Outcomes

The following are the outcomes of the NAP Project:

Outcome 1: Capacity and tools development for the coordination and execution of future iterations of the NAP process
The Inception stage of the project will take place in the first six months of the project. These will comprise the following activities:

  • Synthesising all sectoral policy targets for the country as the basis for determining national adaptation targets
  • Develop the communications strategy
  • Develop the institutional engagement strategydev
  • Develop the gender mainstreaming strategy
  • Develop ToRs for main procurements and the activation of the procurement processes
  • Hold the inception workshop of 120 participants and develop the NAP workplan
  • Develop the website, which will serve as the repository of information developed during the NAP process.  

The communications strategy will take as its departure point the 2010 Environmental Affairs communication strategy, update it and develop the NAP communications within it. The institutional analysis to be prepared will understand the networks currently engaged in climate change and how to connect them to the NAP process. 

Output 2 will provide communication materials on the NAP process, timeline and outputs as well as awareness raising on the evidence for adaptation.

Output 3 will deliver training to be developed by a national and international climate change and environment expert team to address the learning needs articulated by the working group participants and reflecting the state of latest knowledge in Malawi and globally. It will build on training material developed by the Poverty and Environment Initiative (PEI) over the years. 
 
Under Output 4, the NAP project management team will convene a working group of about 60 people in size.

The Working Group (WG) will be including sector specialists in Environment and Natural Resources, Energy, Transport and Public Works, and Health including representatives from the three Districts and ensuring gender balance that will be integral partners to the NAP project. The aim will be the further definition of the INDC priorities and quantification of the adaptation targets

The project will establish the Climate Change Fund which has been under preparation for the last two years in collaboration with the Rwandese government who have established a similar mechanism. The NAP will provide support for the design of the adaptation windows of the climate change Fund and for stakeholder consultations at the regional and central level (for Parliamentarians) needed to develop and agree it.

The final output will be a climate change Bill will be drafted that will include a provisional for climate risk assessments and an updating of the national adaptation plan at regular intervals. Three regional consultations will be organised to discuss the content of the CC Bill; one national consultation will be organised  for parliamentarians to agree the content of the Climate Change Bill.  The output allows for consultant time to draft the Bill.

Outcome 2: NAP adaptation priorities are operationalised through Ministry spending plans
In Outcome 2, the adaptation targets and timetable for policy and strategy mainstreaming will be brought to the level of the sector ministries.  Here a wider technical audience will be targeted with trainings and for inputs into the development of sector planning tools. Sectoral adaptation planning and national adaptation planning are both necessary and complementary.  National adaptation planning is necessary because impacts are cross-sectoral in nature (for example, changes in the rainfall partners affect agriculture and energy systems based on hydropower) and so adaptation priorities have to be defined and articulated at the national level.  At the same time, national adaptation priorities require operationalisation through mainstreaming them into sectoral adaptation strategies.  
 
The first output will comprise screening sector indicator frameworks through the filter of the adaptation targets to ascertain which need to be amended, which discarded, which added, and which left the same. Five sector-based groups will be facilitated in each of the main ministries and departments for this process which will be convened twice to discuss the changes needed and finally to agree the changes to the indicator frameworks. 
 
On the basis of the outcomes of the work undertaken in Outcomes 1 and 2 a training needs assessment will be undertaken.

The trainings will be run through the Staff Development Institute, so that they are mainstreamed into civil service training offerings. They will be developed professionally with clear learning objectives and learning progression. The 2011 training needs assessment and the 2013 UNITAR assessment.

On the basis of the adaptation priorities refined under Outcome 1 and the sectoral medium-term adaptation plans, a small group of Working Group participants will convene for each of two GCF concepts to be developed, with composition of each WG being determined by the skills and knowledge base required for the concept and with participation of District as well as central government staff. Gender balance will be promoted in the composition of the groups.

Each WG will have a maximum of 10 people. Information sources and gaps identified with which to further develop the concept notes and a work plan developed to address the information gaps. A final working session will bring together the three sets of participants to fine tune and ensure complementarities between the three concepts. Pre-feasibility assessments will be undertaken to develop the concept notes to a level of preparation expected by the GCF. This exercise will have the added value of developing government capacities for investment planning under the regular planning and budgeting process. 

The trainings are aimed at building the incentive structure of civil servants that is eroded in many senses (see the earlier baseline discussion). The trainings and planning tools developed (see next output description) are aimed at providing a greater involvement of technical officers in planning, management, monitoring, evaluation and coordination.  It is also aimed at developing a team building and learning culture within the government system to enable technical officers to develop a sense of ownership over climate change adaptation planning.

Through the sector-based groups, planning tools will be developed to help planners regularly plan in a climate-resilient way. This will entail an analysis of how plans and budgets are put together, decision points, and information sets needed to ensure that budgets are allocated in ways that promote adaptation to climate change. This exercise will comprise a review of decision-making tools used in different sectors and the identification of the most appropriate tools to be used by sector and institutional capability in Malawi. The climate risk mapping tool will be one such tool that will enable further iterations of the adaptation planning process within Ministries. The planning tools will be tested and refined during one medium term budgeting cycle to ensure their usefulness. 

Outcome 3: Private sector finance mobilised for investment in climate risk management
Briefing notes aimed at the private sector in all its different sectors and groups will be developed. two workshops will be held in Blantyre and Lilongwe to sensitise private sector players on entry points in producing and marketing adaptation technologies and services and to agree the set of constraints that prevents from investing in climate risk management practices and investments; identify opportunities.

The starting point in identifying the private sector players would be an initial scoping carried out by UNDP. This scoping exercise identified the following firms:

  • Malawi Energy Regulatory Authority Regulatory
  • Ministry of Industry and Trade
  • Blantyre Water Board
  • Lilongwe Water Board
  • ESCOM

Financial Institutions 

  • Ecobank
  • Standard Bank
  • NBS Bank
  • FDH Bank
  • Malawi Stock Exchange

Mobile Phone Companies

  • Airtel

Seed Companies

  • SeedCO

Tobacco Companies

  • AllianceOne
  • Limbe Leaf
  • Auction Holdings Limited

Industry Associations

  • Malawi Confederation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry (MCCCI)
  • Tobacco Association of Malawi (TAMA])

Manufacturing Companies

  • Lafarge Cement
  • Illovo Sugar
  • Carlsberg Malawi Limited

 A strategy to foster private-public sector investment strategies in research and investment in adaptation technologies and services will be developed based on these consultations. 

The information obtained from the interactions with the private sector across the country will be fed into the preparation of a strategy for tax and regulatory reform to promote private sector financing of adaptation technologies, business development and services.  

The nationally agreed adaptation targets prepared under Outcome 1 will be taken as the basis for this output.  For each adaptation target, the following factors will be determined:

  • the scope for private sector investment in the technology or practice
  • the barriers to private sector investment
  • solutions to address those barriers and how public sector financing might help. For example, increasing irrigated land among smallholder farming may have high-start-up costs as a key barrier to financial investment in this technology.  

The government role and one solution might be

  • tax free imports on this technology
  • tax breaks on materials importation and or enabling activities for production of the technology domestically such as setting up platforms for matching business angels to producers
  • low-cost loans with a grace period that can be paid back once the farmers make their returns.

Each potential solution will have different implications for the public purse as well as administrative costs. The scoping paper will bring together the options analysis for each of the quantified adaptation priorities. 

A final product will be a strategy for private-sector financing of adaptation, which will feed into the GCF concept note development. 

The NAP monitoring and reporting plan will be intrinsic to the methodology of the NAP development process. One of the results of Outcome 1 will be to quantify the NDC targets. This follows the recommendations of the last Climate Change Programme in Malawi which recommended a monitoring system linked to the medium-term planning document.

The proposal is structured to a) support the clearer articulation of national adaptation priorities under Outcome 1 through work to develop adaptation targets to the INDC priorities and b) support the operationalisation of these targets into sector adaptation plans and policies under Outcome 2

Outcome 4: Learning about the NAP process disseminated
Output 1 findings from the terminal evaluation will disseminate the findings of the Terminal Evaluation in a national workshop and to agree on next steps for the next iteration of the NAP. Improving the evidence base will an important first step that will lead into the delivery of other outputs.

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