Sustaining MEL Capacity for NAP Processes

1. Sustaining MEL Capacity
for NAP Processes
PEER LEARNING
From one-off workshops to institutionalized systems
September 2025
Bangkok

2. Have you ever…
• Attended a workshop
• Learned useful skills
• …only to find a year later, they’re
gone?

3. Why MEL capacity
matters?
Without MEL, we can’t answer:
• Are we adapting effectively?
• Who benefits?
• What should we do differently?
Without institutionalized
capacity, knowledge is lost,
resources wasted, and lessons
missed

4. MEL across the NAP Process

5. Without
institutionalization
X Knowledge lost when staff leave
X Fragmented inconsistent data across
ministries
X Repeated trainings, wasted resources
X Struggles to meet reporting obligations
X Missed lessons poor decisions
→
With institutionalization
 Skills and systems survive turnover
 Coherent and standardized data across
sectors
 Stronger reporting and accountability
 Evidence guides smarter policies and
finance
 Continuity, credibility, finance readiness

6. Institutionalizing MEL capacity
Roles &
Responsibilities
Financial
Resources
Policy &
Systems
Partnerships &
Networks
Human
Resources &
Competencies
Knowledge &
Data Systems
Incentives &
Accountability
Gender equality, social inclusion, and vertical
integration cut across all of these dimensions.

7. Examples
• Policy & Systems National MEL framework
→
• Roles & Responsibilities Focal points with
→
MEL in job descriptions
• Financial Resources Dedicated MEL budget
→
line

8. Examples
• Human Resources & Competencies →
Training manuals, Toolkit, Online course
• Knowledge & Data Systems Centralized
→
databases
• Partnerships & Networks University
→
curriculum integrating MEL, Peer learning
• Incentives & Accountability MEL reporting
→
in ToR, Certifications

9. One-off workshops
=
watering a plant once
Institutionalization
=
installing an irrigation system

10. Transition to discussion
Now it’s your turn…

11. Group 1: What Works
in Countries
• Discuss challenges identified in
countries for capacity development
• Highlight solutions and what made
them work
• Output: 3 key insights
Group 2: New MEL Capacity
Development Program (GCF)
• Review outline and discuss (relevance,
modules, format, delivery)
• Give feedback on the different
components
• Output: 3 key recommendations
Each round lasts 20 minutes, before the groups rotate

12. Insights from non-cohort
Partner Governments
• Mr Taiki Kohno, Assistant Director,
Climate Change Science and
Adaptation Office, Ministry of the
Environment, Japan
• Dr Jiyoung Shin, Senior Research
Fellow, Korea Environment Institute
Korea Adaptation Center for Climate
Change, Korea, with commentary from
Ms Ju Youn Kang, Senior Researcher,
Korea Adaptation Center for Climate
Change (KACCC), Korea Environment
Institute (KEI)
Presentations

13. Tea break

14. Why a cohort?
• Build continuity of the topics and ensure
all important facets of a theme are covered, in
a sequence that makes sense
• Many events receive feedback about not
having sufficient time to dive deeper
into the topics
• Strengthen existing bilateral or
multilateral connections of the
participating countries in the region in
adaptation planning and beyond
• Reinforce sustained learning and
exchange, especially in between meetings by
creating the expectations for re-convening

15. • What types of engagement and
activities would help you continue to
advance your national MEL systems
between now and the next PLE?
• Do you and your teams see value in
ongoing engagement? What are pros
and cons?
• Which topics would you be most
interested in? More depth, or more
scope?
Exchange on sustained
learning among cohort
countries

16. Get into your country team:
1. Based on peer discussions
and exchanges, what
lessons stand out in
strengthening MEL systems
for NAP processes?
2. How do you plan to apply
these lessons in your
country?
Self-reflection
exercise

17. Last year’s timeline exercise
Adaptation Committee
Countries shared some of
the short, medium and
long-term milestones they
hoped to achieve in the
coming year…

18. Timeline of Next Steps
1. Last year, you shared milestones you
planned your country would do over
the past year… Did this happen?
2. Now, it’s time to plan forward again:
please place your next steps onto a
collective timeline between now and
mid-2026.
3. We’ll ask you to share what worked well
(or not) in 2025, and your plans
forward!
Participatory
activity

19. Short-term
(next quarter)
Medium-term
(next year)
Long-term
(next 2+ years)
COUNTRY
NAME
Next step
COUNTRY
NAME
Next step
COUNTRY
NAME
Next step

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21. 9th Asia-Pacific Climate Change Adaptation Forum
Wednesday-Friday 3-5, 2025
The APAN Adaptation Forum: largest gathering of adaptation
practitioners in Asia and the Pacific to exchange learning, shape priorities
and advance climate solutions.
The 8th
Forum, themed “Resilience for All: Enabling Transformative
Implementation”, emphasised the need to move beyond siloed
approaches and adopt whole-of-society, systems-based strategies".
Building on the recommendations of the 8th APAN Adaptation Forum,
the 9th
APAN Adaptation Forum will focus on catalysing transformational
adaptation by exploring the pathways, enablers and systemic shifts
needed to build long term resilience across critical systems.

22. 9th Asia-Pacific Climate Change Adaptation Forum
Wednesday-Friday 3-5, 2025
NAP Global Network Session details:
Session: D4.TS.5 From Data to Decisions: Strengthening MEL for NAP Processes for Transformational
Adaptation
Day/Time: Thursday, October 2, 11:00-12:30
Room: Meeting Room H
Panel discussion: 11:20-11:50
Confirmed speakers:
• Dao Minh Khun, Department of Climate Change, Ministry of Agriculture and Environment, Viet Nam
• Paul Ezekiel M. Losaria, Development Management Officer, Implementation Oversight Division, Climate Change
Commission, Philippines
• Sonam Gyelpo, Senior Environment Officer in Department of Environment and Climate under Ministry of Energy and
Natural Resources, Bhutan
• Fololita Frenda Sila, Head of Policy & Planning Division in Ministry of Meteorology, Energy, Information, Disaster
Management, Environment, Climate Change & Communications (MEIDECC), Tonga
• Monchalus Pitisinchoochai, Department of Climate Change and Environment, Ministry of Natural Resources and
Environment, Thailand

23. Tonight’s Networking
Dinner
• Pad Thai Fai Ta Lu Restaurant
• 7-minute walk from hotel
• Let us all meet at 18:50 in the
hotel lobby to all walk together
to the restaurant.

24. Closing of the
peer learning
cohort event

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