Workshop Report

Back-to-Back Workshop on Sustainable GHG Data Management and Establishment of

MRV Data Sharing Network in Ghana

Rapporteurs:
Daniel Benefor,
Juliana Bempah
Joy Ankomah Hesse

January, 2013
List of Tables ....................................................................................................................................2

Chapter 1: Background Information ................................................................................................3

1.1 Introduction ................................................................................................................................... 3

1.2 Scope and objectives workshop .......................................................................................................... 4

1.2.1 Scope of workshop ....................................................................................................................... 4

1.2.2 Objectives of workshop ............................................................................................................... 5

1.2.3 Participation ................................................................................................................................. 5

1.2.4 Deliverables ................................................................................................................................. 6

Chapter 2: Workshop Activities........................................................................................................7

2.1 GHG Data Management Workshop .................................................................................................... 7

2.1.2 Technical Presentations................................................................................................................ 7

2.1.3 Break-Out Groups ........................................................................................................................ 8

2.2 Establishment of MRV Data Sharing Network Workshop ............................................................... 10

2.2.1 Technical Presentations.............................................................................................................. 10

2.2.2 Break-out groups ........................................................................................................................ 11

Chapter 3: Key Deliverables of the Workshop ................................................................................13

3.1. Deliverables from the workshop ...................................................................................................... 13

3.1.1 A functional institutional arrangement for the domestic MRV system ..................................... 13

3.1.2 List of existing mechanisms for collecting and tracking data on implementation of mitigation
actions and support ............................................................................................................................. 15

3.1.3 List of possible mitigation actions elicited from the sectors ...................................................... 15

3.1.4 Table format for reporting mitigation actions and support based on the CGE training
materials .............................................................................................................................................. 15

3.1.5 Completed GHG data improvement strategy template for the five inventory sectors ............... 15

5.0 Conclusion and Recommendations ............................................................................................37

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List of Tables
Table 1: Summaries of Major Highlights of the Technical Presentations .................................................... 7

Table 2: Summary of group tasks ................................................................................................................. 8

Table 3: Summary of issues that emerged from the discussions .................................................................. 9

Table 4: Highlights of presentations on the building of BUR, various tables and data needs .................... 10

Table 5: Guiding Questions for the Group Discussions on MRV data sharing structure ........................... 11

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Chapter 1: Background Information

1.1 Introduction
In 2013, Ghana launched a new programme on climate ambitious reporting (CAR). The CAR program
aims at providing framework for coordinating all climate and related reporting efforts at a one-stop-shop.
Among many reasons, the Ghana Climate Ambitious Report Programme (otherwise called G-CARP)
seeks to facilitate putting in place an integrated national reporting system (INRS) that will enable Ghana
plan, prepare and publish its climate reports to the international and national audience on sustainable
basis. The G-CARP has many functional parts which work together in a unified manner to help Ghana
produce good quality reports that meet both national and international standards. The functional
components of the G-CARP are as follows: (1) setting-up of, or strengthening existing institutional
arrangement (2) operationalizing the collaborative mechanisms that underpin activities of the institutions
and above all, (3) online database and registry system (4) continuous training and capacity development
of new and existing teams.

The efficient functioning of the INRS in many ways will help Ghana meet its reporting obligations at the
national level as well as under the UNFCCC of (a) preparing national communication (NATCOM) every
4 years, (b) preparing biennial update report (BUR) every 2 years and (c) undertaking international
consultation and analysis (ICA) of the BUR as well as (d) informing national policy decision-making on
sustainable development. This would therefore mean that Ghana must begin to put in place measures to
support the strengthening of the existing institutional arrangements and data collection systems to ensure
that the country is able to meet accelerated reporting timelines.

One important objective of the G-CARP is to be able to support Ghanas capability to generate, collate
and publish GHG inventory estimates both at the national, sectoral and where possible, project level at
regular intervals. The generation of GHG estimates will be done through conducting national GHG
inventories and monitoring of progress and impacts of implementation of mitigation actions on
continuous basis. The information that emerges from the continuous reporting of progress of
implementation of mitigation actions and its impacts will be useful for (a) providing valuable feedback on
how GHG emission reduction goals are being met, (b) how much volumes of emissions reduction has
been successfully attained, in which sector, and by which set of policy(ies), (c) communicate to policy
makers in the international community how Ghana is contributing to attaining 20C global goal and above
all (d) providing technical information to support monitoring and evaluation of the implementation of the
national climate change policy and strategies for the five prioritized sectors.

This will require the following:

a. Ghana puts in place sustainable institutional arrangement that is able to respond to the frequent
reporting and review timelines and at the same time prepare good quality report.
b. Accelerating the process of strengthening the existing data collection and institutional
arrangement reforms that have started as part of the national communications.
c. Building synergies around existing mechanisms for continuous data generation, collection and
archiving.
d. Ensuring continuous training and up skilling for key stakeholders involved in the process.
e. Strengthening the system for data documentation and archiving using the online database.
f. Make sure investments are made into collecting non-existing data for sectors that are key sources
of greenhouse emissions.
g. Establish means for effective communication and disseminating of results that emerge to policy
makers and the general public ensure greater buy in.
h. Putting in place systems for the continuous monitoring of the implementation of policies and
measures that have positive impacts on GHG emission reductions.

The Low emission capacity building project (LECBP) is supporting the rolling-out of the G-CAR
programme. The support provided to Ghana targeted at further strengthening the efforts to put in place an
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integrated national system for GHG inventories, monitoring of implementation of mitigation actions and
the associated support received. The specific areas the support is targeting at includes: (a) harmonization
of the existing institutional arrangements and its underpinning collaborative mechanisms, (b) creation of
awareness and capacity improvement of key institutions that are involved in the preparation of the
national greenhouse gas inventory, mitigations and support, and (c) supporting structures for the
continuous data collection on GHG inventories, mitigations actions, and indicators for monitoring
progress of mitigation actions. In line with support, the MESTI & EPA organised 3-day workshop on
GHG inventory data management and establishment of MRV data sharing network at Capital View Hotel,
Koforidua, in the Eastern region of Ghana, from 21st to 23rd December, 2013. The specific activities in
the LECB project out of which the back-to-back workshop organised are as follows:

a. Support the establishment and operationalization of GHG inventory central database for
documentation and archiving of all inventory data/information.
b. Develop GHG inventory manual of procedures, QA/QC manual and tier-1 uncertainty assessment
for selected sectors.
c. Support continuous training key inventories staff especially on new and emerging topics
contained any UNFCCC/IPCC guidance or guidelines documents.

1.2 Scope and objectives workshop

1.2.1 Scope of workshop

The workshop adopted discussion-based and hands-on approaches to deliver the expected results.
The main reference materials that were used in the two workshops are (a) IPCC good practice guidelines,
(b) guidelines for the preparation of national communication and biennial update report, (c) National M &
E framework and (d) 2006 IPCC software. Because the workshop targeted at producing specific outputs
is that would be useful to the improvements of the INRS in future, participants were guided to focus their
discussions on the agenda. The workshop was in two parts (refer to annex 1 for copy of programme). First
part of the workshop focused on understanding the full range of data needs of the climate reporting
programme (biennial update reporting, Third National Communication) and how to put in place new or
strengthen existing national platforms (national data network) to support data collection on GHG,
mitigation actions, their effects and support on continuous basis. This would mean that a new set of
institutions, data collection networks and indicators are established to support process.

In the second part of the workshop, the discussions considered issues on how to bring sustainable
improvements in the national system (NIS) for the national GHG inventory. The discussions were done
based on the key issues that were raised by the sector leads institutions during their presentations. The
presentations by the lead sector institutions highlighted the current status of the GHG inventory which
was captured in the following number of issues; (a) the steps for data GHG collection, (b) trends of GHG
estimates where they are ready, (c) the data needs and (d) overview of the data challenges. During the
discussions, each inventory sector group focused on identifying the main data challenges, prioritized them
and fashioned out practical solutions for addressing them. Based on the discussions, each sector group
completed the GHG data improvement strategy template which will later be compiled into a road map
to guide the long-term improvements in the NIS.

In addition to the data issues that were discussed during the workshops, extensive discussions on how to
strengthen existing institutional arrangements and make it work better and efficiently was also
highlighted. The institution related discussions resulted in revised institutional arrangement to anchor the
operationalization of the INRS. The revision of the institutional arrangement sought to broaden
participation to include relevant national institutions that hitherto were not actively involved because of
the new reporting mandates. The revised institutional arrangement was designed in a way that it
incorporates all the major activities for the assessment and monitoring of GHG, mitigation actions and
support into an integrated structure. The revised structure was developed and agreed upon during the
workshop. The revised institutional structure (refer to annex 2) has (a) three (3) functional levels and
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integrated into three (3) activities, (b) introduced new institutional representations with clear roles and
responsibilities and (c) expanded the scope of activities (d) revised the terms of the collaborative
mechanisms. So far, (a) the revised teams have been constituted, discussed and agreed upon, (b) roles and
responsibilities and mechanism for data collection concluded and (c) the functional level within which
they will operate has been clearly defined.

1.2.2 Objectives of workshop

The workshop objectives were achieved by providing answers to the following questions:

a. What are the existing sources of data for the estimation of the national GHG estimates?

b. To what extent do the existing data needs of the GHG inventory being met? And what can be
done to improve data access, improve accuracy, reduce data gaps etc

c. What additional data generation and collection mechanisms that have not been tapped into?

d. To what extent can their capabilities to be upgraded in order to become relevant to the INRS?

e. Can we put place a robust national data collection network that will be able to generate data on
regular basis?
What should be the roles of key institutions?
What strategies must be put in place at the institutional level in order to mainstream the
data collection network?
What can be done to address the issues of data protection, confidentiality and
acknowledgement?
How can we tap from the existing legal and regulatory processes for collecting data from
various sources? eg. Industry, research, academia, institutions with mandate to collect
specific data in their sector?

f. What role(s) could the Ghana statistical service play considering - the periodicity of the surveys
they conduct, and their funding needs, to consider option for collecting data for the ambitious
reporting regime?

g. What the new data requirements under the new reporting regime and how can we set up
mechanism for collecting from the relevant sectors?

h. What capacities are needed by the various sectors to be able to understand and fully engage in the
overall process of designing GHG inventory systems, assessment of mitigation actions and effects
and reporting them?

