Good Practices for Developing Lebanon’s National Adaptation Plan Briefing Note

The document outlines strategic recommendations for Lebanon's early-stage National Adaptation Plan (NAP) process, drawing on experiences from 12 peer countries. It emphasizes the need for strong institutional leadership, the prioritization of low-cost catalytic actions for implementability, and the blending of public and private finance. Key recommendations include establishing a multistakeholder coordination mechanism, integrating gender equality and social inclusion, and developing a robust monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) system. The analysis highlights specific examples, such as Albania's Inter-Ministerial Working Group and Bosnia and Herzegovina's municipal financing tools, to guide Lebanon in creating a science-based, inclusive, and implementable adaptation strategy.

• Lebanon's vulnerability to climate change is intensified by a combination of environmental factors and socio-political crises, including regional turmoil, political instability, and an economic and banking crisis, alongside the humanitarian pressure of the Syrian refugee crisis.
• Effective institutional arrangements for a NAP should leverage existing risk mitigation policies and be led by a ministry with sufficient authority and convening power to prevent sectoral conflicts and ensure policy integration.
• To facilitate the transition from planning to implementation, countries should prioritize a discrete set of 'no-cost' or 'low-cost' catalytic actions that build institutional capacity and public awareness before moving to more expensive practical actions.
• Closing the adaptation funding gap requires a diversified financing strategy that blends traditional grants and loans with innovative instruments to leverage private, institutional, and philanthropic investment, integrated into regular fiscal and budgetary cycles.
• Science-based adaptation requires the use of downscaled climate models, the co-production of information using local and indigenous knowledge, and the creation of information-sharing platforms to bridge gaps for decision-makers.
• Successful NAP processes employ vertical integration to link national strategies with sub-national actors, which increases local ownership and allows for the inclusion of marginalized groups, including women, youth, and refugees.
• A robust Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) system is essential for accountability and iterative planning, though countries with limited capacity may initially focus on monitoring before expanding to evaluation and learning.

APA

Rokitzki, M., & Richards, C. (2023). Good Practices for Developing Lebanon’s National Adaptation Plan Briefing Note. NAP Global Network. https://napglobalnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/lebanon-2023-good-practices-for-developing-lebanon-nap.pdf

Chicago

Rokitzki, Martin, and Carys Richards. Good Practices for Developing Lebanon’s National Adaptation Plan Briefing Note. NAP Global Network, 2023. https://napglobalnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/lebanon-2023-good-practices-for-developing-lebanon-nap.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{rokitzki2023good, author = {Rokitzki, Martin and Richards, Carys}, title = {{Good Practices for Developing Lebanon’s National Adaptation Plan Briefing Note}}, institution = {NAP Global Network}, year = {2023}, month = dec, url = {https://napglobalnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/lebanon-2023-good-practices-for-developing-lebanon-nap.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }