The African Technology Policy Studies Network (ATPS) is working in twelve (12) African countries to build the capacities of focal persons in tracking and monitoring the implementation of their Nationally Determined Contributions. This was preceded by stakeholder mapping and analysis in each of the study countries to identify the key players, their roles, linkages, power, and influence in the climate change and NDC implementation sub-sector. The study also aims to identify best practices, challenges, and opportunities in the NDC implementation in Africa. Results show that all the countries have capacity challenges and that there are different actors contributing one way or the other to climate action and environmental management activities. There is however disjointed implementation of NDCs with a perception that NDCs development and implementation is exclusively the purview of the government. There is a high awareness of climate change issues in all the countries but there is little or no knowledge on NDCs among most of the actors in the sub-sector. This therefore calls for capacity strengthening activities that will not only inform the various actors but also improve their skills to participate meaningfully in the NDC implementation processes. A robust training manual that contains various modules has been developed and will be used to train the focal persons as Trainers of Trainers (ToTs). Plans are underway to kick-start the training activities from December 2023 to early next year. The trained focal persons will then be deployed to collect relevant NDC data that will be used to generate NDC indexes for each of the countries once the NDC monitoring and tracking tool is deployed. The NDC indexes will be updated annually to show the status of NDC implementation for that year by the participating countries. This is expected to be scaled out to have one robust NDC implementation index for the entire countries in Africa. It is also expected that the indexes will generate positive competition among countries and help provide a clearer picture of the NDC implementation processes.
The Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) have been held in the 12 participating countries namely, Botswana, Cote d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Namibia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe as part of the activities carried out under the project titled: “Building the Capacity of Selected sub-Sahara African Countries to Effectively Measure Progress in their Nationally Determined Contributions’ Implementation Using Tracking Tools and Indexes”.
For more information, contact Prof. Nicholas Ozor, Executive Director ATPS at executivedirector@atpsnet.org or visit the project’s website at: https://atpsnet.org/atps-afdb-accf-ddw-ndc-project/