1.2.3 Participation
Nearly 70 participants from 30 different public institutions, private companies, NGOs, research
institutions and universities attended the two workshops (refer to annex 3 for list of participants). During
GHG data management workshop, the invitees were from: (a) members of the five inventory sectors, (b)
data generators and (c) providers, (d) researchers and academics, and (f) practitioners. In the second
workshop, nearly 20 of the participants in the first workshop left to allow new ones who were more
relevant to the discussions on the MRV data sharing network workshop to take part in the discussions.

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1.2.4 Deliverables
The workshops produced the following deliverables:
Functional institutional arrangement for the domestic MRV (refer to annex 1)
List of existing mechanisms for collecting and tracking data on implementation of mitigation
actions and support (refer to annex 4)
List of possible mitigation actions elicited from the sectors (refer to annex 5)
Discussions and hands on exercise on the table format for reporting mitigation actions and
support based on the CGE training materials (refer to annex 6).
Completed GHG data improvement strategy template for the five inventory sectors(refer to annex
7)

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Chapter 2: Workshop Activities

2.1 GHG Data Management Workshop

After the opening of the workshop, Mr. K.Y. Oppong-Boadi (Ghanas UNFCCC Focal Point), who
chaired, welcomed participants. In his welcome statement, he urged participants to contribute positively
to the discussions in order to help achieve the objectives of the workshop. The objectives and the
expectations of the workshop was provided by Mr. Daniel Benefor when was setting the scene for the
workshop. He stressed on the need for the discussions to focus on the main objective of the workshop in
order to produce the expected results.

2.1.2 Technical Presentations

Four (4) main technical presentations were made on different topics during the workshop. The
presentations that were made helped to (a) set the context for the discussions (b) provided highlights on
the status of the various GHG inventory initiatives and how the challenges they faced are being resolved
and (c) distill the salient messages to inform the discussions. The table 1 below provides summaries of
major highlights of the presentations.

Table 1: Summaries of Major Highlights of the Technical Presentations

Topic of Key issues raised in the Comments and Questions Some Responses
presentation presentations
GHG Detail overview and scope of What strategies can be put The EPA is currently using the
Inventory the preparation of Ghanas in place or strengthen to MOU approach the
issues within initial biennial update report help get the support from operationalization of the
the context of (iBUR). the top hierarchy of public institutional arrangement.
BUR and institutions that provide However, lot awareness and
NATCOMs by Ingredients for preparing data? continuous training of the sector
Daniel high quality BUR: experts could help. The
Benefor Institutional arrangements, How could such supports mainstreaming of the GHG
data, capacity and skills) would be galvanized to inventory activities in the sectors
facilitate greater data must reflect in the workplan of
Overview of GHG inventory sharing and access in the the various sectors.
elements, processes, IPCC long-to-medium term?
methodology, data, some The data challenge boarder on the
results What is the major following; non-existence of data
challenge Ghana faces on at all, data gaps, low data quality
Data management issues GHG data management? and improper data format and
including: data collection above lack of system to support
methods, data sources, data What specific role(s) can continuous data generations.
documentation and archiving, Ghana Statistical Services
challenges etc. and the academia play in For the academia, students can be
helping GHG data given project topics on GHG
Overview of data collection on continuous inventory and then can take that
requirements under the basis? opportunity to provide data on the
ambitious/comprehensive GHGI.
reporting regime (BUR)
The GSS has the mandate to
collects all forms of data. In the
long-term, the GSS presents the
promising opportunity for the
continuous data collection. This
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 requires that capacities for GSS
would have to be built.
GHG Data Identification of GHG data
Need, needs for each sector.
Challenges
and Strategies Key challenges, Strategies
for for improvements.
improvements
by the 5 Presentations of some results
inventory
sector leads
(refer to annex
7)
Status of the Overview, design and What is the status of the The server has been configured to
establishment structure of the GHG online setting up of the online host online System within EPA
of the GHG database. database? and the site has been developed
online data by (PHP, MySQL) and being tested.
Mr. Samson Progress of the establishment
Botchway of the online database.
(refer annex 9
for snapshots Demonstration of the
of online functionality of the online
database database.
design

2.1.3 Break-Out Groups

During the break-out groups, 5 groups were formed based on the IPCC sectors. Each group was made up
of the GHG inventory sector leads, the collaborative organizations and data providers. The task of each
group was to focus on (a) identifying main data challenges in the sector, prioritized them and later fashion
out practical strategies/solutions to addressing them. The group tasks have been provided in the table
below:

Table 2: Summary of group tasks

Each group was tasked to do the following:

1. Review the key data needs and challenges that were presented by the sector lead and, where
possible identify additional ones.
2. Disaggregate data needs and challenges to the category level where possible.
3. Identify additional sources of data.
4. Discuss and agree on specific strategies that must be put in place to support the continuous
collection of data.
5. Identify what capacities are needed by the respective institutions to be able to participate in the
mainstreaming of GHG inventory activities effectively?
6. Discuss and agree on how the GHG process can be sustained and scaled up?
7. Assess the extent can we use existing M&E reporting mechanisms (e.g national population
census, preparation of the Energy balance, national budgeting process, GLSSS, EIA process,
research outputs, etc.) to support data collection as well as tracking of implementation of
mitigation measures on continuous basis?
8. Identify relevant institutions, their data collection mechanism, and how GHG inventory process
can dovetail into it?
9. What new dataset must be we collect and through what means?
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 10. What form of institutional strengthening mechanism must be put in place to support the
preparation of the BURs every two years?
11. How can we derive great value of the ambitious reporting mechanism and make it relevant for
national development planning?
12. Can the existing national system (institutional arrangement, roles, procedures and
responsibilities) be able to (a) produce good quality reporting every two and four years
sustainably as well as the review process? How do we make is better to perform efficient?

In additions, following the discussions the groups completed the GHG data improvement strategy
template (refer to appendix 7). Before the discussions commenced, each of the sector leads, presented
the current state of the inventory process including the steps for data collection, the estimates where they
are ready, the data needs and an overview of the data challenges. The points that were raised by the sector
leads formed the basis for the discussions in each sector.

2.1.2.4 Summary of issues raised during the plenary

The session continued after the completion of the group work and presentation of the outcomes by the
elected member of the sector groups. After the presentations participants asked questions, comments and
made suggestions. The summary of the exchange of views have been distilled in the table 3 below:
Table 3: Summary of issues that emerged from the discussions
Questions/Comments/Suggestions Responses

Impacts of Mining activities on GHG emissions - The energy use in the mining sector is what is reported
Why has it not been captured as one of the under the energy sector. Other relevant activities in
discussions? waste and AFOLU are also captured in the respective
sectors.
It is usually observed that waste segregation done at The level of efficiency is quiet low. Zoomlion has not
source ends up in the same container when being started waste segregation at homes but with institutions
collected by Zoomlion Ghana Limited. and proposals are being done to ensure homes/others get
on board. Note that the composition of the waste is
assumed not to change whether the waste is lumped/
separated.

Are the incinerators in the country real incinerators Ghana Health Service (GHS) has about 200 incinerators
or controlled burning equipment? just to help burn sharps and biological materials. EPA
should develop a guideline and then based on that permit
institutions that put up incinerators. They would have to
go through the EIA process and probably the design and
temperature would have to be used as the main factors
for consideration.

Sector specific issues

Energy Sector:
There is the need to increase stakeholder involvement/ consultation to enhance the GHG inventory data
collection.
The current work done by the Energy group is about 90%.
There is still more work to be done and as such will have to take some set of data from the
Manufacturing Industry Department (MID) of EPA on energy use by industries in the country.
Lastly they said that emission factor for some sub-categories are also a major challenge to the group.
Industrial Processes Sector:
Completed data collection from 56 companies the industry survey targeted.
The data will be further processes and analysed into conform with the format of the IPPC software
Collaborate with CEPS, OZONE Unit at EPA to collect data on the consumption of F-gases

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 AFOLU Sector:
The group mentioned that they have managed to collect almost 100 % of data needs. However, there are few data
challenges which ought to be collected to cater for minor gaps.
Waste Sector
The group indicated that all data on solid waste disposal has been collected and input in an excel worksheet. The
major challenge observed so far was on incinerators and wastewater handling. The group now has a
representative from Ghana Health Services and has provided some data on the number of incinerators in the
country and their respective capacities. MID has also collected some data from industries and this will be used for
the estimation. On the whole, the group has completed more that 50% of its work. However, it will be very good
to have a representative from Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development to add his/her input to the
work being done.

2.2 Establishment of MRV Data Sharing Network Workshop

Mr. Peter Dery of the Ministry of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation (MESTI), chaired
the data sharing network workshop. Mr. Dery thanked participants for attending the workshop and
entreated them to contribute to the discussions. The focus of the establishment of the MRV data sharing
network workshop was to help identify ways for strengthening existing national platforms (national data
sharing network) in order to support for the collection and tracking of GHG emissions, mitigation actions,
their effects and support on continuous basis.

2.2.1 Technical Presentations

Three (3) technical presentations were made by Mr. Daniel Benefor based on the various elements of the
biennial update report. The purpose of the presentations was to take participants through the building
blocks of the BUR, the various tabular formats and requisite data needs in order to inform the designing
of the architecture of the national data sharing network. Table 4 contains the major highlights of the
presentations.

Table 4: Highlights of presentations on the building of BUR, various tables and data needs
Topic Issues covered by the presentation
Overview of the Detail overview and scope of preparation of Ghanas initial biennial update report
elements of BUR (iBUR) including the ingredients for preparing high quality report on sustainable
basis such as Institutional arrangement, data, capacity and regular up skilling).
What are the elements for the identification of mitigation actions, assessing its effect
and tracking the indicators of progress of implementation? This also covered issues
on baseline and baseline scenarios, mitigation scenario package, indicators for
assessing milestones and their effects, benefits (CO2 tonnes, and co-benefits)
methodologies and assumptions.
Data needs and management issues including overview of data collection methods,
sources, documentation and archiving, challenges etc.
Profile of sector- Domestic mitigation actions
wide mitigation a. Form - policy type including fiscal, sector-wide and project scale and
actions and support linkages between them.
b. Status implemented, under execution, planned or pipeline
Mitigations actions seeking International support
Tracking of Finance, capacity building and technology transfer
support including a. type (grants, loan, equity), form of capacity, technology related support
finance, b. sources and channels of support (bilateral, multilaterals)
technology and c. Domestic finance, international finance including regional banks.
capacity
Data needs based Based on the consultative group of experts (CGEs) developed table, participants had
on BUR guidelines hand-on experience with the data needs on how to report on mitigations, their effects and
support (refer annex 7 for the tables).

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2.2.2 Break-out groups
During the break-outs sessions the groups discussed the strategies and the architecture for the
establishment of national data sharing network for the collection of, mitigation actions, their effects and
support. The group discussions attempted to provide answers to the cluster of questions contained in table
5.

Table 5: Guiding Questions for the Group Discussions on MRV data sharing structure
Institution-related questions
What new set of institutions, data collection networks and indicators that must be put in place in addition
to the existing GHG national system?
How can we put place a robust national data collection network that will be able to generate data on
regular basis?
d. What should be the roles of key institutions?
e. What strategies must be put in place at the institutional level?
f. What can be done to address issues of data protection, confidentiality and acknowledgement?
g. How can we tap from the existing legal and regulatory processes for collecting data from various
sources? eg. Industry, research, academia, institutions with mandate to collect specific data in
their sector?
h. What role could the Ghana statistical service play considering (a) the periodicity of their surveys
and (b) the funding needs in order to consider options for collecting data for the ambitious
reporting regime?

Data-related questions
What are the new data requirements for the various configurations of mitigation actions, their effect and
support received and needed?
How can we set up or building on existing mechanisms for collecting and archiving data from the relevant
sectors on sustainable basis for the future.
Data collection of mitigation actions and support from line ministries, What, who, how when must the data
be collected?
How can we create realistic linkages among the following existing national data collection and reporting
mechanisms

National scale policy or fiscal indicators

a. National budgeting process by Ministry of Finance economy wide (tracking of, and outlook of govt
PaMs per budget cycle using productivity and macro-economic indicators) -
b. Annual Progress Report by NDPC (Economy-wide. Focus on tracking development indicators of medium
term plans) as part of their M & E coordination functions. Does it also include tracking implementation
of policies?
c. Ghana Statistical Service Ghana Living standard survey (nationwide 5 year socio-economic household
indicators survey). National Population Census (10 year demographic and socio-economic data
collection)

Sector level indicators

a. Preparation of the Strategic Energy Plan by the Energy Commission - (Irregular but seeming 5-year cycle
review of energy indicators for policy planning purpose).
b. Energy Outlook by Energy Commission forecast of energy prospects for upcoming year based on
previous performance. At least first one was published in 2012? Is this mainstreamed?
c. National Energy Statistics which sometime include Energy Balance in the past couple of years this is
has been published annually
d. Sector Annual Report??
e. National Plantation Implementation Report by forestry commission Annual reports?
f. Akobenn by EPA. Annual disclosure of environmental performance?

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Project or programme level
Project or document or proposals which describe the baseline situation, activities/strategies/programmes,
targets and indicators for monitoring progress.
Report - Annual reports, Terminal reports and Evaluation reports
a. Eg. EE Programmes - Refrigeration rebate scheme project, capacitor banks, appliance labeling,
programme, consumer awareness program.
b. SEA4ALL Action Plan (Plan type) Financial and Technical M & E Indicators
c. Forest Investment Programmes (direct sub-projects)
d. REDD+ Readiness Programmes (direct sub- and related sub-projects)
e. Climate Strategies projects - enabling activities

Capacity -related questions

What capacities are needed by the various sectors to be able to understand and appreciate the overall
process of designing assessment of mitigation actions and effects and reporting them?
What are the practical steps we must take to able retain capacities or where possible ensure that capacities
are not only frontloaded in persons who are directly involved in the reporting process but at least?

Questions related to the Architecture of the national data sharing network

Overview of the structure of the data sharing network - utility for data collection, processing and
disclosure.
Roles of identified institutions and projects managers
What information or data is needed from the monitoring indicators of (a) policy implementation, (b)
measures or instruments, (c) project level boundary, (d) sector-wide actions and (f) programmatic
initiatives and
How can do we develop standard indicators for monitoring CO2 impact and co-benefits of mitigation
actions?
What is the roadmap for the collections and processing of first batch of data inflow into the network
Development of template for data providers to use for the transmission of data to central points
Selection of contact persons in each sector for the compilation of sector-wide data.
What role should coordination institutions such as NDPC, Ministry of Finance MESTI and Ghana
Statistical Services play in the national sharing data network?
What linkages can be established between similar national processes

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Chapter 3: Key Deliverables of the Workshop

3.1. Deliverables from the workshop

The workshops produced the following deliverables:
(a) A revised functional institutional arrangement for the domestic MRV (refer to annex 1)
(b) List of existing mechanisms for collecting and tracking data on implementation of mitigation
actions (refer to annex 4)
(c) List of possible mitigation actions elicited from the sectors (refer to annex 5)
(d) Discussions and hands on exercise on the table format for reporting mitigation actions and
support based on the CGE training materials (refer to 6).
(e) Completed GHG data improvement strategy template for the five inventory sectors (refer to
annex 7).

3.1.1 A functional institutional arrangement for the domestic MRV system

After the discussions, the workshop produced a revised functional institutional arrangement that will
anchor the domestic monitoring, reporting and verification scheme for (a) GHG emissions, (b) mitigation
actions and (c) support. The institutional arrangement (annex 1) has the following building blocks:

Three functional levels (national, sector and project) integrated into the three (3) MRV activities
(GHG, Mitigation actions and supports,
New institutional representations with clear roles and responsibilities including M&E institutions
Technical Registries at project, sector and national level. The registries will contain information
on mitigation actions, their effects and support.

The revised institutional arrangement seeks to integrate the 3 building blocks of the domestic MRV
system (GHG, mitigation actions and supports) into a functional framework that will underpin the
national system for supporting the implementation of the G-CARP. The institutional arrangement has
three levels, project, sector and national. Within each level, different institutions have unique role and
responsibilities of conducting GHG inventory, assessment mitigation actions, their effects, monitoring its
implementation tracking support. For instances, whereas the Ministry of Finance and the National
Development Planning Commissions will be responsible for tracking climate support and monitoring
implementation of mitigation policies respectively at the national, sector specific institutions such as the
Ministry of Energy and Petroluem and the Energy Commission focus on monitoring the implementation
of policies and measures in the energy sector. The new institutional arrangement also establishes strong
relationships with institutions that responsible for the GHG inventories.

Although the structure, roles and the governing mechanisms for the revised institutional arrangement has
been agreed upon during the workshop, the emphasis in the next coming months will be to translate the
new structure into implementation. The following steps have been identified as the next steps: (i)
constituting the various institutional representations into MRV working team with clear roles and
responsibilities, (ii) Formulating and where possible, revising the existing collaborative mechanisms, (iii)
develop detail workplan and budget for the various working groups and (iv) development continuous
training plan for the working groups.

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 Annex 2
Functional Institutional Arrangements for Domestic Monitoring Reporting and Verification System

Project scale Sector level National level

MRV for GHG
Institutions GHG Inventory IPCC sectors
Energy Compilers Energy Commission, Environmental

Dept. of Statistics, University of Ghana (Uncertainty)

Emission data from Protection Agency (EPA), Ministry of Transport.

EIDMD, EPA (GHG Online Database Manager)

CDM Projects for
Data Providers DVLA, VRA, AOMCs, GRCL, NPA,

Dept. of Mathematics, KNUST (QA/QC)

Carbon Market
GSS, EC EPA (National GHG
Plan Inventory Coordinating
Emission data from AFOLU Compilers Forestry Commission, REDD+ Entity)
VC Projects Secretariat, Ministry of Agric, Soil Science Dept. UG.,
Act KNUST EPA GHG Inventory
Compiler
Industry or corporate Data Providers CSIR- FORIG, MOFA-SRID, CSIR-ARI
level emissions EPA ICA Contact Point
Waste Compilers EPA, MLGRD, KNUST-Civil Eng.
Dept. & Zoomlion Ghana Limited
Emissions data from
NAMAs projects
Data Providers MLGRD, GHS, GES, EPA-MID

City level inventories IPPU Compilers EPA MID

Data Providers EPA-MID, EPA-Ozone, Ghana National

Customs, Ghana Statistical Service Communications

Tracking Projects Sector Registries and APRs Biennial Update Report

(Registries)

Ministry of Environment, Science, Technology and

MRV Institutions Energy/Transport Coordinator Ministry of Energy and

Ministry of Finance (Tracking Support)

Energy related projects

EPA - National Technical Registry System

NDPC Monitoring and Evaluation Unit
Monitoring

Monitoring and Evaluation Functions

Petroleum, Energy Commission(Lead), National ICA Review
Support Eben Ashie (MOEP)
Petroleum Authority, Environmental Protection Agency

(development indicators & APRs)

Innovation Sector APRs
AFOLU related projects
Daniel Nsowah (MLNR) AFOLU Coordinator Ministry of Lands and Natural
Resources, Forestry Commission (Lead), Cocoa
Transport related projects Board(ESP), KNUST (FRNR), Ministry of Food and
Check
Do Daniel Nsowah (MLNR) Agriculture

Industry related projects Waste Coordinator Ministry of Local Government and

Augustine Insaidoo (MoTI) Rural Development (Lead), EPA-Built Environment,
Sanitation Institute Zoomlion Ghana Limited
Waste related projects
Joy Ankomah (EPA)
Privae sector AFOLU Industry Coordinator Ministry of Trade & Industry
projects Winston Asante (Lead), EPA-MID, Business Associations (AGI)
Bilateral projects Kwasi
MRV for Mitigation Asante (Ministry of Finance)
Action Institutions Multilateral cluster projects Main data provider - Ghana Statistical Service
UNDP

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3.1.2 List of existing mechanisms for collecting and tracking data on implementation of
mitigation actions and support
During the workshop, the participants identified number of existing national/international reporting
mechanisms that could be useful for the collection and tracking of data (indicators) on the progress of the
implementation of mitigation actions and support. In all, nearly 40 reporting channels were identified
from the national level to the project level. Annex 4 is the table of list of existing mechanism relevant for
tracking and monitoring mitigation actions in Ghana. At the national level, the annual publication of
Annual Progress Report could an important channel for monitoring progress of implementation of
mitigation related policies at the national level.

The Annual Progress Report (APR) is M&E tool for tracking the implementation of development
policies. It is first prepared by the individual sector and subsequently compiled into national APR by the
National Development Planning Commission. Because of its: annual periodicity of the publication,
national coverage, monitors policy implementation using simple indicators, and above all its ability to
harmonized sector specific monitoring indicators into national indicators, the APR was identified by the
participants as reliable channel for monitoring implementation of mitigation policies and measures. At the
sectoral level, in particular energy, the participants also identified among many other, the annual
publication of the energy statistics and energy balance as a good channel for monitoring energy related
mitigation actions. The participants concluded that, specific contacts person are identified so that they
can follow up on how to establish the data sharing conduit after the workshop.

3.1.3 List of possible mitigation actions elicited from the sectors

During the discussions, the participants identified a number of possible mitigation actions in the various
sectors. The assessment of the identified mitigation actions, their effects and the indicators for tracking
progress of implementation will be subsequently developed. For each sector, the participants identified
mitigation actions contained policies, measures or instruments, programmes and projects of which the
GHG effect and Co-benefits could be estimated and reported in the BUR. In the energy, a total of 35
potential mitigation actions were identified and ranges from renewable energy, efficiency, efficient
lightning, and clean cooking solutions (refer to annex 5). In the AFOLU sector, the participants identified
nearly 25 potential mitigation actions whereas in the Waste sector nearly 10 were identified.

3.1.4 Table format for reporting mitigation actions and support based on the CGE
training materials
Annex 6 contains a set of tables was originally developed by the CGE based on the approved guidelines
of the BUR. The table covers specific information based on the reporting guidelines of the BUR.
Participants were taken through the data need of the table and strategies for collect the data on regular
basis.

3.1.5 Completed GHG data improvement strategy template for the five inventory sectors
During the GHG workshop, the each inventory sector completed the GHG improvement strategy
templates. Annex 7 is the completed templates for the 5 sectors.

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Annex 4: List of existing mechanisms for collecting and tracking data on implementation of mitigation actions
National Name of Mechanisms Periodicity Focus Institutions Contact Person Follow up
level National budgets Annual Tracking financial performance Ministry of Finance, Kwesi Asante Mr. Emmanuel
of sectors Budget division Antwi
Annual Progress Reports Annual Tracking of policy NDPC_M&E Division Winfred Nelson Isaac Kwasi Eweh
implementation
Citizen Assessment Report 2 years Assessment of impacts of NDPC_M&E Division Winfred Nelson Isaac Kwasi Eweh
development policies &
measures
Ghana Living Standard Survey 5 years Living standards surveys Ghana Statistical Ansah Elliot Mr. F. Dzah
(GLSS) Service, Agric and
National Population Census 10 years Population and Housing Environment Statistics
Census Dept.
Ghana Multiple Indicator Cluster 5 years International household survey
Survey developed by UNICEF
State of the nation address Annual Overall state of the country Ghana Parliament. Peter Dery Clark
Office of the clerk
State of the Ghanaian economy Annual Review of status of the ISSER Dr. Simon Bawa Prof. Felix Asante
Ghanaian economy
Agricultural census 10 years Agric sector-wide Census Ghana Statistical Ansah Elliot Mr. F. Dzah
Service, Agric and
Environment Statistics
Dept.
Estimation of environmental annual Economy estimation of cost of EPA. SEA Unit Henry Ayettey Kwame Fredua
degradation environmental degradation
Coordinated programme social and 4 years Broad Development vision NDPC _M&E Winfred Nelson Isaac Kwasi Eweh
economic Division
Auditors generals report Biennial Financial audit of public Ghanas Parliament Peter Dery Clark
expenditure Office of the clerk
NATCOM 4 years Climate reporting EPA Daniel Benefor Mr. Oppong
IEA Annual. Energy Energy Commission. Salifu Addo MR. DZOBO
International SPPD
FAO sources Agriculture and forestry Ministry of Agric and SRID/FC Affum Baffoe
Forestry Commission
World Bank Economy wide indicators
IMF Macro-economic indicators
Sectoral Energy statistics plus the energy annual Energy data Energy Mr. A. Salifu Mr. Dzobo
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 balance Commssion_SPPD
Energy outlook annual Energy and market data
Strategic Energy Plan (SNEP) 5 years Energy planning and review
Sector Annual Progress Report annual Sector policies, measures and NDPC_M&E Division Winfred Nelson Isaac Kwasi Eweh
programmes
National domestic supply of monthly Petroluem downstream National Petroluem Abass Shiela Addo
petroleum products activities Authority _PPR
Petroluem receipts quarterly Petroluem statistics Ministry of Finance, Kwasi Asante Dr. Asenso
Research division
Petroluem product price build up National Petroluem Abass Mrs. Alpha
Authority _PPR Welbeck
stumpage disbursement report annual timber harvesting FC_F&A Daniel Nsowa Robert Nyarko
National forest plantation annual Progress of plantation Forestry Comm. Daniel Nsowa Hugh Brown
development programme implementation Plantation
electricity tariff quarterly Electricity tariff outlook PURC Ms Paula Edze Oscar
REDD+ implementation country quarterly REDD+ implementation Forestry Commission, Kwame Agyei Mr. Robert Bamfo
progress report REDD+ Secretariat
Projects Inception Report /Project Energy related project Eben Ashie
Document
Annual Report Transport related Eben Fiahagbe
project
Project Terminal Reports Forestry related Daniel Nsowa
projects
Monitoring and Evaluation reports Waste related projects Joy Hesse
Special Reports Industry related Augustine Mr. Nuhu of
projects Insaidoo Ministry of trade
Research Reports ESP Project Dr. Augustus Mr. Atsu of ESP
Asamoah at cocoa board
Private sector forestry Dr. W. Asante (KNUST)
related project
including research
UNDP SD Cluster Paolo Dalla Stella

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Annex 5: List of possible mitigation actions
List of possible identified mitigation actions elicited from Sectors
Sector Sub-sector Stated Targets Baseline Name of Actions
Energy
Renewable energy 10% RE RE share on Operationalization of Feed-in-tariff
penetration on public Establishment of Renewable energy fund
the public installed
electricity grid electricity Promotion of 5% biofuel blend
generation RE Purchase Obligation
less than 2% Establish Net Metering code
RE Grid connection code
Energy Effiency HH Appliance labeling programme
Programmes Installation of power factor correction device in
commercial buildings
CFL lightning programme
Fuel consumption efficiency programme
HH Refrigerating appliance project
Electricity VRA 2.5MW solar project in Novorongo
generation Grid-connected net metering programme (1MW) -
NOG (315kW, EC, KNUST, Private sector)
80% NG replacement of LCO thermal plants by
2016
SCGT to CCGT (TICO)
SEA4ALL Productive Uses of Energy
Programme National Biogas Programme
Improved woodfuel stoves
LPG promotion
Off-grid RE electrification
GEDAP RE Mini grid selected island communities
Solar lantern and home systems - ARB APEX
BANK
Renewable Energy Resource Assessment(EC -
Wind, KNUST-Biomass, VRA- Hydro)
Lightening Solar lantern replacement program
RE street lighting programme
off-grid lightening programme
urban grid connected lighting
Rural LPG Programme in selected rural communities
Electricity tariff rationalization (full cost recovery)
Transport Energy in transport Fuel quality (Fuel sulphur reduction programme)
Transport - Fuel economy standards
Petroluem product prices rationalization programme

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Sector Sub-sector Stated Baseline Sources of Actions*
AFOLU Targets

Forest plantation National Plantation Fund Board

National Forest Plantation Development
Programme
National Tree Crop Programme* (private and
public)
REDD+ Activities Avoided deforestation/Degradation/Carbon
Stock Enhancement
Engaging local communities in REDD+
Engaging Private Sector in REDD+
Sustainable Landscape Project (Solidaridad)
FORIG A/R CDM Capacity Building Project
FORIG REDD+ Programme
Crosscutting NREG Forestry
programmes (Forest SADA Forestry
Governance)
Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA)
Non-legally binding instruments
Programmes/Projects Environmental Sustainability and policy cocoa
production (ESP)
Cocoa Eco Project(SNV)
Wildfire Management project
USAID Coastal sustainable landscape project
Sustainable Land & Water Management
Project
Green Ghana Programme
Mining reclamation programme
Coastal development programme
NB * - Specific actions will be derived from the programmes

Sector Sub-sector Stated Targets Baseline Sources of Actions*

Waste
Waste R&D Programme
Community Ownership and management
programme
National source waste segregation programme
Methane capturing programme
Urban Environmental Sanitation Programme
Waste to compost projects (Zoomlion CDM
project)
Waste to energy projects (Juaben oil mills,
TOPP, BOPP etc)

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 Annex 6: List of tables used for the assessment of mitigation actions and support

This table serves as suggested tabular format for item (a) of para 12

Table 1: Description of mitigation actions

Name of
state name of the action here
action
Eg. Kerosene lantern replacement programme
Description

Nature of Coverage Overarching goals Progress Indicators

action sector Gases scale Quantitative Qualitative Quantitative Qualitative Indirect

Action 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3

This table serves as suggested tabular format for items (b), (c), (d) and (e) of para 12

Table 2: Details of Mitigation Actions

Name of action

Information of methodologies and assumptions

Methodologies Assumptions
1.1
1.2
1 1.3
2.1
2.2
2 2.3
Objectives and progress of implementation of actions

Results achieved, such as

Steps taken or envisaged to achieve action estimates outcomes (metrics Estimated emission reduction, to the extent
objectives of action steps taken steps envisaged depending on type of action possible
Acti on 1 1 1 1 1
Acti on 2 2 2 2 2
Acti on 3 3 3 3 3
Acti on 4 4 4 4 4
Information on international market mechanisms

Sta te i nforma ti on on i nterna ti ona l mecha ni s ms rel eva nt to the a cti on's i mpl ementa ti on

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This table serves as suggested tabular format for items (b), (c), (d) and (e) of para 12

Table 2: Details of Mitigation

Actions

Name of
action

Information of methodologies and assumptions

Methodologies Assumptions
1 1.1
1.2
1.3
2 2.1
2.2
2.3
Objectives and progress of implementation of actions
objectives Steps taken or envisaged to achieve Results achieved, such as estimates outcomes (metrics Estimated emission reduction, to
of action action depending on type of action the extent possible

steps taken steps envisaged

Action 1 1 1 1 1
Action 2 2 2 2 2
Information on international
market mechanisms
State information on international mechanisms relevant to the action's implementation

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Suggested tabular format 3: Summary of Mitigation
Actions

Mitigation Status Sector Scale Specific Coordination Estimated emission Co- Other Type of support Cost of Domestic
Action Objectives & reduction potential benefits effects received preparation and Support
implementation implementation
Pl.. Ongoing Imple. 1 2 3 Potential Actual Tech. Fin Cap
Action 1
Action 2
Action 3
Action 4
Action 5
Action 6
Action 7
Action 8
Action 9
Action 10
Action 11
Action 12
Action 13
Action 14
Action 15
Action 16
Action 17
Action 18
Action 19
Action 20

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Annex 7: Completed GHG data improvement strategy template for the five inventory sectors
Completed Waste GHG Data Improvement Strategy Templates
4 - Waste Data Needs Data Challenges Strategies for Next steps Contact Persons
improvements
4.A - Solid Waste Generation Rate (Kg/Capita/day), non availability time For now use what Letters to the Literature/Other documentations;
Waste Waste Generated (tons/year) (1990- series data on we have Need related published paper, student thesis works,
Disposal 2010), Population Figures (1990- generation rate and for survey to institutions Academic institutions; KNUST, UCC,
2010), Annual growth composition, accurate establish regional Yearly survey UDS, Legon etc
rates, % of data on proportion of and national data on waste to Second Ghana National Communications,
waste collected, disposal types and % and emission feed into data National Environmental Sanitation
% of waste deposited on collected and factors, tailor needs Strategy & Action Plan (NESSAP),
landfills/Dumpsites, Waste disposed, research towards Sanitation Department of the Ministry of
Composition/Streams collected and Non availability, data needs Local Government and Rural Development
deposited; (%food, %garden, %paper, inconsistency, (MLGRD);
%wood, %textile, %nappies, %plastics, Ghana Statistical Service Ghana
%other) Population Census Reports and Ghana
Methods of disposals and their various Living Standards Survey 2008
%s; (% burned, % Collected to landfills, World Bank Country Database
% Public Dump, % Dumped Elsewhere, FAO Report on Nutrition
% Buried, % others (recycled etc),) Private Waste Management Companies
Idea about the number of Dumpsites/ and NGOs (Zoomlion, Waste care, etc.)
Landfills; (Managed Sites ( 5m), Academia; Dr. S. Oduro-Kwateng, UCC,
Unmanaged Sites ( 5m), Decay Rates/ UDS, Legon, KNUST, ZoomLion;
Emission factors, Methane Rockson, MLGRD- Mr. Demedeme
Recovery
4.B - Inventory of biological treatment non availability time For now use what MLGRD- Mr. Demedeme, AMA- Mr.
Biological systems, amount of waste composted, series data on we have Letters to the Samuel Kpodo, KMA-Tony Mensah
Treatment number of compost plant (inventory of generation rate and Need for survey to related TMA- Sampson Akwetey, Acadmia; Dr.
of Solid compost plants), fraction of waste composition, accurate establish regional institutions S. Oduru Kwateng, UCC, UDS, Legon,
Waste composted, biogas plants, quantity of data on fractions of and national data Yearly survey KNUST, ZoomLion; Rockson
feed stocks for the biogas plants, waste composited and emission on waste to
factors, tailor feed into data
research towards needs
data needs, Ghana
health service to
capture data needs
of the inventory
into their reports.

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 4.C.1 - Data on the types of technology Medical/clinical Need for survey to Yearly survey Ghana Health Service
Waste locations, waste- non establish regional on waste to Ghana Education Service
Incineration combustion efficiency availability time and national data feed into data EPA EIA Department
capacities, series on medical and emission needs MLGRD- Mr. Demedeme, AMA- Mr.
waste product, waste data generated factors, tailor Samuel Kpodo, KMA-Tony Mensah
source of energy, and incinerated; research towards TMA- Sampson Akwetey, Acadmia; Dr.
firing temperatures Hazardous waste- , data needs, Ghana S. Oduru Kwateng, UCC, UDS, Legon,
total amount of waste, capacity of the Industrial waste- health service to KNUST, ZoomLion; Rockson, GHS- Mr.
incinerator, type of waste, combustion capture data needs Eric Yeboah Danso ([email protected]
Effiency, content of fossil carbon of the inventory 0208119674
fraction, inventory of incinerators, into their reports
4.C.2 - Population Figures (1990-2010), Annual Non existing data Need for survey to Yearly survey Ghana Statistical Service Ghana
Open growth rates, % Population Burning establish regional on waste to Population Census Report, 2010 and
Burning of Waste and national data feed into data Ghana Living Standards Survey 2008GSS-
Waste Fraction of Pop. open burning waste, Per and emission needs Mr. Dzah (0242546810
Capita Waste Generation, No. of Days factors, tailor
per Year (Days) , % of the Waste Amount research towards
burned relative to total Amount Treated data needs, Ghana
% of waste that is burned, per capita health service to
waste generation, % of population capture data needs
burning waste of the inventory
into their reports
4.D.1 - Wastewater Generated per year (Volume- non availability time Need for survey to Letters to the Zoomlion- Rockson;
Domestic m3), SW Generation rate m3 /Capita/day, series data on establish regional related UCC- water and sanitation programme-
Waste- Population Figures (1990-2010), Annual generation rate and and national data institutions Peter Obeng; AMA-Stephen Ackon,
water growth rates, Wastewater treated per wastewater and emission Yearly survey EPA-EQ Mr. Appoh
Treatment year (Volume-m3 ), Wastewater characteristics factors, tailor on waste to
and Treatment Systems, Treated Systems: % research towards feed into data
Discharge Anaerobic; deep 2m and shallow 2m, data needs, Ghana needs
% Anaerobic, Septic systems, Latrine health service to
Untreated Systems: Sea, River and lake capture data needs
discharges, Stagnant sewer, flowing of the inventory
sewer into their reports
Domestic Liquid wastewater ; % treated
and % untreated
Degradable organic content (DOC) of
wastewater (kg/BOD/Cap/day)
Nitrous Oxide Emission from Waste

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 Water; Annual per Capita Protein
Consumption, % of Nitrogen in Protein
BODs and COD and sludge
handling,(BOD, COD, pH); quantity of
excreta generated per person per day

4.D.2 - Total Industry Product (tonnes/yr) Manufacturing Industrial Department of

Industrial Quantity of wastewater generated the EPA, Selina Amoah (MID)
Wastewater (M3/ton
Treatment COD (mg/l) of influent(Kg COD/m3)
and BOD (mg/l) of influent (Kg BOD/m3)
Discharge Type of Wastewater Treatment /
discharge System % of Waste-water
Treated
Sludge removed in industry sector(Kg
COD/y)
Methane recovered (Kg CH4/y)
% of Sludge treated by handling system
Industrial Outputs, EMPs, waste water
committees

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3 - Agriculture, Data Needs Data Challenges Strategies for improvements Next steps Contact
Forestry, and Persons
Other Land Use
3.A.1 - Data on Determination of a There is a need to dialogue with To contact animal production, animal research Kofi Darko of
Enteric population, age specific contact person all relevant agencies so that they institute and Vertinery service for the required SRID MoFA
Fermentation and weight of the for data (data will be can agree on who should provide data. (one page
animals: cattle collected from multiple what data. proposal for
and others. resources). Liaise with the Statistics, Research and verification
The onus will be on institutions to Information Directorate (SRID) of MOFA so that survey of cattle
nominate and document all they could serve as the center for data population)
information that emanates from harmonization from the 3 agencies.
the contact person. The concept
of contact persons should be Verification survey of cattle population is
institutionalized and not done on necessary (One page proposal to be prepared).
a personal basis so that if the Conversation with WAAPP and other projects on
person is not there, sustainability the possibility of inclusion of our data needs in
could still be attained. their projects.

Capacity of additional people in Signing of MOUs with faculties of the universities

the relevant institution should for ease of receipt of findings from student theses.
also be built.
GSS will commence an agriculture census soon.
There is therefore scope for designation of
questionnaires to capture our data needs (i.e.
Weight, age, and population)
3.A.1.a - Cattle The need for data One agency should nominate a
harmonization. person to serve as coordinator for
harmonization of data from the
relevant agencies.

Need to disaggregate data into

existing, non-existing data and
data with gaps.

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3.A.1.a.i - Dairy Limited financial Possibility of building synergies
Cows resources for the with related projects, for example
collection of high WAAPP.
quality data
Mainstreaming of the data
gathering process into the
professional duties of relevant
staff.

Collaboration with universities so

that student theses may focus on
collection of the required data (we
must be wary of issues such as
ensuring effective academic
supervision and the tendency of
lecturers to take ownership of
findings from such research
work)
3.A.1.a.ii - Data collected by
Other Cattle research institutions
tend to be driven more
by the objectives of
donors and may be
unsuitable for national
climate change
reporting
3.A.2 - Manure Data on waste Capturing of data from Collaborative research with Collection of data on waste management as part of GSS
Management management animals on free range relevant agencies and projects Agriculture census
(1) systems in place
and population

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 3.B - Land Under the FPP, Filling the gaps for the A method has been used to Document all the assumptions of the method, Kwesi Asante
data have been intervening years. estimate data to fill the gaps. The make data and method available to people with (Cocoa issues)
collected for Getting high resolution method is based on annualizing expertise for critiques and suggestions.
1990, 2000, 2010 data. gain or losses based on values
for all the six over the period (for example, Effective collaboration with the REDD+ MRV
categories The current definition 1990 and 2000), there is however process.
of forests means cocoa, the need to get further input and
The remaining oil palm, coconut and critique of the method used. The need to integrate local and expert knowledge
task is to fill the rubber plantations are All the assumptions that underpin to fine tune and harmonies data.
gaps for the all denoted as forests. the method should be made
intervening years public. Expert opinions could be Provision of aerial photographs should be made a
eg. 1991, 1992, Under current used to add slight percentages condition for granting of mining permits, the
1993 etc. circumstances forest each year to cater for exceptional MLNR, Ministry of Interior and EPA to lead the
degradation is not being circumstances. process.
reported, only High resolution images could be
deforestation is accessed via aerial photographs Effective coordination with CSVD to get aerial
considered. from flights undertaken by photographs of cocoa.
mining companies.
Also, by linking up with NGOs Linking up with Geodetic engineering department
such as SNV for copies of their of KNUST and LAP under MLNR for aerial
high resolution data. photographs
Existing images could be trained
with shape files from BOPP (Oil
palm); GREL (rubber);
COCOBOD (CSVD), Rainforest
Alliance (Cocoa); USAID
(mango) as well as the 2,500
ground control points from the
FPP.
We must maintain the current
forest definition for previous
work and make the distinction
(open forest; closed forest, tree
crops) as we move forward.
3.B.1 - Forest Biomass data The need to have Use of satellite imagery. It will be costly to get annual biomass data. Hence,
land annual data on biomass Utilization of systems that have in the interim, we can make projections based on
been put in place at Forestry quantification of trends or patterns.
Commission (from FPP, REDD+
MRV)
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3.B.2 - Classification of Tree crops have been classified as Kofi Darko
Cropland tree crops forests under FPP (crop land)
3.B.4.b.iii -
Land converted
to other
wetlands
3.B.5 - Determining At the moment, Data on urban forestry Commissioning of a study probably at the
Settlements biomass content biomass is set at zero. universities for research on urban forestry in
of settlements Ghana.
(Urban forestry)
3.C.1 - Quantification of Current method is MODIS programme can provide Complement the use of the MODIS programme Mr Yakubu
Emissions from extent of each based on the use of even daily estimates for fire with ground truthing. (RMSC)
biomass land cover type expert judgments. occurrences in the country.
burning that burn each Issues are determination Building of capacity of RMSC.
year. of the fraction of land The problem with the system is
that is burnt each, that it captures all fires including
applying the fraction domestic fires.
across the entire
landscape and getting However, filtering can be done
information for and also GPS coordinates can be
intervening years. used to determine forest fires etc.
It's been applied solely
to forest land, not other
lands (cropland,
grassland)
3.C.2 - Liming Not used on a
large scale in
Ghana
3.C.3 - Urea Fertilizer use in Issue of imports/ Coordination between GSS and Data will be accessed from SRID under PPRD Kofi Darko
application Ghana exports of fertilizer/ SRID for data harmonization. and crosschecked with data from Ghana Statistical
smuggling. Service.

Currently, imports are GSS provides data on fertilizer annually.

used to denote total
local consumption.

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 3.C.7 - Rice Data on rice no data on water levels Use of sample sites to calculate emissions and
cultivations water and duration of water afterwards projections
management cover in a year in low
systems lying areas
3.D.1 - Data from wood FAO figure is not Figures from Energy Commission on charcoal, Mr Affum
Charcoal harvesting for credible and needs to be biomass and wood fuel could be used as a starting Baffoe
Production lumber, fine-tuned. Assumption point. Sources of information: FAO, Energy (Roundwood
of 23 million cubic Commission, IEA. data)
meters as wood
extracted is too high.

Expert judgment -
figure should be about a
third of FAO figure.

Getting information on
charcoal production.
3.D.2 - Other Data from pest No credible in-house Contacts to be made with entomologist at FORIG/
(please specify) attacks country information FRNR (of KNUST)
Use of country High uncertainties of Identification of the key Determination of country specific emission Winston, Affum
specific emission default values categories from each of the six factors from priority sub-sectors as a starting point. Baffoe
factors land use sectors. Sub-
classification of sectors, for Research, for examples Winston's work could
example, croplands into annuals, contribute to determining emission factors for
mixed crops and perennials, to crops.
determine priority sub-sectors.
MRV development for REDD+ could also result
in country specific emission factors for forest land

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 Completed Energy GHG Data Improvement Strategy Templates
1 - Energy Data Needs Data Challenges Strategies for improvements Next steps Contact Persons

1.A - Fuel Combustion Activities

1.A.1 - Energy Industries
1.A.1.a - Main Activity
Electricity and Heat Production
1.A.1.a.i - Electricity LCO, Gas, diesel, Plant Lack of plant specific Quarterly data requests, Calculate EF from Mr. Kwaku Wiafe
Generation specific emission factors EF values submit official letter of fuel/generators (VRA)
request. Review Energy
Commission's licensing
requirement on data
provision. Use daily
incidence report SPPD,EC
official Letters Meeting & Cenit Energy
discussion
Tema Oil Refinery
Soni Asogli Ghana
Limited
1.A.1.a.ii - Combined Heat Biomass waste, other fuels no data available official letter & Discussion one on one meetings
and Power Generation
1.A.1.b - Petroleum Refining Crude import, Stocks, fuel Stocks Official letter & Discussion one on one meetings Mr. Mark Quist
input for transformation
1.A.1.c - Manufacture of
Solid Fuels and Other Energy
Industries Fuel consumption Surveys by EC, EPA, GSS & MID-EPA (Selina
1.A.2 - Manufacturing (RFO, Diesel etc) AGI Amoah)
Industries and Construction
1.A.2.a - Iron and Steel One on One
meetings
1.A.2.b - Non-Ferrous Metals

1.A.2.c - Chemicals

1.A.2.d - Pulp, Paper and Print Fuel consumption (RFO, Data on internal fuel Surveys by EC, EPA, GSS & one on one meetings MID-EPA
Diesel etc) consumption, AGI
1.A.2.e - Food Processing, technology units, Surveys by EC, EPA, GSS & MID-EPA
Beverages and Tobacco internal energy AGI

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1.A.2.f - Non-Metallic Minerals Fuel consumption generation Surveys by EC, EPA, GSS & MID-EPA
(RFO, Diesel etc) AGI
1.A.2.g - Transport Equipment Surveys by EC, EPA, GSS & MID-EPA
AGI
1.A.2.h - Machinery Surveys by EC, EPA, GSS & MID-EPA
AGI
1.A.2.i - Mining (excluding fuels) Surveys by EC, EPA, GSS & MID-EPA
and Quarrying AGI
1.A.2.j - Wood and wood products Surveys by EC, EPA, GSS & MID-EPA
AGI
1.A.2.k - Construction Surveys by EC, EPA, GSS & MID-EPA
AGI
1.A.2.l - Textile and Leather Surveys by EC, EPA, GSS & MID-EPA
AGI
1.A.3 - Transport
1.A.3.a - Civil Aviation
1.A.3.a.i - International Aviation International bunkering Fuel consumption meeting with OMC/NPA one on one meetings Kwaku Agyeman-
(International Bunkers) fuels Duah(ind. Coordinator),
Abass inusah(NPA)
1.A.3.a.ii - Domestic Aviation Domestic fuel Fuel consumption meeting with domestic one on one meetings Kwaku Agyeman-
consumptions airlines/OMC/NPA Duah(ind. Coordinator),
Abass inusah(NPA)
1.A.3.b - Road Transportation Vehicle fuel consumptions, Fuel economy by Survey by EC, EPA, EC (ken and dzobo)
load factor, vehicle KM transport type MMDAs,NPA
1.A.3.c - Railways Fuel consumption(Diesel official letter & meetings Letter & meeting Mr.Lord Quansah
etc),Locomotive types
1.A.3.d - Water-borne Navigation
1.A.3.d.i - International International bunkering Lack of data letter & meeting with Ghana Mr. Amankwa (GOIL)
water-borne navigation fuels bunkering Services (GBS)
(International bunkers)
1.A.3.d.ii - Domestic Domestic fuel Lack of data letter & meeting with VLTC) Kwaku yarboi
Water-borne Navigation consumptions
1.A.3.e - Other Transportation
1.A.3.e.i - Pipeline letter & meeting with BOST
Transport

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 1.A.4 - Other Sectors
1.A.4.a - Sector fuel consumption Fuel consumption collaboration GSS/GLSS to meeting & Mr. Dzah, GSS
Commercial/Institutional shares Shares undertake discussion
household/commercial sector
surveys

1.A.4.b - Residential Sector fuel consumption Fuel consumption collaboration GSS/GLSS to meeting & Mr. Dzah, GSS
shares Shares undertake discussion
household/commercial sector
surveys

1.A.4.c - Sector fuel consumption Fuel consumption collaboration GSS/GLSS to meeting & Mr. Dzah, GSS
Agriculture/Forestry/Fishing/Fish shares Shares undertake discussion
Farms household/commercial sector
surveys

1.B - Fugitive emissions from

fuels
1.B.2 - Oil and Natural Gas
1.B.2.a - Oil Larry Kotoe (Oil &
Gas)EPA
1.B.2.a.i - Venting Larry Kotoe (Oil &
Gas)EPA
1.B.2.a.ii - Flaring Larry Kotoe (Oil &
Gas)EPA
1.B.2.a.iii - All Other Larry Kotoe (Oil &
Gas)EPA
1.B.2.a.iii.1 - Exploration Larry Kotoe (Oil &
Gas)EPA
1.B.2.a.iii.2 - Production and Larry Kotoe (Oil &
Upgrading Gas)EPA
1.B.2.a.iii.3 - Transport Larry Kotoe (Oil &
Gas)EPA
1.B.2.a.iii.4 - Refining Larry Kotoe (Oil &
Gas)EPA

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1.B.2.a.iii.5 - Distribution of oil Larry Kotoe (Oil &
products Gas)EPA
1.B.2.a.iii.6 - Other Larry Kotoe (Oil &
Gas)EPA
1.B.2.b - Natural Gas Larry Kotoe (Oil &
Gas)EPA
1.B.2.b.i - Venting Larry Kotoe (Oil &
Gas)EPA
1.B.2.b.ii - Flaring Larry Kotoe (Oil &
Gas)EPA
1.B.2.b.iii - All Other Larry Kotoe (Oil &
Gas)EPA
1.B.2.b.iii.1 - Exploration Larry Kotoe (Oil &
Gas)EPA
1.B.2.b.iii.2 - Production Larry Kotoe (Oil &
Gas)EPA
1.B.2.b.iii.3 - Processing Larry Kotoe (Oil &
Gas)EPA
1.B.2.b.iii.4 - Transmission and Larry Kotoe (Oil &
Storage Gas)EPA
1.B.2.b.iii.5 - Distribution Larry Kotoe (Oil &
Gas)EPA
1.B.2.b.iii.6 - Other Larry Kotoe (Oil &
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 Completed IPPU GHG Data Improvement Strategy Templates
2 - Industrial Processes and Product Data Needs Data Challenges Strategies for Next steps Contact
Use improvements Persons
2.A - Mineral Industry
2.A.1 - Cement production No clinker production in country-main
source of CO2 emission
2.A.2 - Lime production No lime production in Ghana-main
source of CO2 emission
2.A.4.b - Other Uses of Soda Quantity in use Of different Identify companies using MID/EPA to compile
Ash companies using product list of potential
product companies using
product
2.B - Chemical Industry
2.C - Metal Industry
2.C.1 - Iron and Steel Production Estimate for recycling components
2.C.3 - Aluminum production 2007-2012 to be provided MID/EPA send reminders Follow ups
2.D - Non-Energy Products from
Fuels and Solvent Use (6)
2.D.1 - Lubricant Use Consumption vol. from Tema Lube, Over estimation and
OMCs, Mining companies under estimation
2.F - Product Uses as Substitutes
for Ozone Depleting Substances
2.F.1 - Refrigeration and Air Import vol./EPA Ozone
Conditioning
2.F.1.a - Refrigeration and Import vol./EPA Ozone Meeting and data Mr. Kwakye
Stationary Air Conditioning request from
2.F.1.b - Mobile Air Import vol./EPA Ozone Ozone Department,
Conditioning EPA
2.F.2 - Foam Blowing Agents MID/EPA
2.F.3 - Fire Protection Contact Fire service

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5.0 Conclusion and Recommendations
The following recommendations were made:

There is need for continuous training and capacity transfer through awareness creation among the
various institutions is involved in the CARP activities (GHG, mitigation actions and support).
The representatives of the institutions at the workshop should endeavor to inform the top
management of their respective institutions. This will ensure greater buy in among the key
institutions and at the same time facilitate mainstreaming of the CARP.

