Ethiopia lighting VPA-SSC-DD - MyClimate

SMALL-SCALE VOLUNTARY PROGRAMME ACTIVITY DESIGN DOCUMENT FORM
(Voluntary-SSC-VPA-DD) - Version 01
NAME /TITLE OF THE VPoA: Solar Lighting in Rural Ethiopia VPoA
C.3. Please state whether an environmental impact assessment is required for a typical VPA,
included in the voluntary programme of activities (VPoA), in accordance with the host Party
laws/regulations:
This template shall not be altered. It shall be completed without modifying/adding headings or logo, format or font.
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No Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is required by the Ethiopian DNA on programme or project
level for this kind of activities. Yet, project developers have to conduct an environmental impact analysis
and have to submit an appropriate management plan addressing adverse impacts of the project and any
unforeseen fact of serious implication that may arise during implementation.
SEF submitted an appropriate management plan, including an environmental impact analysis to the DNA.
The DNA approved the same and consequently issued a Host Country Approval for the programme.
SECTION D. Stakeholders’ comments
D.1. Please indicate the level at which local stakeholder comments are invited. Justify the
choice:
Please tick if this information is provided at the VPoA level. In this case sections D.2. to D.4.
need not be completed in this form.
Local Stakeholder Consultations (LSC) meetings are carried out at the VPA level. A LSC meeting was
additionaly carried out at VPoA Level.
Stakeholder comments were taken at Bokaso, one of the villages in the VPA and typical of the villages of
the proposed VPA. The LSC was held on the 27 th June 2010. The stakeholders in Bokaso are believed to
be representative as regards the social, economic, life style, of the rural households that are covered by
the other solar centers. The same has been ascertained during the validation site visit by the auditors
during conduction of interviews with other beneficiaries at different Solar Centres such as Wolquite.
According to the Gold Standard PoA Rules and Guidance, LSC meetings “must happen at both the PoA
level and VPA/CPA level ...”Hence, the assessments have been conducted at VPoA- and 1 st VPA level.
D.2. Brief description how comments by local stakeholders have been invited and compiled:
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Even though the VPA takes place in various regions in Ethiopia, Bokaso was chosen for the LSC meeting
due to the following reasons:
It is the first place where SEF began its operation during the pilot. Hence, stakeholders in Bokaso,
both users and non-users of SHSs, were believed to have a better knowledge of the system’s
benefits and side effects and therefore could give more informed feedback.
Since the period was a heavy rainy season in Ethiopia (June- August ,Bokaso was best accessible
by vehicle, also for stakeholders from other regions.
Even though Bokaso represents only the Southern part of the VPA, the life style & believe
systems is similar to the other regions and therefore Bokaso was seen as appropriate for the LSC
meeting.