The document summarizes Eswatini's experiences vertically integrating its National Adaptation Plan (NAP) process. It discusses three projects that implemented this: 1) an outreach program strengthening traditional knowledge and resilience, 2) regional awareness campaigns, and 3) a project with Queen Mary University of London. Over 450 people participated in the awareness campaigns across Eswatini's four regions. The workshops helped identify local adaptation needs and priorities. This information will inform regionally integrated adaptation plans to better coordinate climate adaptation between community, regional, and national levels. Lessons included empowering rural communities with adaptation knowledge and respecting community structures to design sustainable measures.

1. The Vertical Integration of the
NAP Process:
The Kingdom of Eswatini’s Recent Experiences
Mr Lucky Nhlanhla Sigudla
Ministry of Tourism and Environmental Affairs
NAP Focal Person-Eswatini

2. Presentation outline
• Background on Eswatini’s NAP Process
• Projects that implemented the Vertical Integration of
the NAP Process
• The Regional NAP Awareness raising Campaigns
• Lessons Learnt

3. Background of the Eswatini’s NAP Process
• Climate Action is housed in the Ministry
of Tourism and Environmental Affairs.
• GEF, since 2018 has supported the
Kingdom of Eswatini to build capacity for
National Adaptation Planning.
• The United Nations Environmental
Programme (UNEP) is an Implementing
partner.
• The NAP readiness project is supporting
the Kingdom to advance its NAP process
by building on existing capacities and
enhancing institutions already in place for
adaptation planning through the various
outcomes
• Outcome 2 addresses climate change
information and knowledge available for
appraisal of adaptation options.
• Under this output line, there has been a
number of activities that have been
carried out and these have enabled the
NAP to be used as a vehicle for reaching
different communities effectively creating
links between activities at national and
local level.

4. Vertical Integration of the NAP Process
• 1. Outreach Programme:
Strengthening Adaptation and
Traditional Knowledge Systems to
Enhance Resilience.
• 2. Regional Awareness Campaigns for
the NAP
• 3.Queen Mary-University of London
project

5. The Regional NAP Awareness raising
Campaigns
• One-day workshops in collaboration with a
regional CSOs (COSPE) and Women's Assembly .
• To effectively engage on climate change issues and
adaptation solutions with relevant, diverse and
representational stakeholders from across the 4
political regions of the Kingdom
• COSPE was roped in to:
• - effectively reach out to a greater stakeholder
group through their historic experience in the
region.
• -Exploit their local adaptation planning
methodology.
• They also co-lead the workshop because of their
direct experience working with the communities of
the local level

6. Workshop Participation
• Over 450 people participated in these
workshops in the 4 regions.
• The comprised of members of the
local communities (80%), local
authorities, Community based
organizations, Government Officials,
Youth Organization and Non
Governmental Organisations.
• The local community participants
were drawn from the Rural
Development Areas(RDAs).
• There was more women than male
participation in almost all the
workshops.

7. Workshop Outcomes
• 1. Collaborative partnership forged
between MTEA & COSPE
- Relationship forged through preparation
and execution of these workshop, allowing
for top-down and bottom-up connection to
collaborate on further national, regional
and local climate initiatives
• 2. Convened a diverse, multi-stakeholder
group for engagements on:
- Introductions to the causes and effects
(present & future) of global climate change;
- Outlines of key regional, national and
sectorial implications, vulnerabilities &
impacts;

8. Workshop Outcomes Continued
• Shared key international and national policies
and agendas;
• Introduced an overview of adaptation and
Eswatini’s National Adaptation Plan.
• Introduced an overview of Eswatini’s
approach to national climate action;
• Shared the benefit and results of local
adaptation planning (LAP methodology);
• Introduced the prospect of regional
adaptation planning (RIAP)
3. Group work on adaptation planning;
• - This was also an opportunity for hands on
adaptation planning (Sessions on local
adaptation needs, priorities, hazards and
opportunities)

9. The LAP Process and The Pilot Actions Carried Out in The
Communities
• Communities’ representatives had
the opportunity to present on their
Local Adaptation Plans (LAPs)
• This process enabled them to
identifying problems affecting them
as a result of climate change and
also develop solutions for the
identified problems.
• The resultant LAPs were considered
key documents for planning
communities development activities
• External support aimed at
Adaptation should be informed by
these plans it was resolved.

10. NAP Planning: From National to Local and Local to National
• The current LAPs are just
community documents and are
not institutionalized/recognized
by Government.
• During the workshops a need
to have Regionally Integrated
Adaptation Plans (RIAPs) was
identified.
• This would enable the LAPs to
be properly integration into
the NAP
Community Level
Regional Level
National Level

11. Proposed Regionally Integrated Plans
• These would coordinate climate change
adaptation issues at regional level by;
- Updating and elaborating downwards and
upwards from a regional context
- Writing proposals for the RIAP measures
or adaptation strategies funding
- Monitoring the implementation of
activities
- Influence community development plans
- Support the NAP and LAPs

12. Lessons Learnt From The Workshops
• The misconception that rural
communities know little about
climate change adaptation was
allayed ( from the robust
engagements)
• These exchanges also empowered
us on the power dynamic at play in
the communities( these can make
adaptation planning work or fail)
• Understanding and respecting
community structures is important
in designing adaptation measures
that will be sustainable
• Empowering communities with
knowledge gives them confidence
and a voice to inform the NAP.
• The need to pick up speed in our
NAP activities so that we may
effectively harmonize the vertical
integration of the NAP( establishing
the RIAPs)
• The Need to engage more
community based NGO’s so that
the work currently being done by
COSPE can be duplicated across all
4 region of the Kingdom.

13. The End of Presentation!
Asante sana!