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

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

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
  • 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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