NAMA: Ethiopia Railways ‐ Establishment of Climate Vulnerability Infrastructure Investment Framework NAMA
Title:
Ethiopia Railways ‐ Establishment of Climate Vulnerability Infrastructure Investment Framework NAMA
DescriptionOfMitigationAction:
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> A main pillar of Ethiopia's Climate Resilient Green Growth (CRGE) strategy is to avoid emissions in the transport sector through a shift of freight and passenger transport from road to rail. The Ethiopian Railways Corporation (ERC) was set up in 2007 with the mandate to construct railway infrastructure and provide passenger and freight rail transport services in Ethiopia. The envisaged infrastructure consists of two railway project components, namely the Addis Ababa Light Rail Transit (LRT) and the Nationwide Railway Network Development Programme. <br /> <br /> <p style="margin: 0.25pt 4.75pt 0.0001pt 5.25pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Infrastructure projects in Ethiopia and everywhere else in the world can be vulnerable to the changing weather patterns attributed to global climate change. Possible impacts include: </span></p> <p style="margin: 0.45pt 0in 0.0001pt 23.25pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">• <span style="letter-spacing: 0.7pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Deterioration and permanent damage to roads and railway </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">lines by </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> floo</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">d</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">s; </span></p> <p style="margin: 0.45pt 0in 0.0001pt 23.25pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">• <span style="letter-spacing: 0.7pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Damage to drainage (culvert and bridge) infrastructure by </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">floods; </span></p> <p style="margin: 0.45pt 0in 0.0001pt 23.25pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">• <span style="letter-spacing: 0.7pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Rail surface melting because of high temperature; </span></p> <p style="margin: 0.7pt 0in 0.0001pt 23.25pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">• <span style="letter-spacing: 0.7pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Erosion and landsides. </span></p> <p style="margin: 0.2pt 0in 0.0001pt 41.25pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span> </p> <p style="margin: 0in 5.6pt 0.0001pt 5.25pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">The Ethiopian Railway Corporation (ERC) therefore seeks assistance to enhance its understanding of likely impacts of climate change on its envisioned infrastructure, which will enable ERC to integrate these impacts in crucial long-‐term investment decisions. More specifically, the program seeks to: </span></p> <p style="margin-left: 5.25pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span> </p> <p style="margin: 0.45pt 0in 0.0001pt 23.25pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">• <span style="letter-spacing: 0.7pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Determine the future climate change pattern; <span style="letter-spacing: 0.7pt;"> </span> </span></p> <p style="margin: 0.45pt 0in 0.0001pt 23.25pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">• <span style="letter-spacing: 0.7pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Identify detailed topographic and hydro-‐meteorological </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;">information along railway networks; </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: left; letter-spacing: 0.7pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;"> </span></p> <p style="margin: 0.45pt 0in 0.0001pt 23.25pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">• <span style="letter-spacing: 0.7pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Map the climate change vulnerability of the rail networks; </span></p> <p style="margin: 0.7pt 0in 0.0001pt 23.25pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">• <span style="letter-spacing: 0.7pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Evaluate a range of impacts of climate change on railway </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;">infrastructures over a range of climate scenarios; </span></p> <p style="margin: 0.45pt 16.5pt 0.0001pt 41.25pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">•</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Develop and test a <span style="letter-spacing: 0.2pt;"> </span> framework for investment decision-‐ making that can be ‘robust’ under a wide range of climate outcomes; and </span></p> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> •</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Formulate actionable recommendations for decision makers on how to enhance the climate resilience of infrastructure development</span><br /> </span></div>
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Ethiopian Railway Corporation (ERC)
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EntityAddress1:
P.O.Box 27558/1000 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia ||
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EntityContactPerson1:
Mr. Shewangizaw Kifle ||
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EntityPhone1:
00251 911 226 816 or 00251 114 70-21-90 ||
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EntityEmail1:
kidusshk@gmail.com||
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YearsForCompletion:
1
UsedCurrency:
USD
AmountOfFinancialSupport:
150000
CommentsOnFinancialSupport:
