Supporting the application of the GACMO model and capacity building on Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) related to Article 6 participation in Ethiopia

The Initiative for Climate Action Transparency (ICAT) was established in 2015 at the COP that adopted the Paris Agreement to support implementation of the Agreement’s Enhanced Transparency Framework. The Initiative works with over 40 developing countries ranging from large countries, like China, to small islands, such as Antigua & Barbuda.
ICAT provides countries with tailored support and practical tools and methodologies to build robust transparency frameworks needed for effective climate action in sync with national development priorities. The projects ICAT supports relate to: building or enhancing transparency frameworks for mitigation; building a monitoring and evaluation approach for adaptation; building or enhancing frameworks to track progress made in implementing and achieving nationally determined contributions; assessing the impacts of climate policies;  estimating or enhancing projections of greenhouse gas; integrating and/or aggregating impact assessment of climate actions at the subnational level and for non-State actors; building a tracking system for a just transition processes; establishing or enhancing a climate data system; and putting in place a framework to track climate finance.
ICAT offers a suite of practical, open-source tools and methodologies to provide effective support to the transparency efforts of countries around the world.
ICAT is an unincorporated multi-stakeholder partnership steered by the Donor Steering Committee (DSC), conformed by its donors, Austria; Canada; Germany; Italy; the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF); and ClimateWorks Foundation (CWF), and includes the UNFCCC Secretariat as the dedicated UN body with a climate change policy mandate, and UNOPS as an ex-officio member. The Initiative is managed by UNOPS on behalf of the DSC. Within UNOPS, the ICAT Secretariat manages ICAT day-to-day activities, coordinating and guiding the work of the implementing partners.

Ethiopia has been participating in ICAT since 2020. During 2021 and 2022, ICAT’s support to Ethiopia focused on assessing the greenhouse gas mitigation effects of the country’s Climate Resilient Green Economy (CRGE) policies and initiatives since 2011. 
The ICAT Secretariat, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre (UNEP-CCC) have agreed that in 2023, the ICAT support will cover two components: 1) Application of the GACMO model, and 2) Capacity building on the MRV related to Article 6 participation. 

The following objectives are to be achieved under the Grant:

GACMO Support

1. Assess the tool(s)/ model used for the NDC update
2. Capacity building on using GACMO for assessing the mitigation impacts of various options and actions
3. Development of an NDC tracking framework based on the GACMO model

MRV Support on Article 6 Participation

1. Supporting the capacity building through training of trainers (Enhanced Transparency Framework under the Paris Agreement, decisions on art 6.2., 6.4, draft decisions to be adopted in COP28, Initial Report structure, Biennial Transparency Report
2. Organize a capacity building workshop for MRV officials/experts to discuss potential cooperative approaches and activities 

The beneficiaries targeted are the climate change focal points and MRV officials at the Ministry of Development and Planning and other government ministries, the teams working on national GHG inventory and regular reporting to the UNFCCC, national GHG mitigation planning and tracking,  and other stakeholders.