This document discusses climate risk assessments (CRAs) and their role in the national adaptation plan (NAP) process. It provides definitions of CRAs and describes how the NAP Global Network has supported several countries in implementing CRAs. Key challenges that countries face with CRAs include focusing only on climate risks, lack of resources and capacity, difficulties obtaining sub-national data, and challenges with scaling up analyses. The document also outlines how CRAs can help identify vulnerabilities and priorities, facilitate mainstreaming of adaptation, and support access to climate finance. Speakers from various organizations will provide country examples and discuss technological tools to enhance CRAs.

1. What science doesn't say: implementing
vulnerability assessments as part of the
NAP process
Session 698
Adaptation Futures 2023
Emilie Beauchamp
Shafaq Masud
IISD
Esther Tinayo, Lensational trainee, Kenya (2021)

2. Objectives
• Session focus is to gain a better
understanding of how CRAs differ
from science to practice and how to
bridge the gaps. Experiences from the
field include country case examples
from Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Ghana,
and Senegal.
• Share technological innovations in
enhancing risk assessment through
the GIZ’s Risk Sourcebook and the
CRISP tool – a sectoral approach
• Technical experience of NAP Global
Network on implementing CRAs

3. Definitions of CRAs
The ‘core’ definition of risk is “the potential for
adverse consequences”. Risk applies to both
impacts of and responses to climate change
(IPCC AR6, 2022).
CRA as an umbrella term refers to the
assessment of climate change impacts,
vulnerability, risks, and/or adaptation (or
resilience), recognizing that countries focus on
different elements of CRAs using a variety of
approaches, depending on their needs and
priorities (Dekens 2023).

4. 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
have received direct
technical support​.
63 Over people from
more than 50 countries have
participated in peer learning
and exchanges.
400
Generate, synthesize, &
share knowledge on
NAP processes.
Over knowledge
materials have been produced.
300

5. NAP-GN supported five countries to help
implement CRAs in different capacities – a
snapshot
• Belize – technical assistance for vulnerability
and livelihood assessment of coastal
communities
• Kiribati – Strengthen the development and
use of Kiribati's Integrated Vulnerability
Database to identify local vulnerabilities.
• Somalia – Technical support to implement
CRAs for the livestock and Agriculture sector
• Brazil – Assessment of vulnerability patterns
for select agriculture corps.
• Others – Ghana, Burkina Faso and Senegal

6. Why CRAs are important in the NAP process?
• They help identify climate change vulnerabilities.
• They help to facilitate integration of adaptation into
sectoral policies.
• Support access to climate finance.
• Help to strengthen scientific capacity on issues related to
climate change, impact and adaptation of national actors
How they contribute to enhancing the MEL framework of NAP/
how they advance the NAP process?
• CRAs can be an iterative process to complement MEL by
tracking risk reduction overtime.
• CRAs can help identify priority actions that MEL systems
need to track.
• CRAs can be used as baselines to access the effectiveness
of future adaptation action

7. What issue countries are facing in implementing
CRAs?
• CRAs focus mostly on climate change
vulnerabilities but non-climate change
vulnerabilities not factored.
• Often, undertaking CRAs is an additional
burden on already overstretched resources.
There is also a lack of capacity to understand
and act on the outputs of CRAs
• Getting data at district level is often very
difficult as data is not centralized. It is also
due to the lack of interest to collect data on
climate change issues at district level
• Scaling up of CRAs is challenging
• CRA analysis data collection is critical and it
is very costly. Investment in systems to
improve data acquisition is necessary.
(Senegal PLE – Dakar 2023)

8. WE’LL HEAR FROM…
- Marc Zebisch, Eurac Research, Italy
-Dibor SARR, chargée de programme
adaptation, ministère de l'environnement et
du développement durable, Senegal
-Dr. Antwi-Boasiako Amoah, Acting Director,
Climate Vulnerabilities and Adaptation, EPA,
Ghana
-Jean-David Coulibaly, Research Analyst,
Climate Analytics, Burkina Faso
-Carlos Saavedra, PROCUENCA, Till Below, GIZ

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