ASIA LOW EMISSION DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES (LEDS) WORK PLAN

ICF’s subcontractors for the USAID LEAD program that will be active in FY 2015, and their anticipated
roles, include:
• AIT. AIT serves a varied population of Asian students and professionals, and maintains
permanent campuses in Thailand and Vietnam. During portions of FY 2013, FY 2014, and FY
2015, AIT hosted and managed the AGMC, which the USAID LEAD program was positioning to
serve as a regional institution for capacity building and training in LEDS-related disciplines,
including GHG accounting, carbon markets, and analytical tools as decision-making models. In
accord with RDMA guidance that it issued during discussions of the QED MTE report, the LEAD
program is merging the AGMC into the ALP Secretariat, and so the training coordination role of
AIT is being phased out as of April 1, 2015.
• GHGMI. GHGMI is finalizing a series of on-line, e-learning courses on the most recent
international guidelines for countries to prepare their national greenhouse gas inventories.
• SEI. As developer of the LEAP model, SEI provided training on integrated approaches to
modeling the energy sector and its GHG emissions. The United Nations Framework Convention
on Climate Change (UNFCCC) estimates that 85 countries use LEAP to develop the GHG
emissions scenarios for their National Communications on climate change. Deployment of LEAP
will further advance USAID STI goals.
• TCR. As developer and operator of one of the largest climate registries in the Americas, TCR is
the lead technical resource for GHG markets work under Task 4.
• Engility Corporation. The USAID LEAD program team in Bangkok includes a Forest Carbon
Advisor, engaged by Engility, who will help formulate and manage work on forestry, agriculture,
and land use change in Asia.
• ALU Group. The ALU Group provides training on application of the ALU software tool developed
with USEPA support to estimate emissions and removals from agricultural and land-use source
categories, using Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) guidance and
methodologies. Associated with the ALU tool are specific activity data workbooks that assist
inventory compilers in compiling the required data for implementing the IPCC methodologies.
The USAID LEAD team may engage the ALU Group in FY 2015 or FY 2016 to support its work on
AFOLU-related emission factors.
• ISC. Founded in 1991, ISC has become a recognized leader in helping cities and states solve
difficult environmental issues. For the USAID LEAD program, ISC is the lead technical
organization that helps implement the program’s strategy of working at the subnational level on
Task 3.
The Q3 and Q4 FY 2015 activities of three USG agencies that are core members of the US-Asia LEDS
program – NREL, USEPA, and USFS– are fully integrated into this work plan. Their activities for FY 2016
will be integrated by September 30, 2015.