1. South Africa’s Climate Change M&E System Framework 19 April 2017
BRIAN MANTLANA

2. Build an evidence base: To inform planning, prioritize data-collection mechanisms, including urgently setting up mandatory monitoring, evaluation and reporting processes for all relevant stakeholders.
Monitor, report and verify to understand South Africa’s progress against national goals of the envisaged economy and society
To formulate effective responses to climate change, South Africa needs a country-wide monitoring system to measure climate variables at scales appropriate to the institutions that must implement climate change responses
The Mandate

3. Objectives of the CC M&E System
OVERALL OBJECTIVE: To track South Africa’s transition to a lower-carbon economy and climate-resilient society:
Cross-cutting:
One-stop shop for climate change information in South Africa
Climate-resilience:
Provide evidence base of the impact of climate change in South Africa
Lower-carbon:
Assess SA’s performance against the National Emissions Trajectory range (PPD)
Assess the implementation of DEROs & carbon budgets, including mitigation impact, implementation progress , cost , jobs created & wider SD benefits
Climate Finance:
Track the use, impact & effectiveness of funds in climate change response
Support the identification of resource requirements, allocation & opportunities
Objectives of the CC M&E System

4. National Greenhouse Gas Inventory System (NGHGIS)
Web-based M&E platform
1. Climate change risks, impacts & vulnerability
2. Adaptation M&E
3. Mitigation & emissions M&E
4. Climate finance M&E
National Atmospheric Emissions Inventory System (NAEIS)
National Greenhouse Gas Inventory
Biennial update report
Annual climate change report
GHG emissions & sinks activity data
From companies, installations, land-use maps, etc.
Climate change (CC) response & impact information
From:
Public & private databases
Project owners & implementers (government, private sector & NGOs)
Research institutions, etc.
CC Response M&E System
Establishes and support data flows and data management for the compilation of GHG inventories.
National Greenhouse Gas Inventory System (NGHGIS)
National Green House Gas Inventory Report
The Climate Change M&E System

5. System Scope: Main Page
Climate Research
Adaptation

6. The web-based CC M&E SYSTEM

7. South Africa’s National GHG Information System

8. South African Approach
National Development Plan 2030
National Adaptation Strategy
National, Sectoral & Local Plans
National CC Response White Paper 2011
Adaptation Goals in SA’s NDC
South African Climate Resilience M&E
Desired Adaptation Outcomes (DAOs) for M&E climate resilience

9. Output of the CC M&E System

10. Tracking CLIMATE FINANCE - summary
To provide an overview of the landscape of climate finance supporting the country’s transition to a lower-carbon and climate-resilient society
To understand the resource needs for funding South Africa’s climate response actions
Tracking and monitoring the impact or contribution of funds deployed towards climate actions – successes and failures
To provide an estimate of the degree to which other funds have been leveraged by public finance
To help promote a country approach when mobilising financial resources
TOP-DOWN MONITORING:
- Tracking flows from source or implementing agency
- Public spend, bilateral, multilateral, etc.
BOTTOM-UP MONITORING:
- Tracking flows at project-level together with mitigation & adaptation monitoring
CC M&E system Database

11. Multilateral Databases OECD Research Collaborative project
National Public Fiscus
MoU with NT
Multilateral
Multilateral Databases
Bi-lateral
Requests to Embassies
Private
OECD Research Collaborative project
Web-based M&E SYSTEM DATABASE
Programme level – mitigation & adaptation
Requests
Mitigation Indicators:
Mitigation impact
Co-benefits
Effectiveness:
= CO2e / Cost
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Capacity building
Research
Awareness
Policy / Strat dev.

12. Methodological Tools to support CC M&E system
National System for GHG inventory
MRV guidelines
Desired Adaptation Outcomes
Institutional arrangements (M, A, F)
Carbon tax Verification of GHG emissions to support Carbon tax
National Atmospheric Emission Information System – reporting tool of emissions by the industry
GHG Reporting regulations
GHG Technical guidelines
Web-based CC M&E system
Methodological Tools to support CC M&E system

13. Main output of the CC M&E System
The objectives of these climate change annual reports are:
To recognise, profile and showcase climate change actions in South Africa
To broaden the understanding of impact, effectiveness, lessons learnt and gaps of climate change actions so as to better understand the context and progress towards South Africa’s transition towards a lower carbon economy and a climate resilient society.
Main output of the
CC M&E System

14. South African Peak, Plateau and Decline.
NDC target
614 96
MtCO2e
(2020; 583)
NDC target
South African Peak, Plateau and Decline.

15. ToC for SA’s 2nd CC Annual Report
Chapter 1: Synopsis of South Africa’s Second Climate Change Annual Report
Chapter 2: Implications of the Paris Agreement for South Africa
Chapter 3: Adaptation: (a) Progress in the development of the National Adaptation Strategy; (b) Progress in the development of the Desired Adaptation Outcomes; (c) Perspectives and lessons learnt from the recent drought phenomenon; (d) Determination of the effectiveness of Adaptation Actions.
Chapter 4: Mitigation: Tracking South Africa’s Transition to a Lower Carbon Economy.
Chapter 5: Development of SA’s CC M&E system: (a) Progress in the Greenhouse Gas Improvement Programme; (b) Progress in the development of the Greenhouse Gas National System; (c) progress in the development of MRV for the Carbon tax.
Chapter 6: Near-Term Climate Change Flagship Programme.
Information boxes: (a) Progress in the SANBI-led programme of small-scale Adaptation Fund projects
(b) Youth and Climate change in South Africa
ToC for SA’s 2nd CC
Annual Report

16. E-mail: BMantlana@environment.gov.za