This slide deck includes presentations from World Resources Institute, the NDC Partnership, NAP Global Network and GIZ from a webinar held by the Adaptation Action Coalition on 16 August 2022. These presentations highlight analytical findings about adaptation components of countries' NDCs, comparing previous and enhanced NDC submissions. The presentations also include information on tools and resources for countries to focus on the adaptation components of their NDCs.

2. CLIMATE RESILIENCE PRACTICE (CRP)
STATE OF THE ADAPTATION
COMPONENTS OF THE NATIONALLY
DETERMINED CONTRIBUTIONS
Ryan O’Connor
August 16, 2022

3. • Total NDCs reviewed: 296
• Number of first NDCs: 148
• Number of updated NDCs: 148
• First NDCs with adaptation: 105
• Updated NDCs with adaptation: 106
• Number of adaptation
priorities/actions: 5,920
Scanned for inclusion of 7 key systems in
Adapt Now report from Global
Commission on Adaptation:
• Water
• Natural Environment
• Food & Nutrition Security
• Disaster Risk Management
• Cities and Urban Areas
• Infrastructure
• Finance
Plus Locally Led Adaptation, Health,
‘Other’
Working papers :
1. Summary findings of
adaptation NDC analysis
2. Case studies on process to
develop NDCs for Cambodia,
Rwanda, Colombia, and Fiji Google ‘adapt now wri’ for Adapt Now
report
WRI ANALYSIS: STATE OF NDCS FOR ADAPTATION

4. ANALYSIS FRAMEWORK: UPDATED ADAPTATION
NDCS
WRI developed a qualitative framework for assessing changes in the
adaptation components of updated NDCs using nine elements:
1. Ownership
2. Alignment
3. Latest information
4. Coverage of critical systems
5. Implementation readiness of actions
6. Monitoring and evaluation
7. Equity and inclusion
8. Losses and damages
9. Transformative adaptation

5. IMPROVED ALIGNMENT IN POLICIES
As of June 30, 2021 – includes first NDCs from 86 countries, updated NDCs from 86
countries
• Updated NDCs show
improved alignment with
other national and
international policy
processes.
• Adaptation components of
the updated NDCs were
strongly influenced by
ongoing or completed NAP
processes.
• References to other sub-
national, sectoral, national,
and international policy
processes are more
numerous in the updated
NDCs.

6. DETAILS ON SYSTEMS AND SECTORS
As of December 31, 2021 – includes first NDCs from 148 countries, updated NDCs from 148
countries
Updated NDCs include
more specific
adaptation actions
across all critical
systems/sectors.
Largest increases in:
• Food & Nutrition
Security – 466 vs.
819
• Water – 437 vs. 733
• Nature-based
Solutions – 324 vs.
635
• Other – 309 vs. 681

7. IMPLEMENTATION READINESS: ADAPTATION COSTS
• The articulation of costs for
adaptation actions in the
NDCs, though growing, is
still limited.
• Limited countries report
costs for specific adaptation
priorities.
• Few priorities include
additional details such as
indicators and time frames
• There is an increase in
reported unconditional
costs, but cumulative
numbers hide many
methodological issues.
As of December 31, 2021 – includes first NDCs from 148 countries, updated NDCs from 148 countries

8. IN SUMMARY
• Adaptation components in the updated NDCs have
become more specific, detailed, inclusive, and better
aligned with other policies.
• However, more work remains in finance,
implementation planning, and policy coherence.
– They need implementation arrangements and
financing to move into implementation at the scale
and speed the climate crisis requires; and
– They need to be very well aligned with other
adaptation processes, such as the NAPs, adaptation
communications, and other national processes.

9. ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
• Working Paper: State of the Nationally Determined
Contributions: Enhancing Adaptation Ambition
• Working Paper: Stories Behind the Adaptation
Commitments in the Nationally Determined
Contributions of Cambodia, Rwanda, Colombia, and Fiji
• Blog: 3 Things to Know About the Adaptation
Components of Countries’ Updated NDCs
• Full Dataset: Climate Watch

10. ADAPTATION IN THE NDCS
FROM ENHANCEMENT TO IMPLEMENTATION
Amanda McKee
NDC Partnership Support Unit
16 August 2022

11. 11
TOGETHER WE ALIGN SUPPORT AND DELIVER INCREASED
AMBITION
Adaptation in the NDCs

12. ACCELERATING IMPACT THROUGH COLLECTIVE
ACTION
12
67 countries
supported through
CAEP
62 NDCs
enhanced and
submitted
78%
response
rate
USD
55 million+
mobilized
through CAEP
CAEP Report
bit.ly/LessonsCAEP
• CLIMATE ACTION ENHANCEMENT PACKAGE
Adaptation in the NDCs

13. NDC ENHANCEMENT
13
• AMBITION, QUALITY, AND PROCESS
NDC enhancement across countries: key trends within each pil
Note: each hexagon represents 11 countries (55 total)
Adaptation in the NDCs

