Expedited Financing for (Interim) Measures for Capacity Building in Priority Areas (Phase II)

United Nations Environment Programme PRIVATE  
Global Environment Facility
Project Document for additional financing proposal
Country:                                United Republic of Tanzania
Project No:			
Project title:			Expedited financing of climate change enabling activities Part II:
Expedited financing for (interim) measures for capacity building in priority areas
GEF Focal Area:		Climate Change
Country Eligibility:		[x] Eligible under a financial mechanism of the UNFCCC
				[x] Eligible under paragraph nine (b) of the Instrument
Date of Ratification:		March 1996
		
GEF Financing (Phase I):	US$ 254,000
GEF Additional financing:	
(Phase II):			US$ 100,000
Total Costs:			US$ 354,000
GEF Implementing Agency:	UNEP
Executing Agency:		Centre for Energy, Environment, Science and Technology (CEEST)
Collaborating Agency:	Division of Environment, Vice-President's office
Estimated Date of Initial
National communication
Submission: 			July 2003 (Submitted)
Estimated start date:		December July 2003
Duration:			12 months
CURRENT PROJECT STATUS
The project on implementation of Initial National Communication of Tanzania on Climate Change was launched on 1st October 1996.  The project has now been completed and the national communications submitted to the UNFCCC. The main activities of the project were:
Implementation of Public Awareness campaigns on the theme of climate change
Development of Green House Gas Inventory
Assessment of Vulnerability to climate change and identification of adaptation measures
Identification of mitigation measures 
Development of National Action Plan on climate change and preparation of National Communication
The base year for the development of the inventory of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and removals in Tanzania was 1994, though in the submission to UNFCCC 1990 base year has been used by the Government. IPCC Guidelines of 1991 were used in creating the inventory, which includes Carbon Dioxide (CO2), Methane (CH4) and Nitrous Oxide (N2O), and indirect GHGs such as Nitrogen Oxides (NOx) and Carbon Monooxide (CO). Major sectors addressed in the inventory were energy, agriculture, industrial process, waste management and forestry and land use.
CO2 estimates from international bunker fuels were excluded in the 1990 inventory studies. Also the estimates from biomass fuels or biofuels were excluded from the national inventory of GHGs emission and removal in studies because these are assumed to be part of the natural carbon cycle.
In order to calculate the Global warming Potential (GWP) index for direct GHGs, the 1996 IPCC GWP was applied with a 100-year time horizon GWP index. 
Phase I of the project identified further activities to be implemented to enhance national capacity building and in this regard a national programme on climate change was prepared. This is based on the Operational guidelines for expedited financing of climate change enabling activities Part ii: Expedited financing for (interim) measures for capacity building in priority areas provides for non-Annex I countries to investigate, assess and identify specific technology needs and country priorities and present them to the Conference of the Parties.  Based on this framework the activities outlined below have been incorporated in the second phase of the project:
ACTIVITIES FOR PHASE II PROJECT
The main challenge facing Tanzania is the need to balance accelerated economic growth with a more efficient management of the environment and the use of natural resources to ensure sustainability and address the issue of climate change. Substantial concessional financial and technical assistance is imperative, taking into account the magnitude of the institutional shortcomings and structural constraints faced by the Tanzanian economy. Tanzania requires assistance for technological development and diffusion and related training, research and sensitisation.
The Second Phase of the Climate Change Enabling Activity Project will allow Tanzania to strengthen its national capacity to enhance the mitigation and adaptation measures undertaken during the First Phase, particularly on Energy (including transport), LULUCF (including agriculture), Aquatic, Water Resources and the Coastal Zones.
The enhancement of national expertise will be through the acquisition of skills on project design analytical tools, technology needs identification, assessment and transfer processes.
Tanzania recognises that GEF and its implementing agencies may be developing regional/global proposals in areas of work that may have implications for the national activities described in the project.  Implementation of the project will be carried out in close consultations with GEF through UNEP to ensure that areas of synergy will be identified where possible, so as to avoid duplication.
Tanzania will also build on the work of the GEF funded and GCOS (WMO) executed regional project for Capacity Building for Observing Systems.
This work done to select technologies for adaptation and reduction of vulnerability will be reported and highlighted in the National Adaptation Programs of Action (NAPA).
IDENTIFICATION/SUBMISSION OF TECHNOLOGY NEEDS AND CAPACITY BUILDING
A number of technological and other options for the mitigation of greenhouse gases in Tanzania have been identified in various sectors including energy, forestry and land-use, agriculture and livestock, industry, household energy use and transport. Mitigation options include technological options. This project will work on the mitigation options thus identified and assess the technologies needed in the various sectors.
Similarly, the initial national communications identified the various sectors that are vulnerable to climate change. These included agriculture, water resources, forestry, grasslands, livestock, coastal resources, wildlife and biodiversity in the country. The report also concluded that certain rivers, such as Pangani and Ruvu, would have decreased runoff by 6 to 10 % while Rufiji will have 5 to 11 % reductions. The Phase II project will carefully assess the technologies that can help in reducing the vulnerability to climate change in the above mentioned sectors, such as irrigation, drought resistant crop varieties, deep well technology etc.
Strengthening of institutional and national capacities for identification of climate change friendly and efficient technology needs and its subsequent incorporation into project design. This will particularly focus in the areas of energy (including transport), industry, LULUCF (including agriculture), water and coastal areas.  This will require an assessment on the current measures dealing with mitigating GHG emissions and climate change impacts so as to focus on capacity building in the identification, assessment and submission of technology needs for mitigation and adaptation activities.
Activities:
The project will revive the National Climate Change Committee (NCCC) and the appropriate research teams (Figure 1) to co-ordinate and promote processes for the identification of needs and transfer of technologies.
The NCCC will be responsible to initiate the project by holding a comprehensive training workshop on technological need assessment. This is to ensure that a small team is able to master analytical tools to conduct technological need assessment, prioritise identified technologies and locate barriers for their transfer or development. 
The technology needs assessment team will be from relevant institutions in the country which have a role to play in promotion of climate friendly technologies.