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Green Climate Fund Readiness and Preparatory Support
Proposal
Country (or region)
Togo
Submission date
17/04/2015
NDA or Focal Point
The Directorate of Environment, Ministry of Environment and Forest Resources
(MERF)
Date of NDA/FP
designation
Contact point
(the person who will be
responsible and
accountable for this
request)
Full office address
06/08/2014
Readiness area/s
Name: Mr Esso‐Sam Abdou Rassidou Agrignan
Position: Economist and Focal Point for the Green Climate Fund
Email: [email protected]
Tel: (+228) 90545596 / 90280426 / 22 21 33 21
The Directorate of Environment
Ministry of Environment and Forestry Resources,
247, Rue des Nîmes
B.P. : 4825 Lomé Togo
Tel : (+228) 22 21 33 21 / 22 21 51 97
Fax: (+228) 22 21 03 33 / 22 21 51 97
E-mail : [email protected]
1. Establishing and strengthening National Designated Authorities
(NDAs) or Focal Points
2. Strategic frameworks for engagement with the Fund, including
the preparation of country programmes
3. Selection of implementing entities or intermediaries, and
support for accreditation
4. Initial pipelines of programme and project proposals
5. Information Sharing, experience exchange and learning
Request summary
(In 200 words or less
please summarise your
request for readiness
support)
Activity area 1: NDA strengthening
Recruiting an international expert (climate and environmental finance) for about 2
months and a national financial assistant (with good command of English language) to
provide technical and management assistance to the NDA in order to:
1. Build the knowledge and capacity of the coordination team (i.e. the General
Secretariat of the MERF; GCF steering committee, etc)
2. Coordinate with relevant ministries, departments and agencies on key issues
related to GCF
3. Draft a country programme (see activity 2 below);
4. Liaise with other ministries, departments and relevant agencies including
consultations on the development of a country programme; and
5. Conduct robust awareness campaigns in order to get greater commitment from
key stakeholders, starting with an initial national workshop for implementing the
'readiness' programme by end July 2015.
The NDA may also add other activities in accordance with the Fund’s defined scope of
work on NDA strengthening (see Annex I).
Activity area 2: Strategic Framework including the preparation of country
programmes. The NDA will develop a country programme comprising:
1. The collation and review of Togo’s development priorities (e.g. SCARPE - the
Start and end dates
Duration of support
(in months)
Estimated total cost
(in US$)
strategy for accelerated growth and employment promotion), institutional and
legal framework for climate change (e.g. the Framework Law on environment
enacted in May 2008) and relevant plans and strategies (e.g. PNIERN – the
National Investment Programme for the Environment and Natural Resources)
with a view to identifying transformational investment opportunities in
accordance with the Fund’s Initial results management framework;
2. The identification of opportunities to involve the private sector, including micro,
small and medium enterprises, and to take advantage of their ability to
implement Togo’s programming priorities
3. The clarification of the roles of prospective public and private sector entities that
may be accredited by the Fund in implementing Togo’ programming priorities
with respect to the Fund;
4. The identification of a comprehensive portfolio of projects and programmes to be
submitted to the Fund for financing, including public-private partnerships, in
accordance with the Fund’s Initial investment framework; and
5. Determining how to avoid duplications, if any, with the readiness work of other
donors in the country (e.g. GIZ) and encourage synergies between the support of
GCF and other partners’ efforts.
The NDA may add other elements of the country program and will also be required to
undertake consultations with stakeholders in accordance with the Fund’s defined
scope of work on developing strategic frameworks (See Annex II) including the
preparation of country programmes.
15/07/2015-14/07/2017
24 months (2 years)
Up to US$ 300,000
SECTION A: CONTEXT
Status of GCF readiness in the country (include information on previous engagement with the
Fund and related readiness initiatives and activities)
Togo ratified the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 1995 and its Kyoto
Protocol in 2004. It developed and presented its First and Second National Communications in 2001 and 2010
respectively. The process for developing the Third National Communication started in 2013 and is still in the works.
A.1
Previous engagement with the Fund
On 6 August 2014, The Directorate of Environment, within the Ministry of Environment and Forestry Resources
(MERF) was nominated as the National Designated Authority for the GCF.
Following the NDA nomination, a national consultative stakeholder workshop was organised in collaboration with
civil society. At the sub-regional level, a regional consultation workshop between Benin, Ghana and Togo was
convened to share initial country experiences with regard to the operationalisation of the GCF in different
countries.
In the margins of the COP 20 in Lima (December 2014), the Togolese delegation met with staff from the GCF and
discussed the GCF readiness programme and how Togo could benefit from it. A subsequent mission in late
December 2014 by the GCF Mitigation Coordinator, Youssef Arfaoui, enabled national stakeholders in Togo to gain
a better understanding on the process for developing a pipeline of projects and programmes for submission to the
GCF.
