Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
2013

Sub-national involvement in NAMA development

The vertically integrated NAMA (V-NAMA) project supports national governments of developing countries in their efforts to mobilise subnational actors for achieving national mitigation targets through cost-effective incentive packages and MRV systems. 

This study was commissioned to inform the design of V-NAMA pilot programmes in their start-up phase by providing an overview of existing experience and emerging good practice of subnational involvement in NAMAs.

It seeks to address two questions:

  1. What is the current evidence of the role of subnational actors in NAMA design and implementation?
  2. What could serve as building blocks for an emerging good practice in involving subnationals actors in NAMA design and implementation? 

To answer these questions, the study reviews current entries in the Ecofys NAMA database, incorporates wider desk research into NAMAs and other comparable climate mitigation actions, and is supplemented by further insights from a range of experts and practitioners gathered through a series of expert interviews carried out for the study.