National adaptation planning : emerging lessons learned from UNEP projects : policy brief

Abstract

To better inform adaptation planning and implementation, this briefing note summarises lessons, practices and areas of future adaptation support from the National Adaptation Plans (NAP) that UNEP is supporting in 23 countries from Africa (Eswatini, Ghana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritania, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Uganda, and Zimbabwe), Latin America (Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Honduras, and Panama), and the Middle East and Asia (Iraq, Lao PDR, Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar1 , Nepal, and Pakistan). Many of these NAPs are at an early stage of implementation, and this analysis, therefore, builds on from 6 countries that have progressed the furthest in their NAPs (Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Iraq, Nepal, Sao Tome and Principe and Zimbabwe).