African Development Bank Tunis, Tunisia March, 2011 Dr. Anthony NYONG Manager, ORQR.3 SESA Workshop AfDB’s Green Growth Strategy: What Role can SESA play?

Outline 1. Background 2. Why a Green Growth Strategy for Africa? 3. What role can SESA play in Green Growth Strategy? 4. Key messages and Way Forward

BACKGROUND

AFDB and Green Growth  Green Growth for AfDB is all about achieving sustainable development through: Economic growth Environment, climate resilience and low carbon development, Sustainable improvement of living conditions (poverty reduction and social justice)

Climate Proofed Abatements AdaptationMitigation Development Low Carbon Dev Climate Resilient Dev Climate Compatible Development Source: Catalyst, 2009 Climate Change and Green Growth In Africa, Green Growth can be achieved through climate compatible development

Why a Green Growth Strategy for Africa

Alignment with Bank’s Mission The Green Growth Strategy will:  Support a low carbon intensive development and ensure sustainability  Strengthen the Bank’s Medium Term Strategy ( ) and Sector Strategies  Support the existing Bank’s Climate Change Policies for climate resilient and low carbon development: Clean Energy Investment Framework Climate Risk Management and Adaptation Strategy Integrated Climate Change Action Plan

Objectives Ensuring Sustainable and Equitable Economic Growth; and Climate and Environment Protection Establishing a Framework to foster innovation Indentifying needs/ potentials; Pilot projects/Best Practices; and Constraints Designing a Green Growth Strategy based on Africa’s concerns Providing a strategic orientation Ensuring efficient use of natural capital Promoting best practices and good policies

Key areas of action  Green agricultural practices  Green technologies  Sustainable trade  Sustainable use of natural resources  Clean industrial development  Sustainable transport  Clean Energy  Green jobs  Waste Management  Socially appropriate growth

Design process of the Green Growth Strategy

Conception  Preparation Work Plan and Concept Note Fact findings at different levels  Design Data Analysis Definition of Indicators, output & impact  Peer Review/Adoption/Board Approval Stakeholders’ Meetings for harmonization/adoption Board approval Draft AfDB Green Growth Strategy Draft National Green Growth Strategies (Easily adaptable to specific country needs)

Implementation  Implementation of AfDB’s Strategy Political Orientation of Bank Harmonization with existing Bank policies Implementation Action Plan  Implementation of 5 Pilot Strategies Selection of pilot countries based on economic, social and political variations Implementation in Key Sectors Evaluation  Revision and way forward

Lessons Learned/Best Practices  Within the Bank  At national level in the 5 Pilot RMCs  At regional and international levels Scaling Up  Supporting the scaling up of national Green Growth Strategies  Monitoring how they are adapted and implemented, through Bank regional offices

Summary of the Process AfDB Green Growth for Africa Pilot Green Growth Strategies in RMCs Conception AfDB Green Growth for Africa 5 Pilot Green Growth Strategies Implementation Lessons learnt Dialogue with stakeholders Revision/Adoption/way forward Evaluation Best practices/lessons learnt Monitoring of national strategies Scaling Up

What role can SESA play in Green Growth Strategy?

SESA and the GGS  SESA provides a holistic and long term forecast approach to understand economic, social and environmental implications of the proposed Green Growth Strategy, and therefore assess sustainability OECD, 2006

SESA and the GGS  Sustainability assessment will be needed to evaluate the impacts of the Strategy against its agreed objectives, targets and indicators Thérivel, 2004Collingwood Environmental  At the implementation phase, this will also help monitor the impacts of the strategies as well as its related options/sectors, and suggest necessary adjustments

SESA and the GGS (cont’d)  With regards to green technologies, for instance, the application of SESA is especially needed to assess positive and negative impacts of the selected technologies and their role in achieving sustainability  Strategic assessment of Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency technologies, is necessary to promote low-cost, low-carbon and effective clean technologies, in considering costs of GHG reduction vs GHG emission

SESA and the GGS (cont’d)  A set of generic sustainability indicators is needed to monitor whether and how selected Green Growth options/sectors contribute to (or deviate from) sustainability  The use of existing tools is very important: cost- benefit approach, ESIA, ecological footprint, life cycle approach, multi-criteria analysis and stakeholder analysis  Although, many difficulties remain with regards to the selection of appropriate methods to assess the sustainability of the Green Growth Strategy

Key messages and Way Forward  A Green Growth Strategy can make Africa in the long term a potential pole of economically, socially and environmentally sustainable growth  The proposed Bank’s Africa Green Fund (AGF) will serve as a financing mechanism for the Green Growth Strategy  SESA is an important and appropriate tool to assess the proposed Green Growth Strategy with regards to its implications on sustainability and low carbon development

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