COUNTRY CASE STUDY: Sri Lanka

The document highlights Sri Lanka's progress in linking sustainable development, climate change, and disaster risk reduction within its policy documents. It identifies the iterative updates of the Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) and National Adaptation Plan (NAP) as critical entry points for further alignment. The study notes that alignment is more straightforward when a single entity, specifically the Ministry of Mahaweli Development and Environment, leads the processes. Additionally, it suggests that alignment can create efficiencies in establishing monitoring and evaluation systems and sub-national planning processes.

• Sri Lanka has already begun integrating links between sustainable development, climate change, and disaster risk reduction within its policy documents.
• The recurring updates to the National Adaptation Plan (NAP) and Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) provide strategic opportunities to improve the alignment of these two processes in Sri Lanka.
• Alignment is facilitated when a single ministry manages the relevant portfolios; in Sri Lanka, the Ministry of Mahaweli Development and Environment handles both sustainable development and climate change.
• Aligning policy processes can lead to significant efficiencies in the creation of sub-national planning processes and key systems, such as monitoring and evaluation.

APA

NAP Global Network (2019). COUNTRY CASE STUDY: Sri Lanka. https://napglobalnetwork.org/resource/alignment-to-advance-climate-resilient-development-6/

Chicago

NAP Global Network. COUNTRY CASE STUDY: Sri Lanka. 2019. https://napglobalnetwork.org/resource/alignment-to-advance-climate-resilient-development-6/.

Wikipedia

{{cite report |author=NAP Global Network |title=COUNTRY CASE STUDY: Sri Lanka |date=19 November 2019 |url=https://napglobalnetwork.org/resource/alignment-to-advance-climate-resilient-development-6/ |access-date=23 October 2026 |via=Climate Insights Directory}}

BibTeX

@techreport{napglobalnetwork2019country, author = {{NAP Global Network}}, title = {{COUNTRY CASE STUDY: Sri Lanka}}, institution = {NAP Global Network}, year = {2019}, month = nov, url = {https://napglobalnetwork.org/resource/alignment-to-advance-climate-resilient-development-6/}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }