Annual Work Plan 2017
Output Three: Competitiveness of SMMEs increased through the Supplier Development Programme
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3.4 Output Three: Competitiveness of SMMEs increased through the Supplier Development ProgrammeDescription: The SDP is a supply chain development project implemented by UNDP in partnership with the Department of Small Business Development (DSBD). The project supports realisation of one of the Government’s three priority areas as outlined in the NDP namely, employment creation, by addressing the constraints faced by SMMEs and co-operatives (with consideration for women-owned SMMEs). Specifically, the programme complements the DSBD’s priorities including – to make public sector procurement opportunities available to small businesses and co-operatives; to promote their participation in private sector value chains; to build their capacity and skills; and to make it easy for small business to run their businesses and make access to appropriate funding easier. Activity 1: Establish institutional arrangement for the implementation of the project Purpose: The effective implementation of the SDP project is underpinned by sound institutional arrangements between UNDP and Government. UNDP and Department of Small Business Development will collaborate in the implementation of the project. The purpose of this activity is to finalise project governance arrangement and agreement between UNDP and DSBD. Anchoring this initiative to a Government Department is critical for skills transfer and ownership. 2017 Targets
Activity 2: Corporates/big buyers and/or State-owned enterprises (SOEs) recruited & Contracts signed to participate in the project Purpose: Supplier Development Programme methodology promotes integration of small businesses into the value chains of big corporates or big buyers, therefore, recruitment of corporates to join the programme is critical for its overall success. UNDP due diligence process will be followed in recruiting big corporate or big buyers 2017 Targets
Activity 3: Implement the SDP Methodology/Capacity building intervention for suppliers (SMMEs) and/or co-operatives. Purpose: Recruitment of SMMEs as suppliers to big business necessitates capacity building interventions to make sure that SMMEs meet the standards and requirements of big business. The SDP will provide support to the SMMEs to ensure that they have technical capability and business management skills necessary to meet the requirements of big businesses. 2017 Targets
Activity 4: Develop a resource mobilisation action and communications plan Purpose: The SDP project requires resources to be mobilised from private sectors partners and other stakeholders. A resource mobilisation plan will be developed to guide mobilisation efforts. A resource mobilisation plan will be jointly developed with a communication plan to ensure their coherence. 2017 Targets
Activity 6: Develop an in-house SDP website. Purpose: The SDP programme requires a website platform to be implemented. The contract with the current service provider is coming to an end and the SDP project will develop its own in-house website to manage the programme. A financial analysis was conducted and it was found that it will be cost effective for the project to develop its own website. 2017 Targets
4.1 Programme Scope: The programme mobilises a blend of technical and financial assistance designed to support Government in realizing its national priority of becoming a low carbon and climate change resilient economy by 2030, in the following broad areas: (i) Increase in the number of green jobs created in the economy. This achieved with the purpose of sharing information and expanding the knowledge base in industry sectors defined by the National Development Plan, and creating platforms for national knowledge building and peer-learning networks. (ii) Stabilisation and reduction of carbon emissions and climate change mitigation. Assistance for climate change mitigation is rendered to ensure expanded access to renewable energy technologies and market development across energy efficiency value chains through household level interventions, private sector financing solutions at the local level and optimisation of natural resource use. (iii) Enhancing biodiversity management through policy support and strengthening institutional capacities. This thematic concentrates on climate change adaptation in planning processes, disaster response systems, conservation expansion, sustainable utilisation of natural resources, and integrating conservation in productive landscapes. The above will be achieved through implementation of new and emerging policies, institutional strengthening, introduction and domestication of international best practice systems, and employment/revenue generation opportunities for improved livelihoods, with special emphasis on women and youth. These efforts will contribute to stabilizing and reducing carbon emissions, and both adapting to, and mitigating climate change, thereby contributing to the overall goal of greening the South African economy. 4.2 Envisaged Programme Results
4.3. Output One: Market Transformation through Energy Efficiency Standards & Labelling (S&L) Description: In support of implementing South Africa’s National Energy Efficiency Strategy, the project addresses the policy, information, technology and financial market barriers that are preventing the widespread introduction and uptake of selected energy efficient household appliances, in relation to the national outcome of reducing electricity demand in the residential sector by 10%. The project is implemented in partnership with UNDP-GEF 4 Partners: DoE, dti, SABS and it is envisaged to be completed in September 2017. Activity 1: Support the implementation of South Africa’s Energy Efficiency Strategy Purpose: To address the policy, information, technology and financial market barriers that are preventing the widespread introduction and uptake of selected energy efficient household appliances, Activity 2: Run a communications campaign about energy efficient household appliances, that will also target women as potential users of household appliances Purpose: To address widespread awareness amongst manufacturers, importers, retailers, distributors and consumers in a coordinated manner. Activity 3: Market surveillance and compliance (MSC) procedures and systems put in place Purpose: To monitor market uptake and to ensure that minimum energy performance standards (MEPS) are adhered to. 2017 Targets:
Output Two: DBSA Leapfrogging Energy Efficient Market Development for LED Lights and Transformers Description: The Government of South Africa (DoE) has received GEF funds to develop, in conjunction with the DBSA, a project that will accelerate South Africa’s efforts to transit to the economy to energy-efficient products, through (i) developing the market for Light-Emitting Diode (LED) lighting on the electricity demand-side and (ii) developing the market for high-efficiency distribution transformers on the electricity supply-side ultimately resulting in climate change mitigation, stable power supply and therefore economic development and improved energy access. This project is at the Preparation Grant Development Phase and it will be implemented in collaboration with the UNDP-GEF 6 Partners: DoE, DBSA. Activity 1: Support the DoE to develop a project to accelerate South Africa’s efforts to transit to the energy efficient products Purpose: To recruit and appoint of a team of experts (a national team and one international expert) to develop a project document and related annexes which include among others a techical tracking tool, a gender and youth action plan, and a project budget for submission to the GEF Secretariat in October 2017, 2017 Targets:
Output Three: South African Wind Energy Project (SAWEP Phase 2) Description: The project will focus on scaling up from Phase 1, with a focus on supporting the development of the small-scale wind sector through capacity building and training, refinement of resource mapping, as well as monitoring and verification of local content requirements for procurement mechanisms. Overall, the project aims to overcome strategic barriers to the successful attainment of South Africa’s Integrated Resource Plan target of 3,320 MW of wind power generation online by 2018/19. This will have the effect of contributing to a further reduction of CO2 emissions and increased socio-economic development. Project Inception was held mid-2016. The project is currently in its second year of implementation in collaboration with UNDP-GEF 5 Partners: DoE, SANEDI. Activity 1: Develop the small-scale wind energy sector Purpose: To close the gaps at the local level and outside the REIPPP process, in technology, financing opportunities, regulations, pricing and issues around local content through a pilot demonstration project Activity 2: Support the development of small-scale wind sector through capacity building and training Purpose: To make accessible coursework development and training opportunities especially TVET level (at NQF-7) and in universities, and at information sharing events with communities, seeking alignment with parallel national initiatives in the wind energy sector (e.g. Royal Danish Embassy and GIZ). 2017 Targets:
Output Four: Orange River-Senqu Basin Management (ORASECOM Phase 2) Description: In its second phase, the project will continue to support regional implementation capacity of the Orange River-Senqu Basin Management (as per the Orange-Senqu River Strategic Action Programme Implementation), with emphasis on enabling legal and regulatory frameworks, policies and institutions to ensure the conservation, sustainable use and access and benefit sharing of natural resources, biodiversity and ecosystems, in line with international conventions and national legislations. This project is currently at the Project Preparation Grant Development Phase, implemented by the UNDP-GEF 6 Partners: ORSAECOM Secretariat (representing the Governments of South Africa, Botswana, Namibia and Lesotho) Activity 1: Support regional implementation capacity of the Orange River-Senqu Basin Management Purpose: To utilise the remaining budget of $91,940.02 (GEF project preparation grant) to recruit and appoint the project manager and circulate the Project Document before project inception in 2018. 2017 Targets:
4.7. Output Five: Climate Change Induced Fire Reduction Description: The project was developed to contribute to government’s efforts on reducing disaster risks from wildfire hazards associated with climate change, by working to strengthen capacities in Fire Protection Associations and fire risk protection, as well as securing financial sustainability to this end. The project has received an overall Satisfactory Rating in an independent Terminal Evaluation. The project is currently at its Financial Closure Phase and it was implemented by the UNDP-GEF 4 Partners: DEA and Kishugu NPC (links to Working for Fire). Activity 1: Support and monitor the implementation of the recommendations and management responses of Project Terminal Evaluation Report issued in January 2017. Purpose: To manage financial close-off activities by January 2018, with emphasis on the finalisation of work on a micro-insurance scheme. 2017 Targets:
4.8. Output Six: Mainstreaming Biodiversity into Land Use Regulation in Municipalities Description: The project’s goal is to mitigate multiple threats to biodiversity by increasing capabilities of authorities and land owners is to enhance the sustainable and effective conservation of globally significant biodiversity through exploring, piloting and implementing innovative mechanisms and approaches to mainstreaming biodiversity and ecosystem services into the regulation and management of land and resource use in the landscape at the municipal scale. The project is implemented by the UNDP-GEF 5 Partners: DEA, SANBI, and local government agencies in Cape Winelands, Amathole, uMgungundlovu and Ehlanzeni and it is currently at its Mid-Term Phase Activity 1: Support mainstreaming of biodiversity and ecosystem services into the regulation and management of land and resource use in the landscape at the municipal scale. Purpose: To pilot and implement innovative mechanisms and approaches to mainstreaming biodiversity and ecosystem services into the regulation and management of land, while taking into consideration the needs and concerns of women, most of whom are land and natural resources users. 2017 Targets:
Output Seven: Securing Multiple Ecosystems Benefits through Sustainable Land Management in Degraded but Productive Landscapes Description: The project aims to secure multiple ecosystems benefit through Sustainable Land Management (SLM) in productive but degraded landscapes. The project is aligned to the National Action Plan for combating land degradation, aimed at identifying factors that contribute to desertification and seeking practical measures to mitigate and reduce the effects of drought, as well as alleviate rural poverty at national level. The main objective is to provide incentives for the adoption of sustainable land management best practises based on land management and rehabilitation models. The project is at its Inception Phase to be implemented by the UNDP-GEF 5 Partners: DEA, CSIR, Rhodes University and Endangered Wildlife Trust (including the GEF Small Grants Programme aimed at empowering agri-communities) Activity 1: Support government’s effort to mitigate and reduce the effects of drought, as well as alleviate rural poverty at national level. Purpose: To host a project inception workshop to establish project governance and implementation mechanisms involving DEA, DAFF and provincial authorities, to ensure coordinated efforts Activity 2: Undertake site visits for baselines in a variety of distinct landscapes across the country, to inform the adoption of sustainable land management best practises based on land management, incentives and rehabilitation models. Purpose: To capture the diversity of land management complexity and refine common approaches in accordance to the 2017 Annual Work Plan 2017 Targets:
4.10. Output Eight: Biodiversity Finance Initiative (BIOFIN) Description: BIOFIN is a global partnership (UNDP with the European Commission, and the governments of Flanders, Norway, Switzerland and Germany) for addressing the biodiversity finance through innovative methodologies that can enable countries to measure their current biodiversity expenditures, assess their financial needs in the medium term and identify the most suitable finance solutions to bridge their national biodiversity finance gaps. This project that has been implemented with the Department of Environmental Affairs has now reach its maturity stage. South Africa was identified by UNDP BIOFIN Global team as one of the two project countries they would like to use as a model for replication in other countries, and for showcasing to potential new donors. Activity 1: Support government in addressing the biodiversity finance through innovative methodologies Purpose: To capacitate countries to measure their current biodiversity expenditures, assess their financial needs in the medium term and identify the most suitable finance solutions to bridge their national biodiversity finance gaps. 2017 Targets:
4.11. Output Nine: Improving Management Effectiveness of Protected Areas Description: The project seeks to expand representation of globally important terrestrial habitats by establishing new protected areas covering 197,000 ha, in three globally important biodiversity hotspots (Succulent Karoo, Cape Floral Kingdom and Maputaland-Pondoland-Albany Hotspot). The expansion is aimed primarily at management effectiveness, and financial costs/sustainability through stewardship arrangements, land transfers and other partnership arrangements. The project has been implemented by the UNDP-GEF 5 Partners: DEA, SANParks and seven partner entities (including local government and a not-for-profit entity) and its currently at its Mid-Term Phase of implementation. Activity 1: Support the establishment of new protected areas of hectares in three globally important biodiversity hotspots Purpose: To meet the expansion targets as identified in the Protected Area Expansion Strategy 2008/2009. Activity 2: Work will be commissioned that will lead to the development of an integrated online Management Effectiveness (METT) tool that can be widely applied across all protected area categories. Purpose: to host learning exchanges to create awareness of the domestication of the international best practise tool of Management Effectiveness of Protected Areas METT (including transfrontier areas that would enable South-South-Cooperation) 2017 Targets:
