The NAP process: Opportunities and challenges

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1 The NAP process: Opportunities and challenges A joint session by Acclimatise, Climate Analytics and GIZ Adaptation Futures Conference Rotterdam, May 12, 2016 Page / 1 Agenda Welcome and agenda Presentation: Experiences of bilatreal development cooperation Panel discussion: Experiences with the NAP process Brazil and Thailand Break-out groups: Identifying and managing entry points for mainstreaming in the policy cycle Building adaption planning on rigorous data How to make NAPs implementable Wrap-up Page / 2 1

2 The National Adaptation Plan process A development practitioner s perspective Dr. Till Below Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH Page / 3 Climate resilient development requires skills & capacities Page / 4 2

3 Germany s NAP support worldwide Albania Jamaica Grenada Peru Morocco Mali Mauritania Tunisia The Gambia Uganda West Africa Ivory Coast Benin Togo Angola Brazil Zambia Uruguay South Africa Thailand Cambodia Viet Nam Djibouti The Philippines Kenya Nepal Tanzania Malawi Indonesia Madagascar Map as of Overview of GIZ tools for NAP support Initiate and launch the NAP process A Laying the groundwork and addressing gaps Stocktaking: information on climate change, impacts, vulnerability, gaps and needs of enabling environment Addressing capacity gaps and weaknesses in undertaking the NAP process Analyse climate risks Assess climate vulnerabilities B Preparatory elements Integrate climate change adaptation into planning Review adaptation options Compile and communicate NAPs C D Implementation strategies Reporting, monitoring and review International coordination and exchange Please note: The tools and approaches are applicable to more than one step or element but have been placed near the step they are supporting most for illustrative purposes. Elements and steps suggested in the NAP Technical Guidelines prepared by LEG NAP support tool or approach by GIZ Page / 6 3

4 CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS Find the right entry points the most outstanding success was the process character of the NAP process. I was able to clearly point out the importance of adaptation to our country. Through the case work during the IMWG meetings, my colleagues from the other sectors realized that climate change might hamper the achievement of their development goals. Laureta Dibra, Head of Air, Climate Change and Chemicals Sector, Ministry of Environment, Government of Albania, Page / 8 4

5 Build adaption action on solid information Page / 9 Bring adaptation from planning to implementation To make plans is most often a presumptuous, boastful mental preoccupation, through which one presents the appearance of creative genius, in that one requires what one cannot himself provide, censures what one cannot do better, and proposes what one does not know how to attain oneself. Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena to any future Metaphysics, 1783 Page / 10 5

6 Thank you for your attention! Further information is available at AdaptationCommunity.net Napglobalnetwork.org Contact: Till Below Competence Centre Climate Change and Environmental Policy Page / 11 Context of the National Adaptation Plan 3 years: Interministerial Working Group on Adaptation : 28 meetings 11 Sectors Involved 13 Ministries/ 18 institutions Brazilian Forum on Climate Change 6 Thematic Networks Installed: Water, Biodiversity, Food Security, Coastal Zones, Vulnerable Population, Health 2 Public Consultations, 5 presencial meetings for public presentation 4 Expert Councils Consulted : Water, Biodiversity, Food Security, Industry, Scientific Community Consulted: Brazilian Panel on Climate Change, Rede Clima 197 meetings in total 6

7 Thailand s Climate Change Adaptation Adaptation Roadmap CCMP UNDP: Climate Finance Research Institutes: TRF, NRCT # 1 # 2 GIZ-BMUB: CCMP Implementation Risk-NAP Support Resilient Project-based Adaptation NAP MOEJ: NAP workshop JICA: ADAP-T project Line Ministries Climate Change Strategic plans: MOH, MOAC Sustainable 7