ASIA LOW EMISSION DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES (LEDS) WORK PLAN

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egional platforms within Task 6 (pp. 53-54). 3. LEAD should engage with key government decision makers and agencies by utilizing the regional Asia LEDS Forum and country coordinators more effectively (p. 54). 4. LEAD should re-orient its tasks to provide increased impetus to the strategic elements of the program that meet key regional needs and can be sustained beyond the life of the current project (p. 55). Accept Accept principal vehicles for engaging donors. The LEAD program has an opportunity to find ways of strengthening these platforms to serve this purpose. Again, USAID/RDMA should remain closely engaged in all donor coordination activities. USAID/RDMA accepts this recommendation. Similar to recommendation 1, the LEAD program should ensure that the ALP and AGMC effectively reflect country priorities (following ongoing ALP efforts to capture these priorities). The LEAD program must seek opportunities to expand the role of country coordinators while at the same time ensuring that USAID bilateral Missions lead all engagement and coordination with government stakeholders in country. USAID/RDMA accepts the suggestions outlined in this recommendation. Efforts to promote regional cohesiveness and better balance of the allocation of resource between regional platforms and national or subnational capacity building makes sense. Strengthening regional experience sharing, strengthening awareness among senior policymakers through peer exchanges, and greater inclusion of China, Japan, and Korea, with their own noteworthy green development experiences, are all sensible pursuits. USAID/RDMA agrees that it would be useful to target repeat participation by stakeholders to LEADsupported events (like the Asia LEDS Forum) to build continuity and deepen capacity, as well as building off of Task 3 subnational activities to support deeper capacity in greenhouse gas (GHG) accounting practices. 5. LEAD should refocus its GHG market development activities to take into account the Accept USAID/RDMA is less certain of the value of developing case studies or establishing an online Community of Practice unless such efforts are directly aligned with and build on existing work under the Asia LEDS Partnership. USAID/RDMA accepts this recommendation, and recognizes that recent changes to global carbon market development priorities places reduced 15 US-Asia LEDS Program Work Plan
diminished status of world carbon markets (p. 57). 6. At a programmatic level, LEAD should consider refocusing its work on fewer countries and engaging at additional levels in priority countries (p. 57). Accept emphasis on the development of greenhouse gas registries. Working in cooperation with Thailand to build up its own registry would be a smart use of resources and lead to potential cost-savings. USAID/RDMA accepts this recommendation. Countrylevel activities will continue in Cambodia, India, Nepal, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam. All except Nepal are EC-LEDS priority countries, and USAID/RDMA is directly responsible for the EC-LEDS partnership with Thailand. Contrary to evaluation findings and based on initial feedback from USAID/India, USAID/RDMA requests that LEAD continue its subnational activities in India (and the extent to which this continues and integrates with ongoing Mission activities is subject to further discussion with USAID/India). USAID/RDMA requests that LEAD continue to conduct no country-level activities in Bangladesh, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, and Papua New Guinea (except, in the case of Bangladesh and Malaysia, on a temporary basis to meet critical programmatic or diplomatic needs for GHG inventory capacity building in partnership with USEPA). Regional-level activities will continue with each of these five countries. 7. LEAD should expand the scope of the AGMC, under Subtask 6.4, to become a region wide center for expert assistance and training (p. 59). Reject USAID/RDMA also requests that LEAD initiate activities in China. The scope and nature of those activities will be determined at a later date. USAID/RDMA rejects this recommendation, and believes there is significant conflicting evidence with the evaluation team’s conclusion. USAID/RDMA conducted a supplemental survey of key stakeholders about the AGMC and learned that while there remains general strong demand for training on LEDS issues, a central, regional platform at a single university does not seem entirely viable. LEAD and the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) may succeed in securing donor funding for the AGMC, but it would still leave the AGMC competing with country-focused trainings that 16 US-Asia LEDS Program Work Plan
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Page 3 and 4: TABLE OF CONTENTS Table of Contents
Page 5 and 6: ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS ADB AFOL
Page 7 and 8: MRP MRV MoNRE MTE NAMA NAMRIA NASA
Page 9 and 10: GLOSSARY Institutional Arrangements
Page 11 and 12: The US-Asia LEDS program directly c
Page 13 and 14: Program Component B: Low Emission D
Page 15 and 16: 3. WORK PLAN OVERVIEW This Work Pla
Page 17 and 18: Indicator 12: Number of GHG registr
Page 19 and 20: o o regional understanding and use
Page 21 and 22: Technical Services Amornwan Resanon
Page 23: 3.1 The Findings of the QED Mid-Ter
Page 27 and 28: 8. LEAD should customize training e
Page 29 and 30: 5. PROGRAM COMPONENT B: LOW EMISSIO
Page 31 and 32: assessing development impacts. Impl
Page 33 and 34: Task Number: 6.1 Asia LEDS Partners
Page 35 and 36: Benefits from Bus Rapid Transit Sys
Page 37 and 38: planning and/or attending ALP activ
Page 39 and 40: Climate Fund and progress in Asia;
Page 41 and 42: Develop and implement ALP social me
Page 43 and 44: ALP Virtual/Remote Activities: Auth
Page 45 and 46: potential funders, and closely coor
Page 47 and 48: consolidating donor participation i
Page 49 and 50: Curate existing training resources
