NAP Global Network Strategy to 2025

The NAP Global Network Strategy to 2025 establishes a framework to accelerate climate-resilient development in developing countries by enhancing National Adaptation Plan (NAP) processes. The strategy focuses on three main priorities: expanding tailored technical support, innovating peer learning, and making NAP knowledge more accessible and compelling. It aims to reach 30 new developing countries by 2025, ensure 30% of support goes to least developed countries (LDCs), and assist at least 15 countries in transitioning from planning to implementation. The Network operates through a Theory of Change that links activities like South-South peer exchange and the Country Support Hub to longer-term outcomes of higher-quality NAP processes and increased strategic investment in adaptation.

• The NAP Global Network has established three primary priorities for its 2021–2025 strategy: continuing and expanding tailored technical support, innovating and experimenting with peer learning, and making knowledge regarding NAPs more accessible and compelling.
• The Network has set specific quantitative targets for 2025, including reaching 30 developing countries that have not previously used its support, ensuring at least 30% of technical support and peer learning opportunities are directed to least developed countries (LDCs), and supporting at least 15 countries in the transition from planning to implementation.
• To address the gap in funding and engagement for civil society, the Network proposes a new 'Civil Society Engagement window' under the Country Support Hub, providing small grants of USD 25,000–30,000 to CSOs to participate in the NAP process.
• The Network identifies several critical challenges hindering NAP processes, including limited ownership and leadership, insufficient institutional and technical capacity, and the perception that NAPs are perpetual planning processes that lead to documents rather than action.
• The strategy emphasizes a shift toward supporting the 'messy middle'—the transition from planning to implementation—through the development of financing strategies, project concept notes, and implementation strategies.
• The Network is expanding its thematic work to include emerging areas such as Adaptation Communications (ADCOMs), conflict-sensitive NAP processes, and the integration of adaptation into COVID-19 recovery.
• The Network's Theory of Change identifies four pathways of change required to accelerate climate-resilient development: change in policy, change in knowledge or practice, change in collaboration, and increased investment in adaptation.
• The Network utilizes a complementary role to larger funding sources like the Green Climate Fund (GCF), acting as a 'gap filler and momentum-maintainer' by providing short-term, flexible support.

APA

NAP Global Network (2021). NAP Global Network Strategy to 2025. https://napglobalnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/NAP-Global-Network-Strategy-to-2025.pdf

Chicago

NAP Global Network. NAP Global Network Strategy to 2025. 2021. https://napglobalnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/NAP-Global-Network-Strategy-to-2025.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{napglobalnetwork2021nap, author = {{NAP Global Network}}, title = {{NAP Global Network Strategy to 2025}}, institution = {NAP Global Network}, year = {2021}, url = {https://napglobalnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/NAP-Global-Network-Strategy-to-2025.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }