Knowledge Hub
Tools and Guidance
Featured resources to provide guidance, step-by-step walkthroughs, and practical examples in specific themes relevant to the NAP process. This page also shares inventories of international examples on a specific topic. Explore more information from the NAP Global Network and links to other relevant sources in our Resource Library, including guidance notes, practice briefs, and toolkits.
Featured Resources
Innovative Financial Instruments for Climate Change Adaptation
This interactive tool provides information on a range of innovative financial instruments that have been used, or potentially could be used, to finance the implementation of climate change adaptation measures, including the national priorities identified in NAPs.
Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning for NAP Processes
This toolkit provides practical guidance for developing and continuously improving MEL systems for NAP processes.
Toolkit for a Gender-Responsive Process to Formulate and Implement NAPs
This toolkit is designed to support country efforts to pursue a gender-responsive NAP process.
Peace, Conflict, and NAP Processes
This resource provides a step-by-step approach for linking climate change, peacebuilding, and conflict dynamics.
Guidance Note
Steps to Identify and Use Adaptation Indicators for National MEL Systems
This brief supports members of NAP teams involved directly or indirectly in MEL systems, and those supporting them, in identifying and using adaptation indicators for their national MEL systems effectively and efficiently.
Guidance Note
Integrating Learning into the NAP Process
This resource explores how to strengthen the integration of learning into NAPs, identifying at least three concrete actions for enhancing learning in NAP processes.
Guidance
Methods for NAP Progress Reporting
Aimed at NAP teams and decision-makers, these briefs focus on methods countries can use to report on the progress of their NAP processes.
Toolkit
Engaging the Private Sector in NAPs
This resource aims to help governments develop strategies for the effective engagement of private sector actors in the NAP process.
Inventory
Multilevel Governance Coordination Mechanisms in the NAP Process
This tool provides an overview of the types of multilevel coordination mechanisms used to advance countries’ NAP processes. It is targeted at teams supporting these processes across policy sectors, subnational decision-makers at different governance levels, and other non-state actors.
Guidance Note
Building Resilience With Nature
This guidance note presents “why” and “how” the NAP process can be utilized as a key mechanism and driver to mainstream and upscale EbA.
Guidance Note
Public Engagement on Climate Change Adaptation
This resource provides approaches, considerations, and case studies to make public engagement effective in the NAP process.
Toolkit
Facilitating Peer Learning with Adaptation Policy-Makers
This guide is for people that want to hold inclusive, participatory events in which different stakeholders come together to collectively generate ideas and identify actions they will take to make progress toward adaptation.