Strengthening national adaptation planning towards a more climate resilient society in the Plurinational State of Bolivia

The proposal seeks €2,773,855 over 36 months to develop Bolivia's first National Adaptation Plan (NAP) targeting 2035. It addresses critical barriers including weak institutional capacity, poor intersectoral coordination, and insufficient scientific evidence for adaptation. The project focuses on four priority sectors: water, forests and biodiversity, agriculture and rural development, and human health, with education as a cross-cutting theme. Key objectives include establishing a monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) system, catalyzing private sector investment, and creating a pipeline of bankable adaptation projects. Implementation will be led by the Plurinational Authority of Mother Earth (APMT) and the Ministry of Development Planning (MPD), with GIZ as the delivery partner.

• Bolivia is highly vulnerable to climate change, with nearly 60% of the national territory exhibiting high or very high vulnerability, particularly in the Altiplano and Valley regions.
• Extreme weather events have caused significant economic losses, with climate-related damages to public infrastructure and productive capacity reducing annual GDP by between 1% and 17% over the last four decades.
• The country faces severe environmental degradation, including the loss of over 4 million hectares of primary forest between 2002 and 2023 and record-breaking wildfires that burned more than 10 million hectares in a single year.
• There is a critical lack of institutional capacity to integrate climate adaptation into public planning, evidenced by the fact that only one GCF-financed project has been implemented in Bolivia since 2005.
• Private sector engagement in climate risk reduction is very limited, as adaptation is often perceived as a public sector responsibility, despite the high impact of droughts on the agro-industry in Santa Cruz.
• The proposed NAP will prioritize four key sectors: water resources management, agriculture, forests and biodiversity, and human health, while mainstreaming education as a cross-cutting sector.
• The project aims to overcome scientific data gaps by updating national and subnational climate scenarios and conducting four strategic risk and vulnerability assessments for the priority sectors.
• A key goal is to increase adaptation finance by developing a pipeline of bankable projects and establishing a national taxonomy for tracking climate finance flows within the Subsystem of Public Investment and External Financing (SIPFE).

APA

Green Climate Fund (2025). Strengthening national adaptation planning towards a more climate resilient society in the Plurinational State of Bolivia. https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/20250415-gcf-apprd-nap-rdnss-grnt-bolivia-giz-bol007.pdf

Chicago

Green Climate Fund. Strengthening national adaptation planning towards a more climate resilient society in the Plurinational State of Bolivia. 2025. https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/20250415-gcf-apprd-nap-rdnss-grnt-bolivia-giz-bol007.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{greenclimatefund2025strengthening, author = {{Green Climate Fund}}, title = {{Strengthening national adaptation planning towards a more climate resilient society in the Plurinational State of Bolivia}}, institution = {Green Climate Fund}, year = {2025}, month = apr, url = {https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/20250415-gcf-apprd-nap-rdnss-grnt-bolivia-giz-bol007.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }