to GCF
These project concepts, after obtaining endorsement from the NDA, will be
submitted to the GCF secretariat as the official concepts for funding consideration
using direct access modality through NEMA in Kenya.
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Conclusion
NEMA being on a fast track accreditation mode is working towards accreditation by
mid-year 2015. NEMA is also working towards qualifying for programme approval at
the 11th GCF Board meeting that takes place towards the end of 2015.
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