Page 51 and 52: Select institutions interested in p
Page 53 and 54: Transition ALP Secretariat function
Page 55 and 56: • Developed a general TBL tool in
Page 57 and 58: through the ALP and other appropria
Page 59 and 60: Task Number: 6.4 AFOLU Working Grou
Page 61 and 62: identify an Asia-based organization
Page 63 and 64: SilvaCarbon Sustainability USAID LE
Page 65 and 66: In late May of 2014, as noted above
Page 67 and 68: Coordinate activities agreed in the
Page 69 and 70: Indicator 6: Number of sub-national
Page 71 and 72: Develop case studies to be dissemin
Page 73 and 74: Task Number: 6.7 Support for the US
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6. PROGRAM COMPONENT C: GHG ACCOUNT
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6.4 Implementation Approach All Tas
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Task Number: 2.0 Region-Wide Nation
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Indicator 8: Number of countries th
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Final IPPI Assessment for Banglades
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• USEPA and USAID LEAD conducted
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Sustainability The enrollment of in
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• USEPA and USAID LEAD prepared a
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Task Number: 2.3 National GHG Inven
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inventory system in Malaysia, USAID
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• Supporting line ministries/agen
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Buy-in activity: Hold focus group d
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• USEPA and USAID LEAD team condu
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2.5 Regional Capacity Building on t
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USAID/Cambodia’s buy-in to USFS i
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issues as a result of USG assistanc
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Finalize plans for a follow-on acti
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TASK 3—Regional Support for Proto
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and the GHG protocol. The USAID LEA
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country-specific Task 3 site for di
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Task Number: 3.1 Support for Protoc
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• Delivered training on marginal
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• Provide assistance to Thanh Hoa
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the Forum sessions, so that they ca
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Task Number: 3.2 Support for Protoc
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Results Expected FY 2015 FY 2016 Co
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the Asia LEDS Forum) to further lea
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Compliance with national policies,
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• Increased energy efficiency ini
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Indicator 6: Number of sub-national
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will contain the energy usage and p
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data collection and validation, but
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TASK 4—GHG Market Development 6.3
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Task Number: 4.0 Demonstration of B
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the online reporting registry, key
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Demonstration materials: Develop pa
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• Compiled a transition principle
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Conduct an in-person “Train the T
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Promote participation in CFO 2.0: D
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o One study tour was held in Washin
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TASK 5—Emissions Factor Identific
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Task Number: 5.0 Regional Technical
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Indicator 14: Person hours of train
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Identify field site for training an
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Task Number: 5.1 Technical Assistan
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Under the Philippines buy-in 320 ho
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Annex 1: Work Plans of NREL, USEPA,
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Task Number: 7.1 US-Asia LEDS Progr
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Translate LEAD fact sheet into Thai
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Case studies to be distributed to p
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Task Number: 7.2 Gender Location(s)
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USAID/RDMA Regional Demonstration f
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Annex 3: Work Plan for Asia LEDS Pa
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6.7 Focus Area 1: Assessing and Com
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1.3 Coordinate delivery of Remote E
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Assistance in LEDS (REAL) for Asia
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Timeframe: 2Q - 1Q 2015 2B.4 Coordi
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3.2 Mobilizing investment, especial
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6.9 Special Topic: Intended Nationa
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12. Identify country government hos
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This is a topic/suggested area of w
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