These resources from the NAP Global Network and links to other relevant sources provide background information and tools relevant to the NAP process.
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.
Gender-Responsive National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Processes: Progress and promising examples
NAP Global Network Synthesis Report, 2021–2022
This document is the third in a series of synthesis reports that assess progress on gender-responsive approaches in National Adaptation Plan (NAP) processes at the global level. The progress shown in this report demonstrates the potential of NAP processes as a mechanism for ensuring that climate action addresses gender and social inequalities.
Video | Adaptation Communications: Scaling Up Climate Resilience
Learn how a country’s Adaptation Communications (ADCOMs) will be used to show the progress of their adaptation efforts and identify where support is needed.
Progress and Challenges in Achieving Vertical Integration in Adaptation Processes
The quality and effectiveness of a National Adaptation Plan (NAP) process largely depends on the extent to which it represents the realities of climate change at local levels and supports their adaptation efforts. The objective of this briefing note is to reflect on the experiences of several countries with vertical integration.
Adaptation Communications: Frequently Asked Questions
by Anne Hammill and Christian Ledwell, NAP Global Network Secretariat
The NAP Global Network Secretariat is currently supporting 19 country partners prepare adaptation communications under the UNFCCC and these are the most common questions that have emerged from this work.
NAP Global Network Strategy to 2025
Since its establishment in December 2014, the NAP Global Network has worked with developing countries to put adaptation at the heart of decision making through their NAP processes. Building on its lessons and achievements, the Network must now look ahead to 2025. To this end, this document sets out a strategic plan for 2021–2025 for the Network.
Building Resilience With Nature: Maximizing Ecosystem-based Adaptation through National Adaptation Plan Processes
Guidance Note
This document provides guidance on maximizing ecosystem-based adaptation through National Adaptation Plan processes.
Building Resilience With Nature: Ecosystem-based Adaptation in National Adaptation Plan Processes
After reviewing 19 NAP documents, this analysis provides a better understanding of the extent to which EbA, as a tool for adaptation, can be integrated into NAP processes.
Toolkit for Engaging the Private Sector in National Adaptation Plans (NAPs)
Supplement to the UNFCCC Technical Guidelines for the NAP Process
This toolkit aims to help governments develop strategies for the effective engagement of private sector actors in the NAP process. This includes engaging them in all phases of the NAP process, as outlined in the Technical Guidelines for the NAP Process, developed in 2012 by the Least Developed Countries Expert Group (LEG) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Toolkit for a Gender-Responsive Process to Formulate and Implement National Adaptation Plans (NAPs)
Supplement to the UNFCCC Technical Guidelines for the NAP Process
This toolkit is designed to support country efforts to pursue a gender-responsive NAP process. It offers a flexible approach, recognizing that there are opportunities to integrate gender considerations regardless of where you are in the NAP process.
The National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Process: Frequently Asked Questions
At the NAP Global Network Secretariat, we are often asked—by a range of actors—to explain what the NAP process is and why it’s important. In this session, we answer a few of the common questions that we hear.
Alignment to Advance Climate-Resilient Development
COUNTRY CASE STUDY: Sri Lanka
This case study is part of a series of briefs focusing on alignment of country efforts under the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Paris Agreement and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction.
Engaging the Private Sector in National Adaptation Planning Processes
This study aims to offer guidance to governments and their partners on how to engage the private sector in the NAP process.
sNAPshot | Strategic Communications for National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Processes
This sNAPshot policy brief introduces the topic of strategic communications to support National Adaptation Plan (NAP) processes.
Vertical Integration in National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Processes: A guidance note for linking national and sub-national adaptation
This guidance note aims to strengthen vertical integration in National Adaptation Plan (NAP) processes, presenting a flexible approach to link national and sub-national adaptation planning, implementation and monitoring & evaluation.
Developing National Adaptation Monitoring and Evaluation Systems: A Guidebook
This guidebook is intended for decision makers and technical advisors involved in the development of national monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems for adaptation, particularly in developing and middle-income countries. Its objective is to guide decision making regarding the purpose, design, operationalization, and use of results of an appropriate system for national M&E of adaptation. Given […]
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.
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.
Framework for a Climate Adaptation Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning System for Namibia
This briefing note sets out the main points of a technical report that presents a possible design for Namibia’s climate adaptation Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) system and sustainable options for its implementation.