Institutions that will generate or provide data to support the CARP must collaborate with the
compilers of the CARP support frequent data sharing at all times.

Regular training must be organised by the EPA on relevant topics in the IPCC guidelines for the
GHG inventory and the guidelines for the preparation of BUR for key national institutions on
regular basis.

There is the need for the EPA to revise the existing collaborative mechanism (MOU). The review
must consider the new institutions, their new roles and responsibilities as well as detailed
workplan for the various working groups.

Participants observed that the newly established online database will facilitate information
sharing, documentation and storage/archiving on GHG inventory.

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Annex 1: List of programme

Workshop on Establishment of MRV Data Sharing Network

Program Schedule

Day 1

Activity Time/Remarks

Session 1: Opening 8.30am

Registration of Participants
Opening Prayer and Self Introduction
Housekeeping Issues
Overview of workshop and including expectations

Session 2: Overview of the elements of BURs 9:30am

Detail overview and scope of the preparation of initial biennial update report including linkages
between Third National Communication and BUR as ambitious reporting elements (Ingredient for
high quality reporting: Institutional arrangements, data-related issues and capacity and skills)
Profile of mitigation actions in Ghana ( policy type, fiscal type, project type, sector-wide type)
Elements for reporting impacts and effect of mitigation actions including issues on baseline and
baseline scenarios, mitigation scenario package, indicators for assessing milestones and effects,
benefits (CO2 tonnes, and co-benefits methodologies and assumptions
Presentation on data management issues including overview of data collection methods, sources,
documentation and archiving, challenges etc.
Question and Answer and discussions

Short Break 10.30am

Continue sessions 2 11: 30am

Session 3: Profile of sector-wide mitigation actions and support 12:00pm

Domestic actions
a. Form - policy level, sector-wide and project scale and linkages between them.
b. Status implemented, under execution, planned or pipeline
International actions seeking support - MRV (international or multilateral MRVs)

Lunch Break 13.00pm

Tracking of support 14:00pm

Finance, capacity building and technology transfer

a. type (grants, loan, equity), form of capacity, technology related support

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 b. sources and channels of support (bilateral, multilaterals)
c. Domestic finance vrs. international finance

Session 4: Strategies for the establishment of national data network for the collection of,

Mitigation actions, their effects and support 14:30pm

Data collection on mitigation actions and support from line ministries (what, how, when, etc)
New set of institutions, data collection networks and indicators must be put in place seamlessly with
the existing GHG national system.
Can we put place a robust national data collection network that will be able to generate data on
regular basis?
What should be the roles of key institutions
What strategies must be put in place at the institutional level?
What can be done to address the issue of data protection, confidentiality and acknowledgement?
How can we tap from the existing legal and regulatory processes for getting data from various
sources? eg. Industry, research, academia, institutions with mandate to collect specific data in their
sector?
What role could the Ghana statistical service play considering (a) the periodicity of the surveys they
conduct, and (b) the funding needs them to consider option for collecting data for the ambitious
reporting regime?
What the new data requirements under the new reporting regime and how can we set up mechanism
for collecting from the relevant sectors?
What capacities are needed by the various sectors to be able understand and appreciate the overall
process of designing GHG inventory systems, assessment of mitigation actions and effects and
reporting them?

Session 5: Architecture of national data network for the collection of, Mitigation actions, their
effects and support -
15:30pm

Overview of the Structure of the data network - utility for data collection, processing and disclosure

Role of identified institutions and projects managers

What information or data is needed from the monitoring indicators of (a) policy implementation, (b)
measures or instruments, (c) project level boundary, (d) sector-wide actions and (f) programmatic
initiatives and
How do we develop standard indicators for monitoring CO2 impact and co-benefits of mitigation
actions?
What is the road for collections and processing of first batch data inflow into the network
Development of template for data providers to use for the transmission of data to central points
Selection of contact persons in each sector for the compilation of sector-wide data.
What role should coordination institutions such as NDPC, Ministry of Finance MESTI and
Ghana Statistical Service play in the national data network?
What linkages can be established between similar national processes
Wrap-up 16:30pm

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 Workshop on GHG Data Management

Program Schedule

Day 1

Activity Time/Remarks

Session 1: Opening 8.30am

Registration of Participants
Opening Prayer and Self Introduction
Housekeeping Issues
Overview of workshop and including expectations

Session 2: GHG Inventory issues within the context of BUR and NATCOMs
9:30am

Detail overview and scope of the preparation of initial biennial update report including linkages
between Third National Communication and BUR as ambitious reporting elements (Ingredient
for high quality reporting: Institutional arrangements, data-related issues and capacity and skills)
Overview of GHG inventory elements, processes, methodology, data, some results
Presentation of data management issues including overview of data collection methods, sources,
documentation and archiving, challenges etc.
Overview of data requirements under the ambitious/comprehensive reporting regime
Question and Answer and discussions

Short Break 10.30am

Session 3: GHG Data Need, Challenges and Strategies for improvements 11:00am

Presentations of sector data needs, challenges and strategies for improvements

Sector Group Work -There are 5 groups. Each will focus on (a) identifying main data
challenges, (b) prioritized them and (c) fashion out practical strategies/solution for addressing
them. Each sector group will be required discuss and complete a GHG data improvement
strategy template. The template will contain information relating to (a) GHG data needs, (b)
description of data including its format, (c) data challenges, and (d) strategies to address them and
(e) priorities for next steps. Each of the 5 groups will be made of the GHG inventory sector lead,
the collaborative organisations and data providers. The sector lead will be expected to present the
current state of the inventory process including the steps for data collection, the estimates where
they are ready, the data needs and an overview of the data challenges. The points that will be
raised by the sector leads form the basis for the discussions in each sector. At the end of the two
day, each sector group is expected to complete the GHG data improvement strategy template
which later be compiled into a road map for the continuous.
a. Break into 5 sector inventory groups energy, industry, agriculture and forestry, and
waste
b. Each group must be guided by the issues raised in the sector presentations
c. Task: Each group is tasked to do the following:
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 Review the key data need and challenges where possible identify additional ones.
The data needs and challenges must be disaggregated to the category level where
possible.
Identify additional sources of data.
Discuss and agree on specific strategies that must be put in place to support the
continuous collection of data.
What capacity you need to be able to participate in this process
How this process can be sustained and scaled up?
To what extent can we use existing mechanism (e.g national population
census, preparation of the Energy balance, national budgeting process,
GLSSS, EIA process, research outputs, etc.) generate data continuously?
Please identify relevant institutions, their data collection mechanism, and
how iBUR process can dovetail into it?
What new dataset must be we collect and through what means
What form of institutional strengthening mechanism must be put in place
to support the preparation of the BURs every two years?
How can we derive great value of the ambitious reporting mechanism
and make it relevant for national development planning?
Can the existing national system (institutional arrangement, roles,
procedures and responsibilities) be able to (a) produce good quality
reporting every two and four years sustainably as well as the review
process? How do we make is better to perform efficient?
After the discussion, each sector group must complete the comprehensive GHG
data improvement strategy template and present. The completed template will
be compiled into a strategy guidance paper.
d. Elect a rapporteur to record your discussions and make presentation to the plenary

Lunch Break 13:30pm

Group Work Continue 14:30pm

Plenary to Synthesize Outputs from Group Work 15:30pm

Group 1 Presentation (Where possible take 3 burning questions)

Group 2 Presentation (Where possible take 3 burning questions)
Group 3 Presentation (Where possible take 3 burning questions)
Group 4 Presentation (Where possible take 3 burning questions)
Group 5 Presentation (Where possible take 3 burning questions)

Wrapping Up 16:30pm

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 Day 2

Recap of day 1 9.00am

Session 4: Discussions of institution-by-institution strategies using the completed GHG data

improvement strategy template (GHG-DIST)

Energy sector institutions - Oil refinery, electricity generation, oil and gas, demand-side
data managers, transport (road, rail, water navigation passenger & freight). International
sources IEA, World Bank etc, UN-Stats, Research results, surveys, etc
Industry sector institutions AGI, Ministry of trade and Industry, EPA, Ghana Statistical
Service. International sources UNIDO, FAO, World Bank, UN-Stats, Research results,
surveys, etc
Agriculture sector institutions - fertilizer application, manure management, livestock data,
crop production. International data sources: FAO, Research results, surveys, etc.
Land-based (forestry) sector institutions biomass, land cover data (land use maps and
matrix), plantation and tree crop data, data management practices, data on burning and other
disturbances.
Waste sector institutions Solid waste and means of disposal, incineration, composting,
recycling, waste-water handling domestic and industrial liquid waste
Short Break 10.30am

Discussions Continues 11:00pm

Synthesize information from institution-by-institution discussions 12:00pm

Session 5: Open discussions on the overall strategies for the improvements of the GHG inventory

Institutional arrangement
Inventory cycle
Methodological issues
Reference Materials IPCC guidelines and other tools
Reporting
Documentation, Archiving tools

