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CoM SSA Sustainable Energy Access and Climate Action Plan (SEACAP) course

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  1. MODULE 1: Setting the scene
  2. Lesson 1.1: Introduction to the CoM SSA initiative
    2 Topics
  3. Lesson 1.2: Introduction to the SEACAP
    3 Topics
  4. Lesson 1.3: Climate change and cities in Africa
    2 Topics
  5. MODULE 2: SEACAP mitigation pillar
  6. Lesson 2.1: Key concepts in climate change mitigation
    1 Topic
  7. Lesson 2.2: Introduction to the mitigation pillar
    2 Topics
  8. Lesson 2.3: The SEACAP development process for the mitigation pillar
    1 Topic
  9. Lesson 2.4: Emissions inventories: GHG emissions
    4 Topics
  10. Lesson 2.5: Developing a Baseline Emissions Inventory (BEI)
    3 Topics
  11. Lesson 2.6: Tools for BEI development
    2 Topics
  12. MODULE 3: SEACAP access to energy pillar
  13. Lesson 3.1: Key concepts in access to energy
  14. Lesson 3.2: Introduction to the access to energy pillar
    2 Topics
  15. Lesson 3.3: The SEACAP development process for the access to energy pillar
  16. Lesson 3.4: Data collection
    3 Topics
  17. Lesson 3.5: Developing an Access to Energy Assessment (AEA)
    2 Topics
  18. Lesson 3.6: Setting an energy vision and targets
    3 Topics
  19. Module 3.7: Planning energy actions
    3 Topics
  20. MODULE 4: SEACAP adaptation pillar
  21. Lesson 4.1: Key Concepts in climate change adaptation
    1 Quiz
  22. Lesson 4.2: Introduction to the adaptation pillar
    2 Topics
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    1 Quiz
  23. Lesson 4.3: The SEACAP development process for the adaptation pillar
    1 Topic
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    1 Quiz
  24. Lesson 4.4: Developing a Risk and Vulnerability Assessment (RVA)
    1 Quiz
  25. Lesson 4.5: Setting an adaptation vision and sectoral targets
    2 Topics
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    1 Quiz
  26. Lesson 4.6: Planning adaptation actions
    2 Topics
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    1 Quiz
  27. MODULE 5: Steps to take before you implement your SEACAP
  28. Lesson 5.1: Next steps for prioritised actions
  29. Lesson 5.2: Categorising actions to access external finance
    2 Topics
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    1 Quiz
  30. MODULE 6: Communicating your SEACAP
  31. Lesson 6.1: Designing your SEACAP
    3 Topics
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    1 Quiz
  32. Lesson 6.2: Communicating your SEACAP to key stakeholders
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    1 Quiz
  33. MODULE 7: Reporting your SEACAP
  34. Lesson 7.1: Introduction to reporting your SEACAP
    3 Topics
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    1 Quiz
  35. Lesson 7.2: Introduction to reporting the mitigation pillar
    4 Topics
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    1 Quiz
  36. MODULE 8: Integrating your SEACAP into existing planning processes
  37. Lesson 8.1: Integrating your SEACAP actions into local level plans
    1 Topic
  38. Lesson 2.7: Setting mitigation targets
    2 Topics
  39. Lesson 2.8: Planning mitigation actions
    1 Topic
  40. Lesson 7.4: Introduction to reporting the access to energy pillar
    3 Topics
  41. Lesson 7.3: Introduction to reporting the adaptation pillar
    3 Topics

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  • The type of action/climate project will determine what pathway the project takes to be funded.
  • It is important to understand the potential of each project to generate revenue/be self-financing (i.e. cost recovery) to predict what pathway a project will take.
Where the local government (LG) uses its own funds, (or those of an LG-owned utility), raises debt itself, or is able to mobilise funds from the national government or development partners.
Where private sector entities contract debt (commercial and concessional debt) themselves, and therefore take on the project risk themselves.

This is a long-term contract between a private party and a government entity, for providing a public asset or service, in which the private party bears significant risk and management responsibility, and remuneration is linked to performance.

This includes pooling together projects for higher impact and ticket size, as well as pooled development funding, pooled financing facilities and pooled procurement.

This is where contracts are needed to develop and operate climate projects, leveraging private sector expertise and capital through, e.g. service-level agreements or engineering procurement construction contracts.
In some cases, the LG and private sector investors can mobilise grant funding from national and international programmes. National programmes provide the greatest level of public funding support to climate projects. Additional finance from national and international climate funds (e.g. the GCF, GEF, AF) can sometimes be accessed by projects.

Further reading:

Explore the GIZ-CoM SSA Finance Roadmaps for Climate Projects (2020) to learn more about how local governments in Sub-Saharan Africa can facilitate access to finance.

Tip box:

To mobilize external funding, you will need to develop a robust project proposal tailored to the funding criteria of the funding entity you are submitting it to (e.g. developing a gender analysis using the CoM SSA guide on Gender Analysis for Project Development). You can train on how to develop a robust climate change project concept note with the CoM SSA climate finance course available freely here in French and English.

Different stakeholders involved in climate finance landscape
  • The type of action/climate project will also determine what stakeholders need to be involved (e.g. private sector, national government, multilateral funds, gender specialist, etc.).
  • Identify co-benefits, such as gender empowerment, that may unlock particular national or international funding.

Revisit Lesson 5.1 to recap stakeholder maps and detailing of roles and responsibilities.

Barriers faced by local governments
  • Local governments (LGs) usually face a number of common barriers to project development and implementation:
Project development and implementation
Barriers faced by local governments
  • There are proactive steps local government can take to overcome each of these barriers:

CoM SSA is co-funded by the European Union (EU) and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Development and Cooperation (BMZ)

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