7. BILATERAL DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION: SECTOR PROGRAMMES
Target
Responsibility is with Danish Embassies in partner countries.
Entry points
- Sector planning and sector programme reviews.
- National sector working groups/sector policy development processes.
- Climate change considerations will be integrated within each main sector supported through the bilateral assistance. As sectors become fully integrated with national development frameworks, the integration of climate change issues will be coordinated through the national sector policy.
- Together with national partners and other development partners, Danida may support the conduct of general or sector specific vulnerability assessments depending on identified needs, e.g. through strategic environmental assessments.
Basic principles
- Identify climate change issues when designing and reviewing sector programmes and sector components. Main sectors are water, agriculture, health, infrastructure/transport, environment, energy, and education.
- Adaptation options are local and sector specific, and can be directly linked to the poverty reduction interventions by addressing vulnerability and management of climate change risks.
- Mitigation options are sector specific and mostly indirect (i.e. secondary to the objective of poverty reduction), with particular potential related to energy supply and demand (e.g. renewable energy, energy efficiency), land use (e.g. carbon sinks in forests), industry, and waste.
Initial screening points
- Address climate change concerns in Terms of Reference (ToR) of relevant sector missions.
- Identify sector specific climate-friendly approaches and issues of vulnerability that may pose risks to the programme objective and outputs.
- Identify information relevant for climate change in national sector policies and strategies.
- Identify sector relevant information, if any, in national communications to UNFCCC.
- Use information prepared for country level climate change assessment (chapter 6). If this has not been prepared then use the national level check lists as well.
| Actions |
Bilateral Development Cooperation – Sector Programmes |
| Raising the policy profile of climate change |
Share information/documents to highlight importance of climate change with relevant sector ministry.
Support development of climate change screening tools and other climate change assessment tools for the sector. |
| Adaptation to climate change |
Include climate change concerns in ToR of sector planning and review missions.
Screening (climate-proofing) of sector programmes for adaptation to climate change. Include the climate change screening together with the mandatory environmental screening.
Assess the Danish sector programme support in context of national adaptation policies and identify scope for support |
| Mitigation of climate change |
Include climate change concerns in ToR of sector planning and review missions.
In sector programme support, identify options for mitigation of climate change, i.e. reduced emission of GHG in line with the development objective of poverty reduction (e.g. renewable energy or carbon sequestration through afforestation and reforestation).
In selected CDM priority countries, identify scope for CDM projects and, if relevant, options for Danish purchase of CDM credits. |
| Capacity development in developing countries |
Include elements of relevant capacity development in relation to climate change related activities.
Involvement of counterparts in project development and assessment. |
This page forms part of the publication 'Danish Climate and Development Action Programme' as chapter 8 of 11
Publication may be found at the address http://www.netpublikationer.dk/um/5736/index.htm
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