How Can the NAP Process and NDCs Be Aligned

How Can the NAP Process and NDCs Be Aligned

1. How can the NAP
Process and NDC be
Aligned?
12
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August 2024
San Pedro, Belize
Anika Terton, Senior Policy Advisor

2. •If your NAP was developed following the last NDC,
use the NAP process to inform the development of
our future NDC.
•Use the NAP process to improve the quality of the
adaptation-related information in the NDC to
demonstrate progress
•Use the NAP process to add value and enhance your
country’s NDC adaptation goal
•Ensure consistent messaging across NAP and NDC
•Communicate the cost, needs and financial priorities
for adaptation
•Make adaptation more visible!
2025 NDC Update: An
opportunity to align the NDC and
NAP process?

3. Initiating Alignment: Where to Start?
Identifysynergies and
mapprocesses
▪Acknowledgement
▪Timelines
▪Common objectives
▪Priority sectors
▪Trade-offs
▪GESI
▪Stakeholders
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Coordination
▪Coordination
mechanism between
NAP and NDC team
▪Stakeholder
engagement
▪GESI
▪Monitoring, evaluation
and learning
Information sharing
▪Adaptation priorities
▪Vulnerabilities and
risks
▪GESI
▪Financing priorities
and needs
▪Platforms to share
information/data

4. Key Considerations for Aligning
Gender-Related Information in
NDCs and NAPs
•Recognize that gender issues differ for
adaptation and mitigation, requiring a tailored
approach
•Ensure that relevant gender experts are engaged
in the process
•Connect with the NAP team to:
oUnderstand how gender and other social
issues are approached in the NAP
oAccess gender analyses or other research
that has been done to inform gender-
responsive adaptation planning
oIdentify key actors within government and
outside who can support integration of
gender considerations in the adaptation
component of the NDC

5. Important: Countries are free to choose IF and
HOW they want to present adaptation
information in their NDC.
But existing guidelines for other instruments
may be applied to the NDC adaptation
component such as:
•Option 1: Guidance in relation to the
Biennial Transparency Report’s Climate
Change Impacts and Adaptation Chapter
•Option 2: Guidance in relation to the
Adaptation Communication
What adaptation information
should be included in the
adaptation component of the
NDC?

6. Biennial Transparency Report’s Climate Change Impacts and
Adaptation Chapter Outline
Background Information
A.National circumstances, institutional arrangements and legal
frameworks
B.Impacts, risks and vulnerabilities
Planning, Strategies and Mainstreaming
C.Adaptation priorities and barriers
D.Adaptation strategies, policies, plans, goals, and actions to
integrate adaptation into national policies and strategies
Implementation & Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning
E.Progress on implementation of adaptation
F.Monitoring and evaluation of adaptation actions and processes
Loss and Damage
G.Information related to averting, minimizing, and addressing loss
and damage associated with climate change impacts
Experience Sharing & Miscellaneous
H.Cooperation, good practices, and experience and lessons
learned
I.Other information related to climate change impacts and
adaptation
Adaptation Communication Guidance
An adaptation communication may include the following elements:
A.National circumstances, institutional arrangements, and legal frameworks
B.Impacts, risks, and vulnerabilities, as appropriate
C.National adaptation priorities, strategies, policies, plans, goals, and actions
D.Implementation and support needs of, and provision of support to, developing
country parties
E.Implementation of adaptation actions and plans, including:
i. Progress and results achieved
ii. Adaptation efforts of developing countries for recognition
iii. Cooperation on enhancing adaptation at the national, regional, and
international levels, as appropriate
iv. Barriers, challenges, and gaps related to the implementation of adaptation
v. Good practices, lessons learned, and information-sharing
vi. Monitoring and evaluation
F.Adaptation actions and/or economic diversification plans, including those that
result in mitigation co-benefits
G.How adaptation actions contribute to other international frameworks and/or
conventions
H.Gender-responsive adaptation action and Traditional Knowledge, knowledge of
Indigenous Peoples, and local knowledge systems related to adaptation, where
appropriate
I.Any other information related to adaptation
National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Process
Source: Further guidance in relation to the adaptation communication, including, inter alia, as a component of national determined contributions,
referred to in Article 7, paragraphs 10 and 11, of the Paris Agreement. https://unfccc.int/sites/default/files/resource/9-CMA.1_English.pdf
Source: Adapted from the Modalities, Procedures and Guidelines for the transparency framework for action and
support referred to in Article 13 of the Paris Agreement (Decision 18/CMA.1) Page 33 CMA2018_03a02E.pdf
(unfccc.int)

7. Get started: Moving Towards
Enhanced NAP-NDC Alignment
•Identify opportunity to enhance alignment (e.g.
2025 NDC Update / NAP Update)
•Pursue or initiate effective and intentional
coordination with NAP/NDC team
•Identify actors that need to be involved and
who need information (e.g. Gender Ministry)
•Identify what information needs to be aligned
or enhanced (e.g. adaptation priority sectors, cost)
•Consider existing guidance (e.g. BTR or AdCom)
to inform the outline of your NDC Adaption
Component