The document provides an overview of the National Adaptation Plan (NAP) process. It discusses key aspects of the NAP including that it is country-driven, flexible, integrated into development planning, improves climate risk management, and involves learning and evaluation. The NAP aims to reduce vulnerability and mainstream climate adaptation. Support for the NAP comes from the UNFCCC, development partners, and various funding sources. The document compares the NAP to other national adaptation and planning processes in Vietnam and discusses how the NAP can help link adaptation priorities to development needs while building on existing work and efforts.
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NAP Training Viet Nam - Session 2 Conceptual Understanding of the NAP Process
1. Slide 1
National Adaptation Plan (NAP)
Country-level training
Supported By In cooperation with
Session 2
Conceptual understanding
of the NAP process
Presented by Nat Pinnoi, Ph.D.
Private Sector Finance Specialist
UNDP Bangkok Regional Hub
2. Slide 2
Overview of this module
• Adaptation under the UNFCCC
• Characteristics of the NAP process
• Importance of NAP for countries
• Relation of NAP to other processes
• Support channels for NAP
3. Slide 3
What can you expect to learn from this
session?
• Familiarize with the general concept and
character of the NAP process
• Reflect on the relation to other national
processes
• Get a first overview about existing support
channels for NAP
4. Slide 4
Focus of adaptation under the UNFCCC over time
Further progress during COP 17-22:
NAP Technical Guidelines
Increased multilateral/ bilateral engagement
Financing support
COP21 (2015) Paris Agreement: “All Parties shall submit adaptation
plans (e.g., NAPs, or regular adaptation updates as part of national
communications) to the Secretariat to be recorded in a registry.”
NAP Process was established
5. Slide 5
Introduction to the NAP process
Objectives of NAP
• Reduce vulnerability
• Integrate (= mainstream) climate change
adaptation into new and existing development
planning processes, within all relevant sectors
and levels
UNFCCC, 5/CP.17
6. Slide 6
Key Principles of the NAP process - I
1. Flexible
• Non-prescriptive
• Countries select steps and approaches
2. Country-owned, country-driven
• Driven by national needs and priorities
• National coordinating mechanism and mandate
7. Slide 7
Key Principles of the NAP process - II
3. Integrated
• Mainstream adaptation into development planning and
budgets
• Iterative, building on existing efforts, improving coordination
• Transparent, participatory, gender-sensitive
4. Improved climate risk management
• Define pipeline of interventions
• Align funding from all sources
5. Learning, monitoring and evaluation
• Learn how to manage multiple climate risks through rigorous
monitoring and review
8. Slide 8
Importance of NAP for country processes
Links adaptation priorities to development needs
Sets clear objectives and priorities
Supports mainstreaming
Strengthens medium- to long-term measures not just ad hoc and
urgent priorities/projects
Builds on existing work and helps synthesise and simplify
Defines a pipeline of interventions
Captures resources: public, private, national, international
Supports coordination of adaptation efforts
Specifies needs: knowledge, capacity, institutional, funding
Sets out how progress will be measured and reported
9. Slide 9
In addition to NAP:
What other relevant planning processes exist in Vietnam?
• National Climate Change Strategy (2011)
• Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC)
• National Green Growth Strategy (2012)
• National Target Programme to Respond to Climate Change
(2008, 2012)
• Sustainable Development Strategy for 2011-2020
• Socio-Economic Development Plan 2016-2020
• Proactively Response to Climate Change, Improvement of
Natural Resource Management, and Environment Protection
(2013)
Who of among all of you was involved in them already? Could you
share some key lessons learned on the “planning process”?
10. Slide 10
NAP in the context of other relevant processes
Outreach
Planning
horizon
Multi-
sectoral
Sectoral
Short-term Long-term
HFA
National
Growth
Strategy
NAP
NAPA
NAMA
Sectoral
strategies
REDD+
SDG
LEDS
Green
Growth
Strategy
11. Slide 11
Institutions and support channels for NAP
UNFCCC LEG Dev. Partners Funding
sources
Initial Guidelines
(5/CP 17)
Technical Guidelines,
supplementary
material, trainings,
advisory, NAP Central
Supplementary
material, trainings,
advisory
Public, private,
national, international
resources
Further information: www.unfccc.int/nap
12. Slide 12
Exercise: Opportunities and challenges of the NAP
process in Vietnam
In group, you are invited to reflect a concrete situation of development and
adaptation processes in your country.
