1. Module I.3 Process overview on NAP Trainer: [Name]
Country teams that want to realize key NAP tasks need to have a good understanding and awareness of the NAP process
This module starts the training on the NAP TG with an overview of the NAP elements, guidelines, support channels. We will go into more detail of specific aspects in the subsequent modules.

2. Overview of this module
Introduction to the NAP Technical Guidelines
Orientation within the 4-element approach
How to use the Technical Guidelines
Supplementary resources
How this training covers the Technical Guidelines
Provide an overview of the content of the presentation, starting with “Objectives of the module” (see next slide).

3. What can you expect to learn from this session?
Get introduced to the main elements and basic structure of the NAP Technical Guidelines
Reflect which parts of the Technical Guidelines can help to move your NAP process forward and how they can best be used
Understand what supplementary materials and support resources are available upon countries request
Know how this training covers the Technical Guidelines

4. Introduction to Technical Guidelines
Developed by LEG in 2012
Build on initial guidelines by UNFCCC
Four elements and their indicative activities for the NAP process:
Laying the groundwork and addressing gaps
Preparatory elements
Implementation strategies
Reporting, monitoring and review
The Technical Guidelines build on the NAP decision of the Cancun Adaptation Framework decided by the COP16 in Cancun.
The Cancun Adaptation Framework already defined four main elements of the Technical Guidelines.
The Least Developed Countries Expert Group (LEG) was requested by the COP17 in Durban in 2012 to prepare the Technical Guidelines. These are the initial guidelines, which are two pages long.
The LEG was requested in 2001 to support least developed countries (LDCs) in addressing the adverse impacts of climate change. Since that time the LEG has provided technical guidance and advice to LDCs on the preparation and implementation of their national adaptation programmes of action (NAPAs).
The initial guidelines adopted by the COP for the formulation of NAPs focused on LDCs and how they could build upon their experience in preparing and implementing NAPAs.
The present Technical Guidelines elaborate on those initial guidelines and offer a range of options for dealing with each element of the NAP process, drawing on the best available knowledge.
All agencies and organizations working on adaptation in LDCs, and other developing countries, are invited to use the guidelines in carrying out their work.
Initial Guidelines
Technical Guidelines

5. Approach of the Technical Guidelines
For each of the four elements the Technical Guidelines propose
Steps a country may consider
Key questions to facilitate implementation of the steps
Indicative activities/ tasks a country may undertake under each step
Including description, suggested approaches and methods, examples, case studies and key references
No strict sequence – numbers for ease of reference
The LEG has broken down the four main elements in steps, building blocks, sample outputs. You can see that very well on the NAP TG poster
Module I.2 showed already that these elements and steps should be applied with a high degree of flexibility considering the concrete conditions in the country and that NAP should not be understood as a new or parallel process from scratch but that it should be integrated and linked to existing processes wherever possible.
This training will not introduce each step or building block in great detail. But it will give a general overview and show users where to find more resources and how to use the NAP TG in a flexible way.
4 elements
Steps
Key questions
Indicative activities

6. Gender in the Technical Guidelines
Guidelines recognize importance of integrating a gender perspective in NAP process.
Help ensure equal participation of men and women in NAP decision-making processes and implementation of adaptation activities.
Help ensure NAP process and activities do not exacerbate gender inequalities.
Can lead to better adaptation and more resilient communities.
Decision-making processes often favour men in terms of participation. It is important to bring out the perspectives and knowledge of men and women as they often have different roles, responsibilities, and related knowledge and experience.
Gender inequalities can often be worsened when technologies and practices are introduced externally without consideration for the lived realities of women and men. At the very least, adaptation options may not succeed if they do not meet the needs of women as well as men.