Other readiness initiatives include:
 The initiation of a process for developing Togo’s National Adaptation Plan, and the launch of the REDD+
readiness process with GIZ support
 The establishment of a coordination team for the preparation of Togo’s draft NAMA portfolio. This process
will build on the mitigation studies conducted in national communications and relevant sectoral strategies.
 The operationalization of the National Environment Fund (created in 2010) with funding from GEF and
UNDP as delivery partner.
Description of planned project / programmes (applicable for project / programme preparation
request only)
Although details are not yet readily available at this particular time, Togo intends to submit a portfolio of projects
both for adaptation (especially in agriculture, water resources, coastal zone) and mitigation (focussing on energy
efficiency, transportation, access to low emission energy sources, and production of low-emission energy).
A.2
SECTION B: DESCRIPTION OF ACTIVITIES
B.1
Logical framework
Description
Indicators
Outcomes
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# of funding proposals reviewed by interministerial coordination committee led by NDA
# of funding proposals recommended or no
objection provided by the NDA to the Fund
Formal endorsement of country programme by
cabinet or head of government
1
NDA established and capacity strengthened
to undertake Fund-related responsibilities
2
Strategic framework for engagement with
the Fund endorsed

Guideline document on processes for
reviewing and deciding on funding
proposals developed

Formal adoption and publication of guideline
document
1.2
Decision memos of coordination meetings
developed
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# of committee-endorsed decision memos
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2.1
Country programme developed through
stakeholder engagement process
# of priority projects and programmes, including
preferred entities, identified through stakeholder
engagement
# of participants (government, civil society and
private sector) included in stakeholder
engagement process
Participant survey reports from stakeholder
engagement processes
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Outputs
1.1
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2.2
Summary reports of stakeholder
engagement processes published
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Activities
To be completed in inception and progress reports as specific activities are planned
B.2
Rationale for the request
Togo seeks GCF’s support for its readiness process for the first 2 activity areas in order to enhance its
capacity to access climate finance.
Enabling activities, such as NAPA and national communication processes, benefitted from the support
from multilateral executing entities such UNDP. Such projects were meant among other objectives to
strengthen the institutional and operational capacities of the country. Yet, nearly 20 years after the
implementation of the First National Communication, Togo still lacks adequate capacity to facilitate
direct access to climate financing for the implementation of climate-related projects and programmes.
In 2009, Togo chose the West African Development Bank (BOAD) as its regional implementing entity for
projects under the Adaptation Fund. More than five years later, not a single project from Togo has been
accepted by the Adaptation Fund. This is partly due to insufficient capacity in project development.
Readiness support will contribute to strengthening Togo’s institutional capacity at national level
including the identification of potential candidates for accreditation as GCF’s implementing entities.
Activity 1
The Directorate of Environment within MERF, with the support of other stakeholders from institutional
arrangement (in section D2) will steer Togo’s efforts to transition to a climate resilient and green
economy. They will also be responsible for engagement with the Fund in the long-term. However, in the
short term, the NDA requires short-term specialist resources in order to effectively accelerate their
engagement with the Fund, and also build the capacity of the staff team that will take up these
responsibilities in the long-term.
Activity 2
There is a multiplicity of climate-related strategies, plans and programmes in Togo. With GCF readiness
support, Togo wishes to collate and review these plans and strategies at the national level, in order to
assess their adequacy, prioritise those with transformational potential, and identify gaps that may need
to be filled in order to have robust country programme that is consistent with the Fund’s Initial
investment framework. The country also envisages identifying geographic and thematic options for
programming, and collecting additional data available to fill in the identified gaps. Such a process is
expected to provide a comprehensive portfolio of projects that will be submitted to the GCF for funding.
In doing so, the aim is to avoid overlap or duplication with projects/programmes supported by other
donor agencies.
SECTION C: BUDGET (include total cost and share of GCF funding)
The following is an indicative budget outline. A detailed budget breakdown will be provided with the
inception report.
Activity 1: US$ 150,000
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Consultancy services (including travel cost): US$ 95,000
Workshops: US$ 47,500
Contingency: US$ 7,500
Activity 2: US$ 150,000
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Consultancy services (including travel cost): US$ 95,000
Workshops: US$ 47,500
Contingency: US$ 7,500
The Directorate of Environment within MERF (NDA) will provide counterpart support in the form of staff,
office space, settling utility bills, office supplies, and other in-kind contributions, amounting to
approximately US $75,000. The NDA anticipates that it will need additional resources to fully undertake
activities to strengthen the NDA and develop a country programme and it may supplement the Fund’s
resources with additional resources from other development partners. The audit fees are included in the overall
approved budget.
