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6146

Project Title:
Carbon Market Initiative Technical Support

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Program Group:
Environment: Forestry, Energy & Environmental Services

Country:
Nepal

Project Length:
2009 - 2010

Funding:
Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Implement Technical Support Under the Carbon Market Initiative

RATIONALE
The Asian Development Bank is implementing the Carbon Market Initiative (CMI) through its Regional and Sustainable Development Department (RSDD). CMI has three components: (i) the Asia Pacific Carbon Fund (APCF) for providing upfront carbon financing; (ii) the Technical Support Facility (TSF) for providing technical CDM support and (iii) the Credit Marketing Facility (CMF) for providing carbon credit marketing support to the developing member countries. TSF has identified several projects from ADB's portfolio that are eligible under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) under the Kyoto Protocol. The present TSF team is providing technical support to over 30 projects with funding from the Japan Special Fund.

ADB is committed to providing support to greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation projects under its financing portfolio on a continual basis and has approved a three-year regional technical assistance covering 2008 to 2010. A team of international, regional, and national consultants shall work on the lines of an autonomous strategic business unit. ADB wishes to engage a National CDM Expert in Nepal to work as a part of the TSF team. The TSF team will work very closely with the operations departments of ADB, as well as other climate change-related teams under RSDD.



OBJECTIVES
The National CDM Expert (Nepal) is a middle level position to provide national support to the TSF team in preparation of documents required for registration of CDM projects from Nepal of operation and in capacity building of domestic project developers.

ACTIVITIES
The National CDM Expert (Nepal) will undertake the following tasks:

  • Manage the process of registration and monitoring of the identified CDM projects.
  • Provide technical inputs on establishing bundling agency for the VSBK program.
  • Assist with the organization of and participate in capacity-building workshops for project developers, project sponsors, and host governments in the country.

Output/Reporting Requirements:

  • Desktop screening reports, CDM assessment reports, and mission reports.
  • Program of activities design documents, CDM program of activity design documents, project idea notes, and other relevant documents required for registration of identified CDM projects.