Presentation from the webinar "Reflecting on the Year in National Adaptation Plans" held on December 19, 2023.

1. Reflecting on the Year in
National Adaptation Plans
Rétrospective de l’année sur
les plans nationaux
d’adaptation
December 19, 2023

2. Welcome!
Housekeeping Details
This meeting will be 45
minutes long
Please put your name and
organization in the chat box to
introduce yourself
Today’s discussions will be recorded.
Video and slides will be shared
publicly after the event.
Simultaneous translation into
French is available

3. Speakers
Angie Dazé
Director, Gender Equality
and Social Inclusion for
Resilience, IISD
Orville Grey
Head of Secretariat, NAP
Global Network, IISD

4. UN Environment’s 2023
Adaptation Gap Report
• “Found 85% of all countries have at least one
national adaptation planning instrument
• Over 50% of countries have two or more
national-level instruments
• [Adaptation] project sizes are bigger but their
number has stagnated for the past decade
• Gender and social inclusion poorly addressed in
adaptation actions” (UNEP 2023)
• The AGR concludes global adaptation action is:
slow on financing, slow on planning, and slow on
implementation

5. National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Process
Put adaptation at the heart of decision-making
• Identify and address medium- and long-
term priorities for adapting
to climate change
• Assess risk, identify and prioritize
options, implement options, track,
measure progress – learn
• Put in place the systems and capacities to
make this a part of regular development
planning and budgeting

6. Developing countries
with a NAP process
underway.1
NAP documents
submitted to the
UNFCCC (11 in 2023)
142
154
52
(23 LDCs)
Momentum on NAP processes at a glance
Almost all developing countries have a NAP process underway…
# of countries that have
submitted adaptation
planning proposals to the
Green Climate Fund for a
combined value of
approximately USD 222
million.2
92
1 – UNFCCC. (2023). Progress in the process to formulate and implement national adaptation plans. https://unfccc.int
2 – GCF. (2023). Twelfth report of the GCF to the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC. https://unfccc.int

7. Stories of Progress in NAP Processes:
Haiti
In January 2023, Haiti submitted its first
NAP to the UNFCCC, which will cost an
estimated USD 980m to implement.
In July 2023, Haiti secured a USD 31.3m
grant from the Green Climate Fund with
UNDP as its partner to enhance climate
resilience through integrated flood
management.
In December 2023, Haiti completed a
gender analysis supported by NAP GN in
working toward a more gender-responsive
NAP process.
Photo: Neil Palmer | CIAT

8. Stories of Progress in NAP Processes:
Kenya
Kenya submitted its first NAP to the UNFCCC in
2017, implemented via 5-year National Climate
Change Action Plans (NCCAP).
Kenya has finalized its third NCCAP with support
to deal with climate impacts like the prolonged
drought the country has been enduring.
Under its NAP process, Kenya is making strides
toward channelling finance to the subnational
level for adaptation, e.g., its County Climate
Change Funds mechanism and the Financing
Locally Led Climate Action program.
Photo: Charity Kishoyian, IISD / NAP Global Network

9. Stories of Progress in NAP Processes:
Tonga
Tonga was the first Pacific country to develop a
Joint National Action Plan (JNAP) on Climate
Change and DRM in 2010. It is currently
implementing its second JNAP 2018-2028.
Among the JNAP 2 priorities being implemented,
Tongan government communities made
significant progress in 2023 toward the JNAP 2
and NDC goal to plant 1 million trees across the
country.
To support Tonga’s efforts on capacity building,
the NAP Global Network supported three
embedded advisors to support the JNAP
Secretariat throughout 2023. These positions
have been made permanent roles in the Tongan
government built into the nat’l budget.
Photo: Viliami Takau, JNAP Secretariat, Tonga

10. About the NAP Global Network
What we do:
Our goal: Enhance national adaptation planning and action in developing countries
Support national-level
action on NAP
development &
implementation.
Help countries learn
from each other
through South-South
peer learning and
exchange.
developing countries
(35 in 2023) have received
direct technical support​.
63 Over people from 65
countries (21 in 2023) have
participated in peer learning
and exchanges.
400
Generate, synthesize, &
share knowledge on NAP
processes.
Over knowledge
materials have been produced
(30+ in 2023).
300

11. Making key information
on National Adaptation
Plans (NAPs) easily
accessible and digestible
for the climate change
adaptation community.
Visit trends.napglobalnetwork.org

12. Making key information
on National Adaptation
Plans (NAPs) easily
accessible and digestible
for the climate change
adaptation community.
# of multi-sector NAPs submitted
by region
All data for multi-sector NAPs as of Nov 30, 2023.
Year of submission to the UNFCCC

13. More than half of NAPs
identify gender as a
guiding principle and/or
as a priority sector or
adaptation option.
KEY FINDING
Context for the reference to gender
(# of NAPs out of 49, as of Nov 30, 2023)
76%
24%
% of NAPs submitted to the UNFCCC that mention gender

14. More NAPs are
positioning women as
agents of change in
adaptation, not just as a
particularly vulnerable
group.
KEY FINDING
Positioning of women in the document
(# of NAPs out of 49, as of Nov 30, 2023)
76%
24%
% of NAPs submitted to the UNFCCC that mention women

15. What COP28 Meant for NAP
Processes
• Reiterating the importance of
supporting formulation and
implementation of NAPs
• Great platform for launching NAPs
and securing international support
• Global Stocktake and Global Goal
Adaptation text
• GGA framework est. a target for
gender-responsive NAPs
(among multiple factors for
effectiveness)

16. Question and Answer
Please write your questions in
the chat in English or French.
Questions-réponses
Veuillez écrire vos questions
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français ou en anglais.

17. Thank you! Merci!
Email:
info@napglobalnetwork.org
Website:
www.napglobalnetwork.org
@NAP_Network NAP Global Network