14. ADAPTATION ENHANCEMENT
• Countries enhanced
adaptation ambition
through:
– Detailed reviews of country-specific
vulnerability
– Development of NAPs or other national
strategies
– Increased sectoral scope of adaptation
targets
– Updated information on barriers to
achieving adaptation targets
– Identification and prioritization tools for
adaptation needs
14 Adaptation in the NDCs

15. ADAPTATION TRENDS
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• INSIGHTS FROM REQUESTS FOR SUPPORT
Adaptation in the NDCs

16. ADAPTATION TRENDS
Adaptation in the NDCs
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• REQUEST FOR SUPPORT
• Over a quarter of requests (28%) fall under the
adaptation focus area
– Water is the most requested defined sector at 225
requests
– Disaster risk reduction is the top requested key topic:
86% of all DRR requests being adaptation related
– Support for adaptation requests has room for growth
as 54% of requests unsupported (compared to 37%
unsupported mitigation & cross-cutting requests)

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• In addition to developing or updating
their implementation plans, countries
are strengthening their ability to
attract investment through the
development of investment plans,
costing of targets and institutional
strengthening.
• As countries move to implement their
climate commitments, their ambitions
must be matched with necessary
financial and technical assistance.
IMPLEMENTATION-READY NDCS
WHAT’S NEXT?
Adaptation in the NDCs

18. ADAPTATION PIPELINE ACCELERATOR
• The NDC Partnership is
carrying out global scoping
across 12 countries for the
APA
– Antigua and Barbuda,
Belize, Burkina Faso,
Dominican Republic, Fiji,
Grenada, Jordan, Papua
New Guinea, Rwanda,
Sao Tome and Principe,
St. Lucia, and Tonga
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By COP27 countries will advance in
at least one of the below:
• Identify adaptation
priorities
• Turned adaptation priorities
into an investment plan with
identified sources of
financing
• Turned an investment plan
into a pipeline of investable
projects through project
preparation support
Adaptation in the NDCs

19. KEEP IN TOUCH
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facebook.com/ndcpartnership
@ndcpartnership
linkedin.com/company/ndcpartnership
@ndcpartnership
www.ndcpartnership.org
Adaptation in the NDCs

20. Adaptation Components of
NDCs: Leveraging National
Adaptation Plan (NAP)
Processes
Adaptation Action Coalition
August 16, 2022
Photo: Catherine Pilalei, Lensationa

21. National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Process
Put adaptation at the heart of decision-making
• Identify and address medium- and
long-term priorities for adapting
to climate change
• Assess risk, identify and prioritize
options, implement options, track,
measure progress – learn
• Put in place the systems and
capacities to make this a part of
regular development planning and
budgeting
• NDCs and NAP processes can be
mutually supportive because of
complementary differences in their
level of detail and purpose

22. NATIONAL ADAPTATION PLANNING
Developing countries
with a NAP process
underway
129/
154
NAP documents
communicated to the
UNFCCC
38
…but numbers don’t reflect the full scope of efforts underway
0 10 20
Eastern Europe
Asia Pacific
Latin America…
Africa

23. What are the
expected
outcomes of the
NAP process?
• Articulation of adaptation priorities
• Clear pathway towards addressing the
priorities
• Enhanced coordination on climate
adaptation
• Accelerated and strategic investments
Ultimate outcome: Reduction of a country’s
vulnerability to climate impacts in medium- and long-
term

24. Alignment with other climate
and sustainable
development processes
• The results and outputs of NAP
processes can be leveraged to inform
multiple sustainable development
processes, plans, and strategies
• Challenges include differing timelines,
coordination fatigue, differing purposes
(e.g., political vs. technical) among
others
# of NAPs (out of 30) that mention other climate-related
agendas, plans and strategies
as of December 31, 2021

25. TRANSITIONING FROM PLANNING TO
IMPLEMENTATION
Many countries are navigating the transition from planning to
implementation of NAP priority measures, including:
• Grenada accessed USD 43.9m in funding from the Green Climate
Fund for the “Climate Resilient Water Sector in Grenada” (G-
CREWS) project, and is making weather insurance available to
fisherfolk under the Caribbean Ocean and Aquaculture Sustainability
(COAST) Facility
• Fiji established nurseries for vetiver grass, a deep-rooted grass, to
scale up its use in riverbank erosion control to reduce damages from
floods
• Saint Lucia accessing USD 10m for adaptation in the agriculture
sector from the Adaptation Fund for the project “Building resilience
for adaptation to climate change and climate vulnerabilities in
agriculture in Saint Lucia”

26. LESSONS & OBSERVATIONS FROM
NAP GLOBAL NETWORK SUPPORT
 More interest in NAPs than ever — hear both "not
enough NAPs" yet "too much planning"
 Plans are the key milestone and implementation is the
measure of success. But we can't lose sight of the
importance of investing in systems, capacities,
institutions, processes.
 Gender equality and social inclusion offers compelling
stories about effectiveness. Growing interest in
monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) to track
progress, and in vertical integration to link national
adaptation and locally led adaptation.

27. THANK YOU
Email: info@napglobalnetwork.org
Website: napglobalnetwork.org

28. Janna Frischen, Advisor, Climate Policy Support Programme