On October 21, 2025, the Government of Somalia hosted a workshop in Mogadishu, where key actors validated the country’s first National Climate Change Action Plan 2025–2030 (NCCAP). The plan facilitates the implementation of Somalia’s national and international commitments on climate change, including the priority actions identified in its National Adaptation Plan (NAP), Nationally Determined Contribution 3.0, […]
Adapting to the impacts of climate change demands significant shifts in attitudes, behaviours, and practices, both among those directly affected and among policy and decision-makers. For instance, farmers may need to transition away from cultivating crops that are highly sensitive to climate hazards. At the same time, policy-makers must systematically integrate climate change adaptation […]
Over the past 10 years, the NAP Global Network has focused on supporting developing countries in determining their priority actions to adapt to the changing climate. Now, more and more countries are stepping up their efforts to move beyond planning and turning their NAPs into action. Here are just four examples of how countries are […]
Four stories of adaptation plans driving change View the story NAPs in Action Four stories of adaptation plans driving change In Costa Rica, farmers tend to their crops with support from water reservoirs introduced through the country’s National Adaptation Plan. (moOve) In Costa Rica, farmers tend to their crops with support from water reservoirs introduced […]
In Rwanda, the Envisioning Resilience program in partnership with the NAP Global Network, Lensational and the Rwanda’s Women Network have been training women to use photography to document climate change impacts to share their experiences with policy decision makers.
At the 2024 UN Bonn Climate Change Conference, countries will initiate the assessment of the progress in the formulating and implementing their NAPs.
From August 19 to 21, the Republic of Namibia co-hosted a three-day peer learning forum that brought together adaptation government decision-makers and civil society organization (CSO) representatives in Windhoek to explore why civil society engagement in national adaptation plan (NAP) processes is essential. Participants from 11 countries—Belize, Burkina Faso, Comoros, Côte d’Ivoire, Jamaica, Kenya, Madagascar, Namibia (host), Rwanda, Saint Lucia, South […]
Pour assurer un processus de plan national d’adaptation (PNA) qui répond aux questions de genre, il est essentiel de bien connaître les acteurs de ce processus. En 2021, le Réseau mondial de PNA a travaillé avec le Ministère de l’Environnement au Tchad pour mieux comprendre ces dynamiques et en tirer des leçons pour le développement de son processus de PNA.
A new sense of urgency for climate action is being felt all around the world. While reflecting on this year’s progress in our work, it’s clear that the momentum being built for climate action will continue into the new year and NAPs will have a big role to play.
A conversation with Florence Tanoh, Director of Gender and Equity at Côte d’Ivoire’s Ministry of Women, on how capacity building helps to take better account of the linkages between gender and climate change.