Lesson 5.1: Next steps for prioritised actions

16 September 2024

Lesson objectives

Congratulations on completing your SEACAP!

So far, you have:

Completed three baseline assessments (one per pillar)
Set targets for key sectors
Set actions to meet targets
Prioritised key actions
Consolidated the SEACAP
Developed an M&E plan for monitoring actions

Completing and validating a Sustainable Energy Access and Climate Action plan (SEACAP) is a significant achievement. But what happens next?

Your SEACAP actions need to be detailed to mobilise funding for implementation.

During the action planning phase of SEACAP development, details should have been provided for prioritised actions under each of the three pillars.

To move to implementing these actions, providing further information in a few areas can be helpful:

Here’s an example from adaptation actions:

The sections that follow elaborate on each of these details.

1. Provide more detailed sub-activities for each action

Break down each prioritised action into smaller sub-activities (including at least one sub-activity that speaks to women and marginalised people in the community).

This will allow you to fully understand the scope of each action in order to implement it.

Example action

2. Define timeframes for each action and sub-activity

Think through a timeline for each action and sub-activity to facilitate efficient implementation.

Example action

3. Define costings for each action and sub-activity

Think through detailed costing for each action and sub-activity to ensure the total budget needed to implement the action is realistic.
For your risk analysis, if there are indicative costs associated with particular risks, include these in your plans.
It is sometimes possible to find generic costing on the internet for commonly implemented actions, e.g. tree planting.
If you are not sure how to properly cost an action, consider involving the relevant department or ministry (e.g. Economic Planning; Resource Mobilisation; Finance; Budgeting; or sector-specific, e.g. Forestry) to help you do so.

Example action

4. Define roles and responsibilities for each action and sub-activity

During SEACAP development you have indicated whose mandate each action falls under (local government, national government, other stakeholders like private sector or NGO).
A simple stakeholder map will help take this one step further by indicating all the stakeholders involved in the action, from funding the action to implementation on the ground.

5. Develop a stakeholder map

Stakeholder mapping is the visual process of laying out all the stakeholders of a product, project, or idea on one map. The main benefit of a stakeholder map is to get a visual representation of all the people who can influence your project and how they are connected.

Example of a stakeholder map for an action related to tree planting in Kenya: