VERTICAL INTEGRATION IN NATIONAL ADAPTATION PLAN (NAP) PROCESSES

The document defines vertical integration in the NAP process as the creation of intentional linkages between national and sub-national adaptation efforts to ensure local realities inform national plans and that NAPs enable local action. It identifies three core enabling factors: institutional arrangements, information sharing, and capacity development. The guide details how to integrate sub-national perspectives into planning, coordinate the implementation of adaptation options, and link M&E systems to capture local lessons. It emphasizes the importance of gender sensitivity, the inclusion of indigenous peoples and vulnerable groups, and the leveraging of existing decentralization processes and local funding mechanisms.

• Vertical integration in the NAP process is an ongoing, iterative effort rather than a single step, aimed at ensuring that "local realities are reflected in the NAP, and that the NAP enables adaptation at sub-national levels, including the local level."
• Effective vertical integration relies on three central enabling factors: institutional arrangements to facilitate dialogue, information sharing to ensure informed decision-making, and capacity development to provide necessary skills to actors at all levels.
• In the planning phase, vertical integration requires recognizing sub-national diversity in climate vulnerabilities and development needs to ensure processes are "participatory, gender-sensitive and inclusive of vulnerable groups."
• Implementation of adaptation is primarily a sub-national activity, requiring that sub-national actors have access to "the information, resources (including finance) and capacity they need to implement adaptation."
• To facilitate the funding of local adaptation, countries should leverage existing local development funding mechanisms to avoid "creating parallel structures that will reduce efficiency and work against integration of adaptation in development plans and processes."
• A vertically integrated M&E system must be designed to capture sub-national results and lessons learned, which are then "synthesized and communicated downwards to the sub-national levels to inform implementation and updates to plans."
• Colombia has implemented "regional nodes" as multistakeholder platforms to link national and sub-national adaptation, moving away from a "strictly top-down approach" by integrating climate change into municipal development and land-use plans.
• Nepal utilizes a community-driven approach through Local Adaptation Plans of Action (LAPAs), where local people identify priorities that are then "integrated into development plans at district and national levels through an iterative process."
• In Cambodia, the Local Climate Adaptive Living Facility (LoCAL) uses performance-based climate resilience grants to channel international climate finance to local governments through "existing fiscal transfer systems."
• Morocco has developed regional adaptation M&E systems (SIREDDs) that use a mix of "standard indicators that will be aggregated at the national level and region-specific indicators" to monitor vulnerability and progress.

APA

Angie, D., Price-Kelly, H., & Rass, N. (2016). VERTICAL INTEGRATION IN NATIONAL ADAPTATION PLAN (NAP) PROCESSES. NAP Global Network. https://napglobalnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/napgn-en-2016-vertical-integration-in-national-adaptation-plan-processes-a-guidance-note-for-linking-national-and-sub-national-national-adaptation.pdf

Chicago

Angie, Dazé,, Hayley Price-Kelly, and Nikola Rass. VERTICAL INTEGRATION IN NATIONAL ADAPTATION PLAN (NAP) PROCESSES. NAP Global Network, 2016. https://napglobalnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/napgn-en-2016-vertical-integration-in-national-adaptation-plan-processes-a-guidance-note-for-linking-national-and-sub-national-national-adaptation.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{angie2016vertical, author = {Angie, Dazé, and Price-Kelly, Hayley and Rass, Nikola}, title = {{VERTICAL INTEGRATION IN NATIONAL ADAPTATION PLAN (NAP) PROCESSES}}, institution = {NAP Global Network}, year = {2016}, url = {https://napglobalnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/napgn-en-2016-vertical-integration-in-national-adaptation-plan-processes-a-guidance-note-for-linking-national-and-sub-national-national-adaptation.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }