Program Overview

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Strengthened Institutions for a Sustainable Climate

The programme aims to tackle challenges posed by climate change, sustainable urbanisation, growing emissions and explore viable adaptation potentials in Sub-Saharan Africa. Starting in Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Uganda and Zimbabwe, the programme aims to spread to other countries/regions and strive towards long term cooperation between the partner countries and Swedish authorities.

Purpose and Goals

The purpose of this global capacity development programme is to contribute to better official statistics on emissions and removals of green house gases (GHG) in the partner countries. It also aims at improving the capacity of relevant administrations to develop processes for inclusive planning of sustainable urbanisation with a climate and ecosystem service perspective.

Programme Details

• Enhanced data production and analysis
• Processes for inclusive urban planning with a climate and ecosystem perspective as well as data collection
• Enhanced transparency of data and processes
• Improved coordination and cooperation among relevant actors

Thematic Areas

• Development of transparency systems (MRV - measurable, reportable and verifiable, processes for data collection, GHG inventories)
• Climate adaptation (monitoring and evaluation, action plans, impact of climate change, disaster risk reduction, tree planting, gender)
• Urbanisation (inclusive planning, slum upgrading, ecosystem services, buildings, transport, renewables)

Cross-Cutting Issues

• Stakeholder engagement
• Inclusive planning
• Access to information
• Transparency
• Institutional arrangements

Project Activities

• Workshops national and regional
• Coaching/mentoring
• Technical support such as GHG measure, data management, analyses of data, etc.
• Facilitating complementary and other initiatives
• Facilitating access to other networks

Participants

The participants belong mostly to those administrations with a mandate of producing climate resilience data, and promoting measures for climate change mitigation and adaptation in diverse sectors including the environment, agriculture, water management, urban planning, statistics, transport, energy, etc.

Implementing Partners

Besides SLU, the Swedish implementing partners include: the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, Statistics Sweden, the Swedish Energy Agency, the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute; and the National Board of Housing, Building and Planning. The programme is closely linked to activities under the Partnership on Transparency in the Paris Agreement and to Cities Alliance.

Global Goals

The organisation of the programme is designed to fit the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and mostly the goals:

• 11 – Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
• 13 – Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
• 16 – Promote peaceful and inclusive societies, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels

SLU's Contribution

SLU's contribution has been to strengthen environment management authority (REMA), in reporting the greenhouse gas inventory and emission reductions from mitigation actions. The SISC project has enhanced the development and implementation of quality control for Green House Gas inventory in Rwanda. Climate change adaptation has been integrated into the county Migori's planning and budgetary processes, together with Training of trainers on Climate Change Adaptation. This also includes capacity development in climate smart agriculture and climate resilient farming practices. The SISC project has strengthened the technical capacity of local institutions for tracking progress of mitigation and adaptation actions in Mozambique NDC, as well as how to implement them at municipal or local level.