4.12. Output Ten: Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing Description: The Government of South Africa has received GEF funds to develop a project on value chain for product derived from genetic resources in compliance with the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing and the National Biodiversity Economy Strategy. The project will help implement Operation Phakisa, by supporting communities and companies in selected provinces to share in a more equitable manner, the benefits of sustainable value chain development of selected target species. The project is at its Project Preparation Grant Phase and will be implemented by the UNDP-GEF 6 Partners: DEA, University of Pretoria, CSIR. Activity 1: Support the development of a project on value chain for product derived from genetic resources in compliance with the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing and the National Biodiversity Economy Strategy, through the appointment of a project grant preparation team Purpose: To develop a project preparation grant that will support communities and companies in selected provinces to share in a more equitable manner, the benefits of sustainable value chain development of selected target species 2017 Targets:
4.13 Output Eleven: Reduction of Medical Plastic PVCs through Green Procurement Description: Through a global demonstration approach, the project will support selected hospitals and health systems (in South Africa, Peru and Indonesia) that have advanced healthcare systems, and help them phase down, and where feasible phase out altogether, the purchase of PVC containing healthcare product and introduce cost-effective PVC-free alternatives with the ultimate objective of reducing releases of unintentionally produced Persistent Organic Pollutants (UPOPs). In the Chemical and Waste focal area, the project is aligned to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs), and is being defined by UNDP HQ in early consultation with local partners. The project is at its Project Preparation Grant Phase (early pipeline, coordinated by UNDP New York). Implementing partners include: UNDP-GEF 6 Partners: Still to be defined, but provisionally Department of Health, Health Care Without Harm (HCWH), including multiple donors/agencies Activity 1: Finalise project drafting process, the content of which will be about supporting selected hospitals and health systems in South Africa, Peru and Indonesia that have advanced healthcare systems to reduce medical chemical waste by introducing cost-effective PVC-free alternatives Purpose: To develop a global project proposal that will have the ultimate objective of reducing releases of unintentionally produced Persistent Organic Pollutants (UPOPs). 2017 Targets:
Output Twelve: National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (NBSAP) Description: The project’s goal is to provide the basis for formulation policy frameworks associated with the implementation of the Convention for Biological Diversity. With a small remaining budget < $30,000 and in its second year of no-cost extension, the project will close in 2017. The project was a partnership which involved UNDP-GEF 4 Partner: DEA Activity 1: Implementation of the Convention for Biological Diversity, through updating the National Biodiversity Framework (NBF) Purpose: To appoint an independent expert to provide the basis for formulating policy frameworks associated with the implementation of the NBF 2017 Targets
Output 13: Switch Africa Green Description: A global project covering six African countries, the project is focussed on resource use consumption and production by providing policy, business development and networking support to small grantees in order to mobilise the green economy (nine supported in South Africa). Partners include UNDP, UNEP and DEA Activity 1: Mobilising the green economy, by UNDP serving on the steering committee and giving technical inputs as and when requested by UNEP (UNDP is the administrator) Purpose: To provide policy, business development and networking support to small grantees in order to mobilise the green economy 2017 Targets:
Description: Global PAGE is a mechanism between government and UN agencies mechanism to coordinate UN action on green economy and to assist countries in achieving and monitoring the emerging Sustainable Development Goals, especially SDG 8: Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all. PAGE brings together five UN agencies (UN Environment, International Labour Organization (coordinator), UN Development Programme, UN Industrial Development Organization, and UN Institute for Training and Research) and government, principally, DEA, DoE, dti and EDD. Activity 1: Coordinated high-level efforts are required to mobilise networks and resources for green economy take-off Purpose: To provide technical support to countries in achieving and monitoring the emerging Sustainable Development Goals, more especially SDG 8. 2017 Targets:
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