Methods for National Adaptation Plan Progress Reporting

Progress reports are a core element of national adaptation plan (NAP) processes. They consolidate into a single document the information gathered through various monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) exercises and synthesize actionable insights that drive improvement in both the NAP process and its MEL system. A NAP progress report tells a country’s adaptation story, providing governments with evidence to answer critical questions: What have we achieved? Are we on track? Are our adaptation efforts working? Who benefits, and what can we do better?

Aimed at NAP teams and decision-makers, these briefs focus on methods countries can use to report on the progress of their NAP processes. They distill into clear “how-to” steps various proven approaches countries use to monitor, evaluate, learn from, and communicate progress on NAP implementation. In this case, the briefs serve as a deep dive to complement the overview on progress reporting in the Toolkit for Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) for NAP processes.

Practice briefs are action-oriented guides that translate the NAP Global Network’s more detailed toolkits and guidance notes into step-by-step instructions practitioners can use right away.

Publisher: International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)