Background
This session will present the experience of countries being supported by the NAP GSP (UN Environment and UNDP) in formulating their NAPs, focused around the following building blocks of the NAP process:
- Defining mandates, institutional arrangements, roadmaps;
- Preparing and submitting funding proposals to formulate their NAPs;
- Integrating adaptation into national and subnational development planning;
- Appraising, prioritizing and ranking adaptation options;
- Monitoring and evaluation systems;
- Capacity building & communications;
- Designing a communication strategy.
Presenters will also share opportunities and challenges they have faced in terms of resources, stakeholders consultation, and cross-sectoral integration, among other topics.
Objectives
- Demonstrate how countries have adapted the steps of the NAP technical guidelines to their national contexts;
- Share experiences in formulating proposals for funding under the GCF Readiness including on framing objectives based on key gaps and needs.
Target participants
- Country representatives engaged in the NAP process
- Support agencies on NAPs
Expected Outcomes
By the end of the session, participants will have a greater understanding of:
- The building blocks for NAP formulation, and how they can adapt them to their contexts;
- The opportunities and challenges that countries have faced and their needs for support;
- How to turn “problems” into “objectives” to develop proposals to address their needs and access funds to support their NAP formulation.
Agenda
- Open NAPs
- Welcome remarks: Identifying priorities for adaptation planning and mobilising resources, Julie Teng (UNDP – NAP GSP) and Tunnie Srisalkulchairak (UN Env. – NAP GSP)
- Country experiences (40 min)
- Using prioritisation tools for the agricultural sector (Thailand), Napat Ouicharoen, Economist, Office of Agricultural Economics, Thailand
- Preparing and submitting a funding proposal to the GCF (Bhutan), Ms. Jigchen Lhazom Norbu, Water Resources Coordination Division National Environment Commission Secretariat, Bhutan
- NAP formulation priorities and needs (Haiti), Gerty Pierre, Health Environmental specialist, Climate Change Directorate, Ministry of Environment Haiti (MDE)
- Group work
- Identifying national gaps and needs and developing a problem tree (20 min)
- Turning problems into objectives to develop an objectives tree (20 min)
- Wrap up (5 mins) 45 min Facilitator: NAP GSP
