COM EAST CAPACITY BUILDING ACTIVITIES
Capacity building for CoM Signatories, Supporters and CNCs/CTCs in EaP countries remains an important vector of the CoM East project activities. Despite the pandemic restrictions, a number of specialized trainings and online events was organized by the CoM East teams in Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. The main efforts were focused on energy efficiency in buildings, SECAP development and funding opportunities for municipalities.
Online meeting of the climate change actors
- March 19-20, 2020
Development of SECAP: residential sector, industry, generation and cooling
A webinar on the topic “Development of SECAP: residential sector, industry, generation and cooling” was organized for Ukrainian CoM Signatories by the CoM East national team. The event aimed to inform in depth the CoM municipalities about the new Covenant requirements to the strategic action plans. The first day of the webinar was conducted by the CoM Technical and Helpdesk Expert in Ukraine Oleksandr Dey. Next day, a session for the same stakeholders was held by two experts in the field of municipal energy management – Oleksandr Shumelda (GIZ project) and Igor Chudovskyy (Head of Department for Economic Development of Radomyshl AH). It was focused on providing advice and analysis of best practices of adoption and functional peculiarities of energy management systems in Ukrainian communities.
- March 26-27, 2020
Procurements and organic waste composting
In synergy with the CoM-DeP programme, a webinar dedicated to the important issue of procurements within the EU-funded projects – main rules, steps, restrictions and reporting – was held on March 26. Myroslav Simka, procurements expert of the CoM-DeP programme, was the main speaker of the event. Next day, the webinar continued in the format of the UNDP Innovation Development Lab with the topic “Don’t burn – compost!” The invited speaker Oksana Udovyk from the UNDP programme attracted attention of the participants to the problem of air pollution by the private households caused by burning the organic garbage instead of composting it and transforming into natural fertilizer.
- March 31, 2020
Spatial planning in municipalities
The expert in spatial planning Oleksandr Korotkikh conducted a specialized webinar for Ukrainian CoM Signatories that was focused on spatial planning of the municipal territories with regard to the climate change.
- April 2, 2020
Project proposals development within SECAP
A webinar under the title “How to make SECAP attractive for the investments: from project idea to project proposal ready for financing” was organized jointly with the CoM-DeP programme. Maksym Vereschak, the CoM-DeP expert, was the invited speaker of the event. On the real examples of best practices in Ukrainian municipalities, he demonstrated the main preconditions and features of the projects that could be feasible and attractive for potential investors.
- April – May, 2020
SECAP development and implementation
A series of six webinars for Ukrainian CoM Signatories took place in April – May 2020 focused on various areas of SECAP development and implementation. In particular, the following topics were covered: “Control on construction works: typical failures and problems that occur within implementation of the EE projects during construction” (in synergy with CoM-DeP programme, April 9); “Heat supply of the cities: district or individual?” (in cooperation with the Reform Office of Minregion, CoM CNC in Ukraine, April 10); “SECAP development: methodology and peculiarities of generation of cool and heat sector” (April 15); “Justification of municipal financial frame for attraction of financial support from IFIs” (April 16); “Thermal modernization of administrative buildings and budget institutions” (in cooperation with Danfoss LTD representation for Ukraine) and “SECAP development: methodology and peculiarities of generation of cool and heat sector” (both on April 28).
- May 21-22, 2020
Important SECAP issues
Two more webinars dedicated to the important SECAP issues were organized in May 2020 – “Automated system for energy monitoring” (in synergy with CoM-DeP programme) and “SECAP development: methodology and peculiarities of transport sector”.
TRAININGS
July 15-30, 2020
Country-specific online training on SE(С)AP financing
On July 15-30, a specific online training for Ukrainian CoM Signatories on SECAP financing was organized gathering ca.30 participants. The peculiarity of this event was that the participants were doing their home tasks within the training frames, which they further discussed online during the common sessions.
August 11-19, 2020
Trainings on SECAP development and implementation in Myrhorod
On August 11-19, Myrhorod hosted a series of trainings for Ukrainian CoM Signatories. The first training session was dedicated to the development of SECAPs. Within the framework of a two-day training, ten representatives of small Ukrainian CoM Signatories – Boyarka, Khorol, Karlivka, Kupyansk, Mykhailivska, Chernechinska, Tetievska, Baryshevska and Omelnitska AHs – learned practical skills of developing SECAPs and climate change mitigation measures.
The next two-day training session was tailored for Ukrainian Signatories that decided to extend their previous Covenant commitments (undertaken until 2020) with the new CO2 reduction targets by at least 30% until 2030, and to include climate change adaptation and combating energy poverty measures. Twelve representatives of small, medium and large municipalities (Poltava, Kremenchuk, Kropyvnytskyy, Kyiv, Lubny, Cherkasy, Myrhorod, Slavutych and Nizhyn) learned how to develop their SECAPs including the climate change mitigation and adaptation activities mentioned above.
On August 18-19, a country-tailored training was held dedicated to technical aspects in specific sectorial areas of SE(C)AP implementation. It was aimed at capacity building of Ukrainian Signatories for the implementation of their SE(C)APs. Energy efficiency in buildings, street lighting and RES as well as technical issues of project management were in the focus of the event.
CITY2CITY
August 26-28, 2020
September 2-4, 2020
Study visits to Myrhorod and Zhytomyr
At the beginning of July, the contest for participation in the City-to-City study visits was announced for Ukrainian CoM Signatories. As a result, two groups of municipalities were selected for visiting two advanced Ukrainian CoM Signatories. On August 26-28, energy managers of five new CoM Signatories – small towns and the united amalgamated hromadas (AHs) of Malyn, Bilopolska and Pologovska AHs, Boyarka and Pervomayske – received an opportunity to study the experience of Myrhorod in SECAP development and implementation, establishing and adopting energy management system at the municipal level, project planning and management in the field of energy efficiency, renewable energy and climate.
In September, representatives of seven medium-size CoM Signatories – Kamyanets-Podilskyy, Slovyansk, Vinnytsia, Myrhorod, Slavutych, Sieverodonetsk and Kramatorsk – arrived in Zhytomyr with a three-day visit to study the local municipal experience. The participants got acquainted with successful implementation of SECAP and learned about the work of local energy management team, structural divisions and utilities of the city that are involved in the implementation of energy and climate policy at the municipal level.
HELP DESK