Evaluation of Burkina Faso’s National Climate Change Adaptation Plan (NAP) 2015-2020

The evaluation of Burkina Faso's 2015-2020 National Climate Change Adaptation Plan (NAP) found that 67% of planned actions were either completed or in progress, though the average physical completion rate was lower at 49%. While institutional capacity building (Strategic Area 1) saw a 93% completion rate, sectors like housing and infrastructure and cross-cutting areas for women and civil society struggled significantly due to poor resource mobilisation and a lack of institutional leadership. Key physical achievements included the Zagtouli solar power plant and extensive land recovery, but the report highlights critical failures in monitoring, evaluation, and gender-disaggregated data collection.

• Overall, 67% of the 143 planned actions in the NAP were either completed (38%) or in progress (29%), while 33% had not commenced.
• The average physical completion rate of NAP actions was 49%, with 51% of actions remaining uncompleted.
• Implementation success varied significantly by sector: livestock production (75%), water resources (74%), and agriculture (68%) showed the highest completion rates, while housing and infrastructure had a physical completion rate of only 6%.
• Strategic Area 1, focused on long-term capacity building of institutional frameworks, achieved the highest implementation rate at 93%.
• Cross-cutting sectors for women's organisations and civil society organisations (CSOs) failed to complete any planned actions, attributed to a lack of institutional leadership.
• Major physical achievements included the construction of the 33 MW Zagtouli photovoltaic solar power plant, the recovery of 213,768 hectares of degraded land, and the vaccination of over 102 million animals.
• Implementation was hindered by several systemic weaknesses, including poor resource mobilisation, a lack of NAP knowledge among actors, and the failure to operationalise the institutional monitoring and evaluation mechanism.
• External factors, specifically the security situation in the country and the COVID-19 pandemic, negatively impacted the allocation of financial resources and access to certain areas for NAP implementation.
• Gender mainstreaming was largely inadequate, as physical achievements were generally not disaggregated by gender across the various sectors.

APA

NAP Global Network (2021). Evaluation of Burkina Faso’s National Climate Change Adaptation Plan (NAP) 2015-2020. https://napglobalnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/napgn-en-2021-evaluation-burkina-faso-nap-2015-2020.pdf

Chicago

NAP Global Network. Evaluation of Burkina Faso’s National Climate Change Adaptation Plan (NAP) 2015-2020. 2021. https://napglobalnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/napgn-en-2021-evaluation-burkina-faso-nap-2015-2020.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{napglobalnetwork2021evaluation, author = {{NAP Global Network}}, title = {{Evaluation of Burkina Faso’s National Climate Change Adaptation Plan (NAP) 2015-2020}}, institution = {NAP Global Network}, year = {2021}, month = jun, url = {https://napglobalnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/napgn-en-2021-evaluation-burkina-faso-nap-2015-2020.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }