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See below our latest press releases and media coverage about the NAP Global Network.
Liberian environmentalist and climate change professional, who’s also Project Officer in the Department of Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) and Technical Lead for Liberia’s National Adaptation Plans (NAP) at the Environmental Protection Agency of Liberia- Arthur R.M. Becker has successfully completed an intensive three (3) week Executive Course in Sustainable Environmental Management at the University of California-Berkeley (UC Berkeley) in the United States of America.
Arthur R.M. Becker wishes to extend special thanks and appreciation to the Environmental Protection Agency of Liberia family headed by Professor Wilson K. Tarpeh, Executive Director/CEO, the magnanimous donors and Programme team of the Beahrs Environmental Leadership Program, including the Dean and staff of the Rausser College of Natural Resources at UC Berkeley and the NAP Global Network for their moral and financial support to enable him participate in this year’s prestigious ELP ‘23’ programme.
The Zambian NAP process officially launched in April 2021 and aims to establish medium- to long-term priorities for building the country’s climate resilience across nine priority sectors. To ensure effective decision making, Zambia places significant emphasis on monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) as part of its overall performance optimization efforts.
In 2022, the Ministry of Green Economy and Environment (MGEE) initiated MEL system development consultations that led to adjustments documented in a report on the prioritization of adaptation measures. The revised approach includes subnational involvement, aligning with the 8th National Development Plan’s (8NDP’s) focus on environmental and sustainability issues. Consequently, the draft MEL framework developed in June 2022 needed revision to align with NAP reporting requirements and the aspirations outlined in the 8NDP.
This sNAPshot highlights some of the key components in the 2023 revised framework and draws on important lessons learned.
For decades, women-led organisations have worked in the communities to build women’s resilience to the fallout from climate change, promote girls’ access to education and support victims of gender-based violence. We speak with the young and old activists on their experiences working with women.
Angie Dazé has been in the development sector for more than two decades. Currently, she is the director for gender equality and social inclusion for resilience at the International Institute for Sustainable Development, which hosts the secretariat of the National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Global Network, a movement that advances adaptation planning and action in developing countries through NAP processes.
She says countries are increasingly becoming more responsive to women’s priorities in climate response and mitigation. In developing NAPs, countries depend on the latest climate science to identify specific medium- and long-term adaptation needs for action.
“What we are seeing now is more integration of gender issues,” she says. “At the beginning, we saw women movements positioned as a vulnerable group, now we see more countries position women as agents of change.”
NAP Global Network et ses partenaires ont validé, ce lundi, l’étude sur les questions de genre dans le processus du Plan national d’adaptation au Sénégal. L’initiative vise à renforcer les connaissances des acteurs clés, pour intégrer le genre dans ce processus. Le processus PNA est essentiel pour identifier les priorités d’adaptation à long terme et faciliter l’intégration des défis climatiques dans la planification nationale, en vue d’un développement durable. L’étude permettra d’intégrer le genre dans les actions climatiques et d’aider les femmes du secteur environnemental, à faire face aux défis du changement climatique et à améliorer leur cadre de vie.
As the world struggles to catch up with climate change — whether confronting extreme wildfire smoke in the U.S. Northeast, or some of the hottest temperatures on record in Pakistan — each country must grapple with its own particular issues. The United Nations has been working with dozens of countries in creating a National Adaptation Plan (NAP), which means identifying problems — financial, technical, and institutional — and then creating coping strategies to deal with them.
The NAP Global Network, which has multi-country funding and supports the creation of national adaptation plans, has been working with young women, for instance, in Ghana on lifting up their voices on global warming. Together with the nonprofit Lensational, which offers media training to underrepresented women, the network is teaching visual storytelling. One of the Ghanian attendees of a recent workshop emphasized the need to document and appeal to women as the planet changes.
A GROUP of Jamaican women are benefiting from Envisioning Resilience, an initiative that is training them in visual storytelling about climate change impacts, while also giving them the chance to advance their own point of view on the required response.
GirlsClimate Action for Resilience and Empowerment (GirlsCARE) is collaborating with the National Adaptation Plan Global Network (NAP-GN) and Lensational to bring the initiative to the local participants.
As the impacts of climate change intensify around the world, adaptation efforts are crucial to ensuring that communities, ecosystems and economies are able to survive. National Adaptation Plan (NAP) processes are a way for governments to direct resources to such efforts, focusing particularly on vulnerable sectors such as agriculture, water resources and infrastructure, and enhancing coordination and collaboration among different stakeholders involved in adaptation planning and implementation.
But for adaptation efforts to truly be effective, they must consider the unique ways in which women and girls are impacted by climate change. Through its commitment to the Generation Equality Action Coalition on Feminist Action for Climate Justice, the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) is working to ensure that such efforts provide equitable benefits for people of all genders. Through the NAP Global Network and working closely with government partners, IISD is advancing the implementation of its commitment by ensuring the integration of gender considerations in NAP processes, including in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana.
Le 27 juin 2023 dans la salle de conférence de l’Hôtel JM Résidences a servi de cadre à la tenue de l’atelier de validation du document de la stratégie nationale genre et changement climatique. dans ses actions.
« La RCA tout comme les autres pays membres de l’ONU doit concilier son relèvement économique et sa consolidation de la paix, avec les Objectifs du Développement Durable (ODD) auxquels elle s’est engagée. D’où il est nécessaire de considérer l’aspect genre qui est une question transversale, et de l’intégrer dans tous les domaines des réponses et des actions liées au changement climatique », A mentionné M. Célestin Dendji tout en soulignant que l’autonomisation des femmes améliorera considérablement l’efficacité des efforts d’adaptation et d’atténuation à tous les niveaux et fera progresser les ODD plus larges.
C’est pourquoi, a justifié Célestin Dendji dans son discours, le Gouvernement à travers la Coordination Nationale Climat (CNC), avec l’appui du Réseau Mondial pour les PNA souhaite développer sa stratégie genre et changements climatiques afin de mieux définir sa vision sur ces questions et élaborer un plan d’action détaillé pour faire avancer cet axe prioritaire. Ainsi, elle se veut donner une marque à sa démarche en cherchant à élaborer la stratégie genre et changement climatique.
La salle de conférence de l’hôtel JM Résidence a servi de cadre le mardi 27 juin 2023 à un atelier de validation du document de la SNGCC en présence du Directeur de Cabinet du Ministère de l’Environnement, des experts des départements sectoriels, des représentants des plateformes des organisations de la société civile dans le but de valider le projet du document de la Stratégie Nationale Genre par les consultants et de permettre aux parties prenantes concernées au développement de la stratégie genre et changements climatiques en RCA de s’en approprié.
Through a systematic review of NAP documents and interviews with key informants, this report showcases the role of NAP processes in minimizing and addressing loss and damage. It provides insights into how loss and damage information is presented in relation to adaptation efforts and how adaptation priorities identified in the NAPs have the potential to respond to loss and damage.
La salle de conférence du Ministère de la Femme de la Famille et de l’Enfant , sis Plateau tour E, 8ème étage a abrité le mercredi 31 mai 2023 la deuxième réunion des acteurs du genre et du climat. Cette rencontre a été meublée par des réflexions sur le plan d’action technique, l’identification des missions, l’ancrage institutionnel et juridique de ladite Plateforme.
Madame Aurélie Ceinos Conseillère Genre et égalité des chances à l’Institut International du Développement Durable (IISD) a suivi cette rencontre par visio conférence. Prenant la parole elle s’est réjouie de la tenue de ce cadre d’échange et de partage d’expériences tout en réaffirmant la volonté du l’IISD d’accompagner les actions de la plateforme.
A group of six young women in Jamaica have been selected for the next phase of Envisioning Resilience, a groundbreaking initiative that provides women with a training opportunity to use visual storytelling to inform National Adaptation Plan (NAP) decision-makers about how climate change is affecting their lives and how they envision resilience to its impacts.
The NAP Global Network and Lensational launched Envisioning Resilience in 2021 to address these challenges. Through the initiative, women on the frontlines of climate change are developing their skills in photography and storytelling, learning about climate impacts in their region, and sharing their visions of resilience with decision-makers involved in NAP processes. Further, the process supports economic empowerment by offering to sell the trainees’ photographs on Lensational’s online platform.