The document discusses REGATTA, a regional initiative to support Latin American countries in developing National Adaptation Plans (NAPs). REGATTA facilitates knowledge sharing, funding access, and capacity building for NAP development through an online community of practice, workshops, learning exchanges, and technical assistance. Upcoming events include a webinar on monitoring and evaluation of adaptation processes. REGATTA has supported NAP development through regional training workshops, learning exchanges between countries, and helping countries access funding from the Green Climate Fund Readiness Program.

1. NAPs | A REGATTA Community of
Practice in support of the
preparation of National Adaptation
Plans
INTRODUCTION
UN Environment- Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean
Elena Pita Domínguez – Programme officer- Climate Change Unit

2. Contents
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• What is REGATTA? A brief introduction.
• Support to the elaboration of NAPs
• Possible areas of work
• How do we do it:
• Facilitate access to funding for NAPs
• On line Community of Practice
• Face-to –face workshops
• Learning exchanges
• Technology transfer

3. What is REGATTA?
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• REGATTA – Regional Gateway for Technology Transfer and Climate
Change Action
• Geographical scope: 18 Latin American Countries
• Objective: strengthen capacity and knowledge sharing of climate
change technologies and experiences for adaptation and mitigation in
Latin America and the Caribbean
• With the generous support from:

4. What is REGATTA?
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Knowledge management
• Contents: Respond to the needs voiced by the countries in the region.
Alignment with Paris Agreement, NDCs.
• Public: Identify target audience. Partnerships and comprehensive
stakeholder analysis to better inform workplan activities.
• Processes: Combination of modalities: on line, in-person, concrete
interventions, studies and publications.
• Technology: Platforms, use of social networks

5. What is REGATTA?
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A.T, pilot projects, studies
• Impact Assessments
• Pilot projects
• Access to Climate Funds
Face-to-face workshops
• Dry Corridor
• Synergies with NAP-GSP
• Learning exchanges
Key information
• Country profiles
• Directory of institutions
• Documents, studies and tools
• Financing opportunities, etc.
Communities of Practices on Adaptation

6. What is REGATTA?
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• > 4,000 interconnected experts
• 3 online adaptation Communities of Practice
• 5 EbA pilot projects implemented
• > 100 webinars on adaptation and mitigation related themes
• >800 government officials, experts and students trained in adaptation
themes (in 2017)

7. Support of the elaboration of the NAPs
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UNFCCC (2012)
Elaboration process
of a National
Adaptation Plan

8. Possible areas of work
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Horizontal integration
Integrationof climate policies
with other sectorial policies
e.g. Panama, articulation
with sectoral policies
Long term
perspective
Dialogue Processes
Between different structures and
actors (civil society, private sector)
and government levels
e.g. Workshops, exchanges
Financing strategy for
adaptation
Monitoring and evaluation
e.g. Dominican Republic
Vertical Integration
Strengthen local government
capacities to enableadaptation
at the local level
e.g. Costa Rica,
articulation with the
local level

9. How do we do it:
1. Facilitate access to financing
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• UN Environment works with countries around the world in the
formulation of proposals to access financing to elaborate Adaptation
Plans, in particular through the Readiness Programme of the GCF (but
also CBIT)
• The proposals contemplate activities such as:
• Preparation of specific studies (e.g. vulnerability analysis, cost-benefit
analysis).
• Conducting workshops and consultations (participatory and transparent
process, which integrates cross-cutting issues such as gender and
indigenous peoples).
• Drafting of the plan itself, including a monitoring and evaluation
framework and a financing strategy.
Activities

10. How do we do it:
1. Facilitate access to financing
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• Formal request of the country (letter of expression of interest).
• Determine a focal point or work team with whom to be in regular
contact during the process of preparing the proposal.
• Identify the specific objective of the proposal, logical framework
and activities.
• Permanent contact with the Green ClimateFund, who provides
guidance and comments on the proposals.
Procedure:

11. How do we do it:
2. The NAPs community
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Space to share knowledge, experiences and strengthen
capacities
Benefits:
• Forum for discussion and virtual exchange of participants
from Latin America and the Caribbean.
• Webinars, meetings and in-person events.
• Virtual training and document library.
• Launched in December 2016
http://napscommunity.com/en/

12. Upcoming events
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Webinar 13 – Monitoring and Evaluation: How to
measure the success of adaptation processes?
Tuesday, 10th April, 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM (Bogota,
Lima, Quito)
• What are the challenges associated with monitoring and
evaluating the progressof adaptation?
• What do we seek to monitor, processes or results of
adaptation?
• What information, metrics and units are necessaryto
evaluate the progress and effectiveness of the National
Adaptation Plans?
• What successfulexamples exist in Latin America and the
Caribbean region?
• Introduction: Elena Pita UN Environment
• Lars Christiansen. Expert in Climate Change. Senior project officer.
UNEP - DTU Partnership. Will present the publication: “Adaptation
metrics: Perspectives on measuring, aggregating and comparing
adaptation results”
• Case study from Latin America and the Caribbean region

13. How do we do it:
3. Face-to-face workshops
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UNDP-UN Environment Program National
Adaptation Plan Global Support Programme
• Objective: Strengthen institutional and
technical capacities for the development of
the National Adaptation Plan.
• UN Environment: trains national teams in
methodologies and tools to support the
elaboration of the Plan through regional
workshops:
▪ South America and Mexico: October 2016
▪ Central America: February 2016
▪ Caribbean: June 2016
▪ Expected: Financing for adaptation September /
October 2018

14. How do we do it:
4. Learning exchanges
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• Objective:
• Promote peer-to-peer learning and the exchange
of experiences and good practices.
• Learn from direct experience: facilitate an
effective dialogue in the field, to visualize
processes and exchange experiences to
strengthen individual and organizational
capacities.
• Call for proposals (January 2017): 76 proposals
recieved
• 2 learning exchanges:
• Mexico-Chile: Methodologies and tools for
adaptation planning at local level
• Colombia-Honduras: Best practices to integrate
adaptation in local planning.
• http://cambioclimatico-regatta.org/

15. How do we do it:
5. Technology transfer
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• TechnicalAssistance of the Climate Technology Center &
Network.
• Preparation of studies and analysis in support of the NAPs process:
e.g. support for the development of the adaptation indicators system in
Colombia

16. Final thoughts
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• Knowledge sharing and south- south cooperation are a priority for
LAC countries.
• Support from the Forum of Ministers
• Learning exchanges included in the NAP proposals
• Partnerships: In 2015-16REGATTAleveraged an average of $2
dollars to every one $1 dollar it invested in project activities from a
range of 15 partner organizations.

17. Thank you
Elena Pita
elena.pita@un.org
Programme Officer
Climate Change Unit
Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean
UN Environment
www.unep.org