Supporting NAP development with the PROVIA Guidance: A user companion

Climate change poses particular challenges to Least Developed Countries (LDCs), exacerbating the vulnerability of poor communities and adding new constraints, risks and uncertainties to their development. Recognizing this, the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) established a new national adaptation plan (NAP) process to facilitate effective adaptation planning in LDCs and other developing countries.

The NAP process aims to reduce vulnerability to climate change impacts by building adaptive capacity and resilience, and to help integrate adaptation into relevant policies, programmes and activities, especially in the context of development. The Technical Guidelines for the National Adaptation Plan Process, produced by the LDC Expert Group in December 2012, details a series of steps for producing a NAP. This user companion explains how the PROVIA Guidance can be used to inform and support the NAP process, matching “indicative activities” of specific steps in the NAP-TG with corresponding materials in the guidance.

It is important to stress that like the PROVIA Guidance, this companion should not be seen as prescriptive; as the NAP-TG clearly states, “a country will define its unique set of activities based on its circumstances” (p.28).

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