Building institutional and technical capacities to enhance transparency in the framework of the Paris Agreement
The project aims to enhance the efficiency of national climate change actions and the synergies with other related national actions, policies and measures, walking along a path to reach an integral, climate resilient and low-carbon development. The project will strengthen national capacities, both institutional and technical, pursuing more efficient articulation to allow an enhanced enabling environment for transparency-related activities, as well as adopting or improving methodologies and tools to enhance transparency as requested in Article 13 of the Paris Agreement. Through this strengthening, Uruguay will be more efficient in the definition, development and implementation of policies and measures, based on more timely and accurate information, monitoring and assessment of the instruments applied to face climate change. A gender- sensitive approach will be included in methodologies for assessing the adequacy, effectiveness and effects of adaptation actions and mitigation actions and policies effects.

To build institutional and technical capacities to meet enhanced transparency requirements as defined in Article 13 of the Paris Agreement
Establishment of an efficient and articulated institutionality that allows the development of transparency-related activities.
Domestic MRV system designed and established, including adaptation, technology transfer, financing, capacity building and mitigation.
Improvement of the National GHG Inventories.
Capacity Building from country-specific training and regional peer exchanges.
Ministry of Housing, land planning and Environment (MVOTMA)
The National Climate Change Response System (SNRCC)
Ministry of Industry, Energy and Mining
Ministry of Livestock, Agriculture and Fisheries
Ministry of Economy and Finance
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Ministry of Public Health
Ministry of Tourism
Ministry of National Defence
Planning and Budgetary Office
Local Governments Congress
National Emergencies system
Participation in capacity-building and peer exchanges organized within the framework of the National GHG Inventory Latin American Network (Red INGEI)
Outreach activities to communicate mitigation and adaptation measures and policies, and their effects
Knowledge management products shared on web-based platforms with public access and also on the global CBIT project platform

I am Chemical Engineer and start working in climate change issues since 1994 in the Ministry of Housing, Land Planning and Environment of Uruguay. I was involved in NGHGI elaboration since 1995 to 2005 in Uruguay, being in charge of the compilation activities and emissions estimations for Energy, Industrial Processes and Waste for the 1990, 1994, 1998 and 2000 time series. I also participated in NC elaboration in that period, leading sectoral interinstitutional and interdisciplinary working groups for the identification of mitigation and adaptation measures. I was lead author for the IPPU sector for the 2006 IPCC Guidelines and participated in two centralized reviews for NGHGI from Annex I countries organized by the UNFCCC Secretariat in 2004 and 2005 (Industrial Processes). From 2005 to 2017 I worked as the Programme Assistant in the GEF/UNDP Small Grants Programme in Uruguay. In july 2017 I was commited as a National Consultant for the Climate Change Division (Ministry of Housing, Land Planning and Environment) to elaborate the Uruguayan CBIT full project proposal to submitt to the GEF, with the support of UNDP CO and the UNDP GSP, which was approved last February. Nowadays I am working in the Climate Change Division, hired with the support of the CBIT Uruguay project (Strenghthening institutional and technical capacities to enhance transparency in the framework of the Paris Agreement) on the MRV system design and implementation and on improving GHG emission estimations. This work is being coordinated with other relevant institutions through an ad-hoc working group in the ambit of the National Response System on Climate Change and variability. I am also focal point from Uruguay for the Latin American Network on NGHGI (Red Ingei).
Institutional capacity for transparency-related activities | Target (1 - 4) | Baseline (1 - 4) | Mid-term evaluation (1 - 4) | Terminal evaluation (1 - 4) |
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Qualitative assessment | pending | pending |
Quality of MRV Systems | Target (1 - 10) | Baseline (1 - 10) | Mid-term evaluation (1 - 10) | Terminal evaluation (1 - 10) |
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National GHG inventory reports | pending | pending | ||
MRV of mitigation and adaptation measures | pending | pending |
Indicator | Target | Baseline | Source of verification |
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Extent to which implementation of comprehensive measures to achieve low-emission and climate resilient development has improved | 4-Largely | 3 | Not available in project proposal |
Number of direct project beneficiaries | 10 | 0 | Not available in project proposal |
Number of direct project beneficiaries that increase their capacities to meet enhanced transparency requirements | 10 | 0 | Not available in project proposal |
Number of meetings of the National Transparency Task Force | 36 | 0 | Not available in project proposal |
Number of stakeholder institutions that completed at least one of the learning components of the capacity building program | 10 | 0 | Not available in project proposal |
Number of stakeholder institutions accessing or providing inputs from transparency initiatives to the knowledge sharing information system | 10 | 0 | Not available in project proposal |
Number of tools and methodologies applied in the framework of the domestic MRV system to track NDC implementation | 34 | 0 | Not available in project proposal |
Number of new categories reported in national GHG inventory after full adoption of 2006 IPPC guidelines | 6 | 0 | Not available in project proposal |
Number of key categories reported with higher level approaches | 2 | 0 | Not available in project proposal |
Number of regional workshops, peer exchanges or training, in which the country experts involved in NDC and MRV participate during project execution | 6 | 0 | Not available in project proposal |
