1. CDM Capacity Development Lessons learnt in Ghana, India, Indonesia, South Africa and Tunisia Anja Wucke DNA Forum, Addis Ababa, 6 October 2007

2. Content GTZ´s CDM Capacity Development activities
Lessons learned from CDM Capacity Development
Overview on DNA - arrangements of 5 countries
Future GTZ activities

3. CDM - Capacity Development
CDM Strategy Studies
national policy, CDM project portfolio, market potential
Institution building Institutional arrangements of DNA; CDM capacity building centre, national approval procedures
Training and provision of information
General information, sector specific workshops, contract aspects, further CDM development, newsletter “CDM Highlights”
Facilitation of CDM project development
Data for baseline, methodology development

4. GTZ activities worldwide
CDM Capacity Building/ Strategies for GHG Reduction
CDM Capacity Building under preparation

5. How to get the process started ?
Identify a motivated institution
Hold a series of workshops with all relevant stakeholders
Governmental authorities
industry and financial sector representatives
NGOs, academic institutions, etc
Ensure a common understanding of the CDM and the role of the DNA

6. What is a good institutional set-up?
Divide the tasks (except small countries):
Operational unit (secretariat):
Inter-ministerial DNA committee
Watch committee’s size ! : Max. 10 members
Ensure members’ ranking for technical understanding, but also for the decision-making power

7. Design of project approval procedures
Common procedure adopted in many countries:
Submission of a PDD and country-specific documents
Evaluation by the operational unit against the sustainability criteria
Recommendation to the committee, who takes the final decision
Allow for
voluntary submission of a Project Idea Note (PIN)
oral presentations by project proponent
appeals against the DNA‘s decision
validation by the DOE to be carried out in parallel

8. Definition of sustainability criteria
Start from an already accepted definition of sustainability
Environmental criteria
Economic criteria
Social criteria
Define indicators for all criteria to enable an objective assessment
Test the criteria

9. Raise the awareness of the CDM
CDM Promotion
Identify promising sectors and focus capacity development activities
Raise the awareness of the CDM
Explain the rules of the CDM and where information can be found
Explain the CDM market and the financial benefits from the CDM
Show that ‘CDM is real and works‘

10. Publish submitted PDDs as examples
CDM Promotion (2)
Publish submitted PDDs as examples
Assist project proponents in practical PDD development
Train in-country consulting firms or advisors in CDM project development
Provide baseline data for promising sectors

11. Overview on DNA Arrangements
Ghana
India
Indonesia
South Africa
Tunisia
Institutional arrangements of DNA
Governing council representing 5 gov. institutions or ad hoc committee decides on approval,
supported by Secretariat
DNA representing 8 gov. Institutions, decides o project approval, supported by Secretariat
National CDM commission, representing 9 ministries, decides on approval , supported by Sec. and technical team
Advisory Committee, representing 8 ministries, comments on proposed projects, final decision lies with Department of Minerals and Energy
Committee representing 15 gov. institutions and stakeholder, evaluates projects and decides on approval. Supported by Secret.
Preliminary DNA Assessment
Voluntary PIN assessment
No PIN assessment
Mandatory PIN assessment

12. Overview on DNA Arrangements (2)
Ghana
India
Indonesia
South Africa
Tunisia
Public consultation
Planned on DNA- Homepage and announce-ment in 2 national newspapers
No specific provision, assumed to occur as part of validation
PDD publication on DNAs homepage, submissions of comments from public possible
No provisions yet
Max. duration of evaluation
PIN: 14 d
PDD 61 d -
PDD: 60 d
PDD: 77 d
PIN: 42 d
PDD: 63 d
PIN 15 d
PDD 45 d
N° of projects approved
717 24 18 2

13. Further GTZ activities in CDM Capacity Development
Preparation of training courses in francophone subsahara Africa
Support of broadening CDM impact, such as
Project bundling
Programme of activities
Further development of CDM

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