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> Ethiopian Railway Corporation (ERC) is seeking the assistance from an experienced consultant to carry out the climate vulnerability mapping. ERC is thereby proposin</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.05pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">g</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> activities to be carried out as per the attached project brief but is open to any amendment recommended by an experienced consultant. </span></div>
AmountOfTechnicalSupport:
-
CommentsOnTechnicalSupport:
-
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AmountOfCapacityBuildingSupportChoice:
selected currency
CommentsOnCapacityBuildingSupport:
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> ERC is furthermore seeking institutional and individual capacity building to assure the integration of expected long-‐term climate change impacts in its investment decision. ERC's infrastructure asset department shall therefore be enabled to understand the likely impacts mapped by the consultant while the individuals shall also be enabled to operate an evaluation tool developed by the consultant. Capacity building on an institutional level shall assure that these tools will be incorporated in all future investment decisions, requiring awareness and commitment by the ERC top management and the formulation of relevant processes. </span></div>
FinancialSupportRequired:
Yes
TechnologicalSupportRequired:
Yes
CapacityBuildingSupportRequired:
Yes
OtherNAMA:
Ethiopia Railway's Addis Ababa Light Rail Transit (LRT) Transit Oriented Development (TOD) NAMA
UNParty:
Ethiopia
CoveredGreenhouseGases:
CO2
AttachmentDescription:
Item Status:
Published
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SecretariatNAMAAssignVerifier:
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Publishing date:
1/5/2015
NAMAId:
NS-168
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GeneralComments:
StartYearOfImplementation:
2015
EstimatedFullCostOfImplementation:
350000
EstimatedIncrementalCostOfImplementation:
200000
EmissionReductionsAmount:
0
EmissionReductionsUnit:
MtCO2e
EmissionReductionsComments:
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> The implementation of the infrastructure climate change vulnerability mapping will assure durability of the emission reductions attributed to the implementation of Ethiopia's National Railway Network and the Addis Ababa Light Railway Transit (LRT) project </span></div>
OtherIndicatorsComments:
<p style="margin-left: 5.25pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">-Number of people trained; </span></p> <p style="margin-left: 5.25pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">-Number and type of investment decisions that have been </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">affected by the vulnerability assessment. </span></p>
CommentsOnFullCostImplementation:
<p style="margin-left: 5.25pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">The total costs of implementation will include the engagement of an </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">experienced consulting firm to assess the climate vulnerability of ERC implementation plan as well as to create a tool to include climate vulnerability impacts into investment decisions. Individual and institutional capacity building measures are also included into this NAMA </span></p>
CommentsOnIncrementalCostImplementation:
TechnologyNSSI:
TypeOfActionNSSI:
Project: Other
SectorNSSI:
Transport and its Infrastructure
TypeOfRequiredCapacityBuildingSupportNSSI:
Individual level; Institutional level
TypeOfRequiredFinancialSupportNSSI:
Grant
OtherRelevantInformation:
<p style="margin: 0.05pt 14pt 0.0001pt 5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">The activity will contribute to achieving the co-‐benefits of the railway implementation in Ethiopia: Shifting transport from road to rail would not only decrease transport costs and improve the trade balance through reduced import of fossil fuels and reduce road maintenance (economic benefits), but </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">would lower congestion, air pollution (NOx), noise and vibration pollution, traffic accidents and will increase employment, social equity and tax revenues. Additional macro-‐economic benefits are the enhanced integration of Ethiopia with its East African neighbours as well as enhanced access to sea ports. </span></p>
RelevantNationalPolicies:
<p style="margin: 0.25pt 15.7pt 0.0001pt 5pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">A main pillar of Ethiopia's Climate Resilient Green Growth (CRGE) strategy is to avoid emissions in the transport sector through shift of freight and passenger transport from road to rail. The Ethiopian Railways Corporation (ERC) was set up in </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">2007 with the mandate to construct railway infrastructure and provide passenger and freight trail transport services in Ethiopia. The envisaged infrastructure consists of two railway project components, namely the Addis Ababa Light Rail Transit (LRT) and the Nationwide Railway Network Development Programme. The first phase of the LRT project is planned to be </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">35 km long, its construction started in 2012 and is planned to be finalised before the end of 2014. The second phase of the LRT will be an extension of the first line of ~ 54.91 km, leading to a total length of 89 km. The Nationwide Railway programme, on its part, consists of eight corridors of varying lengths in diversified strategic routes that will be realised in two phases, covering over 5,000 km in distance. </span></p>
Approval Status:
Approved
Created at 1/6/2015 12:16 PM by Vladislav Marinov
Last modified at 8/28/2015 3:55 PM by System Account
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