CLIMA EAST EXPERT FACILITY (CEEF) Roman Tertychnyy, EF Manager Clima East Steering Committee Meeting 29 January 2015

Funded by: Managed by:

CONTENT

• Recap on scope and process of the CEEF (Track 1)

• Overview of applications received to date and progress

• Key issues

• Resource usage

• Introduction to expanded Facility and new ‘Track 2’ for collaborative work

KEY FACTS

• Short-term expert support outside of the annual planning

• Aimed to respond to specific needs of the Partner Countries

• Must contribute to one or more of the Clima East Result Areas

• Up to 22 working days/application normally, maximum 50 if justified

• Equipment, materials or software are not eligible expenses

RESULT AREAS

RESULT AREA 1 Increased Understanding of the EU Climate Change and energy acquis and

the 20/20/20 agenda (including the 2030 Framework for Climate and Energy)

RESULT AREA 2 Responsible public institutions will competently address the Kyoto- and post-

Kyoto regime under the UNFCCC, and (for Annex 1) be strengthened to

comply with regulations

RESULT AREA 3

State-of-the-art national climate change mitigation and adaptation policies

developed, fine-tuned and implemented

RESULT AREA 4

Increased capacity for climate change vulnerability and impact assessments

and for adaptation planning

RESULT AREA 5

National and/or regional Emissions Trading Schemes prepared and started

RESULT AREA 6

Progress made in elaboration of low carbon/low emissions development

strategies (LEDS/LCDS)

Step 1 and 2

Call for applications opened (February 2014)

Applications received

• EF Guide

Step 3.2

Approval of applications by European Commission

No objection from PC FP

Step 3.1

Evaluation of applications by Clima East

Part 1

B1 – Relevance

B2 - Feasibility

Part 2

B1 - Commitment

B2 - Tangibility

B3 – Regional Perspective

B4 – Efficiency

B5 – Sustainability

B6 – Urgency

B7 - Added value

Where necessary,

further discussion

and clarification of concept, revision of

applications

Step 4 and 5

TOR

and

Expert(s)

STEPS

Step 6.

Approval by EC

• EF Service Pack

Step 7.

Implemen- tation

• Working together with the applicant

Step 8.

Monitoring

• Monthly input, deliverables and timetable comparison

• Interim reports

Step 9.

Evaluation

• Post-service Quiestio- naire

• 6-monthly

FURTHER STEPS

APPLICATIONS RECEIVED

28 proposals from all 7 countries

Country 1st round 2nd

round

3rd round

Regional 1

(AZ+GE)

Armenia 1 2 1

Azerbaijan 8

Belarus 2 1

Georgia 1 2

Moldova 2

Russia 2

Ukraine 2 3

APPROVED APPLICATIONS

12 proposals with activities in all 7 countries

Number Short Title

CEEF2014-010-AZ-GE Vulnerability Modelling, Caucasus

CEEF2014-009-AM PMU Accreditation

CEEF2014-024-AM Roadmap for Adaptation

CEEF2014-025-AM Vulnerability Modelling

CEEF2014-028-AM INDC Support

CEEF2014-005-BL Adaptation Strategy for Agriculture

CEEF2014-011-MD Vulnerability Assessment

CEEF2014-018-MD Dialog with EU

CEEF2014-012-RU Economic GHG Regulation

CEEF2014-019-RU Efficiency of Climate Measures

CEEF2014-007-UA Principles of State Climate Policy

CEEF2014-008-UA LULUCF Reporting Review

Step 3 ‘Evaluation of Applications’ including approval by DEVCO (DG NEAR) completed for:

TOR PREPARATION AND EXPERT SELECTION

- TOR Developed by team members (App. Supervisors)

- TOR Signed-off by the applicant

- Final draft TORs are circulated to the consortium

- Selected experts comment on TOR

Number Short Title

CEEF2014-010-AZ-GE Vulnerability Modelling, Caucasus

CEEF2014-009-AM PMU Accreditation

CEEF2014-024-AM Roadmap for Adaptation

CEEF2014-005-BL Adaptation Strategy for Agriculture

TORs are finalized and experts identified for:

Number Short Title

CEEF2014-011-MD Vulnerability Assessment

CEEF2014-012-RU Economic GHG Regulation

CEEF2014-019-RU Efficiency of Climate Measures

CEEF2014-007-UA Principles of State Climate Policy

CEEF2014-008-UA LULUCF Reporting Review

TORs are being finalized for:

APPROVAL FOR IMPLEMENTATION

Number Short Title

CEEF2014-010-AZ-GE Vulnerability Modelling, Caucasus

CEEF2014-009-AM PMU Accreditation

CEEF2014-024-AM Roadmap for Adaptation

CEEF2014-005-BL Adaptation Strategy for Agriculture

CEEF2014-018-MD Dialog with EU

The following EF Services packs are ready for approval and implementation

KEY ISSUES

• Length of time to bring first applications to implementation

• Levels of interest versus budget

• Broadening participation

EF BUDGET INCREASE AND NEW TRACK 2

In response to these issues, DG NEAR

• has allocated further funding of €1,044,480 to increase support through the facility to ensure the Facility can continue to fund new applications

• is particularly interested in supporting applications that enable and support broad-based cooperation/contributions to the definition, development and delivery of national climate policy and action, within PCs policy frameworks.

Clima East is therefore introducing a dedicated ‘Track 2’ application route within the Facility, to support collaborative projects involving 2 or more domestic partners

CEEF TRACK 1 AND 2 Track 1: The CEEF continues to accept applications corresponding to the original set of criteria, and the process for this remains unchanged.

Track 2: Under this track, the European Commission is keen to consider applications that encourage and enable cooperation and broad-based contributions to the definition, development and delivery of national climate policy and action:

• sectoral ministries,

• other national or local administration bodies,

• civil society

Track 2 applications will

• respond to the same technical criteria as those Track 1, plus

• involve two or more active domestic beneficiary organisations

NEXT STEPS

Track 2 goes live on 5th February 2015

• Full guidance to be published on www.climaeast.eu

• information and support available from team

• Next evaluation round cut-off date will be:

15th March 2015

THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION!

Funded by: Managed by:

Expert Facility Manager Roman.tertychnyy@climaeast.eu