Please delineate which opportunities and which challenges you expect
from the NAP process with respect to its five key principles
Also consider concrete approaches you see for making use of
opportunities and coping with challenges
Country teams that want to realize key NAP tasks need to have a good understanding of the NAP concept
This module familiarizes with the general concept and character of the NAP process
From fragmentation to coordination and integration of adaptation
1996: Focus on assessing impacts and improving the science of CC
National communications started
2001: Creation of NAPAs, LDCF and LEG
LDCs called to establish NAPAs for identifying urgent and immediate adaptation needs
2010: Support for developing countries/ LDCs to develop NAPs (1/CP.16 published in 2011)
Identifying medium- and long-term adaptation needs
2011: Guidance for NAP process (5/CP.17)
LDC Expert Group (LEG) requested to develop technical guidelines
Agencies invited to establish NAP support programmes
2012: Technical and financial aspects of NAP (12/CP.18)
Multi- and bilateral agencies invited to provide further NAP support
2013: Launch of the NAP Global Support Programme
Targeted NAP support for LDC funded through the Global Environmental Facility (GEF)
2014: Launch of NAP Global Network
Enhance coordination and engagement of donors
During COP 17 in Doha the following decision was adopted by the conference of the parties (see below for French)
1. [The conference of the party] Agrees that the objectives of the national adaptation plan process are as follows:
(a) To reduce vulnerability to the impacts of climate change, by building
adaptive capacity and resilience;
(b) To facilitate the integration of climate change adaptation, in a coherent
manner, into relevant new and existing policies, programmes and activities, in particular
development planning processes and strategies, within all relevant sectors and at different
levels, as appropriate;
1. [La Conférence des Parties] Convient que les plans nationaux d’adaptation destinés à élaborer et à
appliquer des mesures d’adaptation ont pour objectif:
a) De réduire la vulnérabilité aux incidences des changements climatiques en
renforçant la capacité d’adaptation et la résilience;
b) D’intégrer de manière cohérente l’adaptation aux changements climatiques
dans les politiques, les programmes et les travaux pertinents, nouveaux ou en cours, en
particulier les processus et les stratégies de planification du développement, dans tous les
secteurs concernés et à différents niveaux, selon qu’il convient;
The NAP Technical Guidelines develop in chapter 1.2.3 guiding principles for the NAP process.
Among these principles, flexibility, ownership, integration, M&E, and improved risk management are important principles in the NAP process. Further explanation can be found in the participants manual.
Explanation of terms:
Disaster risk
The likelihood over a specified time period of severe alterations in the normal functioning of a community or a society due to hazardous
physical events interacting with vulnerable social conditions, leading to widespread adverse human, material, economic, or environmental
effects that require immediate emergency response to satisfy critical human needs and that may require external support for recovery.
Climate risks are a subset of disaster risks.
Risque de catastrophe: Probabilité que surviennent, au cours d’une période donnée, de graves perturbations du fonctionnement normal d’une popu-lation ou d’une société dues à l’interaction de phénomènes physiques dangereux avec des conditions de vulnérabilité sociale, qui provoque sur le plan humain, matériel, économique ou environnemental de vastes effets indésirables nécessitant la prise immédiate de mesures pour répondre aux besoins humains essentiels et exigeant parfois une assistance extérieure pour le relèvement.
Les risques climatiques sont un sous-catégorie des risques de catastrophe.
Source: IPCC, 2012: Glossary of terms. In: Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation.
Why should a country want to engage in the NAP process?
Why might it want to do so, even if it is already engaged in a significant number of adaptation projects at different levels and in different sectors?
NAP is not the only mainstreaming process at the interface between environment and development.
This graph shows different processes from a sectoral and a temporal perspective.
A NAP country team looking for support for the NAP process might want to analyze how NAP relates to similar processes in order to maximize synergies. Similar relevant processes might exist in different sectors and at different government levels. I could be beneficial for the NAP process to build on existing plans and activities.
HFA = Hyogo Framework for Action 2: Post-2015 framework for disaster risk reduction, launched in 2012 (UN General Assembly ), building on a review of the implementation of the HFA over its 10-year term.
NAPA = National Adaptation Programmes of Action: provide a process for Least Developed Countries to identify priority activities that respond to their urgent and immediate needs to adapt to climate change.
NAMAs = Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs): were introduced at the Bali-UN Conference of the Parties in 2007 as a voluntary mitigation-contribution of the developing and transition countries, supported by industrialised countries with financial and technological promotion as well as capacity building.
SDGs = Sustainable Development Goals refer to an agreement of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development held in Rio de Janeiro in June 2012 (Rio+20), to develop a set of future international development goals.
REDD+ = Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation: a mechanism that has been under negotiation by the UNFCCC since 2005, with the twin objectives of mitigating climate change through reducing emissions of greenhouse gases and removing greenhouse gases through enhanced forest management in developing countries.
NAP = National Adaptation Plans: formulation and implementation of NAPs is a means of identifying medium- and long-term adaptation needs and developing and implementing strategies and programmes to address those needs.
LEDS = Low Emission Development Strategy: „forward-looking national development plans or strategies that encompass low-emission and/or climate-resilient economic growth” (OECD)
The preparation of NAP processes is currently underway in many developing countries.
Multilateral and bilateral partners support this important process in different ways