National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Training
Course Preamble.
Launching, managing and supporting a NAP process is a complex task that needs input and capacities from a broad range of stakeholders. Climate change is affecting various sectors in specific ways in many different countries. These new challenges call for increased collaboration between different sectors. As countries across the globe face the impacts of climate change, they are advancing NAP processes to reduce vulnerabilities and build climate resilience. But how do countries know if they are adapting? Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) systems are essential to understand whether NAP processes work and how they work, while offering insights to improve adaptation actions.
This training will provide an opportunity for delegates to come together and work towards a common understanding of what NAP means for their country. This training also raises awareness on the challenges and opportunities in the NAP process, assists in identifying institutional, financial needs, and familiarizes participants with existing NAP support tools and methods. Beyond that the training seeks to strengthen the awareness of the NAP process in-countries and will also provide specific knowledge on the NAP framework conditions and key steps in the process.
Expected Learning Outcomes
- Ensure common understanding on climate change & Adaptation
- Understand the structure of NAP technical guidelines
- Understand the significance of adequate institutional setup for adaptation
- Familiarize participants to sources of climate change information and concepts of vulnerability
- Have a discourse on how to prioritize adaptation options
- Understand how to conduct cost benefit analysis
- Available options for international climate finance
- Understand how to conduction adaptation MEAL
Training Modules
- Essentials of Adaptation to climate change
- Conceptual understanding of the NAP process
- Process overview of NAP
- Key characteristics of NAP process
- Significance of effective negotiation in NAP planning
- Institutional setup for adaptation
- Climate information for vulnerability assessment
- Develop and select adaptation options
- Appraising adaptation options
- Mainstreaming adaptation into development planning
- Develop capacities for NAP
- Financing adaptation
- NAP implementation
- Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning & Accountability (MEAL) for the NAP processes
- Getting started with the development of a MEAL system
- Evaluation Adaptation Solutions
- Learning
- Progress Reporting
- NAP as a living document-Iterative character of NAP planning & Implementation
- Road map to development
- Transfer into daily work-Transmit learning outcomes
Way forward After the Training
Participants will develop a work plan through the help of facilitators that stipulates application of skills acquired in improving their organizations. ASPM will monitor implementation progress after the training.
Training Evaluation:
Participants will undertake a simple assessment before the training to gauge knowledge and skills and another assessment will be done after the training in-order to demonstrate knowledge gained through the training.
