These resources from the NAP Global Network and links to other relevant sources provide background information and tools relevant to the NAP process.
Traditional and Indigenous Knowledge for Climate Change Adaptation in Eswatini
This briefing note explores the value of Traditional and Indigenous Knowledge in helping communities forecast weather and climate, identify and manage changes in seasons and weather, and develop responses to climatic variability and climate change.
Eswatini Environment Fund: Funding climate change adaptation and biodiversity actions at the local level
This briefing note provides a description of the Eswatini Environment Fund and emphasizes how small investments in projects at the local level through the fund have impacted communities and improved their adaptive capacity.
Review of the Implementation of Kenya’s National Adaptation Plan 2015–2030 in the Agriculture Sector
This first progress review of Kenya’s National Adaptation Plan 2015–2030 examines adaptation activities in the agriculture sector.
Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Framework for Liberia’s National Adaptation Plan
This briefing note provides a summary of the main points of a technical report that proposes the framework of a monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) system for Liberia’s National Adaptation Plan (NAP) 2020–2030.
Eswatini Outreach Programme: Strengthening Adaptation and Traditional Knowledge Systems to Enhance Resilience
This briefing note presents case studies, key findings, and recommendations based on the climate change outreach programme implemented by the Government of Eswatini to raise awareness of adaptation and collect information from local communities and at the grassroots level on Traditional and Indigenous Knowledge on adaptation.
Implementing Adaptation Under the Paris Agreement: The key role of stakeholders
This policy brief highlights the urgency of NAP implementation in Haiti and outlines the roles that national actors should play in the process of implementing the NAP.
Advancing Effective Adaptation
NAP Global Network Progress Report 2021-2022
Adaptation planning and action are rapidly gaining prominence on the international stage. This is the NAP Global Network’s fifth progress report. It highlights the Network’s activities and achievements between December 2021 to November 2022.
Promoting Synergies Between Climate Change Adaptation and Biodiversity Through the National Adaptation Plan and National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan Processes
With practical entry points and country case studies, this technical brief reviews the interconnections between biodiversity and climate change adaptation and explores the potential to foster synergies between the processes to formulate and implement National Adaptation Plans and National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plans.
Zimbabwe’s Initial Adaptation Communication to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
This Initial Adaptation Communication has been prepared to increase the visibility and profile of adaptation and to reflect progress on climate change mainstreaming pursuant to reducing the vulnerability of the country’s socio-economic sectors to the unprecedented impacts of climate change.
Saint Lucia’s First Adaptation Communication to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
This AdCom sets out in some detail Saint Lucia’s progress and continuing needs in climate adaptation.
Saint Lucia’s First National Adaptation Plan Progress Report
This National Adaptation Plan (NAP) progress report presents the progress that Saint Lucia has made on adaptation action since the launch of the country’s NAP (2018–2028). It highlights the nexus between planned and implemented adaptation actions in Saint Lucia under its NAP and the commitments outlined in its recently updated nationally determined contribution.
Jamaica’s Adaptation Communication
Jamaica’s Adaptation Communication represents an opportunity to communicate progress in national adaptation action, and critically, highlight the gaps that remain in adaptation, finance, technical capacity, and technology. It will be used as a basis for guiding “coherent and enhanced support” for adaptation action that is to be provided to developing countries by highlighting some of Jamaica’s current and projected adaptation priorities and, implementation and support needs.