GCCA+ Results Framework (V20161223)

Executive Summary

In October 2015, the Unit for Sustainable Energy and Climate Change of the Commission's Directorate-General for International Cooperation and Development (hereafter DG DEVCO), overseeing the Global Climate Change Alliance + (hereafter GCCA+), initiated the development of a GCCA+ Result framework (hereafter GCCA+ RF) with the aim to provide the means to monitor and report on activities and overall results to be reported on the overall governance and performance of the GCCA+ flagship intiative. This is also in line with the recommandations of the 2014 global evaluation of the Global Climate Change Alliance[1].

The document presents the GCCA+ RF, and notably how it is aligned to the European Union International Cooperation and Development Results Framework (hereafter EURF)[2] and to the GCCA+ key reference documents. These comprise the Global Public Goods and Challenges (hereafter GPGC) programme[3], the Commission Staff Working Document (hereafter SWD) “Implementation framework of the Global Climate Change Alliance”[4], and the GCCA+ concept note.[5].

The purpose of this document is threefold:

-measure GCCA+ contribution to DEVCO actions, in relation to the SDGs of interest to the GCCA+ mandate;

-provide an overview of GCCA+ achievements at country level and across GCCA+ targeted countries;

-provide information on the performance of the GCCA+.

Most data is to be extracted from existing monitoring tools, such as: the planned EURF database ; United Nations statistics; the GCCA+ index web platform; and GCCA(+) project monitoring systems. A full logframe for the GCCA+ is presented in annex 1.

Finally, annexes 2, 3 and 4 provides some initial tools and methodological guidance notes for the use of across the board mitigation and adaptation indicators as well as country progress towards the mainstreaming of climate change adaptation.

[1]Evaluation of the Global Climate Change Alliance (GCCA),Global programme, World-Wide, Final Report, 6th February 2015 (Revised 20th April 2015)

[2] As described in the “Staff Working Document 2015 (SWD) 2015, 80 "Launching the EU International Cooperation and Development Results Framework” (2015)80).

[3] "Programming thematic programmes and instruments,Programme on Global PublicGoods and Challenges 2014-2020,Multi-annual indicative programme 2014-2017"

[4]Commission Staff Working Document, “Implementation Framework of the Global Climate Change Alliance”, SEC(2008) 2319

[5]It should be noted that the SWD mainly refers to adaptation. Shall the GCCA+ better include mitigation, a proposed reviewed objective could be: “To help countries most vulnerable to climate change, in particular Least Developed Countries (LDCs) and Small Island Developing States (SIDS), to address climate change and its effects, in support of the achievement of the SDGs, and to have their voice better heard in the international climate change negotiations.”