Tag: Analysis

Online Course on Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning for National Adaptation Plan Processes

This free, self-paced course is now available.

Monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) systems are essential to understanding whether national adaptation plan (NAP) processes work, how they work, and for whom, while offering insights to improve climate change adaptation actions. This course will equip climate change adaptation professionals with key methodologies, tools, and practical skills for implementing effective MEL systems for NAP processes. […]

March 19, 2025

Taking Stock of Nature’s Role in National Adaptation Plans

Anika Terton, Jeffrey Qi, Nicole Jang

Nature is essential for building resilience to climate change. Many countries’ national adaptation plans (NAPs) have focused on nature to scale up actions for ecosystems to help people adapt—for example, by protecting wetlands and restoring mangroves to help withstand the impacts of floods.   Given the importance of ecosystems across global environmental agendas and the […]

November 25, 2024

Peer Learning Strategy: Six insights from a decade of NAP Global Network’s South–South peer learning

Chi Pham and Christian Ledwell, NAP Global Network Secretariat (IISD)

In 2017, Victor Santillan, communications officer for Peru’s environment ministry, travelled to Castries for an exchange with Saint Lucia’s government peers as they developed their first-ever communications strategy for the national adaptation plan (NAP) process. Santillan joined a national workshop where the Saint Lucian government engaged journalists and communicators in dialogue on climate change adaptation. […]

October 15, 2024

From Blueprint to Reality: Building the foundations for effective national adaptation plan processes with the new MEL Toolkit

Emilie Beauchamp (IISD/NAP GN) and Patrick Pringle (Tonkin + Taylor)

Designed for government teams responsible for leading their country’s NAP processes, the NAP Global Network and Adaptation Committee’s new Toolkit for Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) of National Adaptation Plan (NAP) processes aims to put the principle of adaptive management at the heart of NAP processes, emphasizing how ongoing learning from MEL is integral to […]

May 09, 2024

St. Elizabeth, Jamaica - February 22 2018: Farmer at work in the field with bags of Irish Potatoes.

Shaping Jamaica’s Adaptation Communication: Challenges and opportunities

By Leslie Walling and Anne-Teresa Birthwright, Climate Change Specialists

The development of Jamaica’s first AdCom commenced in July 2021 with the aim of documenting the barriers, gaps, and challenges while noting the priorities, experiences, good practices, and support needed for effective adaptation.

December 19, 2022

Ensuring Inclusivity and Equality in Adaptation Planning

The blueprint for any adaptation action must be developed with the people it aims to protect and benefit. This Q&A provides insights on how vertical integration efforts can assure this inclusivity and representation in national planning processes.

September 28, 2021

Illustration of a multi-cultural, multi-gender group of people

Why Gender Matters for Effective Adaptation to Climate Change

By Angie Dazé

Adaptation to climate change fosters resilient communities, economies, and ecosystems by considering climate risks in decision making at all levels. National Adaptation Plan (NAP) processes must take into account differing backgrounds, genders, and socio-economic realities to be effective.

August 27, 2021

Approches à la production de rapports d’avancement de la mise en œuvre du Plan national d’adaptation (PNA)

Par Patrick Guerdat, Institut international du développement durable (IIDD)

Cette année, le réseau mondial NAP a procédé à un examen des rapports d’avancement disponibles sur le NAP. Les résultats indiquent que les rapports diffèrent en termes d’objectifs énoncés, d’approches pour évaluer les progrès réalisés et de la façon dont les résultats sont présentés et communiqués. Nous voyons que le processus d’élaboration des rapports d’avancement des PAN présente de nombreux défis ainsi que de nombreuses opportunités pour renforcer les processus PAN.

June 18, 2021

Approaches to Progress Reporting on National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Implementation

By Patrick Guerdat, International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)

This year, the NAP Global Network conducted a review of the available NAP progress reports. The results indicate that the reports differ in terms of the stated objectives, the approaches to evaluating the progress made, and the way the results are presented and communicated. We see that the process of developing NAP progress reports presents many challenges as well as many opportunities to strengthen NAP processes.

June 18, 2021

Building Climate-Resilient Health Systems: Four key actions to follow in National Adaptation Plan (NAP) processes

By Amy Savage (World Health Organization [WHO]), Angie Dazé (IISD), and Elena Villalobos Prats (WHO)

More than a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, we are seeing major disruptions in the delivery of essential health services. As attention shifts to recovery, we have an opportunity to build health systems that are more resilient to future health shocks as well as to the impacts of climate change. National Adaptation Plan (NAP) processes provide a basis for ensuring that this happens.

May 10, 2021