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Africa Adaptation Project – LesothoAAP Lesotho focuses on:- Climate Change and Energy Climate Change and HealthThe objective was to develop strategies/policies for dealing with CC in each of these sectors.

For this presentation let us focus on the Energy Sector

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The Energy SectorStrategy for developing renewable energy policyAAP Lesotho was originally expected to develop a renewable energy policy, more or less as a stand alone activity. We recruited consultants and they presented a report – the report was rejected by the Department of Energy.We have now taken an alternative approach – this involves a more “informed” evidence-based approach to policy development

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Strategy for Developing a Renewable Energy Policy

Creating the data and the capacity to use it Wind and solar measuring devices

installed collect data to assess of the potential for wind and solar power for Lesotho’s rural electrification program

Train staff to analyse the data Currently developing GIS based, wind

and solar atlases to identify areas of greatest potential for the application of wind or solar electricity generation.

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The Energy Sector Creating the Strategy and Policy The policy has not yet been developed –

there has not been time. This may not be a good outcome?? However, in one sense, it has been the

right “approach”. By getting the information/data on the

energy potential sorted first the policy will eventually be informed by the data and will be much more effective and sustainable

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Bringing it all together – the data and the policies .

While the project is mainly targeted at the Energy Sector and the Health Sector, it also got involved with the development of the Climate Change Chapter of the National Strategic Development Plan.

This introduce AAP Lesotho to the economic dimensions of Climate Change.

Lesotho participated in the IRTSC sponsored training workshop on the economic impact of CC on the agriculture sector.

Subsequently, AAP Lesotho follow-up on this with a national workshop on Economics of Adaptation and the impact of CC on poverty.

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Bringing it all together – the data and the policies

It introduced a High Performance Computer capable of modelling aspects Lesotho’s climate and trained the staff to run these models

AAP Lesotho is currently using the systems developed for modelling both the climate and the economy to analyse the economic impact CC on the agriculture sector and on poverty in Lesotho – the data developed will feed into NSDP’s model of the entire economy and inform the national planning process.

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Creating the Links Between Climate, the Forecasters, and the

Early Warning Systems. Connecting the Technology to the

People High performance computer Disaster mapping Early warning messaging

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Disaster Management

Authority

Lesotho Meteorolog

ical Services

Ministry of Health

Ministry of

Agriculture

Ministry of

Forestry

Other Line

MinistriesWireless connection

sharing information between Ministries

High Performance Computer

generating complex climate models

Impro

ved

Fore

casti

ng

Capacity

Training on

Climate Modeling

Local Data is generated and shared

with relevant Ministries, to document what is

happening at the village and district

levels

Sending Warnings to

Disaster Management

Teams

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Lessons Learned Evidence based decisions depend on

access to data Data is often not shared Lesotho has the people capable of doing

the work – but they need the mandate to work with other stakeholders/organizations

We need high level leadership to drive the Climate agenda in order to overcome these petty organizational problems

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Thank You

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