Coordinating Climate-Resilient Development Alignment to Advance Climate-Resilient Development

The document defines alignment as a process to identify synergies among policy processes with common objectives to increase coherence, efficiency, and effectiveness. It argues that aligning the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Paris Agreement, and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction is essential for climate-resilient development because these agendas share goals of strengthening resilience and reducing vulnerability. The brief outlines a continuum of alignment—from informal collaboration to systematic alignment—and notes that success depends on political will, government capacity, and the influence of coordinating actors, such as ministries of planning or central leadership.

• Alignment is defined as a process of identifying synergies among policy processes with common objectives to increase coherence, efficiency, and effectiveness for improved outcomes.
• Alignment differs from mainstreaming; while mainstreaming integrates climate considerations into specific sector plans, alignment focuses on finding synergies across different policies or plans that share common objectives.
• There is a strong rationale for aligning the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Paris Agreement, and the Sendai Framework for DRR because they converge on strengthening resilience, building adaptive capacity, and reducing vulnerability to climate change and disasters.
• At the country level, key policy processes available for alignment include strategies for achieving the SDGs, Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), National Adaptation Plans (NAPs), and national DRR strategies.
• Alignment can reduce the administrative burden on subnational actors, who are often under-staffed and face incoherent priorities from higher government levels, by providing harmonized guidance and streamlined funding processes.
• Progress on alignment follows a continuum consisting of three stages: informal alignment (ad-hoc collaboration), strategic alignment (formal coordination and identified synergies), and systematic alignment (shared vision and harmonized implementation).
• The success of alignment is influenced by several factors, including political will, power dynamics within governments, available resources, government capacities, and the legal status of international commitments.

APA

Dazé, A., Terton, A., & Maass, M. (2018). Coordinating Climate-Resilient Development Alignment to Advance Climate-Resilient Development. NAP Global Network. https://napglobalnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/napgn-en-2018-alignment-to-advance-climate-resilient-development-overview-brief.pdf

Chicago

Dazé, Angie, Anika Terton, and Malte Maass. Coordinating Climate-Resilient Development Alignment to Advance Climate-Resilient Development. NAP Global Network, 2018. https://napglobalnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/napgn-en-2018-alignment-to-advance-climate-resilient-development-overview-brief.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{daz2018coordinating, author = {Dazé, Angie and Terton, Anika and Maass, Malte}, title = {{Coordinating Climate-Resilient Development Alignment to Advance Climate-Resilient Development}}, institution = {NAP Global Network}, year = {2018}, month = aug, url = {https://napglobalnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/napgn-en-2018-alignment-to-advance-climate-resilient-development-overview-brief.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }