How Arts, Culture, and Community Engagement Are Driving Climate Resilience in Saint Lucia

Saint Lucia’s NAP process is advancing two parallel tracks: policy development through engagement and public sensitization. View the story Broad-Based Engagement Community Engagement Youth Engagement Looking Ahead How Arts, Culture, and Community Engagement Are Driving Climate Resilience in Saint Lucia Saint Lucia’s national adaptation plan (NAP) process is advancing along two parallel tracks: policy development […]

Adaptation Decision-Makers and Civil Society Leaders Meet in a Global Forum to Discuss Participatory Approaches Toward an Effective Response to Climate Change Impacts

Windhoek, Namibia, August 19, 2025 – From August 19 to 21, the Republic of Namibia is hosting representatives of governments and civil society organizations from around the world for a dialogue on climate change adaptation and the importance of civil society participation in adaptation decision making.  Participants from over 10 countries across Africa and Latin America […]

Perú fortalece su compromiso con la adaptación al cambio climático a través del taller Dialoguemos Multisectorial

Un taller multisectorial reunió a actores clave para coordinar estrategias y aumentar la responsabilidad colectiva para enfrentar el cambio climático en el país.

LIMA, PERÚ — Con resultados clave y consensos alcanzados, culminó el pasado 26 de noviembre el taller “Dialoguemos Multisectorial: Fortaleciendo y articulando la ambición en adaptación al cambio climático con miras al 2030 – 2035”, organizado por el Ministerio del Ambiente (MINAM) a través de la Dirección General de Cambio Climático y Desertificación, con el […]

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.

Making Adaptation More Effective in Nigeria: Nigeria’s NAP process

Yerima Tarfa (PhD), Director, Climate Change Department, Federal Ministry of Environment, Abuja and Francis Adesina (PhD), Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife.

The process of developing Nigeria’s National Adaptation Plan Framework has unveiled the challenges in Nigeria’s adaptation programming, particularly showing which issues need attention for a greater impact in the country.

Stakeholders from the Peruvian Public Sector Meet in Lima to Advance Country’s NAP Process

Peru kicked off the process to develop its National Adaptation Plan (NAP) document in October 2019. The NAP document is being developed through a participatory process and grounded in five prioritized thematic adaptation sectors set out by the government’s Multisectoral Technical Group in 2018: agriculture, forestry, water, fisheries and aquaculture, and health. Convening Stakeholders From […]