The document discusses the relationship between a country's National Adaptation Plan (NAP) and its Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) pledged under the Paris Agreement. A NAP lays out a country's medium- and long-term adaptation needs and strategies, while an NDC outlines its commitments to reducing emissions and adapting to climate impacts. There is recognition that NAPs can serve as the vehicle for implementing adaptation efforts outlined in NDCs. However, the links between the two processes are still largely theoretical and challenges remain in coordinating them in practice at the national level. The document provides examples of different approaches countries are taking and resources available to support stronger NAP-NDC alignment.

1. Role of the National
Adaptation Plan
(NAP) process in NDC
implementation
Anne Hammill
February 14th, 2019
Zanzibar, Tanzania

2. What are we talking about?
NAP NDC
A country’s pledge for
meeting the goals of
the Paris Agreement,
including on adaptation
National processes to
identify medium- and
long-term adaptation
needs and put in place
strategies to address
them

3. Why are
we talking
about it?
• Raise the profile of adaptation –
Paris Agreement  political support, $
• Build on what’s been done:
leverage the experience, expertise,
investments in adaptation
• Efficiency: Streamline, coordinate,
avoid duplication, lessen the burden
• Explore adaptation-mitigation
links: putting goals beside each other
in one place

4. What is
the link
between
NAPs and
NDCs?
• NDCs  goal-setting on
adaptation: Set out the high-level
vision, objectives and needs a country
will address through its adaptation
efforts
• NAPs  vehicle for NDC
implementation: nationally-driven
processes for integrating adaptation
into planning and implementing
adaptation priorities outlined in NDCs

5. Where to start?

6. Range of approaches
NAP folded into
NDC
Adaptation not
in NDC
Adaptation in NDC
…but unsure if/how
it links to NAP
NAP mandated
by / recognised
as implementation
vehicle in NDC
Keep them
separate
Have them
closely aligned

7. What are
we seeing
so far?
• Recognition that NDCs might be
an opportunity for adaptation,
particularly in terms of profile and
access to resources
• Recognition that there should be
links, especially within a broader
framework of SDG implementation to
streamline and minimize burden
• But links are still largely
theoretical and harder to realize

8. Challenges
Adaptation Communications
Political: Who’s driving the process
Institutional: Who’s responsible for
NAP vs NDC
Timing: national policy context
Coordination fatigue

9. Our ActivitiesSupport on NAP-NDC
National Self-Assessment Workshops
Jan & Feb, 2019 (Grenada, Peru)
Knowledge Products
Ongoing
Country Support Hub Requests
Ongoing
Network support on NAP-NDC links
Peer Learning Summit
October 2018, Bangkok

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