SECTION D: IMPLEMENTATION PLAN
D.1
Implementation and disbursement schedule
The funding will be transferred to UNDP (Togo) in three tranches:
 The first disbursement, which amounts US$ 100,000 (US$50,000 for Activity 1 and US$50,000 for
Activity 2), will be transferred upon the submission of an inception report from the Directorate
of Environment within MERF, the NDA to the Fund, in form and substance acceptable to the
Fund, which includes detailed implementation plan, procurement plan and budget;
 The second tranche of US$ 100,000 will be transferred upon submission of an interim progress
report and financial report, in form and substance acceptable to the Fund, including an
expenditure statement; and
 The final disbursement will be made upon submission of a completion report and financial
report, including an audited expenditure statement.
D.2
Implementation arrangements (include delivery partners, opportunity for South-South
knowledge sharing and transfer where applicable)
While UNDP will take responsibilities for fiduciary management of the readiness funding, the NDA will
lead the implementation process of this programme in collaboration the institutional framework
described below. The NDA, with support from 2 (maximum 3) individual consultants or a consulting firm,
will deliver Activity 1 and 2 in accordance with the procurement plan and a detailed implementation
plan, both of which will be further elaborated in the inception report.
Figure 1 (below) provides an overview of the proposed institutional framework for monitoring the
implementation of the readiness process in Togo.
Figure 1: institutional framework for monitoring the implementation of the readiness process in Togo.
The Directorate of Environment within MERF (NDA) will manage the readiness project. The Director of
Environment will be the National Director for Readiness process and ensure regular monitoring of the
GCF’s activities. He will report to the General Secretariat of the MERF (which coordinates all technical
activities at the MERF) on progress with regard to the GCF readiness activities in Togo.
The contact point for the NDA will act as coordinator of the readiness process, whose main task will be
to ensure day-to-day management of readiness activities. UNDP will be the executing entity. The
coordinator will operate under the authority of the Director of the Environment and with oversight from
a multi-stakeholder GCF Steering Committee that will be set up, to facilitate access to information in
relevant departments and monitor the implementation of readiness actions. Short-term specialist
resources will be recruited to assist the coordinator.
The National Committee on Climate Change (CNCC) will provide a framework for consultation and
guidance as it has a much broader, economy-wide outlook. It is composed of representatives of relevant
government ministries, departments and agencies, and non-state actors such as stakeholders from the
private sector, civil society and research institutions.
D.3
Procurement plan
UNDP procurement processes will be used throughout the implementation of this project.
UNDP (Togo), in collaboration with the NDA, will competitively procure services consistent with its procurement
policies:
 Consultants will be procured on a competitive basis and the terms of reference of consultants will be
developed further to include the tasks outlined in the request summary above. The NDA may also add
other tasks to the ToRs of the consultants in accordance with the Fund’s defined scope of work on NDA
strengthening within the resource envelope in this proposal and any supplementary resources secured
from other sources.
 For items such as venues and travel for stakeholder workshops to be organized, a shopping method will be
used to procure such services consistent with UNDP’s procurement policies.
Information on the process and the results of procurement to undertaken will be included in the inception report
where such information can be provided in advance, and in any case, in interim progress or completion reports
when such procurement has been undertaken and completed.
SECTION E: COUNTRY OWNERSHIP & STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT
E.1
Alignment with national plans and strategies
Togo developed its National Communications with GEF funding, in a bid to deliver on its commitments under the
UNFCCC, the implementation of which allowed gradual establishment of an institutional framework for managing
climate change issues. The Ministry of Environment and Forest Resources (MERF) provides oversight of such
framework, the main components of which being the Inter-ministerial Commission for the Environment and the
National Committee on Climate Change (CNCC).
Despite being among the first African countries to adopt environmental legislation, Togo does not yet have an
adequate legal framework for climate change. It ratified the UNFCCC and its Kyoto Protocol but does not yet have
an implementing legislation that is integrated into the national corpus juris. This said, the Framework Law on
environment enacted in May 2008 takes into account climate change issues. This readiness process will strengthen
the provisions provided for in the legal framework on climate change.
From a development standpoint, the strategy for accelerated growth and employment promotion (SCAPE in
French acronym) is Togo medium-to-long term development framework and also provides strategic guidance on
climate change and disaster management issues. Adaptation and mitigation projects that will be developed within
the GCF readiness process will therefore have to be consistent with the implementation of the SCARPE.
The National Investment Programme for the Environment and Natural Resources (PNIERN in French acronym) is
Togo’s strategic investment framework in the environmental sector. The PNIERN enables a sector-wide alignment
and harmonisation of interventions of partners and stakeholders and contributes thus to the sustainable
management of the environment and natural resources. The promotion of adaptation and mitigation actions and
the mobilisation of resources for their implementation feature prominently among the strategic courses of actions
of the PNIERN. The readiness process will therefore give a further boost to the implementation of PNIERN.