Lunch Break 13:30pm

Discussions Continues 14:30pm

Road map and next steps from the workshop 15:15pm

GHG inventory compilers

Sector leads
Institutional, research and private data providers
Wrap up 16:00pm

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 Annex 3: List of participants
List of Participants in Workshop on GHG Data Management
No Institution Comments/Data Providers Email Phone No.
1 Ghana Statistical Service (Mr. Francis Dzah) Conducts National Census, [email protected]. mailed to: 0242546810
Ghana Living Standard Survey [email protected]
2 Statistics, Research and Information Crops data [email protected]
Directorate (SRID) of MOFA (Director SRID:
Mr. Harrison Opoku)
3 Currently being provided by the PPRSD of Fertilizer [email protected] andfamprog
MOFA. Deputy Director PPRSD (in charge @yahoo.co.uk
of fertilizer issues): Mrs Felicia Ansah
Amprofi)
4 Animal Research Institute (Dr. Charles Livestock population data [email protected] 0278622727
Domozoro)
5 Crop Services Directorate, MoFA (Kingsley Agric Sector Inventory [email protected] 0207411864
Amoako) compilers -
6 University of Ghana Legon, Agric Faculty Research outputs [email protected]
(Prof. Samuel Adiku)
7 Tema Oil Refinery (Mr. Emmanuel Darko) Oil Refining and Downstream [email protected] 0208212728
8 National Petroleum Authority (Alfa Welbeck) Petroleum 0206520577
9 Volta River Authority (Kwaku Wiafe) Electricity production 0244484315
10 EPA EIDMD (Samson Botchway) Online Database [email protected] 0243182362
11 Energy Commission (Mr. M Dzobo) Energy Statistics [email protected] 0242613476
12 DVLA(Mr. George Ackom) Transport 0208130528
13 Industry Coordinator of Association Oil Petroleum use in transport [email protected] 0202011994
Marketing Companies (Mr. Kwaku
Agyemang-Duah)
14 Ghana Civil Aviation Authority Aviation Fuel
15 Ghana Maritime Authority International Marine Fuel
16 Ghana Railway Authority Rail Transport
17 EPA Oil & Gas (Larry Kotoe) Oil and gas [email protected] 0262165575
18 Energy Commission EECC (Kennedy Energy Sector Compiler [email protected] 0242261212
Amankwa)

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19 EPA EQ (Eben Fiahagbe) [email protected] 0267997188
20 KNUST Renewable Natural Resources (Dr. Research [email protected] 0202099522/
Winston Asante) 0243143375
21 National REDD+ Secretariat (Rosalyn Inventory compiler [email protected] 0244535772
Fosuah)
22 Production Unit, RMSC (Affum Baffoe) [email protected] 0208138662
23 GIS and Mapping Unit (Yakubu M.) [email protected] 0208112123
24 Ministry of Health, Estate Department, Ghana Data on incinerators in [email protected] 0269844054
Health Service Mr. Yahaya hospitals
25 Ghana Education Service Mr. Edward Data on incinerators in schools 0266446554
Dogbe (Ghana Education Service)
26 Ministry of Local Government, Rural Environmental Sanitation, [email protected] 0264986858
Development (Mr. Sam Passah) Directorate solid and liquid
data generation
27 Civil Engineering Department, KNUST Research [email protected]
(Dr. Samson Oduro-Kwarteng)
28 Zoomlion Ghana Limited (Mr. George Private waste service provider [email protected]; 0243305035
Rockson) [email protected]
29 EPA Built Environment (Joy Hesse Waste Sector Compiler [email protected] 0246676414
Ankomah)
30 EPA Built Environment (Mr. Willie Hayfron)
31 Tullow Ghana Limited (Mr. Emmanuel Oil and gas industry [email protected] 0202111108
Arthur)
32 Association of Ghana Industries Business Associations
33 EPA MID (Selina Amoah) IP compiler
34 Ministry of Trade and Industry (Mr. Kofi Data on industries in Ghana [email protected] 0266132321
Nuhu, Director of Manufacturing)
35 Director, CEPS HFC importation
36 Daniel Benefor, EPA Compiler
37 Rosemary Boateng, EPA Administration
38 Joseph Baffoe Industrial Processes
39 Juliana Boateng Waste
40 Mr. Oppong Boadi UNFCCC Focal Point
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List of Participants (Workshop on the Establishment of MRV Data Network)
No. Institutions Comments/Justification Contacts
Email Telephone
1 Peter Dery, MESTI Mitigation Working Group (Cross-cutting) TNC [email protected] 0243646749
(CDM/DNA)
Energy sector
2 Mr. Kennedy Amankwa, Energy GHG Working Group (Energy) TNC, Energy kenamankwah@yahoo co. uk 0242261212
Commission Efficiency Initiatives
3 Director of Renewables , Renewables: [email protected] 0244259407
Ministry of Energy and Ghana Energy Development and Accra Project WB
Petroluem (Mr. Wisdom Off-grid solar PV remote public institutions on lake
Togobo) side and island communities Govt. of Spain
Monitoring the implementation of the solar lantern and
home systems - ARB APEX BANK
Human Resource Development for disseminating solar
PV JICA
200 distribution of 200,000 solar lantern
Mr. Addo Twum, Deputy Petroluem downstream 0244326364
Director. Petroluem Petroluem Labeling and fuel standard program
Downstream Fuel Labeling and fuel economy project
4 Eric Kumi Antwi-Agyei UNDP/GEF Project Coordinator , Refrigerator Energy [email protected]
Efficiency Project , Energy Commission
5 Mr. M. Dzobo, SPDD, Energy Energy Planning at Energy Commission [email protected] 0242613476
Commission
6 Mr. Otu Dankwa, Head, Renewable energy at Energy Commission [email protected]
Renewables, Energy
Commission
7 Mr. Edward Awafo (Energy Mitigation Working Group (Energy) TNC, [email protected] 0244977104
Centre, KNUST, Kumasi) Solar export project.
8 Ms. Paula Edze, Energy SEA4ALL Secretariat, @ Energy Commission [email protected] 0244487403
Commission
9 Mr. Kofi Agyarko Head, Energy Efficiency ( Millennium Challenge [email protected] 0277705262
Account 2)

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10 Dr. Idun ( Biogas technology) Private sector [email protected] 0244461959
11 Mr. Ofori-Nyarko Head, Social Impact Assessment (EC) [email protected]
12 National Petroleum Authority Regulator petroleum downstream [email protected] 0243808928
(Abass Tasunti)
13 Volta River Authority Electricity generation Environment Department 0208121888 or
Harmond Wysses or Kwaku 0244484315
Wiafe
14 Joy Hesse Ankomah Built Environment, Waste project [email protected] 0246676414
Industry sector
15 Mr. Joseph Baffoe Mitigation Working Group (Industry), GHG Inventory [email protected] 262373698
- Industrial Process, QA/QC and Uncertainty
ManagementTNC
16 Selina Amoah, MID EPA Akobenn and industrial efficiency programme [email protected] 244888722
17 Ministry of trade and industry Industrial related activities) 0285051865
(Mr. Ntim Donkor)
Agriculture and forestry
18 Rosalyn Fosuah REDD+ Secretariat, FC* (REDD Readiness Project) [email protected] 0244535772
19 Mr. Hugh Brown Plantation Unit, Forestry Services Division [email protected] 0244798004/
0233798004
20 Mr. Tabi Agyarko Forest Investment Project [email protected] 0243329200
Ministry of Land and Natural Resources
21 Ghana Cocoa Board (Mr. Atsu Sustainable Cocoa Project [email protected] 0244759435
Project Manager)
22 Dr. Winston Asante KNUST [email protected] 0202099522
Transport and Waste
23 Eben Fiahagbe EQ EPA GHG Inventory Energy (TNC)/ Transport Project [email protected] 0267997188
24 George Rockson Zoomlion Ghana Limited [email protected]; 0243305035
[email protected]
Others
25 Ghana Statistical Services National Census and Ghana Living Standard Survey [email protected] 0242546810
(Francis Dzah) mail to: [email protected]

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26 NPDC Annual Progress Report etc
27 Kwesi Asante Multi-lateral, finance tracking [email protected] 0244654193
Ministry of Finance
28 Daniel Benefor, EPA Environmental Protection Agency - Inventory
complier
29 Rosemary Boateng, EPA Environmental Protection Agency - Administration
30 K.Y Oppong Boadi Environmental Protection Agency UNFCCC Focal
Point
31 Antwi Boasiako Environmental Protection Agency EPA ERCC

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Annex 8: Financial resources, technology transfer, capacity-building and technical support received

Funding sources from multilateral sources

Funding source Description of support, including United States dollars (USD)(exchange rate)

Preparation of BUR Climate change activities contained in the BUR

Financial Capacity- Technology Technology Financial Capacity- Technology Technology

building support transfer building support transfer

Multilateral sources*

1. Global Environment Facility

2. Least Developed Countries

Fund
3. Special Climate Change Fund

4. Adaptation Fund

5. Green Climate Fund

6. Additional funding from

specialized United Nations
bodies (specify)
UNEP

UNDP

Other

Subtotal

Total

* This is an indicative list of multilateral sources. Parties should include what is only relevant to them.

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Funding sources from Annex II and developed country Parties, including Party contribution

Funding source Description of support, including United States dollars (USD)(exchange rate)
Preparation of BUR Climate change activities contained in the BUR
Financial Capacity- Technology Technology Financial Capacity- Technology Technology
building support transfer building support transfer
Funding from Annex II and other
developed country Parties*
Grants
Concessional loans
Non-concessional loan
Overseas Development Aid
Other (Specify)

Subtotal
Total (a)

Party contribution*
In-kind support
Indicative Co-financing
Other (specify)

Subtotal
Total (b)
Grand Total (a+b)
* This is an indicative list of funding received from Annex II and developed country Parties, including Party contribution. Parties should include
what is only relevant to them.
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Funding sources from multilateral financial institutions, including regional development banks

Funding source Description of support, including United States dollars (USD)(exchange rate)

Preparation of BUR Climate change activities contained in the BUR

Financial Capacity- Technology Technology Financia Capacity- Technology Technology

building support transfer l building support transfer

Multilateral financial institutions,

including regional development banks*

1. World Bank

2. International Finance
Corporation

3. African Development Bank

4. Asian Development Bank

5. Other (Specify)

6.

7.

Subtotal

Total

* This is an indicative list of multilateral financial institutions. Parties should include what is only relevant to them.

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Summary of financial resources, technology transfer, capacity-building and technical support received

Reporting period:
Type Description of support, including USD (exchange rate)
Multilateral Funding from Annex II Party Multilateral financial Other sources
sources and other developed contribution institutions, including
country Parties regional development
banks
Preparation of Financial
BUR Capacity-
building
Technical
support
Technology
transfer
Climate change Financial
activities Capacity-
contained in the building
BUR Technical
support
Technology
transfer

Financial resources, technology transfer, capacity-building and technical support received

Reporting period:
Type Description of support, including USD (exchange rate)
Global Annex II and other developed Multilateral Green Other
Environment country Parties institutions Climate Fund sources
Facility
Preparation of BUR Financial
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 Capacity-
building
Technical
support
Technology
transfer
Climate change activities Financial
contained in the BUR Capacity-
building
Technical
support
Technology
transfer

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Annex 8: Snapshots of the GHG online database design

i. Home Page

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ii. Search Page for Public
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iii. Login Page

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iv. Main Page for Registered Users

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v. Upload Page showing Groups with Sectors

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vi. Primary Data Entry Page

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