7. NAP process (elements and outcome)
Presentation title
D. Reporting, Monitoring and Review
Transparency
Effectiveness
Learning
A. Laying the groundwork and addressing gaps
Political buy-in
Data, information and institutional framework
Informed stakeholders
C. Implementation Strategy
Long-term orientation for planning and implementation
Concrete activities
B. Preparatory Elements
Identified interplay between climate and development
Identified adaptation needs and options
NAP process (elements and outcome)
Source: Adapted from UNFCCC - LEG (2012), NAP Technical Guidelines

8. Element A: Lay the groundwork and address gaps
Presentation title
Element A: Lay the groundwork and address gaps
Objective: Lay the groundwork and address gaps
Sample outputs
Political mandate
Overview of data, information, activities
Enabled environment for NAP process
Continuously relate adaptation and development
Indicative activities
Initiate and launch the NAP process
Raise awareness, inform and visualize
Assess and address gaps
Assess development needs and climate vulnerabilities
Outcome
Political buy-in
Data, information and institutional basis
Informed stakeholders
Source: Adapted from UNFCCC - LEG (2012), NAP Technical Guidelines

9. Element B: Preparatory elements
Objective: Provide basis for developing a NAP
Sample outputs
Report on climate change scenarios
Ranked vulnerabilities
Ranked adaptation options
National adaptation plans → education strategy
Indicative activities
Analyze climate change scenarios
Assess vulnerabilities
Identify, review and appraise, adaptation options
Compile and communicate NAP
Integrate NAP into development processes
Outcome
Identified interplay between climate and development
Identified adaptation needs and options
Source: Adapted from UNFCCC - LEG (2012), NAP Technical Guidelines

10. Element C: Implementation strategies
Objective: Develop a long-term adaptation implementation strategy
Sample outputs
Prioritized adaptation options
Long-term adaptation implementation strategy
Coordinated policies, programmes, projects
Enhanced planning and implementation capacity
Indicative activities
Prioritize adaptation options
Develop long-term implementation strategy
Enhance planning/implementation capacity
Promote coordination/synergy
Outcome
Long-term orientation for planning and implementation
Concrete activities
Source: Adapted from UNFCCC - LEG (2012), NAP Technical Guidelines

11. Element D: Reporting, monitoring and review
Objective: Ensure the effectiveness of the NAP process
Sample outputs
Progress reports
Evaluation reports
Review reports
Updated plans
Indicative activities
Monitor progress
Review the process
Update the NAP regularly
Outreach and report on NAP process
Outcome
Transparency
Effectiveness
Learning
Source: Adapted from UNFCCC - LEG (2012), NAP Technical Guidelines

12. Using the Technical Guidelines - I
Reminder
Not prescriptive
To be used in a flexible manner according to a country’s needs and desired entry points
Build upon existing strategies, literature review, expert input and experience
Source: Climate Media Factory
The COP decided that the NAP process should not be prescriptive, nor result in the duplication of efforts undertaken in-country, but should rather facilitate country-owned, country-driven action.
Therefore it is very important that countries build sufficient institutional and individual skills among key experts to manage the process and also any external support
Also it is very important that countries make use of the NAP TG in a flexible way
This is what this training should support

13. Using the Technical Guidelines - II
General approach of the guidelines
Promote not a single but complementary approaches to adaptation planning
Maximum flexibility for tools
No particular sequence or number of steps to follow
National process will manage demand for external support (rather than being support-driven)
Source: Climate Media Factory
The COP decided that the NAP process should not be prescriptive, nor result in the duplication of efforts undertaken in-country, but should rather facilitate country-owned, country-driven action.
Therefore it is very important that countries build sufficient institutional and individual skills among key experts to manage the process and also any external support
Also it is very important that countries make use of the NAP TG in a flexible way
This is what this training should support

14. Resources by the LEG to support the NAP process
This slide gives you an overview of the main resources provided by the LEG. On the website you will find additional resources that are progressively developed by the LEG.
Source: LEG 2012, UNFCCC

15. Examples of supplementary material and support upon country demand
Support for individual elements and steps
Support for sectoral topics
Regional support
GIZ. The Stocktaking for National Adaptation Planning (SNAP) Tool
GWP. Water Supplement to the Technical Guidelines
Regional Climate Centers
GIZ. Developing National Adaptation Monitoring and Evaluation systems
WHO. Guidance to protect health from climate change through health adaptation planning
Programmes of regional economic bodies
GIZ & adelphi. Climate Finance Readiness Training (CliFiT)
CI. Tool for integrating ecosystems into climate change adaptation planning
UNITAR & NAP-GSP. Skills assessment for National Adaptation Planning
WMO. Climate Services for Supporting Climate Change Adaptation
The NAP TG give a very good overview of key aspects of the NAP process. However the description of tasks, suggested approaches and methods, examples, case studies and key references is necessarily limited.
Development Partners supporting the NAP process have therefore prepared a number of supplementary materials that provide more details about individual steps as well as sectoral issues.
These materials should provide recommendations at practical level to be used at case-by-case basis. Therefore they should not duplicate the NAP TG and be clearly aligned to them.
Also the use of the supplementary materials should be very flexible upon country demand
Regional Centers: Regional centers assist in regionally focused research, climate data collection and capacity building to develop effective adaptation measures.
Regional economic cooperation bodies also support adaptation planning. For example the ASEAN (The Association of Southeast Asian Nations) Centre for Biodiversity plays a leadership role in informing adaptation planning for its member countries. Its mandate is to harmonise and further develop the varying political approaches taken by ASEAN nations at a regional level and to gather and manage information and knowledge about the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity. The Centre also supports member states in their efforts to meet targets set out in the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (UN-CBD).
Abreviations:
WMO = World Meteorological Organization
GWP = Global Water Partnership
WHO = World Health Organization
CI = Conservation International
FAO = Food and Agricultural Organization
This table is to give an idea on the range of different resources for supporting the NAP process. It is not meant to be exhaustive. A more comprehensive list with supplementary material with full titles and links to different resources can be found in the participants‘ manual (annex I).
More supplementary material to the NAP Technical Guidelines can be found in Annex I of the Participants‘ Manual and at NAP Central

16. How this training covers the Technical Guidelines
This training has broken the NAP TG down into 19 modules. The modules are organized according to the four elements of the NAP TG
The Module based structure of the training enables the trainer to compose individual trainings by reflecting on the target group; time-frame available; level of existing knowledge among target group;specific context to the NAP process.
The green lined boxes on this slide are the NAP elements, the black lined boxes are the steps and the blue clouds are the modules of this training.

17. Exercise part A: Navigating within the element scheme of the Technical Guidelines
You are invited to define relevant activities for the sample work stream ‘Gaps and needs analysis’  see matrix I.3.1
The left column lists the elements and steps as proposed by the Technical Guidelines for the work stream ‘Gaps and needs analysis’
Define activities which are relevant for the work stream with a view to your concrete country situation
Select the activities from Table 3 of the overview version of the NAP Technical Guidelines, which condenses all activities of the long version
Write down the activities on cards - you will work in mini-groups

18. Exercise part B: Interfacing with various existing country processes under the NAP process
Figure I.3.2 shows the NAP process surrounded by various planning, implementation, financing and monitoring processes, which are partly related to general development or sector policy, partly to climate change adaptation
The moderator will guide you through the exercise, where you will analyse the relationship of NAP to these other processes
Various categories of relationship might be relevant, which are shown through cards within a scheme prepared for you on the pin-wall

19. Imprint
Published by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Climate Policy Support Project
Dag-Hammarskjöld-Weg Eschborn, Germany T F
Contact E I
Responsible Michael Brossmann, GIZ
Author Till Below
Picture credits Title: Technical Guidelines (UNFCCC 2011, LEG 2012), NAP Process (UNFCCC 2014), Light bulb (Climate Media Factory), Resources (LEG 2012, UNFCCC), Training poster (GIZ 2014, adapted from LEG 2012)
This presentation is part of a NAP country-level training that has been developed by GIZ on behalf of BMZ and in cooperation with the NAP Global Support Programme (NAP-GSP), in particular UNDP and UNITAR.
The training is designed to support countries in setting up a National Adaptation Plan (NAP) process. It builds on the NAP Technical Guidelines developed by the Least- Developed Countries Expert Group (LEG).
You are welcome to use the slides, as long as you do not alter its content or design (including the logos), nor this imprint. If you have any questions regarding the training, please contact Michael Brossmann at GIZ. For questions related to the Technical Guidelines, please refer to the UNFCCC’s NAP Central.
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