These resources from the NAP Global Network and links to other relevant sources provide background information and tools relevant to the NAP process.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Introduction to Adaptation in the Global Stocktake
Assessing collective progress on adaptation at the international level
This brief seeks to demystify the Global Stocktake process under the Paris Agreement and explain how it can strengthen adaptation ambition at the global level.
How Timor-Leste Is Using the National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Process to Scale Up Ecosystem-Based Adaptation (EbA)
This case study discusses how the Timor-Leste government has adopted Ecosystem-based adaptation as a guiding principle in its NAP process to connect ecosystem protection and climate action. It will also share lessons for other countries seeking to use the NAP process to mainstream and implement EbA.
How Fiji Is Using the National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Process to Scale Up Ecosystem-Based Adaptation (EbA)
Country Brief
Fiji is using its national adaptation planning efforts to scale up and make Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) a strategic priority.
sNAPshot | Strategic Communications in Peru’s National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Process
Country Brief 4B
This sNAPshot country brief explores how Peru is using communications to advance their NAP process and climate action more broadly.
The NAP Process and Peacebuilding
This briefing note explores the importance and difficulties of bringing adaptation planning and peacebuilding agendas together in contexts of fragility and instability. It will also highlight some of the countries that have already begun to integrate conflict considerations into their adaptation planning processes.
Alignment to Advance Climate-Resilient Development
COUNTRY CASE STUDY: Kenya
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.
Alignment to Advance Climate-Resilient Development
COUNTRY CASE STUDY: Colombia
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.
Alignment to Advance Climate-Resilient Development | Overview Brief 3
Country Perspectives on Alignment of the National Adaptation Plan (NAP) process and Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs)
This brief explores country perspectives on alignment of national-level policy processes under the Paris Agreement—specifically, NAPs and NDCs—as a basis for broader alignment toward climate-resilient development.
sNAPshot | Kenya’s Monitoring and Evaluation of Adaptation: Simplified, integrated, multilevel
This Country Brief presents Kenya’s experience with the design of its adaptation monitoring and evaluation (M&E) system. It highlights Kenya’s climate change policy context, priority adaptation actions and principles to provide guidance for the design of Kenya’s adaptation M&E system.
Conducting Gender Analysis to Inform National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Processes: Reflections from six African countries
This briefing note describes the rationale and approach that we have taken in supporting NAP-focused gender analyses in six African countries (Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Guinea-Conakry, Madagascar and Togo). It provides insights from the analyses, presenting common themes that are emerging as well as lessons learned from the process.