CES-MED Milestones EN_WEB_rev July 2017

The Report also identifies the main actors to be engaged
in this process and their role; and the main
national and international opportunities and schemes
to finance the preparation and implementation of the
SEAPs.
In the second phase of the project and prior to its
closing stage, the “National Reports” will be revised
to update the needs and recommendations. This process
will emphasis identifying and sustaining CES-
MED’s results through the establishment of SEAP
Support Mechanism (SSM) in each country. This SSM
will discuss further systematic funding processes
and continuing CES-MED.
• Providing SEAPs preparation manuals. In addition
to the “National Reports”, CES-MED has produced and
disseminates directly or through its website the comprehensive
“Information Kit to develop SEAPs”. This
Info Kit has been issued in three languages (Arabic,
French and English), and includes:
- A “Guidebook for the preparation of a SEAP for ENPI
South countries”;
- A “Community Awareness and Promotion Planning
Guidebook” with Benchmark examples;
- Two “Baseline Emissions Inventory (BEI) preparation
manuals”
- Several CoM explanatory documents (such as official
texts and Adhesion Forms).
The Kit has been widely used as a manual by cities
and municipalities in the preparation of their SEAPs
and a learning tool by CES-MED Help-Desk support.
All its documents, in addition to produced SEAPs, are
found on the website: www.ces-med.eu
• Direct support to prepare 23 Pilot Sustainable Energy
Action Plans. Together with the NCGs and the
contracting authority (the EU), we concluded from
the start of the Project’s operations that it would be
constructive to prepare a SEAP for each affiliated city.
So far 18 cities have prepared SEAPs and five more
are now being prepared in Egypt and Jordan following
updated CoM methodology. Moreover, six cities
have prepared plans on their own with the Project’s
guidance or help desk assistance. Each SEAP should
be approved by the city’s municipal or local council.
A SEAP includes the city or municipality’s vision and
strategy for energy savings and alternative energy;
the Baseline Emissions Inventory (BEI); Action Plans,
Action Fiches describing at least five Priority Projects
including fist identification funding sources; and detailing
of awareness actions to support the application
of the city’s strategy and vision as well as to
support the implementation of the Priority Projects.
The replicable SEAPs, next to the National Reports
and the Info Kit manuals are the core – and not the
only – deliverables of the Project. Those Deliverables
are usable as effective tools to improve policies and
systemise the preparation and financing of SEAPs
jointly by national and local authorities.
• Applying a Capacity Building and learn-while-you-do
training methodology. Teams of international and national
consultants have been engaged to assist each of
the 23 partner city/region in the preparation of their SEAP.
In doing so, a capacity building and training approach
is applied, through which the consultants work closely
with CES-MED experts and with a municipal team of
technicians or a “SEAP Team”. Together they prepare the
SEAP as an on-the-job training or a learn-while-you-do
exercise. The objective of such an approach is to ensure
the municipality - through its participatory involvement
in the preparation of the SEAPs - will develop capacity to
adopt, adapt, and later manage the implementation of
the Plan. Through coordination with the NCG, the municipality
will also assure that the SEAP is complying with
relevant national strategies and regulations.
• Community Awareness and Promotion Planning
(CAPP). Awareness raising activities have been integrated
as a major part of CES-MED actions at all
levels, considering that:
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