With regard to UNFCCC responses, Togo completed its first and second National Communication (SNC) as well as
the implementation of National Strategy of the UNFCCC. The 3rd National Communication is being finalised.
Climate-related documents (policy, strategy, etc) were also developed, including:
 The “Capacity building for improving the quality of greenhouse gas inventories in West and Central Africa";
 The NAPA - National Action Plan for Adaptation to Climate Change
 The “National Capacity Self Assessment to better manage the Global and National Environment”;
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The “National capacity building strategy for the management of the Environment”;
The “assessment of investment flows and financial flows for mitigation in the energy sector and adaptation in
the agricultural sector in Togo"
 The "Communication strategy on climate change and the transition to a green economy in Togo"
 The CDM project note idea portfolios
It is envisaged that the readiness process will build on the above and help Togo deal with the various weaknesses
and identified gaps with regard to climate action.
In particular, the limited involvement of key stakeholders constitutes one of Togo’s major hurdles for advancing the
climate agenda in the country. This may partly be due to either the lack of awareness of their roles in the process or
the usefulness of the information at their disposal. Such situation stems from the inadequacy of the institutional
and legal frameworks on the one hand and limited capacity in terms of financial, and technical (including
communication) resources, on the other hand. We envisage conducting robust awareness campaigns in order to
get greater commitment from stakeholders.
E.2
Stakeholder engagement (e.g. civil society, sub-national and national government,
private sector, intended beneficiaries)
As indicated under D2, the readiness programme will be managed by the MERF, through the NDA with
support from the executing entity (UNDP) and guided by a GCF Steering Committee comprising of
representatives from key relevant national government agencies and non-state actors.
Other sectoral ministries, such as the Ministries in charge of Industry, Economy and Finance, Mines,
Energy, Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries, Transport, public Works, Higher Education, Research,
Development, Planning etc., will play an important role in the implementation of this process. The
various ministries will play an important role in identifying transformational investment opportunities
within their respective sectors.
MERF through the NDA will organise information sharing and awareness events and build capacity with
regard to climate-related project identification, appraisal and preparation in key economic sectors. The
sectoral ministries will take part in these training workshops. Other relevant stakeholders will also
participate in trainings, viz:
 Academic and research institutions given their role in science, technology and innovation.
Examples include the University of Lomé, the University of Kara, the Institute of Advisory &
Technical Support (ICAT) and the Togolese Institute of Agricultural Research (ITRA).
 civil society and the private sector stakeholders e.g. the union of non-governmental
organisations in Togo (UONGTO), the Federation of NGOs of Togo (FONGTO) the Consortium of
environmental NGOs in Togo (COMET), the chambers as the Chamber of Commerce and Industry
of Togo, chambers of agriculture and others. These organizations can provide important
information for the government regarding options and mitigation measures in project
formulation.
The National Committee on Climate Change will be an important consultation framework for the
process. All other departments and agencies on national development, including the MDGs cell, Local
authority, the Permanent Secretariat of the SCAPE will also play an important role.
The involvement of all these actors will contribute to increasing ownership of Togo’s readiness process
and the strengthening of institutional and technical capacity of a wide range of stakeholders.
The project will also aim to develop synergies (and avoid duplication) with other relevant on-going
projects in the country to enable an efficient exchange of information between projects and full use of
their results. These include: (1) the REDD + project preparation, (2) NAMAs, (3) the third national
communication, (4) the biennial report, (5) adaptation of farmland to climate change, (6) the
development of 1,000 hectares of lowlands in the 5 economic regions of Togo, (7) the NAP process, the
integrated land and disaster management project (PGICT) etc. The priorities identified during these
projects will be used in the formulation and readiness to supply the project portfolio.
This readiness project will integrate a gender perspective in the identification of transformational
investment opportunities.
SECTION F: MONITORING & REPORTING PLAN
The reports to be submitted will be as per what is included in section D.1, and will include reporting against the
logical framework included in section B.1.
SECTION G: RISK & MITIGATION MEASURES
Description or risk
1. Weak stakeholder engagement
Risk level
Low
2 Lack of interest from private sector
stakeholders
Medium
Mitigation measures
Togo has started integrating climate change
issues into national policy. The project team will
ensure key government stakeholders are
involved throughout the process.
Sensitisation activities on climate finance
opportunities for the private sector will be
undertaken.
SECTION H: KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND COMMUNICATION PLAN
The experiences gained, lessons learned and good practices will be systematically compiled and shared
between different stakeholders at national level. These knowledge products will also be made available
to other countries and stakeholders through window on the MERF website that will be created.